Afghan Receives Death Penalty For Downloading and Distributing Women's Rights Article. Student Death Penalty. A 24-year-old Afghan student has been sentenced to death by hanging after being accused of downloading internet reports on women's rights, the Independent...

Penalty Payment To Get XM, Sirius Merger Approval. XM Sirius. A merger of the nation's only two satellite radio companies moved closer to fruition Thursday after the pair agreed to pay $19.. A merger of the nation’s only two satellite radio companies moved...

RIM Chief Steps Down Amidst Stock Penalty. RIM Stock Options Backdating. Reuters today reports that Jim Balsillie, Co-Chief Executive of Canadian smartphone manufacturer Research In Motion will step down from the board. Balsillie will, along with several other...

The iPhone 3G may not be exactly what you could call a cheap cellphone, but there has been some speculation whether the phone could be a cheap iPod if you were able to cancel the AT&T service contract, avoid the early termination penalty by canceling the contract...

that, in fact, never occurred." Heinen agreed to the settlement without admitting or denying the allegations. The $2.2 million payment includes disgorgement of $1,575,000 plus $400,219.78 in interest and a civil penalty of $200,000. Steve Jobs was recently...

a shift until midnight, earning £6.80 an hour, but was told that she would have to pay £8.50 a day to use a communal bus laid on by Quest unless she wanted to make her own way there. The reporter claimed that calling in sick earns an employee a penalty point...

000 per song. This was the outcome of the retrial of the original decision to award the RIAA with $9,250 per song. Apparently, the jury felt that Thomas-Rasset was a liar and thus handed down the harsh penalty. Evidence against Thomas Rasset included the...

If we had not required it, they wouldn't be able to do that." Brooks also told the Missourian that the requirement "will not be enforced, however, and there will not be a penalty for students who chose not to buy an iPod touch or iPhone."...

uniform legal protections against liability based on material posted by users," he wrote. "If site operators were forced to screen all third party contributions under risk of civil or criminal penalty, the Internet would lose many of the vibrant services that...

Microsoft 899 million Euros or $1.35 billion for non-compliance of the Commission’s March 2004 decision. According to the EC, Microsoft has become the first company in fifty years of EU competition policy that receives a penalty for failure to comply with...