March 2003 Articles

    • Keyword density ruling against Taxes.com reversed

      20 Dec 2005

      A US district court has largely reversed its own ruling that required Taxes.com to remove remove excessive references to a rival tax advice website. The rulings consider search engine ranking manipulation caused by keyword density.

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    • Contractors suffer another IR35 defeat

      31 Mar 2003

      Contractors working in the UK were dealt another defeat in the latest battle against the controversial IR35 tax on Friday. IT consultant Gordon Stutchbury lost his High Court claim against a ruling by the Inland Revenue that treated him as a "disguised...

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    • One in six workers bullied by e-mail

      31 Mar 2003

      One in six workers have experienced bullying by e-mail and the rate is on the increase, according to the results of a poll of 3,400 people across the UK released today by internet job site reed.co.uk.

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    • KPMG honeypot lures London’s wardriving commuters

      31 Mar 2003

      A wireless 'honeypot' set up by KPMG to monitor wireless hacking and so-called 'wardriving' activity has revealed that the most popular time to try to access wireless networks is on the way to and from work.

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    • Recycling of IT equipment to become law – UK consults

      31 Mar 2003

      Businesses will be obliged to recycle their old IT and telecoms equipment under new laws that are due to come into force throughout the European Union next year. The UK Government began an 18-month consultation process on Friday.

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    • Porn laws to be tightened in US

      28 Mar 2003

      The US House of Representatives yesterday voted for a change to current laws that will create a criminal offence of knowingly using a misleading domain name to deceive a user into viewing obscene material on the internet.

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    • Identity theft costs US lenders $1 billion each year

      28 Mar 2003

      In 2002, 161,819 individuals in the US reported to the Federal Trade Commission that their identity had been stolen. For lending institutions, the problem is a nightmare that costs them more than $1 billion annually, according to a report this week by...

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    • Lucent settles shareholder lawsuit for $600 million

      28 Mar 2003

      Lucent Technologies has agreed to pay more than $600 million to settle over 50 shareholder lawsuits which alleged that the telecoms equipment maker misled investors. Lawyers consider it the second-largest shareholder class action settlement in history....

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    • Police to hold DNA profiles on nearly half UK males

      28 Mar 2003

      Police will get powers to obtain and retain the fingerprints and DNA profiles of innocent individuals under proposed laws announced yesterday. A privacy expert with law firm Masons says this means that DNA profiles from nearly half the male population...

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    • Consumers get new rights from Monday

      27 Mar 2003

      New rules giving greater protection to shoppers who buy faulty goods come into force on Monday 31st March when the Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2002 come into force, implementing an EU Directive.

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