New technology better than old law.

Six years in prision for viewing 'immoral content'.

Employee monitoring may fall foul of the law.

Last week, we looked at the geeks who created iconic technologies. This week, we examine the executives who pushed those technologies into becoming the basis of some of the largest businesses in the world.

Rod Beckstrom, president of Icann, has used his address to the Black Hat USA 2009 conference to propose a new economic model for valuing computer networks and the internet..

Every industry has its share of villains, and the computing world is no different.

Three to one in favour of custodial sentence.

Technical difficulties in breaking the law of energy conservation.

Tells bloggers to break UK law rather than deal with DRM.

Sighs of relief all round.

No media too new to be loaded with DRM, according to law-makers.

More than 130 million credit and debit cards were stolen, and three men have been indicted.

Allegations of undue influence raise eyebrows.

Microsoft has said that it will offer European Windows users a choice of browser as a way of settling its ongoing legal feud with the EU, confirming earlier hints..

Will Redmond take over from SCO?.

As we bring our Information Overload summit to a close, we have decided to name and rank the biggest culprits for the overload, the issues which more than anything else are causing companies to drown in a deluge of data..

The New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has announced it is launching an anti-trust investigation into Intel after allegations that the chip giant abused its market position.

Proposed reform would 'stifle innovation'.

A Ukrainian hacker may be allowed to keep over US$250,000 in profits owing to a loophole in US law.

A mistake by a legal firm has revealed that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg paid out $65 million to end a legal case over the origin of his company.