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A woman ordered to pay $222,000 for downloading and sharing music files has decided to appeal the case. A happy Jammie Thomas said on her Myspace.com blog that the appeal was announced by her lawyer,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Oct 9, 2007 · Hot! with 16 comments

For the first time since its debut in 1966, the A.M. Turing Award, which is granted by the Association for Computer Machinery, has been awarded to a woman. Frances Allen, a 74-year-old IBM Fellow Emerita...

· Feb 22, 2007 with 1 comment

A Nurse from Greater Manchester was targeted by a group of hackers with a new breed of malware. Titled 'Ransomware' by security experts, the software, after entering a victim's PC encrypts the My Documents folder...

Dave Legg · Jun 5, 2006 · Hot! with 1 comment

People around the world watching live on a Web cam as a horse gave birth called for help when the mare -- in pain and confused -- kicked her owner after delivering her foal. ...

Michael Stanclift · Jan 17, 2004 with -1 comments

A judge sentenced an Arizona woman to 60 days home detention for intercepting her husband's ex-wife's e-mail, saying the penalty is a warning to others who might be tempted to do the same. ...

Michael Stanclift · Oct 20, 2003 with -1 comments

A 69-year-old woman was hit on the head with a computer game console as she tried to stop her son being attacked by a burglar. Maureen Palmer, 69, found her 41-year-old son wrestling...

Marcel Klum · Dec 29, 2002 with 2 comments

OK, now i've heard everything... A Dutch Woman who claims she is allergic to Intel Pentium processors is continuing to fight for compensation. The woman has filed a lawsuit against the...

· Aug 11, 2002 with -1 comments

Came across this over at gamers.nl. BATON ROUGE, LA. A Louisiana woman is suing Nintendo, alleging her 30-year-old son suffered seizures after playing video games for eight hours a day, six days a...

Marcel Klum · Feb 25, 2002 · Hot! with 2 comments

California resident Karen DeLise sued Music City Records, Fahrenheit Entertainment and digital rights management company Sunncomm in Marin County Superior Court in September, alleging that actions they took to exert control over the album "Charley...

· Feb 24, 2002 with -1 comments