The Victorian Government has rejected the state Opposition's call for it to stop running taxpayer-funded advertisements two months before the November state election.

Originally by ABC News: Politics, 9:15 PM

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Researchers have welcomed moves towards a conscience vote in federal Parliament on the use of stem cells.

Originally by ABC News: Science and Technology, 4:15 PM

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The United States Department of Justice has extended by two years an oversight period provided for in its antirust settlement with Microsoft:  Read more »

Anything with 'Intel' on it will do

AMD vs Intel AMD this week served Microsoft with a subpoena, seeking documents that may relate to its ongoing anti-trust case against Intel.…

Originally by The Register - Internet and Law: Digital Rights/Digital Wrongs, 10:50 AM

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Or not…

On a sunny afternoon in Luxembourg we enter the final lap of this five day case - discussion on the size of the €500m fine and other impositions of the remedy.…

Originally by The Register - Software, 10:48 AM

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Plus ça change

EU vs MS Comment European Court justice Cooke gave Microsoft's lawyers a tonic yesterday, by raising concerns about the transfer of Microsoft's intellectual property.…

Originally by The Register - Software, 10:47 AM

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Microsoft continues to battle European regulators over antitrust allegations, nearly five years after the software giant reached a settlement with the US.

Originally by WSJ.com: What's News Technology, 10:44 AM

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A blind university student has filed a class action lawsuit against Target Corp. The plaintiff alleges that the website discriminates against visually impaired users of its services because the website is inaccessible using screen reader software.

Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind in Baltimore, an advocacy group that’s also a plaintiff in the suit, said today that the complaint is based on the theory that online portals of ‘brick-and-mortar stores’, or actual physical places, must be equally accessible.  Read more »

DIY News wrote to mention a Reuters article reporting that VeriSign will control the .com domain until 2012, according to an agreement with ICANN. From the article: "The agreement settles a long-running dispute between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, and the most powerful company under its jurisdiction. The settlement comes at a time when ICANN is under attack from China, Iran and other countries that want more direct control over the domain-name system that guides traffic around the Internet."  Read more »

'Delegates at a meeting in Geneva on Monday failed to reach an agreement on who should control the internet's addressing system. The meeting, which is being held in preparation of the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis next month, degenerated into a farce when delegates argued over the right of the US to control the internet's addressing system.'  Read more »