Dell and Yahoo ask Congress to be tougher on online scammers profiting from their brand names

According to the San Jose Mercury News, “[w]ell-known companies such as Dell, Marriott International and Sunnyvale-based Yahoo are lobbying Congress for tougher laws targeting online scammers who profit from their brand names.”

InfoWorld reports that “Microsoft gave some of the clearest examples yet on Thursday of its vision for software plus services.  ‘This services transformation, from software to software plus services, is a very very big deal for our company,’ said Ray Ozzie, chief software architect for Microsoft, speaking during his company’s annual financial analyst meeting.  ‘It will be a critical aspect of all our offerings over the next years.’”

Reuters writes that, according to a new report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), “[s]tate restrictions on use of the Internet have spread to more than 20 countries that use catch-all and contradictory rules to help keep people off line and stifle feared political opposition.”

According to eWeek.com, “[t]he European Union’s top antitrust regulator has charged that Intel tried to use its huge market share to push smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices out of the central processing unit business.”

Internetnews.com writes that, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, a billion computers will be running Windows worldwide by the end of the current fiscal year, which ends next June 30.”