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RSS lawsuitTorvalds hit with SCO Linux lawsuit subpoena
News Subpoenas are flying in the high-profile lawsuit between the SCO Group and IBM, as both companies try to buttress their legal claims by turning to third parties for information. IBM has also broadened its efforts to respond to the Linux-related... [13 Nov 2003]
Lucent hit with $10bn lawsuit
News A Lucent spokesman, said: "This lawsuit is absolutely frivolous. Winstar claims the telecom equipment maker failed to pay $90m due under a five-year agreement and pushed it into seeking protection under the US Chapter 11 rules. [18 Apr 2001]
Deutsche Telekom's 'anti-competitive' action brings lawsuit
News The lawsuit will be dealt with by a US court in Georgia but has yet to be filed. World Access has a 33 per cent share in German telecoms company Teldafax, whose access to Deutsche Telekom's network was blocked after it clocked up around DM90m... [24 Apr 2001]
Microsoft wins Bristol lawsuit
News Microsoft has won the antitrust lawsuit brought against it by Connecticut-based software firm, Bristol Technology. Bristol filed suit against Microsoft in August, alleging that the software giant's licensing fees for Windows source code made it... [19 Jul 1999]
HP settles lawsuit hours before court
News HP has agreed to pay the office equipment maker $400m in a bid to settle a lawsuit over print technology that goes back to 1995. HP has settled its patent row with Pitney Bowes out of court, hours before the case was set to go to trial. [04 Jun 2001]
Intel faces AMD lawsuit for "illegal" behaviour
News AMD has filed a lawsuit against Intel in the American courts accusing the chipmaker of forcing major customers to accept exclusive deals and withholding rebates and marketing subsidies to punish those customers who, it says, buy more AMD... [29 Jun 2005]
IBM responds to SCO Unix lawsuit
News IBM began hitting back Friday against a SCO Group lawsuit that charges Big Blue with misappropriating Unix trade secrets and using them in Linux. Though Fay didn't comment on the specifics of the suit, the tone of IBM's statement indicates the... [10 Mar 2003]
Peoplesoft hit with $150m insider trading lawsuit
News Marble, a shareholder at Peoplesoft, has filed a $150m lawsuit accusing senior members of the software manufacturer of insider dealing. Christopher W. He alleged that from April 1997 to January 1999, David Duffield, the former chief executive and... [07 Jul 2000]
Intel CEO rages against monopolistic lawsuit
News AMD filed a lawsuit against Intel on Monday in US District Court in Delaware. Intel was able to stare down an antitrust lawsuit Intergraph filed against the chipmaking giant back in 2000. Lawyers predict the lawsuit could take about 18 months to go... [30 Jun 2005]
Linus gets lawyers for defence in SCO lawsuit
News The Open Source Development Lab will pay its law firm to represent Linus Torvalds, the Linux operating system founder and leader who this week was subpoenaed in connection with a $3bn lawsuit against IBM. [14 Nov 2003]
Microsoft facing slammer lawsuit
News PSPD added it has garnered support for the lawsuit from more than 3,000 broadband subscribers in Korea. A Korean civic rights group may take Microsoft to task for the carnage caused by the Slammer worm last month. [06 Feb 2003]
McAfee threatened with lawsuit over Trojan error
News Mark Griffiths of Brisbane said he is "not ruling out" filing a lawsuit against McAfee even after the antivirus company released an update last week to its DAT virus definition file that fixes the false positive. [13 Sep 2004]
Oracle increases PeopleSoft offer and files lawsuit
News Oracle has escalated the hostile takeover battle for PeopleSoft by increasing its offer to $6.3bn and filing a lawsuit against the company. Chuck Phillips, executive vice president at Oracle, also revealed the company has filed a lawsuit against... [18 Jun 2003]
MasterCard data breach: Lawsuit demands damages
News A class action lawsuit filed after millions of credit card accounts were compromised by a data breach at payment processor CardSystems Solutions now also demands unspecified monetary damages for consumers and merchants. [07 Jul 2005]
Demon pledges to contest Godfrey lawsuit
News As Demon Internet insisted it will continue to contest the defamation lawsuit brought by London-based academic, Dr Laurence Godfrey, Net industry bodies have voiced their fears over a preliminary ruling which found against Demon. [15 Jun 1999]
