Neowin News Feed for: Threatens

Viacom's YouTube suit threatens freedom

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:08:50 +0000

A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner... Read more...

AT&T threatens to disconnect subscribers who criticize them

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:34:52 +0000

AT&T has rolled out new Terms of Service for its DSL service that leave plenty of room for interpretation. From our reading of it, in concert with several others, what we see is a ToS... Read more...

Dangerous Java Flaw Threatens Numerous Platforms

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:39:09 +0000

Google's Security team has discovered vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Runtime Environment that threatens the security of all platforms, browsers and even mobile devices. "This is as bad as it gets," said Chris Gatford, a... Read more...

Website chief threatens to sue Google for libel

Tom Warren — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:52:10 +0000

A British businessman is threatening a landmark legal action against Google, the world's leading internet search engine, after claims that it has defamed him. Brian Retkin has warn that he will proceed with a libel... Read more...

Church of England Threatens Sony with Legal Action

Joe Cashman — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:06:35 +0000

The Church of England is threatening legal action against Sony, because footage of a Manchester Cathedral was used without permission in the game, Resistance: Fall of Man. The church has said that Sony did not... Read more...

Apple threatens legal action over the iGasm

Thu, 24 May 2007 23:04:37 +0000

Apple is threatening legal action after sex shop Anne Summers launched a device entitled the 'iGasm'. Sold for $60, the 'iGasm' vibrates in time to music played off an ipod or mp3 player. The advert... Read more...

Blu-ray Disc Specification Change Threatens Current Players

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:00:02 +0000

Dear Mr. Early Adopter, start crying. The Blu-ray Disc Association has mandated that all players of the format released after October 31 must support BD Java which is currently not standard for today's hardware. All... Read more...

British Music Industry Threatens ISPs Over Piracy

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:23:04 +0000

The music industry opened up a new front in the war on online music piracy yesterday, threatening to sue internet service providers that allow customers to illegally share copyrighted tracks over their networks. The International... Read more...

Patent ruling threatens Microsoft Office

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:14:38 +0000

Microsoft may have to pull its Office suite from the shelves in South Korea as a result of losing a patent lawsuit in that country, according to published reports. Several news outlets reported Monday that... Read more...

The Pirate Bay Threatens Compensation Claim

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:46:42 +0000

Sweden's self confessed daddy of BitTorrent has revealed that if the findings of an ongoing legal fiasco deem The Pirate Bay legal, the site's owners can claim compensation from the Swedish state. The popular tracker... Read more...

Pokemon USA Threatens to Sue Cancer Researchers

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:45:25 +0000

Nintendo subsidiary threatens legal action to keep scientists from referring to cancer-causing gene by the nickname "Pokemon." In January's issue of the science journal Nature, Pier Paolo Pandolfi of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering... Read more...

Microsoft Threatens to Pull Windows From South Korea

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:24:23 +0000

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, threatened to pull its Windows operating system from South Korea if antitrust regulators order the company to remove programming for instant message and movie player services. ... Read more...

Virus flood threatens home users

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:01:31 +0000

Virus writers have adopted a new tactic to try to make sure their malicious programs reach as many victims as possible. Instead of releasing Windows viruses intermittently, many creators of worms and trojans are pumping... Read more...

Apple's Intel Desktop Move Threatens Linux Desktop

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:54:42 +0000

You know what else? If you're a Linux developer and you've been spending time on, say, porting Linux to the prehistoric z80 processor or writing device drivers for the long obsolete ESDI (Enhanced Small Device... Read more...

Hollywood threatens to sue UK BitTorrent man for millions

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:23:14 +0000

Alexander Hanff had no idea Hollywood was keeping such a close eye on him. Then, last Saturday morning, a movie studio functionary arrived at his door. Hanff, still in his dressing gown and not yet... Read more...

Net-Worm.Perl.Santy.a threatens Internet forums

Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:07:36 +0000

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, has detected a new worm, Net-Worm.Perl.Santy.a. This worm infects certain web sites by exploiting a vulnerability in phpBB, a popular package used to create Internet... Read more...

Apple Threatens Owner of iTunes Domain

Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:50:48 +0000

Apple has taken steps to take ownership of the iTunes.co.uk domain name from its current owner, with the company formally complaining to Nominet, the UK domain name registrar, that it is entitled to the domain.... Read more...

Microsoft Threatens Lawsuits Over Linux

Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:13:33 +0000

Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Steve Ballmer on Thursday warned Asian governments that they could face intellectual rights-infringement lawsuits for using rival open-source operating platforms such as Linux. Ballmer, speaking in Singapore at Microsoft's... Read more...

Patent landrush threatens Wi-Fi standards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:03:43 +0000

We have examined before how patent lawsuits are threatening to stifle the adoption of wireless standards. Symbol, fresh from an intellectual property victory over rival Proxim, is the latest to assert sweeping licensing rights in... Read more...

BayStar Threatens to Sue SCO

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:42:42 +0000

Just when the Unix community thought that the fractious BayStar-SCO dispute was history, the investment house proved everyone wrong. The company now says it will sue SCO and continue the pair's troubled financial relationship. ... Read more...

DoS Vulnerability Threatens Wireless Networks

Fri, 14 May 2004 02:51:23 +0000

AusCERT, Australia's national computer emergency response team, released an advisory today identifying a vulnerability in the 802.11 wireless specification that could open wireless networks to denial-of-service attacks. The advisory targets a new cause... Read more...

AMD Opteron Roadkill threatens

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:31:41 +0000

THE END OF JUNE looks set to be a Rubicon for Intel - this is when they have promised their manufacturing partners such as Dell, HP, and IBM, the next version of the Xeon DP,... Read more...

Passport flaw threatens users' accounts

Thu, 08 May 2003 10:41:46 +0000

A serious security flaw in Microsoft's Passport service put users' accounts, including their personal information and credit card numbers, at risk of being hijacked. The flaw, in Passport's password recovery mechanism,... Read more...

Samba flaw threatens Linux file servers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:12:04 +0000

The Samba Team released a patch on Monday for the second major security flaw found in the past few weeks in the open-source group's widely used program for sharing Windows files between Unix and Linux... Read more...

Europe threatens to invade ICANN

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:08:19 +0000

The Internet is teetering on the brink of war. European forces amassed under the executive chairman of UK registry Nominet, Dr Willie Black, are poised ready to strike at the very heart of the Net... Read more...

ASPFriends threatens to pull the plug over "Bully Microsoft"

Steven Parker — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:39:49 +0000

Thanks Anon for this. The operator of the popular ASPFriends mailing lists is preparing to pull the plug on his service, accusing Microsoft of acting like a "bully" and mistreating the huge ASP.NET community. Charles... Read more...

PHP Vulnerability Threatens Web Servers

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:01:52 +0000

Thanks to zivan56 & davidpaj for the heads up. A flaw found in newer versions of the PHP Web server scripting language could allow attackers to crash, and in some cases control, computers over the... Read more...

Code Red still threatens Net

Sun, 05 May 2002 07:27:01 +0000

While doing a search for CODE RED on NeoWin, the latest article displayed was posted on the 10th of September, 2001. And now it looks like Code Red might be resurrected again. Security... Read more...

Aguilera Threatens Suit Over Internet Porn Video

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:47:35 +0000

LOS ANGELES Pop diva Christina Aguilera Wednesday threatened to take legal action against the distributors of an online porn video purported to include sexually explicit images of the singer. "It has recently come... Read more...

UK Gov agency threatens to dump 500,000 Windows desktops

Sun, 25 Nov 2001 05:45:24 +0000

The UK government's confusing relationship with Microsoft seems to be taking a turn of the worse. In recent weeks we've seen the Ministry of Defence and the National Health Service strike deals which will allegedly... Read more...

Cyber libel ruling threatens UK ISPs

Sat, 01 Sep 2001 04:53:54 +0000

UK internet service providers could face a troubled future following a United States Supreme Court judgement on internet libel. The case of Prodigy.com in New York has highlighted the apparently diverging direction US and English... Read more...