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Senate panel in Pakistan approves controversial cybercrime bill

Usama Jawad — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:16:02 +0000

A senate panel in Pakistan has approved a controversial cybercrime bill, which could be written into the country's law if endorsed by the senate and finally, the President Mamnoon Hussain. Read more...

XM-Sirius merger officially approved by the FCC

Simon Andrews — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:35:58 +0000

There's no stopping it now: the marriage of XM and Sirius has been cleared by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under a few conditions. The deal is said to offer subscribers better choice in the... Read more...

Seagate, Maxtor Merger Approved by Shareholders

Thu, 18 May 2006 16:41:22 +0000

After a deal was reported to be in the works months ago, shareholders for both Seagate and Maxtor have approved a merger of the hard drive giants. Under the deal, Seagate will acquire Maxtor,... Read more...

EU tells Sony, Bertelsmann music deal is approved

Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:02:06 +0000

Good news today from the European Union as it gave the 'ok' for the merger between BMG and Sony Music. This now makes Sony Music the world's second-largest music company (world's largest music company... Read more...

Mozilla Foundation Now IRS 501(c)(3) Approved

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:59:23 +0000

For those of you who haven't already donated to Mozilla foundation. Here is yet another reason to donate. Apparently donations made directly to Mozilla.org are now tax deductible! Big thanks goes out... Read more...

California antitrust deal with Microsoft approved

Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:37:09 +0000

On Wednesday a U.S. judge gave the final approval to the $1.1 billion dollar settlement between Microsoft and the state of California. This lawsuit was settled in January 2003 with vouchers ranging from $4... Read more...

Testers Approved for WinXP Media Center Edition Beta Program

Tom Warren — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:49:32 +0000

Microsoft today alerted sucessful testers that they have been accepted to take part in the next generation WinXP Media Center Edition Beta Program. Nominations were held a couple of months ago but it wasn't clear... Read more...

Wi-Fi spec approved, next under way

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:55:11 +0000

The cycle of increasing throughput in the wireless-networking industry continued Thursday as a standards-governing body approved a new specification and began work on another spec that promises to lead to even higher data-transmission speeds. ... Read more...

HP declares merger will be approved

Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:53:50 +0000

Hewlett-Packard declared victory Tuesday in its hotly contested battle to merge with Compaq Computer. In a statement released after shareholders voted on the proposal, the company said that "based on a preliminary... Read more...