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News At one point however, Walker prodded Oracle attorney Daniel Wall to ask the CEO some more questions during one of Ellison's more long-winded responses. The outspoken CEO was characteristically unflappable under cross-examination by Justice... [01 Jul 2004]
Analysis: Ellison's defining moment
Comment As Ellison told Justice Department attorney Claude Scott under cross-examinatio: "From my point of view, there are no benefits if we don't get PeopleSoft. One pesky detail proved the tripping point: neither Conway nor Ellison was willing to let the... [05 Jul 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.06.04
Round-Up At one point Oracle's attorney Dan Wall said the whole thing was leaving him rather "befuddled" - which is firstly an excellent use of an underappreciated word and secondly a very welcome admission from somebody who should have the clearest idea... [11 Jun 2004]
Ex-McAfee exec charged with fraud
News Kent Roberts, 50, of Dallas, is accused of "granting himself and others valuable in-the-money stock options while hiding the true nature and value of the stock option grants from Network Associates, its board, its shareholders, its auditors, the... [28 Feb 2007]
All US passports to be RFID chipped
News Lee Tien, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which co-authored the comments, said: "Our point is, whatever Congress may have meant in giving the State Department authority to issue passports was probably to issue passports that... [26 Oct 2005]
Feds rule on VoIP control
News Phillip Marchesiello, an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C.who has followed the lawsuit, said: "The court doesn't have a lot of room after this recent decision by the FCC. Bill Wilhelm, an attorney at Swidler Berlin... [16 Nov 2004]
McAfee sued for 'stifling freedom of speech'
News Network Associates is standing by its McAfee division after the New York Attorney General said he was suing the company for stifling freedom of speech. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said on Thursday that the behaviour of McAfee impinged on free... [08 Feb 2002]
Lindows anti-Microsoft free PC website to stay
News An attorney representing Microsoft sent Lindows a cease-and-desist letter late last week objecting to the company's MSfreePC site. Microsoft attorney Robert Rosenfeld said claims submitted by the Lindows service won't qualify under the terms of the... [01 Oct 2003]
National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year
News The Attorney General's Office for England and Wales (AGO) wants a National Fraud Reporting Centre to collate reports of all types of fraud - both cyber and traditional - to pinpoint levels of fraud across the two countries. [28 Apr 2008]
Open source programmers plan protest march
News Having had great success in gaining the support of several legislators, we are making a public announcement," said Walt Pennington, a San Diego attorney specialising in tort who is the driving force behind the bill. [12 Aug 2002]
RFID chips headed for hospitals?
News VeriChip, a division of Applied Digital Solutions, generated headlines worldwide recently with the announcement that the Attorney General of Mexico implanted one of the small company's RFID tags in his arm. [28 Jul 2004]
DoJ files suit against Oracle's PeopleSoft bid
News We believe this transaction is anticompetitive - pure and simple," R Hewitt Pate, assistant attorney general in charge of the Department's antitrust division, said in a statement. In reaching its conclusion, the Justice Department interviewed... [27 Feb 2004]
Future of file-swapping to be decided in court
News In Napster's case, the recording industry sent 12,000 notices that piracy was taking place on the network, Recording Industry Association of America attorney Matt Oppenheim said. We believe [Grokster and Streamcast] are operating just like Napster... [03 Feb 2004]
Microsoft Verdict: Now all eyes turn to Europe
News But Glenn Manishin, an antitrust attorney with US law firm Kelley Drye & Warren, questioned the impact Kollar-Kotelly's comments on code removal would have in Europe. Microsoft hopes to use Friday's antitrust victory as a starting point for... [04 Nov 2002]
RIM's BlackBerry barred from US
News Jim Wallace, an attorney with Wiley Rein & Fielding, who represented NTP in the case, said: "This ruling is a road map for what will happen to RIM if they don't win the appeal. Henry Bunsow, the attorney representing RIM, said in a statement: "We... [06 Aug 2003]
