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Federal Court finds RI Advice failed to manage cybersecurity risks in landmark decision

The company has been ordered by the court to pay AU$750,000 toward ASIC's costs.

May 4, 2022 by Julian Bingley

A tale of two titans: Gates and John D. Rockefeller

Bill Gates may say he has nothing in common with John D. Rockefeller, but the author of a new biography begs to differ.

June 30, 1998 by Michael Fitzgerald

Commentary: How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians and many of them are allegedly making life a living hell for Dalits, those who are classified as the lowest of the low in India, whose horrifying historical persecution has continued in the cradle of tech.

September 21, 2020 by Rajiv Rao

IT contractor allegedly abused government systems for cryptocurrency mining

The profits from the alleged mining operation are estimated to be worth more than AU$9,000.

May 20, 2019 by Campbell Kwan

Trivago loses appeal over misleading website algorithm ruling

Federal Court decision upheld by the Full Federal Court.

November 3, 2020 by Asha Barbaschow

Developer defies MS demands to kill .NET debug tool

UK developer Jamie Cansdale seems to have ignored calls from Microsoft that he remove a free tool called TestDriven.NET from his Web site, despite legal demands that the tool be removed by June 1 -- because it breaches licensing conditions.

June 5, 2007 by Rupert Goodwins

Motorola settles suit with Nortel's new CEO

Mike Zafirovski will pay $11.5 million to Motorola and refrain from disclosing its trade secrets to Nortel.

November 1, 2005 by Marguerite Reardon

Web site targets the new millennium

The marketing of the new millennium has begun.Thursday saw the launch of a site called Millennium321.

July 1, 1998 by Matthew Broersma

Tech hides data, IDs inside music files

SunnComm Technologies says it has licensed a new product that can hide data, video, software or an identifying watermark inside music files.

March 21, 2003 by John Borland

End of the gotcha clause?

The language fits the business practices, not the other way around. It's an important lesson. The days of the "gotcha" clause in software licenses are quickly fading into history.

May 3, 2007 by Dana Blankenhorn