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Selling Microsoft’s source code on the Internet will cost a Connecticut man two years in prison. William Genovese Jr., 29, of Meriden, Conn., will also face three years of supervised probation when released from prison. Genovese was charged with one count of unlawfully distributing a trade secret in violation of the Economic Espionage Act. According […]

Federal authorities continued their national crackdown on warez dealers this week, charging 10 more individuals with violating the No Electronic Theft Act (NET Act). The law enforcement campaign is targeted at the “first providers” of pirated online movies, software music and games. The networks operate as the original sources for the majority of pirated works […]

BlackBerry users — please — take a deep breath. Get a grip. Chill. Despite what appears to be a bleak picture for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM), odds are excellent that no injunction is going to interrupt your addictive wireless e-mail device and service. After all, this is patent law where only the terminally […]

WASHINGTON – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hit data broker ChoicePoint with a $15 million penalty Thursday for failing to adequately protect the consumer information in its databases. The Atlanta-based ChoicePoint agreed to pay a $10 million fine — the largest in FTC history — and to establish a $5 million consumer restitution fund. “The […]

The countdown is on for Research in Motion (RIM) to avoid a possible court-ordered ban of U.S. sales of the company’s popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices and service. Wednesday, a federal judge set a Feb. 24 court date to determine if an injunction is required as part of RIM’s patent infringement settlement with Virginia patent-holding […]

The furor over online data brokers selling personal telephone data continues to roil on Capitol Hill with a House panel now demanding to know when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will complete its investigation. Since August, the FCC has been dealing with a barrage of complaints that telephone carriers are not adequately protecting the personal […]

Internet-related identity theft and fraud complaints may be leveling off, but overall financial losses are growing from the security breaches, new data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reveals. According to the FTC’s annual report on fraud, consumer complaints about identity theft top the list, accounting for 255,000 (37 percent) of more than 686,000 complaints […]

WASHINGTON — The music industry has a new digital bogeyman in its closet: high definition radio that lets users download and store music. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) wants Capitol Hill to do something about it. AM and FM stations are currently rolling out HD radio throughout the United States, promising improved listening […]

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) Monday accused 180solutions, one of the world’s largest developers of Internet advertising software, of “deliberately and repeatedly” engaging in illegal and deceptive spyware practices. In a complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the CDT urged the FTC to “use all the tools at its disposal to […]

Agency orders brokers to provide information about source of phone data they are selling over Internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) cited Friday two online data brokers dealing in private telephone records for failing to comply with FCC subpoenas seeking documents and information. The FCC wants to know where the brokers obtained the data since […]

UPDATED: The U.S. Supreme Court Monday dealt Research in Motion (RIM) another serious setback in its long-running patent infringement battle with NTP, denying the developer of the widely popular BlackBerry a high-court review of the case. RIM was seeking a decision of the validity of U.S. patent laws on the Canadian-based company, which maintains its […]

President Bush made one of his rare public comments on broadband Thursday, promising that the United States will “do better” in increasing broadband penetration rates. But he didn’t say how. Taking audience questions after an economic address in the Washington area suburb of Sterling, Va., Bush was asked about legislative efforts to limit municipal efforts […]