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28 Mar 2002
The California Supreme Court yesterday agreed to review a lower court ruling in favour of Intel that said companies can sue those who send unwanted e-mail to their employees, according to civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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28 Mar 2002
BT's recent price cuts in many of its wholesale broadband internet services reflect cost savings achieved by BT and are not anti-competitive, according to an announcement today from UK telecoms watchdog Oftel. Oftel's findings mean that service providers...
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28 Mar 2002
Two alleged hackers from Kazakhstan being held in Britain on charges of attempting to blackmail media tycoon and Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg for the sum of $200,000 have been told by the English High Court that falsification of sender details...
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28 Mar 2002
A new survey of US commercial web sites suggests that on-line privacy practices and policies are evolving and improving, according to Washington DC group The Progress & Freedom Foundation.
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27 Mar 2002
Napster has been given until January 2003 to prove its claim that major record labels have misused copyrights and impeded competition. However, the beleaguered song-swapping service lost an appeal that would have allowed it to resurrect its free service....
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27 Mar 2002
A new regime to provide relief for the cost of intangible assets including intellectual property and goodwill will take effect from 1st April 2002 following an announcement yesterday by UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. The new relief is intended...
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27 Mar 2002
In December, a US jury ordered two individuals to pay damages of $425,000 for defaming their former employer and its executives in more than 14,000 messages on internet message boards and their own web site. This week, the individuals learned that they...
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26 Mar 2002
New guidelines were yesterday launched by the Alliance for Electronic Business (AEB) which give clear, commercial and practical guidance to UK SMEs on how to implement security policies and monitor the security of their systems.
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26 Mar 2002
A new survey of 151 employees from over 30 leading UK companies suggests that employers are still failing to provide guidance to their work force on the risks associated with internet and e-mail use at work.
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26 Mar 2002
VeriSign, the internet registry and registrar, has been accused of sending deceptive and predatory domain name expiration notices to customers of a small competitor registrar called Go Daddy Software.
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