Neowin News Feed for: Stealing

Google denies scraping content from lyrics website

Usama Jawad — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:56:01 +0000

After being accused by a popular lyrics website of stealing content, Google has made a public statement which vehemently denies any wrongdoing, including illegally scraping content from websites. Read more...

Microsoft sues recycling company for the unauthorized sales of 70,000 copies of Office 2010

Usama Jawad — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:06:01 +0000

Microsoft has sued recycling company, GER, for the unauthorized sales of 70,000 unused product keys of its Office 2010 software, which had been entrusted to the firm for safe disposal. Read more...

Microsoft stealing Google search results to improve Bing [Update]

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:09:17 +0000

The search engine wars certainly just took an interesting turn. According to Search Engine Land, Google just completed a sting operation of sorts, proving that Bing is copying search results. The Bing Toolbar is used... Read more...

HP exec pleads guilt to IBM theft

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:48:01 +0000

Hewlett Packard's former vice president Atul Malhotra, has pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from IBM, and passing them over to his new employers. Atul Malhotra, a vice president of imaging and printing services at... Read more...

Producer Thanks Pirates For Stealing His Film

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:11:27 +0000

Eric Wilkinson, the producer of the independent film "The Man from Earth", wrote an email to RLSlog in which he thanks them for the free promotion they gave him. "In the future, I will not... Read more...

Contractor Pleads Guilty To Stealing Classified Data

Thu, 17 May 2007 16:21:16 +0000

Jessica Lynn Quintana, a former employee with a contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, N.M. to stealing classified information from the lab and is now facing... Read more...

Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:33:21 +0000

Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice. Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing... Read more...

Microsoft Employees Arrested for Stealing Software

Tom Warren — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:43:34 +0000

A former Microsoft Corp employee was arrested on Monday for allegedly ordering more than $17 million of software via an internal purchasing system and then selling it to keep the proceeds for himself. Richard... Read more...

Is Software Piracy Stealing Jobs?

Thu, 03 Apr 2003 04:43:02 +0000

Reducing software piracy by just 10 percentage points worldwide would generate 1.5 million jobs and add $400 billion to the world economy, according to a study released Wednesday by the Business Software Alliance and IDC.... Read more...