Friday - April 4, 2008
SCO, the company everyone in the Unix and Linux worlds loves to hate, has lost its latest angel investor. Private equity firm Steven Norris Capital Partners had filed a memorandum of understanding tentatively offering $5 million in stock and a $95 million loan the long-moribund SCO would use to pay off creditors and come back to life. Now, SNCP has canceled the plan and is trying to buy SCO's assets instead. This is SCO's third attempt at reorganization. Previously, it had tried to sell off its assets, and had received money from an angel investor in 2003.
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Friday - March 28, 2008
A dispute over sales of virtual sex toys has resulted in a real-life slap on the wrist for a Texas teenager. Eros LLC, a Tampa Bay-area company that creates virtual sex scripts in the online world Second Life, sued Robert Leatherwood, 19, last year claiming he copied, displayed or distributed Eros products without permission.
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Thursday - March 20, 2008
A well-known figure in Silicon Valley will launch a campaign Thursday to reform Congress using Wiki-style collaboration and "a Silicon Valley approach" to take on entrenched interests and the pervasive influence of money on Capitol Hill. Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Law professor and a cyberspace legal guru, will team up with Joe Trippi, a nuts-and-bolts political operative in Washington.
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Tuesday - March 18, 2008
Feeling nostalgic about the early Clinton years? The dawn of the dot-com heyday? The Seattle grunge music scene? If so, you're in luck. The U.S. Supreme Court is giving the go-ahead for two tech companies to finish a battle that began more than 10 years ago but became bogged down in the legal system.
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Thursday - March 6, 2008
A Swiss bank quietly dropped its lawsuit against renegade Web site Wikileaks.org on Wednesday, days after a judge reversed his order to disable the site for posting confidential bank documents. In court papers, Bank Julius Baer didn't give a reason for dropping the suit and reserved the right to refile it later. Bank lawyer William Briggs didn't return a telephone call seeking comment.
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Friday - February 29, 2008
Wikileaks.org won a reprieve Friday from a judge's order that had shut down its U.S. site for more than a week. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White lifted the injunction he had previously imposed to keep the site from spreading possible trade secrets. He issued the new ruling after he heard a fresh round of arguments Friday.
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Friday - February 29, 2008
The head of the private-equity fund seeking to take over The SCO Group said Monday his investors are interested in building SCO's software business and not in what they can wring out of high-profile lawsuits with IBM and Novell. Stephen Norris said he hopes the planned investment in the company will lead to a settlement of pending suits and allow it to concentrate on building SCO's Unix software business.
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Thursday - February 28, 2008
The American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Citizen and twelve media groups are asking a federal court to lift an injunction against the global whistleblower Web site Wikileaks.org, claiming that it violates the First Amendment.
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Thursday - February 28, 2008
The Web site Wikileaks is a true product of the Internet age. Started in 2006 to let whistle-blowers anonymously publicize secret information exposing what they see as malfeasance, it has put up some 1.2 million documents, including a handbook for the administration of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. However, as of last week, Wikileaks.org was no longer accessible.
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Friday - February 22, 2008
The European Union is looking at Microsoft's vow to commit to openness and interoperability with a jaundiced eye. The EU's executive branch, the European Commission, will welcome "any move towards genuine interoperability," it said, while pointing out that Microsoft had made "at least four similar statements" in the past on this topic.
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Friday - February 22, 2008
Microsoft has made an announcement about future standards support, but Red Hat, in a response posted Thursday, would like to see Microsoft instead make a concrete announcement in support of existing ISO-approved, cross-platform standards next week in Geneva.
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