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30 Nov 2001
Following a revelation that “inappropriate” e-mails have been passing between workers at Jaguar’s UK factory in Halewood, 11 workers have been dismissed and a further 19 are to be the focus of possible disciplinary action.
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30 Nov 2001
New guidelines from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) aim to encourage consumer confidence in on-line retail. The DTI hopes to reassure shoppers that they can do their Christmas shopping on-line as safely as they could do on the high street....
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30 Nov 2001
The European Commission is to investigate £136m of German government aid given to the German semi-conductor group Infineon. The EU investigation aims to establish whether or not the company has been in breach of competition rules.
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30 Nov 2001
The European Commission has released its seventh annual report on the progress of the telecommunications sector. The report described local loop unbundling in Europe as “very disappointing” but also brought some optimism to the sector by backing...
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29 Nov 2001
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has faced setbacks in its challenges to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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29 Nov 2001
Network Associates, the company that manufactures security products including the McAfee anti-virus software and Pretty Good Privacy encryption software has been accused of placing backdoors in its software to allow the US government to gain access.
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29 Nov 2001
Freeserve has placed adverts in UK newspapers accusing Chancellor Gordon Brown of furthering the interests of AOL with favourable tax breaks. Earlier this month, Freeserve threatened the government with European legal action over the alleged favouritism....
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29 Nov 2001
IBM has agreed to pay San Francisco city authorities a $100 000 fine after an avant-garde advertising campaign in which its advertising agency spray-painted logos on roads and pavements around the city to promote it’s “Peace, Love and Linux”...
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28 Nov 2001
Microsoft has indicated its hope of reaching a settlement with the European Commission over allegations of anti-competitive conduct in Europe. In a formal response to the European Commission last week, Microsoft denied the antitrust charges and yesterday...
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28 Nov 2001
Chancellor Gordon Brown has announced a pre-budget report which contains taxation measures designed to encourage innovation and benefit small businesses. The report details four tax cuts for enterprise and other measures “to help British business,...
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