E-Business & Internet

  • 3 charged in Pa. with redirecting Comcast traffic
    AP (November 19, 2009)
    PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Federal prosecutors have charged three men with diverting traffic from the Web site of Philadelphia-based telecommunications provider Comcast Corp.
     
  • NJ man sentenced in Scientology cyber attack
    AP (November 18, 2009)
    NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man will serve a 366-day federal prison term for conducting a cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites in January 2008.
     
  • UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests
    AP (November 18, 2009)
    LONDON (AP) - A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday.
     
  • Microsoft told to stop some Windows sales in China
    AP (November 18, 2009)
    BEIJING (AP) - A Beijing court has ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling some versions of its Windows operating system in China in a licensing dispute with a local supplier.
     
  • 2 arrested in taped assaults posted on YouTube
    AP (November 18, 2009)
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Police in Minnesota have arrested two people in connection with assaults that were videotaped and briefly posted on YouTube.
     
  • W.Va. Supreme Court opts for e-mail privacy
    AP (November 13, 2009)
    CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The state Supreme Court has ruled that public officials and public employees can keep their personal e-mails private.
     
  • Wash. pair plead not guilty to streaming sex abuse
    AP (November 10, 2009)
    SEATTLE (AP) - A couple in Washington state have pleaded not guilty to charges that they streamed their sexual abuse of a 4-year-old girl over the Internet.
     
  • NY joins the antitrust effort against Intel
    AP (November 04, 2009)
    NEW YORK (AP) - New York's attorney general hit Intel Corp. with an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday, claiming the company used "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate the market for computer microprocessors.
     
  • Spring Design sues Barnes & Noble over e-reader
    AP (November 03, 2009)
    NEW YORK (AP) - Technology company Spring Design said Tuesday it filed a lawsuit against Barnes & Noble alleging it misappropriated trade secrets and violated a nondisclosure agreement when it launched its electronic reader Nook last month.
     
  • Fla. sues online travel companies over hotel taxes
    AP (November 03, 2009)
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The state of Florida is suing online travel reservation companies over hotel taxes, the latest in a string of lawsuits nationwide claiming the sites owe local authorities millions of dollars.
     
  • AT&T sues Verizon over 'map for that' ads
    AP (November 03, 2009)
    ATLANTA (AP) - AT&T Inc. is suing Verizon Wireless over its competitor's "There's a Map for That" commercials.
     
  • School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix
    AP (October 30, 2009)
    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Two sophomore girls have sued their Indiana school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation.
     
  • Judge limits runaway convert's phone, Internet use
    AP (October 27, 2009)
    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio judge on Tuesday ordered the state to supervise the telephone and Internet use of a teenage girl who says she ran away to Florida because she feared her father would harm or kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity.