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06 May 2005
Some of the biggest names in the US music industry are financing software programs that slow down or sabotage the computers of people using file-sharing services, according to the New York Times, the latest move in the war against music piracy.
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30 May 2003
British software company Kalido Ltd, a spin-out from oil giant Shell, has been granted a UK patent for its software design, which provides integrated views of information from disparate data systems during business change for performance management.
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30 May 2003
The Department of Trade and Industry has announced the launch of a web site providing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with practical support and best practice information, delivered in a series of modules.
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30 May 2003
Microsoft has agreed to pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner to settle pending antitrust litigation over the so-called "browser wars" in which Microsoft's Internet Explorer virtually wiped Netscape Navigator from the desktop market.
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30 May 2003
Playing action video games such as Medal of Honour, or Grand Theft Auto 3 give a person the ability to monitor more objects in their visual field and faster than a non-gamer, according to a study by researchers at the University of Rochester, published...
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29 May 2003
A jury has decided that eBay wilfully infringed patents belonging to Thomas Woolston of MercExchange and ordered the on-line auction leader to pay $35 million in damages. EBay intends to appeal Tuesday's US court decision.
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29 May 2003
In a study of European e-commerce sites, one in three goods were never delivered, key information was missing from the web sites and returned goods were not reimbursed. These are the findings of research by the European Consumer Centre Network, announced...
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29 May 2003
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Tuesday that the EU satellite navigation system, Galileo, could now go ahead after several years of wrangling among member states. The system, a rival to the US-based GPS navigation system, is due to be operational...
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29 May 2003
England's Court of Appeal has decided that the sale of unofficial Arsenal Football Club merchandise by a street vendor amounted to trade mark infringement. The ruling may not sound unusual; but it is significant and comes as a great to relief to brand...
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28 May 2003
The European Parliament's recommendation of an “unknown” Spanish magistrate for the influential post of European Data Protection chief has been strongly criticised by civil liberties watchdog Privacy International. It fears that the “done...
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