Microsoft urges global attack against piracy
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Microsoft has joined a venture with the U.S. Customs Service to help find and prosecute software pirates. Microsoft and Customs will exchange information freely on intellectual property; Customs has such partnerships with other companies, helping them work with foreign police. Customs and the FBI have initiated a Intellectual Property Rights Center. The partnership has hastened seizures in Latin America, Asia, Britain, Eastern Europe, Canada and the U.S.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2001
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Federal agents seize computers in 27 cities as part of crackdown on software piracy
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Agents from the US Customs Service and the Dept. of Justice raided businesses, universities and homes in 27 US cities to expose a software-piracy ring. Sixty-five computers were seized in the culmination of 'Operation Buccaneer,' a 15-month federal undercover investigation of Internet-distributed, pirated software. Nineteen searches were also carried out by law-enforcement officers in Norway, Australia, Finland and England.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 2001
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Microsoft finally gets piece of Web cell phones
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Microsoft and Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson have agreed to form a cell phone venture in which Ericsson will supply the phones and Microsoft will supply a small Web browser. So far the consortium, Nokia, Matsushita, and Motorola and Psion, backing Symbian's Epoc system, have kept Microsoft out of this market. Phone makers have complained the Microsoft's Windows CE software requires more hardware than light-weight PCS devices can accomodate.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1999
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