RIAA Sends 15,000 Illegal File Sharing Complaints To Universities

Approximately 15,000 students from 25 colleges and universities in the United Stated have received complaints from the RIAA alleging illegal music file sharing. The top five offending schools were Ohio, Purdue, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Tennessee and the University of South Carolina. This totals nearly triple the number for the previous school year. But the RIAA seems convinced the program is working....

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Apple & Cisco Settle iPhone Name Dispute

Apple and Cisco Systems Inc. have settled their trademark dispute over the name iPhone that had threatened to mire the introduction of Apple’s first cell phone. Under the settlement, Cisco and Apple stated both companies are free to use the iPhone trademark on their respective products throughout the world. Cisco will drop a lawsuit it filed against Apple in federal court in San Francisco, accusing Apple of infringing a Cisco...

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