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Microsoft goes after 'career' pirates in court

June 13, 2008 — 10:10am ET | By Paul Mah
In an effort to stamp out hard-core bootleggers - aka ‘career' pirates, Microsoft has filed a total of 21 lawsuits in Federal courts spanning 14 states in the United States. Perhaps lending... Read more...

Lawsuit tries to block HP-EDS merger

June 5, 2008 — 6:59am ET
There are many questions regarding the announced sale of EDS to HP, including what it means for their respective tech staffs, the direction of the new merged company and the new shape of global IT... Read more...

Data theft puts IT on hot seat

March 31, 2008 — 7:59am ET
The tech industry has been analyzing and evaluating the recent theft of 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from the Hannaford supermarket chain, a Maine-based grocer. And what they are finding... Read more...

HP settles privacy case

February 19, 2008 — 7:59am ET
In 2006, HP disclosed that misconduct by private investigators and company employees occurred during an attempt to identify the source of a boardroom leak. Now company officials, hoping to put the... Read more...

IBM and PWC settle federal kickback suit for $5.3M

August 20, 2007 — 6:59am ET
After three years of litigation, IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) separately paid fines that added up to $5.3 million, in order to settle a broader set of DOJ lawsuits stemming from multiple... Read more...

Microsoft goes to court...again

August 13, 2007 — 6:59am ET
Meanwhile, Microsoft has some legal problems of its own (again). The software giant is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that stickers which read "Windows Vista Capable" that were put on some... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Microsoft to ship new version of Windows in three years; When should a CIO think and act like a VC?;

July 22, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

> Microsoft to ship new version of Windows in three years. Article > Acer responds to... Read more...

E-discovery and the CIO

April 12, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Electronic discovery is a firm's obligation to produce all of the documents or information in its possession--including documents that exist only in electronic form--in the event of initiated or... Read more...

Dealing with e-Discovery

March 29, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

New federal rules regarding electronic discovery have changed the game for storage and records retention, as well as for ongoing litigation support within the company. These rules will only make... Read more...

Microsoft is serious about fighting phishing

November 21, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Microsoft's efforts to shut down phishers are having some impact. According to a news report, Redmond has filed 129 lawsuits abroad against alleged phishers and is working hand-in-hand with law... Read more...