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Microsoft on Tuesday launched a legal campaign against parties that register Web addresses designed to attract visitors by using trademarked terms and common misspellings of more popular domains. The software giant filed three lawsuits this...

· Aug 23, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Fort Montgomery, a Civil War-era fort built in 1844, is up for sale on eBay. This is the first time the fort, which was manned during the war but never saw any action, has been...

· May 20, 2006 · Hot! with 1 comment

UK tabloid The Sun is reporting that 227 UK Civil Servants in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been disciplined for downloading pornographic images whilst at work. The Sun reports that some 2...

· Aug 26, 2004 with -1 comments

File swappers concerned about getting in trouble with record labels over illegal downloads may soon have a major new worry: the U.S. Department of Justice. A proposal that the Senate may vote on as early...

Todd Tanner · May 26, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

A dispute over the transfer of the domain name Sex.com may be heading to California's highest court. In a decision published Friday, a panel of federal appellate judges asked the California Supreme...

Michael Stanclift · Jan 5, 2003 with -1 comments

Governments have in recent times stepped up their monitoring of electronic communication in light of some terrorist organisations using the Internet as a means of communication. Today the 1997 Telecommunications Privacy Directive is up for...

· May 30, 2002 with -1 comments