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  • India files charges against key former Satyam officials

    The criminal investigation into the financial scandal at Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services advanced on Tuesday with the country's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filing charges against nine people, including six former employees of the company.

  • Dell denies charges in worker discrimination suit

    A lawsuit that accuses Dell of discriminating against women and older workers continues to make its way though the courts. In a filing last week, Dell denied allegations that it had treated employees unfairly and said no layoffs were made on the basis of age or sex.

  • Open source firms urged to go on legal offensive

    Open-source software companies are missing out on a relatively inexpensive way to fight concerns about patent liability, according to an attorney who spoke at an open-source conference in San Francisco.

  • Banned poker sites make joker of ACMA's Internet blacklist

    Less than a week after the federal government's URL blacklist was leaked and caused a furore over the status of online betting company Betfair, Australia's poker industry is now in the firing line over the number of legitimate poker sites that could be banned by the filter.

  • Microsoft sues Linux-based TomTom over patents

    Microsoft's lawsuit against a Linux-based technology vendor TomTom over alleged patent violations could signal a more aggressive stance by the software giant over IP issues or could be just an isolated case involving a dispute with one vendor.

  • Charge dropped against Pirate Bay four

    A Swedish prosecutor on Tuesday dropped a charge levied against four men on trial for running The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines and trackers on the Internet.

  • Judge dismisses Google Street View case

    A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania family against Google after the company took and posted images of the outside of their house in its Maps service.

  • Microsoft charges employee with spying

    Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, charging him with taking a job at the software giant in order to steal information that would be helpful in his patent infringement case against the company.

  • 'Vista Capable' case could cost Microsoft US$8.5B

    Microsoft would have to come up with as much as $8.5 billion to settle accounts with the customers affected by its 2006 "Vista Capable" marketing program, according to documents unsealed by a federal court.

  • Microsoft sued over unified communications deal

    Microsoft has been sued by a small Wisconsin business for allegedly misrepresenting the capabilities of its Live Communications Server product, selling the company more licenses than it needed and not providing a refund or other products to solve its original problem.

  • Google, Apple, Microsoft sued over file preview

    A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened.

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