Tech Law

E-mail and other forms of electronic communications have become pervasive and essential to business growth and operational productivity. This new dependency on messaging has created a whole new spectrum of major risks, vulnerabilities and requirements for companies of all sizes. "Postini customers t...

Google's YouTube is seeking to depose high-profile comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as part of its defense of a $1 billion copyright infringement suit filed by Viacom, parent company of the Comedy Central network where they serve up their fake news and political digs. Stewart, who hosts "Th...

A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for linking to images of its content that have been published without permission by other Web sites. MSN's image search feature links to thumbnails of Perfect 10's content that users can then click on to view in full-size versions, according t...

E-mail and other forms of electronic communications have become pervasive and essential to business growth and operational productivity. Today, with more than 170 billion e-mails and 580 billion IMs exchanged daily, companies have seen a 334 percent annual increase in bandwidth, processing and stora...

Vonage shares surged higher amid a stock market selloff Thursday after the VoIP provider posted better-than-expected earnings. Vonage cut its net loss to $34 million, or 22 cents, in the second quarter, less than half of the losses it posted in the year-ago quarter, when it lost $74 million. Revenue...

Federal prosecutors have drawn first blood in the stock options backdating scandal. Following a five-week trial, Gregory L. Reyes, the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, was convicted of 10 counts of conspiracy and fraud in Federal District Court in San Francisco. Reyes could receive a se...

A California state law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors was declared unconstitutional Monday by a U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte on the grounds that it violates the First Amendment. The law, which was signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005 but had not yet been implemente...

The Bush administration upheld the International Trade Commission's ban on the import of cell phones containing Qualcomm chips Monday, prompting vendor Qualcomm to announce that it will appeal and renew once again its request for a stay on the ban. "I have decided to permit the limited exclusion ord...

A federal judge has handed Microsoft a huge victory in years-old patent spat with telecom giant Alcatel-Lucent focusing on how personal computers running Windows play back MP3 music files, setting aside a $1.5 billion jury award granted after the software giant was found to have infringed on two dig...

President Bush on Sunday afternoon signed into law a controversial measure giving U.S. government officials increased authority to listen in on international communications without first obtaining a warrant. S. 1927 updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by permitting warrantless surveill...

A tech association representing such industry stalwarts as Google and Microsoft is taking aim at what it sees as a stealth campaign to intimidate consumers from exercising their fair use rights with respect to copyrighted material. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed a c...

Google and YouTube are planning to unveil copyright protection technology that goes above and beyond what some observers think is even possible. A Google lawyer told a judge that Google it is creating a database of video "fingerprints" and a system that will match them against uploaded clips to scre...

Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest Communications convicted of 19 counts of insider trading, was sentenced Friday to six years in prison plus financial penalties totaling $71 million. At Nacchio's hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado in Denver, U.S. District Judge Edw...

The European Commission on Friday confirmed that it has sent a statement of objections to Intel charging the microprocessor giant with engaging in anticompetitive practices. The letter, which was sent Thursday, accuses Intel of abusing its dominant market position in order to deliberately exclude AM...

A federal judge on Wednesday gave the founders of Facebook challenger ConnectU two weeks to shore up their case against the popular social networking site, indicating he thinks the lawsuit is based on a shaky foundation. The plaintiffs contend Mark Zuckerberg surreptitiously stole their idea for a W...