Neowin News Feed for: States

Dell closes 140 kiosks in the United States

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:59:33 +0000

As part of its recent retail strategy, Dell has announced plans to close 140 kiosks in the United States. Customers can still, however, purchase laptop and desktop computers in more than 10,000 retail outlets worldwide.... Read more...

States Ask for More Court Oversight for Microsoft

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:30:31 +0000

An antitrust settlement reached in 2002 requiring federal oversight of software-giant Microsoft Corp. is set to expire on November 12th of this year, and this has some US states worried. A group of states led... Read more...

DOJ, states concerned about Vista antitrust docs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:43:50 +0000

The U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general are concerned that Microsoft is revising deadlines that it agreed to as part of its antitrust settlement. At issue are changes that Microsoft says it needs... Read more...

United States cedes control of the internet

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:09:44 +0000

In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet. Having... Read more...

AOL Most Infected Web Network, company states

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:13:34 +0000

Prolexic, a provider of security consulting products, has claimed that Deutsche Telecom, Wanadoo and AOL are Europe's top three internet providers for harboring infected PCs The primary attack of choice in the begginning... Read more...

Mobile Phone Virus Makes It to the United States

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:40:51 +0000

Finnish anti-virus research company F-Secure reports that the first mobile phone virus, called Cabir, has made it's way to the United States since it's discovery in the Philippines over eight months ago. The Cabir virus... Read more...

Dell to open new PC plant in United States

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:51:11 +0000

Dell will announce within weeks a plan to build a new manufacturing plant in the United States, as other PC makers continue to send such work overseas, CEO Kevin Rollins said Tuesday in a wide-ranging... Read more...

States Threaten Peer-to-Peer Sites

Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:28:08 +0000

Several states are cracking down on peer-to-peer sites as hotbeds of illegal file-trading. Attorneys general from 47 U.S. states and territories have sent a letter out to P-to-P software vendors, saying they must re-engineer their... Read more...

States, feds headed for VoIP clash

Fri, 21 May 2004 12:35:37 +0000

Regulators in large U.S. states are moving forward with Net-phoning rules, forcing an inevitable confrontation with federal regulators who believe the industry falls under their jurisdiction. By pushing ahead with regulation now,... Read more...

States want Microsoft licensing program improved

Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:51:56 +0000

A program intended to level the playing field in the software business in the wake of the U.S. antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp. doesn't seem to be working as intended, the states that have settled... Read more...

States scrutinize e-voting as primaries near

Tue, 09 Dec 2003 10:19:05 +0000

Some states are raising last-minute security concerns over e-voting technology as much of the country prepares to switch over from mechanical to electronic ballots in time for the upcoming U.S. presidential election. After... Read more...

Feds, states question XP's music link

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:49:23 +0000

Federal and state regulators have voiced concern that a feature in Windows XP that involves online music purchasing may violate terms of Microsoft's antitrust settlement. The issue surfaced in a court-mandated briefing filed... Read more...

Firewalls set to become illegal in many American states

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:09:05 +0000

AN INTERESTING PIECE of news has surfaced that will have sys admins fainting in disbelief. Eight states have put forward bills that would have a devastating effect on network security and even networks themselves if... Read more...

25 more states join fight against Microsoft

Sun, 17 Mar 2002 04:05:14 +0000

Thanks Nekrosoft13, and oqwarrior for this. In three separate legal briefs filed Friday, a total of 34 states opposed a Microsoft motion that a federal judge should dismiss the remaining portion of its... Read more...

States Say They Can Seek Own Microsoft Sanctions

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 05:50:47 +0000

The nine states still pursuing the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case told a federal judge on Friday that they have "long and clearly established" authority to seek their own sanctions against the company. ... Read more...

Microsoft must give states Windows code, says judge

Sat, 16 Feb 2002 14:48:42 +0000

Thanks Walter T mastalsz for sending this in. Microsoft Corp. will have to supply the computer code for its Windows program to a group of states seeking stiffer antitrust sanctions against the software... Read more...

States Request Microsoft Windows Code

Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:14:51 +0000

Thanks neo1980 for posting this story in our forum yesterday ;) (I didn't see it) The state attorneys general still pursuing the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. have asked a federal judge to... Read more...

States may ask for unbundled version of Windows

Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:27:06 +0000

State attorneys general pressing the antitrust case against Microsoft may ask a judge to order the company to offer a cheaper, stripped-down version of its Windows operating system, a source familiar with the case said... Read more...

States to sharpen claws in Microsoft case

Tue, 04 Dec 2001 22:51:07 +0000

WASHINGTON--A group of nine states plans to propose stiff sanctions against Microsoft that could include further opening the Windows source code and could extend to technologies not directly covered by the landmark antitrust case, sources... Read more...

States may stick to guns on Microsoft

Sun, 09 Sep 2001 08:59:19 +0000

Sept. 7 — Two key state attorneys general involved in the Microsoft antitrust case said Friday they would "press for remedies that go beyond those requested by the Department of Justice" if they believe the... Read more...