anti-trust
RSS anti-trustVodafone CEO: US strategy? It's the same as it was 30 days ago
News They were willing to release us," said Sarin, referring to anti-trust issues that would have forced a sale of its 45 per cent stake in the market leader to buy the third-placed player. Vodafone CEO Arun... [25 Feb 2004]
PeopleSoft brings forward Oracle boardroom battle
News Oracle faces several other major hurdles in its quest to buy PeopleSoft, including prolonged anti-trust reviews of the deal by the US Justice Department and the European Commission. The move is a... [02 Feb 2004]
Oracle-PeopleSoft - deal could be cleared in March
News That would put it within weeks of a decision by European anti-trust regulators, who have a 30 March deadline. Oracle and PeopleSoft shareholders have sued PeopleSoft in the Delaware Chancery Court,... [12 Jan 2004]
It's official: RealNetworks to compete with iTunes
News Coupled with the anti-trust lawsuit filed against Microsoft late last year, the releases are aimed at winning back momentum in the multimedia business that had been slipping toward Microsoft and Apple. [07 Jan 2004]
Re:Viewing 2003: The return of the virus
News He told silicon.com: "This has been the first interesting year in anti-virus since the ILOVEYOU outbreak back in 2000. Microsoft's other major contribution to the year in anti-virus - excepting the flaws... [23 Dec 2003]
Update time: Windows XP Service Pack 2 released
News Service Pack 1 for Windows XP, released in May, combined such patches with a handful of tweaks required by the settlement of the government's anti-trust case against the Redmond, Washington-based... [19 Dec 2003]
5 years ago... Netscape sold to AOL - it's official
News MSN and Microsoft's core software didn't get knocked off their stride and, rightly so, the US government didn't take Microsoft's spin that the deal would "pull the rug from under the [DoJ's anti-trust]... [24 Nov 2003]
Does Novell-SuSE deal tread on non-compete clause?
News McBride's comments were made during a conference call on Monday in which he discussed SCO's continued retention of Boies Schiller & Flexner, a law firm whose partner David Boies represented the US government in its... [20 Nov 2003]
Leader: Microsoft gets among the hackers and fights dirty
Leader Anti-virus companies have long understood the importance of intelligence gleamed from the virus-writing community and it appears law enforcement - albeit with Microsoft cash - is now also cottoning on. [05 Nov 2003]
5 years ago today... Microsoft feels the heat as trial begins
News This was the case presented to the judge by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) as the landmark anti-trust case against the software giant got underway yesterday. During three hours of opening arguments,... [20 Oct 2003]
5 years ago today: Microsoft offers surprise support for Linux
News According to Longbottom, Microsoft is porting Media Player to Linux as part of its campaign to avert the attentions of the US Department of Justice (DoJ), in the wider context of ongoing anti-trust law... [14 Oct 2003]
Microsoft loses out in EU antitrust case
News In the latest twist to Microsoft's ongoing anti-trust wrangle with the EU, the software behemoth's requests for more time have been rebuffed by the EU competition commissioner. Mario Monti has offered... [10 Oct 2003]
'Patent war' could be sparked by EU directive
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), which lobbied in favour of the amendments, responded that it would be absurd to rely on anti-trust law to protect the software industry from... [06 Oct 2003]
Kazaa hits out at major film studios
News File-swapping company Sharman Networks filed new antitrust charges against record labels and Hollywood studios, hoping to deflect copyright infringement claims still pending over its popular Kazaa software. [24 Sep 2003]
Microsoft settles another anti-trust lawsuit - $23m to Be
News Microsoft announced late on Friday that it will pay more than $23m to settle an anti-trust suit filed by onetime operating system rival Be. For Microsoft, the deal brings an end to another of the... [08 Sep 2003]
