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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina received a very sweet compensation package when HP dumped her last year. Too sweet, in fact, claim some stockholders. Earlier this week, a group of unions holding HP stock filed a class action suit against HP, Fiorina and the board of directors claiming Fiorina’s package violated the company’s own policy. […]

WASHINGTON — Targeting both telephone data brokers and telecoms, a House panel today approved legislation that bans the sale, lease or rental of confidential telephone records. The bill also strengthens the ability of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to pursue the thriving online black-market sale of phone data. It is now an express violation of […]

A New Hampshire woman is facing up to 15 years in prison for violating the CAN SPAM Act after taking a Monday guilty plea to sending bulk pornographic spam e-mails. According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), Jennifer R. Clason, 33, created and transmitted the spam on behalf of Jeffrey A. Kilbride, 39, of Venice, […]

Symantec and the Internet Education Foundation launched a consumer wireless education effort Tuesday initially aimed at the country’s 56 million wireless Internet users. The first phase of the campaign will focus on issues related to wireless network and mobile security, including online educational modules for wireless home networking and public Wi-Fi use. Other initial modules […]

In the end, according to analysts, both Research in Motion (RIM) and NTP won in their historic $612.5 million patent infringement settlement cut Friday. After more than five years of fierce legal engagement that ultimately threatened to cut off RIM’s popular U.S. Blackberry e-mail service, the Canadian-based RIM kept its U.S. service alive, its customer […]

WASHINGTON – Patent infringement claims are easy to make and difficult to disprove. Just ask Research in Motion (RIM), eBay, Amazon, Dell and a host of other technology companies currently up to their legal eyeballs in patent litigation. (Maybe one less eyeball for RIM, which just settled its patent litigation case with NTP.) To these […]

Research in Motion (RIM) will pay NTP $612.5 million to settle all claims in its long-running patent infringement dispute with Virginia patent holding firm NTP. The settlement, announced Friday, eliminates any threat of a court-ordered cutoff of RIM’s widely popular Blackberry wireless e-mail service in the United States. According to RIM, the deal covers all […]

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wants to slow down the fast lane proposals of the Bells, the key issue at the heart of the net neutrality debate. Under legislation introduced Thursday by Wyden, network operators would be prohibited from charging Internet content providers for faster delivery of their product to consumers. Both AT&T and Verizon […]

The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation today aimed at curbing the sale of online black market telephone records. Approved on a unanimous voice vote, the Law Enforcement and Phone Privacy Protection Act of 2006 criminalizes the fraudulent sale or solicitation of confidential phone records. Under the bill’s language, attempting to obtain the records through fraudulent […]

A former systems auditor for the Department of Education (DoE) pleaded guilty Wednesday to unauthorized access of a protected computer. Kenneth Kwak, 34, placed software on his supervisor’s computer that allowed him to view the supervisor’s e-mail and other Internet activities. He shared the communications with others, but according to the Department of Justice, there […]

Four Korean Hynix executives are heading to a U.S. jail for their roles in a global conspiracy to fix prices on dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a key type of memory found in most PCs. The latest development comes after Hynix, the world’s second-largest DRAM maker, pleaded guilty in the same case and agreed to […]

A North Carolina woman and her two companies settled federal charges that she operated a classic Ponzi scheme that generated $50 million on her paid “autosurf” Web site. Autosurf sites are a form of online advertising that generate revenue by automatically rotating advertised Web sites in a viewer’s browser. Advertisers pay the host Web sites, […]