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31 Aug 2000
AltaVista UK has announced the appointment of an Acting Managing Director in light of the resignation yesterday of MD Andy Mitchell following the failure by the company to deliver its promised unmetered internet access service. AltaVista UK has decided...
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31 Aug 2000
ScotlandIS, a new internet, software and multimedia industry body, is being launched in Edinburgh today, merging three former bodies representing key elements of the knowledge economy - the Scottish Software Federation, the Internet Society of Scotland...
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31 Aug 2000
According to a report released yesterday by a business technology consultancy, 34% of U.S. colleges and universities have banned Napster from internet users surfing over campus servers.
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31 Aug 2000
A Californian court has allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed against Microsoft to determine whether the software company used its alleged monopoly to overcharge consumers for the Windows operating system and its word processing and spreadsheet programs...
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30 Aug 2000
A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled that trade mark owners could not bring an infringement case before his court on the grounds that a web site run by a Californian company that was alleged to be infringing the rights was being hosted on a New Jersey...
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30 Aug 2000
UK airline Easyjet has lost a case before the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in which it attempted to recover the name easy-jet.com from a man who claimed to be a seller of ink jet printer cartridges....
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30 Aug 2000
Michael Robertson, CEO of MP3.com, appeared in court this week in the US in a case to determine whether his company wilfully violated copyright law. His company runs the My.MP3.com service.
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30 Aug 2000
Oftel yesterday made proposals to increase competition in, and so help reduce prices of, retail national leased lines. It also proposes the regulation of BT over wholesale pricing of leased lines in a new consultation document.
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29 Aug 2000
XML software developer Stilo International plc has become what it believes is the first UK company developing and providing XML tools and services to float on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
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29 Aug 2000
A business consulting firm in the US has transferred the rights to cyberworks.com and cyberworks.net to Hong Kong company Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited for US$1 million.
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