A court date was set Monday in the lawsuit brought by British Telecommunications against US-based Prodigy Communications Corp for patent infringement through the ISP’s unauthorised use of the hyperlink
Last week, the WTO issued a cease and desist order against Verio Inc, the company which is hosting the gatt.org web site. The WTO claims that the parody site violates copyrights owned by the WTO, and they have asked for the site to be shut down
A conservative council said private companies could not provide internet service in Iran, but some lawmakers and technology experts disputed its right to rule on the matter. An estimated 1000 ISPs throughout Iran could be affected if the ban is enforced, one expert said. Iranians currently have unrestricted internet access
The Justice Department has decided to listen in on the conversations of lawyers with clients in federal custody, including people who have been detained but not charged with any crime, whenever that is deemed necessary to prevent violence or terrorism
Sweeping proposals to give law enforcement agencies access to the communications records of every UK telephone and internet user will not be restricted to anti-terrorist investigations, despite assurances to the contrary from the home secretary
Greedy and stupid legal eagles are once again on the war path. The notorious anal Hungry Minds have served a cease and desist on Black Blocs for Dummies over use of their for Dummies
trademark; and wanker extraordinaire Jerry Falwell has demanded a parody site be removed and the domains handed over to him
Gay rights advocates hailed a Washington Supreme Court decision holding that gays may be entitled to the estates of partners who die without wills
Any gay British minister taking their male partner to Malaysia would be thrown out of the country, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has warned
A patent held by a little-known programmer from New Jersey may complicate — at least temporarily — the grand visions of Web services touted by titans such as IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
Charlie Northrup, the chief executive of software developer Global Technologies, holds one of the earliest patents that describe how diverse computer systems can talk to servers connected to the Web and run software on multiple platforms. Sound familiar? That’s just the kind of service Microsoft is pushing with its .Net strategy, a wide-ranging plan for moving business computing applications such as calendars, word processors and e-mail onto the Web
Students at Indiana University are leading a campaign to get state agencies to reject doing business with Boise Cascade, a company accused of environmental abuses
SafeSurf was one of the earliest advocates of Internet filtering. Their Online Co-operative Publishing Act is probably the only time that an Internet filtering company proposed that web site operators could be sued by parents for not rating their web site — regardless of what type of content was on it. But now the SafeSurf web site is being blocked by TeleGlobe, a company with their own take on filtering
An international day of protest designed to jam the US-led communications spy system Echelon was a rousing success according to its organisers, who claim that the cyber-demonstration helped to raise public awareness about the surveillance system
Look out, music pirates: The recording industry wants the right to hack into your computer and delete your stolen MP3s
Police have been called in after a hidden camera was found in a womens’ toilet at Cambridge University. The miniature web-cam device was discovered at the department of experimental psychology
Internet filters designed to keep pornography away from children were banned at San Francisco city libraries despite a federal law mandating them
The Australian government has been criticised for using the fear generated by the 11 September terrorist attacks on the US to push through the controversial Cybercrime Bill Thursday night. The bill allows police to intercept Australians’ telephone, Internet and e-mail communication encourages lazy policing
and corruption
Muslim sisters are burning, dying, imprisoned without a voice — all in the name of one of the greatest religions in the world. An enlightening account of the truth about Islam and women by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Sandor Ligetfalvy’s never-sent, but wonderfully worded letter of resignation from McDonald’s offers a glimpse behind the shiny façade into the appalling way that employees are treated
Australia and New Zealand are key partners in Echelon, the satellite spying system whose existence is still being denied by US authorities, a European Parliament report has concluded
In response to last week’s catastrophic terrorist attacks, the retarded monkey boy plans to ask Congress to approve far-reaching legislation that rewrites US laws dealing with electronic surveillance, immigration and support for terrorists
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