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AS Profile The US has persisted in its attempts to extradite McKinnon, who has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, and has fought legal challenges by the family all the way to the High Court. The latest... [29 Sep 2009]
Judge upholds Microsoft infringement of date-picker patent
News A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed a lower court ruling that Microsoft infringed on a patent owned by Alcatel-Lucent but said the jury award of $358m in damages was excessive. The US... [14 Sep 2009]
Technology Investments Drive Transformation of Puerto Rico's Prison Health System
White Paper District Court called for creating a new, nonprofit entity to take them over. The result was the Corrcetional Health Services Corporation (CHSC), which today delivers high-quality healthcare services to... [28 Aug 2009]
Google's $106.5m software buy to be challenged in court
News Google's acquisition of video-compression software company On2 Technologies is being challenged in court by On2 shareholders dissatisfied by Google's $106.5m offer. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Delaware Chancery... [13 Aug 2009]
Skype fighting to dodge shutdown with new tech
News A legal dispute over licensing terms arose earlier this year between Skype and Joltid, and Skype filed a claim against Joltid in the English high court in March, according to SEC filings by eBay. The... [03 Aug 2009]
Extradition for Nasa hacker rules high court
News Gary McKinnon has lost his high court bid to avoid extradition to the US for hacking into military systems in that country. McKinnon had tried to argue that former home secretary, Jacqui Smith, was wrong... [31 Jul 2009]
Microsoft dishes out code for inclusion in Linux
News After years of making claims that many Linux implementations violate Microsoft patents, Microsoft finally took a case to court in February, filing suit against navigation systems maker TomTom. Without this driver code,... [21 Jul 2009]
'Nasa hacker' case raised in parliament
News Currently, two high-court judges are reviewing whether former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was right to turn down McKinnon's second appeal for clemency, and are considering arguments from McKinnon's... [16 Jul 2009]
£1.49bn: The price of pirate desktop software in the UK
News I contact customers on licensing and go away with the message 'Why should we bother, there is nothing out there stopping us doing this, unless you sue me and take me to court'. Globally the rate of piracy also increased... [13 May 2009]
Europe votes for net-neutrality reforms
News Now the ball is in the court of the Council of Telecoms Ministers to decide whether or not to accept this package of reforms. In addition, spectrum refarming - where 3G services can be used in what is currently 2G radio... [07 May 2009]
Qualcomm to pay $891m in Broadcom settlement
News The settlement will result in the dismissal of all litigation between the companies, including patent infringement claims Broadcom brought against Qualcomm at the International Trade Commission and a court in California. [27 Apr 2009]
Sun stamps cloud of rejection on IBM deal
News A second request for information signals to the parties antitrust regulators are formally investigating the transaction to decide whether to challenge it in court. And within the high-end Unix server... [06 Apr 2009]
CPS refusal pushes Nasa hacker step closer to extradition
News Todner said the next step would be a High Court review of home secretary Jacqui Smith's decision to turn down McKinnon's appeal against extradition last year. According to Todner, he was still hopeful... [27 Feb 2009]
Suppressed ID card reports 'must be made public'
News The OGC subsequently appealed the tribunal's verdict in the High Court, which last year overturned the tribunal's decision to publish the reviews. Reviews of the controversial ID cards project are to be... [20 Feb 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News The report also said the government should act swiftly to comply with last December's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that innocent people's DNA should be removed from the NDNAD, a decision that could see... [06 Feb 2009]
