Gary McKinnon, a British hacker who is accused of hacking into secret military and NASA computers has lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States. Appeals Gary McKinnon... More...
Apple was forced to end exclusive iPhone contract deals with Orange in France. The immediate effect of the contract, which offers the latest iPhone to all of France via Apple and Telecom SA (Orange)... More...
A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US. Gary McKinnon, 42, could face a life sentence if... More...
A federal appeals court has just ruled that Microsoft must pay more than $140 million for infringing on software patents owned by a Michigan-based technology company, z4 Technologies. The company had sued Microsoft and Autodesk,... More...
An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. The competition saw Colossus return to code-cracking duties for the first... More...
Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had... More...
Barclaycard and The National Lottery have pulled advertisements from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), one of the most comprehensive movie databases on the web, after their ads were shown next to adult movie listings. The... More...
Chan Nai-ming, a 38-year old Hong Kong man convicted of sharing pirated movies, has lost his final appeal in the territory's highest court and will now have to finish serving a three-month prison sentence. He... More...
The Transportation Security Agency has lost an external computer hard drive containing the personal, bank and payroll information of up to 100,000 of its former and current employees who worked for the TSA from January... More...
Gigabyte has announced losing roughly $5 million USD due to an internal scandal committed by Chang Chaosong, factory manager at Ningbo Gigabyte Technology in China. Chang allegedly listed Gigabyte as a guarantor for a bank... More...
Another executive is leaving Microsoft's Internet search group as the company continues to struggle to compete with Web search leader Google. Dane Glasgow, general manager of Windows Live Search, is leaving the company, a spokesman... More...
In a turnaround to recent events it is the Xbox 360 that has lost two exclusive titles, which will now be made available on both the 360 and PS3. SCi announced today that Kane &... More...
A London man has lost his High Court Fight against extradition to the US. He allegedly carried out the "biggest military computer hack of all time". Gary McKinnon, of north London, is accused of gaining... More...
Google Incorporated claims the company loses about $1 billion US a year to "click fraud" and similar scams on its ad service. Special software that can click on an ad repeatedly can be used to... More...
According Aliso Viejo, California-based Net Applications' January 2007 report, Mozilla Firefox has lost browser market share (from 14% to 13.7%) while Apple's Safari has grown in browser usage (from 4.2% to 4.7%). For Firefox, this... More...
The majority of music industry executives agree with Apple CEO Steve Jobs that labels should ditch DRM on digital sales. The four major labels now seem increasingly isolated in their desire for rights-managed online music... More...
According to market research companies iSuppli and NPD Group's DisplaySearch, Sharp is no longer the world's leading maker of flat-panel TVs since rivals surpassed the Japanese company in unit shipments last year. Both research companies... More...
The good news is that losses are dropping. The bad news is that they're still happening, and the FBI doesn't know if secure information is entering the wild. Completed in 2002, the Office of the... More...
Cnet hosts a show called Prizefight in which two gadgets duke it out head to head for bragging rights of the Universe. It's like Frankenfights with less sources and in video. They break the... More...
ATI Technologies lost ground in every major graphics product category during the third quarter, and its acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices is likely to blame, according to Jon Peddie Research. The purchase put ATI directly... More...
Another file-sharing software maker has been found guilty of causing copyright infringement. A US judge has said the Morpheus software produced by StreamCast breaks the law. The ruling is another victory for the entertainment industry,... More...
Striking a blow to Microsoft, the U.S. Patent Office this week reaffirmed a key Web-browsing patent that the software maker is accused of infringing. In a decision made public Wednesday, the patent... More...
A US district court has ruled against Google in a trade mark action over the sale of the terms "Geico" and "Geico Direct" in AdWords, its keyword advertising service. The judge found that there was... More...
The European Union (EU) have announced that it will uphold anti-trust fines against Microsoft in its on going case against the company. Court of First Instance President, Judge Bo Vesterdorf, dismissed Microsoft's appeal against a... More...
Selling recycled Canon printer cartridges does not constitute an infringement of the company's intellectual property, the Tokyo District Court has ruled. The judgement marks the latest stage in Canon's legal battle against printer cartridge recycler... More...
Major printer company Lexmark has lost a case in a US court in which it tried to deploy the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to prevent other companies making cartridges that work with its printers.... More...
Last quarter chip giant Intel lost some of its market share to its rival AMD (among others such as Via and IBM). Though Intel didn't lose enough to cry about it shows that that... More...
There was further bad news for troubled publisher Acclaim in its latest round of regulatory disclosure documents, as the company admitted that it has lost the rights to the Turok franchise and Major League Baseball.... More...
The music industry's efforts to recoup money lost from Internet piracy were thwarted yet again Wednesday. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Internet service providers don't have to pay royalties to composers... More...
[UPDATE] After a year of development hell, Warner Bros. loses rights to the shooter-inspired project. However, who exactly is making the film is unclear. For once, the latest development in game movie... More...
The Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's most important nuclear weapons lab, lost another hard disk drive filled with classified information, once again throwing a spotlight on lab officials who have been trying to re-emerge... More...
Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday lost a High Court bid to have its legal case brought by the management company for legendary Fab Four rockers, the Beatles, moved from Britain to the United States. The... More...
A federal judge on Thursday denied Microsoft's motion for a change of venue in its pending case against RealNetworks, which charged the software giant with anticompetitive business tactics. U.S. District Court Judge... More...
Embattled Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner on Wednesday was stripped of his role as chairman, but kept his position as chief executive even after 43 percent of shareholders voted against him in an... More...
An Arizona judge has ruled that Microsoft infringed on display and printing technology patents, which could result in a jury decision amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, according to court documents obtained by Reuters.... More...
Uh oh! "NASA scientists say they have lost contact with the robot rover Spirit on Mars and are unsure what caused the problem. Spirit project manager Pete Theisinger told a news briefing that... More...
Microsoft has lost its status as the world's second-largest corporation to drug maker Pfizer due to slowing sales growth that caused it to miss out on this year's stock-market rally. Pfizer's market... More...
Steve Ballmer, the Vole's whirling, sweat-machine monkey-boy CEO, seems to have struck out in Munich.(ed :O) That is the third-largest cityscape in Germany, gentle readers. As such, it's a major loss for Microsoft. The story... More...
Britain's only operational 3G mobile network has been dealt a blow after its partner, Dutch phone firm KPN, turned down a request for a £150m loan. The 3 network, controlled by Hong... More...
Thanks aquadex from our BPN Forum... Now that we've all had the opportunity to play with Windows 2003 for a few weeks now, anyone ready for a real desktop operating system? Well its... More...
Thats alot of money to loose... Advanced Micro Devices reported a bigger-than-expected loss for the fourth quarter, including a major restructuring charge for layoffs, consolidating facilities and writing off assets, as the chip... More...
A Virginia Supreme Court ruled against America Online in its efforts to protect the identity of one of its 35 million subscribers by asking the court to quash a subpoena calling for the member's name... More...
IBM has been thwarted at the finish line by NEC in the league of supercomputers. After last year's victory and a massive number of entries in the league last time the supercomputer giant has not... More...
The loss of 2,332 laptop computers, microcomputers and micro servers by the Internal Revenue Service over a three-year period has ranking Senate Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) demanding a harder look at funding for... More...