Neowin News Feed for: Favor

AOL Scraps Music Now in Favor of Napster

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:14:59 +0000

AOL has scrapped AOL Music Now and is calling Napster their exclusive supplier of subscription music for its AOL Music site. Over the next 60 days, AOL's 350,000 paid accounts will be transferred over to... Read more...

Democrats favor the "iTunes tax"

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:33:14 +0000

Democratic politicians in state capitols are more likelythan Republicans to permit a tax on digital purchases of songs and movies. Although most states have overlooked taxing digitaldownloads, such as iTunes purchases, politicians and... Read more...

Court Rules in Favor of Anonymous Blogger

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:56:14 +0000

The Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a decision by a lower court which required an ISP to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger who targeted a local elected official. The decision was... Read more...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Cable Companies

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:20:23 +0000

In their second major ruling on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal court verdict that would have required cable companies to open up their networks to third party Internet service providers. The... Read more...

Judge rules in Apples favor against Bloggers (ThinkSecret)

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:33:30 +0000

In a case with implications for the freedom to blog, a San Jose judge tentatively ruled Thursday that Apple Computer can force three online publishers to surrender the names of confidential sources who disclosed information... Read more...

France warns officials not to favor Intel

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:44:36 +0000

France has taken steps toward complying with European Union law by warning local-government buyers not to favor computers with Intel chips over rival AMD, a commission spokesman said on Friday. A notice on... Read more...

Open-source databases gaining favor

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:22:34 +0000

The open-source database MySQL grew rapidly in popularity over the last year, according to results from a survey released Monday by research company Evans Data. Usage of MySQL for developing applications rose 30 percent over... Read more...

Intel Lines Up in Favor of HP-Compaq Merger

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 05:45:05 +0000

Opponents of the merger argue that it would cause HP to lose direction and market share in its core businesses as it struggles to integrate two vastly different corporate cultures. With the March... Read more...