The Internet
LinuxWorld Conference highlights corporate interest in alternative computer operating system
By Mike Ingram, August 18, 2000
This years' LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San José, California took place as US software giant Microsoft faces a court-ordered break-up and only days after the European Union served notice of a n...
Pro-Napster protesters vandalise web sites
By Mike Ingram, August 17, 2000
According to a report by Newsbytes.com on August 15, Internet vandals have defaced a number of web sites around the world in protest at the court action being taken against music file-swapping service...
Yahoo! granted reprieve in French court's attempt to block access
By Mike Ingram, August 16, 2000
The August 11 judgement by a French court, widely anticipated, ordering Internet portal Yahoo! to block access to its US web site from France has been delayed for a further two months, pending reports...
European Union widens anti-trust case against Microsoft
By Mike Ingram, August 9, 2000
American software giant Microsoft faces anti-trust action by the European Union (EU) following a complaint by Sun Microsystems that the company engaged in discriminatory licensing and refused to suppl...
Clinton administration plan for FBI spying on email
By Patrick Martin, August 2, 2000
The Clinton administration announced July 17 that it would seek broad powers to compel Internet Service Providers to allow FBI monitoring of email messages, using a powerful software package devised b...
Temporary injunction granted against Napster
By Mike Ingram, July 28, 2000
A federal judge in San Francisco granted a temporary injunction Wednesday against the Internet music company Napster. US District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel issued the order at the request of the Record...
British parliament set to adopt law enforcing police access to encrypted email
By Mike Ingram, July 19, 2000
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill (RIP) will be presented to the Commons for the final reading Wednesday after amendments made in the House of Lords.
Chinese government backs development of Linux operating system
By Mike Ingram, July 15, 2000
Similar reports have emerged several times this year. In January, Jon Hall, Linux International executive director, said that it was government policy in China to use the operating system across all m...
US Judge orders break-up of Microsoft
By Mike Ingram, June 9, 2000
US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered Microsoft split in two in his final judgement, issued June 7. In a ruling that was almost a word-for-word reprint of proposals filed by the Justice De...
Judge grants more time to government in Microsoft anti-trust case
By Mike Ingram, June 2, 2000
In an unexpected move Thursday, the US government asked for more time in the anti-trust trial against Microsoft, saying that it might incorporate several of the suggestions made by the company into it...
A glimpse behind the veil of business secrets
Microsoft lawsuit reveals predatory corporate practices
By Mike Ingram, May 23, 2000
The anti-trust action against Microsoft by the US Justice Department has brought to the surface a virtual state of war between major corporations in the fields of computer technology, telecommunicatio...
New email virus potentially more damaging than "Love Bug"
By Mike Ingram, May 20, 2000
A new computer virus was reported May 18 which is said to be potentially more damaging than the so-called "Love Bug" which caused up to $10 billion worth of damage to world-wide computer networks earl...
