Neowin News Feed for: Rule

Twitter surrenders Occupy protester's details to government

Paul Ferson — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:25:06 +0000

Twitter, who has been fighting to protect an Occupy Wall Street protester's details from the government has surrendered the details after being forced into a metaphorical corner. Read more...

EU to rule on Microsoft appeal Sept. 17

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:18:59 +0000

The European Court of First Instance will give its long-awaited verdict in Microsoft's antitrust appeal on Sept. 17, people involved in the matter said Tuesday. It is by far the biggest antitrust case ever referred... Read more...

Mob rule on China's Internet

Dave Legg — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:11:30 +0000

After a 5,000 word letter on one of China's most popular forums, from a husband writing about a student he suspected of having an affair with his wife, a group of hundreds joined in the... Read more...

Judges rule file-sharing software legal

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:42:50 +0000

A federal appeals court has ruled that file-sharing software is in fact legal. The panel noted that file-sharing companies simply provide the software for individual users to share information. Therefore, they cannot be... Read more...

Court Reverses Pro-Spam Rule

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 14 May 2004 08:16:34 +0000

A California federal court has dissolved a restraining order against SpamCop.net, just a day after ordering the antispam service to stop warning warn ISPs about complaints of spam coming from their networks. Judge Saundra Brown... Read more...

EC Set To Rule Against Microsoft

Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:13:18 +0000

It's dÃ©jÃ vu all over again for Microsoft with the European Commission set to rule on March 24th that it has violated antitrust rules, now that the last-minute talks between the two have collapsed. But... Read more...

Judge opts to rule against spammer

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:43:40 +0000

A New York court has ordered a Niagara Falls company to stop telling consumers they had asked to be spammed. Manhattan Superior Court Justice Lottie Wilkins permanently enjoined MonsterHut from falsely representing that it had... Read more...