Microsoft highlights the award of $1.5m in software piracy case

Microsoft has published details of a US District Court case regarding software piracy in which it was awarded damages of $1.5m. Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer found that the Chicago-based company Logical Choice Computers had distributed counterfeit copies of Microsoft Office Professional 97 and Windows 95 software, and she ruled (back in 19 January) that its "actions amounted to wilful infringement and ignorance of Microsoft's legal rights". ...more

And also today (12-July-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Photo Album 5.0 The freeware for organising your photos into electronic albums has been updated. ...more

COMMENT: Happy birthday iMac

RIP Easy PC. Yesterday Apple celebrated the third birthday of its revolutionary iMac computer. Three years ago it was hailed as radical because it combined a 15in monitor with the guts of a 233MHz G3. ...more

Macromedia urges developers to build rich

Macromedia's new MX Resource Kit is designed to help developers build 'rich Internet applications'. Containing extensions, components and various tutorials and articles, the kit is described by Macromedia as an essential set of add-ons for MX development tools. For Macromedia Flash MX developers, the kit includes a new DataGrid component for displaying tabular in Web applications. ...more

Blueyonder afflicted by service outage

Most of Telewest's Blueyonder Internet services were unavailable for some time yesterday and continue to be affected after a 'network fault' blocked access to the company's servers. Blueyonder services including Selfcare, webmail and email were affected, though the company said that since then access has 'greatly improved' but could still be 'slow and intermittent'. Telewest added that the fault causing this would also be affecting other ISPs. ...more