Entries Tagged as ‘Law’

March 15, 2008

Robert Alan Soloway international spam king pleads guilty

SEATTLE - A man once described as one of the world’s top e-mail spammers pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, and failure to file a tax return.
Robert Alan Soloway, 29, was dubbed “the spam king” by prosecutors who said he used networks of compromised computers to send out millions upon [...]

November 28, 2007

LANCOR sued the OLPC - then what

Lagos Analysis Corp. (LANCOR) Files Lawsuit Against Nicholas Negroponte and OLPC Association for Patent Infringement. Negroponte’s OLPC Accused of Unauthorized Use of LANCOR’s Multilingual Keyboard Technology Invention in XO Laptops.
So if I could understand the whole issue, OLPC purchased some demo-keyboards, re-engineered them and used it for their purpose without a license, and some money rolling [...]

November 16, 2007

The Digital Divide or the Digital Dump

The Digital Dump is the story of the illegal and immoral international electronics waste trade seen through the lens of one African country. Shot in Lagos Nigeria for the Basel Action Network, the 23 minute documentary looks at the environmental and social impact the disposal of used and outdated electronics are having once shipped from [...]

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