Legal

E-mail Archiving Stupidity

James Gaskin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:19:01 -0500

I live in the Dallas area, but not in the city of Dallas. That means my children were outside the horribly mis-managed Dallas schools, but we're still under the thumbs of idiotic Dallas County officials. How idiotic? How about this recent story, “E-mail Deletion Plan Criticized,” about officials wanting to delete e-mail after 90 days. Have none of them heard of all the new regulations about e-mail archiving?

IBM wants info from Apple execs in Papermaster case

ITworld staff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:46:51 -0500

IBM has asked for information from several unnamed senior officials at Apple as part of the discovery process in the lawsuit to block a former executive from joining Apple, according to court documents made public Monday.

Filing: SAP co-CEO had concerns about TomorrowNow deal

ITworld staff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:57:45 -0500

SAP co-CEO Henning Kagermann was worried at one point about the legal risk of buying TomorrowNow, according to court documents.

High court narrows penalty against Qualcomm

ITworld staff — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:55:26 -0500

A federal appeals court agreed that Qualcomm violated a standards body's rules but said its punishment should be reduced.

Tessera loses patent ruling, stock dives

ITworld staff — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:43:43 -0500

The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled that competitors did not infringe chip-packaging patents owned by Tessera Technologies, sending the semiconductor vendor's stock down nearly 10 percent at the end of trading on Monday.

Intel calls EU antitrust probe 'discriminatory and partial'

ITworld staff — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:47:36 -0500

The European Union's antitrust investigation of Intel is "discriminatory and partial," the chip maker complained in an action that's detailed in a recent edition of the EU's official journal, saying it's not being permitted to properly defend itself against the charges.

How spyware nearly sent a teacher to prison

ITworld staff — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:10:15 -0500

If there's a poster child for the dangers of spyware, it's Julie Amero. Here's her story.

Microsoft files new cybersquatting charges

ITworld staff — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:53:45 -0500

Microsoft on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against a Florida company that it says registers domain names using Microsoft trademarks or misspellings of them.

Spam is silenced, but where are the feds?

ITworld staff — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:42:57 -0500

Two weeks after McColo was dropped by its network providers, the company's data center remains untouched. That frustrates some security researchers who say that the servers used to control these operations could provide a treasure trove of evidence about cybercriminals.

EFF berates Apple over open-source iTunes project

ITworld staff — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:31:53 -0500

The EFF says Apple is wrong to shut down a site that posted information on how to make the iPod work with Linux.