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RSS complianceMicrosoft to license Unix code
News This helps to ensure IP compliance across Microsoft solutions and supports our efforts around existing products like services for Unix that further Unix interoperability. Microsoft will license the rights to Unix... [19 May 2003]
Passport problems could hit Microsoft in the wallet
News While the FTC doesn't comment on potential investigations, the agency does look into questions regarding a company's compliance with agreements. Microsoft faces a possible investigation and significant fines for a... [09 May 2003]
Mobile phones pose real flight threat
News As such many airlines have experienced passengers who are willing to break the ban in order to make a call and they will be hoping that this latest research frightens passengers into compliance with the rules. [02 May 2003]
Can IT save us from Big Brother?
News Although that legislation was approved in 1996, the privacy provisions are only now beginning to take effect, with key compliance deadlines set to kick in on Monday and later in the year. Although modern technology... [11 Apr 2003]
Will your website pass the disability test?
News Websites that fail to comply will not face prosecution, however: the nature of the investigation is to lead to good practice rather than legal compliance, and the DRC, which is funded by the Department of Works and... [08 Apr 2003]
Microsoft still haunted by antitrust case
News Our focus right now is on full and complete compliance with the final judgments. More than five years after it started, the Microsoft vs DoJ case is still going strong, with an appeal hearing expected this summer. [28 Mar 2003]
Microsoft walks out on web services standards group
News The group intends to have a specification prepared within a year and software tests to check compliance within two years. In a sign of growing discord over web services guidelines, Microsoft has pulled out of a key web... [25 Mar 2003]
Are there content pirates at your workplace?
News The brochure exhorts companies to audit their own networks for pirated material, delete any copyrighted works found, and designate a copyright-compliance officer. Trade groups for the record and film industries are... [14 Feb 2003]
Windows-Java case swings back Microsoft's way
News Microsoft's unsupported claim that its next shipping date for Windows may be adversely affected, absent a stay, is similarly unconvincing in light of the order's 120-day period for compliance," Sun said in a 25-page filing. [04 Feb 2003]
Oracle fleshes out wireless software strategy
News Having tools to write applications with XHTML 2.0 compliance means that developers can build an application in one markup language and reformat the data for different devices, said Jacob Christfort, vice president of... [28 Jan 2003]
Oracle polishes portal software
News With web services standards compliance, business users can access information that is presented through web services interfaces. By Martin LaMonica Oracle is set to release software designed to make it easier for... [20 Jan 2003]
Data tsar promises to break government 'culture of secrecy'
News He also wants to help organisations achieve compliance with the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act, and foster an environment where freedom of information and data protection are a "natural way of life". [07 Jan 2003]
Microsoft foes attempt to overturn antitrust settlement
News They suggested mandatory licenses to port Microsoft Office to other operating systems, a special master to monitor Microsoft's compliance, and a longer duration of court-required oversight. Two more Microsoft competitors... [03 Jan 2003]
Madster in deep trouble, say record labels
News The RIAA asked that a compliance officer be appointed to ensure the song-blocking was achieved in whatever form necessary and that Deep be fined $1,500 a day until song trading stops. Record labels say file-swapping... [22 Nov 2002]
A quarter of UK firms risk closure over software licences
News To help companies protect themselves, the IoD has launched a licence compliance microsite, which offers companies advice on software licences and their legal obligation (visit http://www.iod.com/licencecompliance for... [20 Nov 2002]
