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18 Jan 2004
According to a report by Newsbytes, auction site eBay has said that it will comply with a request from the German Government to block Nazi memorabilia from its US-based web site. However, the ban does not appear to be entirely effective.
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31 Jan 2002
The US Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday announced its launch of a series of web sites designed to warn investors who rush into investment opportunities on the internet without fully investigating the offers.
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31 Jan 2002
Following the filing of a lawsuit in England this week over its refusal to honour recent on-line orders for cameras, Kodak has thrown in the towel. The company has now agreed to fulfil the orders originally placed for its DX3700 camera which was advertised...
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31 Jan 2002
Registration under the new .coop top-level domain (TLD) opened yesterday to all co-operatives worldwide. The domain name, being available to a relatively narrow market, received only around 4,100 advance reservation, considerably fewer than the other...
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31 Jan 2002
The Ford Motor Company is appealing a case it lost to 2600 Enterprises, publishers of a hacker magazine, over the domain name FuckGeneralMotors.com which is used to direct traffic to the web site of Ford.com.
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30 Jan 2002
Ford has lost a case which it brought in an attempt to stop the domain name FuckGeneralMotors.com directing internet traffic to its own web site at Ford.com. The case is being seen as a classic example of a domain name dispute which should have been ignored....
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30 Jan 2002
Stephen Cohen, an ex-convict and former owner of the domain name sex.com, has come out of obscurity to argue before a US court that an award against him of $65 million in damages payable to the name's current owner, amounts to slavery, in violation of...
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30 Jan 2002
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is proposing a new regulatory regime for e-money issuers. It has released a consultation document and is seeking responses by 13th February 2002. The proposals are based on the requirements of EU Directives on electronic...
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30 Jan 2002
Kodak is being sued in England over a recent pricing error which resulted in cameras being displayed on Kodak.com at £100 instead of £329. The action is being taken on behalf of customers whose orders were confirmed by the web site and subsequently...
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29 Jan 2002
The UK Government has launched a new consultation on electronic signatures following its failure to meet the EU's July 2001 deadline for implementation of the Electronic Signatures Directive. The Department of Trade and Industry has released draft regulations...
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