Legal

Telkom Kenya is headed for showdown with local mobile developers after petitioning the government to prosecute people who reprogram handsets.  read more »

The U.S. government is shifting its strategy for defending federal networks against a rising tide of hacking attacks launched by foreign governments and criminals.  read more »

Sierra Leone's telecom regulatory body, NATCOM, has slammed a US$50,000 fine on each of the country's two leading telcos, Zain (SL) and Africell.  read more »

Uganda's largest mobile telephone operator, Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN) has taken the industry regulator, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), to court over plans to fix interconnection rates.  read more »

The U.K.'s High Court ruled Friday that a British hacker cannot appeal his extradition to the country's Supreme Court, narrowing the Londoner's legal options.  read more »

IBM is facing an antitrust inquiry from the U.S. Department of Justice for recent actions the company has taken in the mainframe computer market, according to the trade group that filed the complaint.  read more »

Oracle licensing consultant Eliot Arlo Colon still remembers the enormous global publishing company that was "so darn confident" it would breeze through an upcoming software license audit unscathed.  read more »

Another legal challenge threatens to derail eBay's planned sale of Skype to a group of investors, with the filing of a suit against Joost's former CEO.  read more »

The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing "serious concerns" about the deal's effect on competition in the market for databases.  read more »

A U.S. court has struck down a U.S. Federal Communications Commission rule prohibiting any cable television operator from serving more than 30 percent of U.S. subscribers.  read more »