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28 Sep 2001
The EU’s Council of Ministers of has taken a step towards new rules for the distance selling of financial services which will cover the on-line marketing of products such as pensions and mortgages.
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28 Sep 2001
On Monday 24th September, Nominet, the national registry for all domain names ending .uk, introduced a new set of rules for the resolution of name disputes based on the results of a public consultation carried out earlier this year.
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28 Sep 2001
The 20-year old Dutch author of the Anna Kournikova worm that infected millions of computers during February has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service in the first case of its kind in Holland. The worm slowed or, in some cases, crippled those...
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28 Sep 2001
Smoking gun e-mail has become so common in workplace lawsuits that 9.4% of US companies have been ordered by courts to produce employee e-mail and 8.3% have battled sexual harassment or sexual discrimination claims stemming from employee e-mail or internet...
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27 Sep 2001
A Cambridge software publisher has lost its fight in the English High Court against the owner of a major library of fonts, having been accused of infringing the library’s copyright in a number of different fonts by selling copies in its own font...
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27 Sep 2001
UK companies are wasting as much as £17 billion annually by failing to manage IT hardware and software, according to a KPMG study published today. The accountancy firm’s survey of directors and senior managers across UK business found that...
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26 Sep 2001
On Monday, Yahoo! began its challenge in a Californian court against an order imposed by a French court which required it to block access by French nationals to certain auctions hosted on a US-based Yahoo! site selling Nazi memorabilia.
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26 Sep 2001
New laws could be introduced in the US which would give the FBI a “back door” to messages protected by encryption products. However, critics argue that any such measure would damage confidence in e-business and have no effect on countering...
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26 Sep 2001
The E-commerce Minister Douglas Alexander yesterday asked the telecoms industry to drive down the price of broadband internet access in the UK and called upon BT to set fair prices to attract the mass market in both its retail and wholesale offerings....
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26 Sep 2001
The European Commission yesterday adopted a Communication on improving the accessibility of web sites in line with the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). With this Communication, the Commission is supporting European...
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