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22 Dec 2010
SNIPPET: Competition watchdog the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will investigate the way Government and local authorities buy services in a bid to ensure that competition law is being respected.
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21 Dec 2010
US regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to approve new limited guarantees of net neutrality later today. The controversial regulations will place transparency obligations on networks that engage in traffic management.
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21 Dec 2010
SNIPPET: The European Union and the US have published a web site that they hope will encourage companies to use their intellectual property rights (IPR) more fully.
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21 Dec 2010
The European Commission has published documents which it hopes will result in governments across Europe standardising the way they run their administrations. The Commission said the documents would help in making government services interoperable.
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20 Dec 2010
The maker of chocolate bunnies that were previously at the centre of a trade mark spat has been refused permission to register the whole bunny shape as a trade mark. A rival chocolatier has also been refused similar permission.
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20 Dec 2010
ISPs should block pornographic content at the network level, forcing people who want to look at it to opt in, communications minister Ed Vaizey has said. A digital rights activist group has labelled the proposal censorship.
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20 Dec 2010
SNIPPET: The Government has asked businesses how it can help them to make more use of intellectual property (IP) assets. It has published details of the review it will hold into IP growth.
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20 Dec 2010
European governments must make greater use of the internet in the way they work or risk increasing the cost of doing business and alienating the young, the European Commission has said.
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17 Dec 2010
The European Parliament has asked the European Commission to come up with plans to control online advertising more closely; give internet users more control of their privacy; and stop companies publishing advertising masquerading as opinion.
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17 Dec 2010
The European Parliament has called for companies such as Google to be prevented from selling the right to advertise when other companies' trade marks are entered into search engines.
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