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30 Jun 2003
Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile lost their High Court case on Friday for judicial review of the Competition Commission's proposal that the UK's mobile phone operators should significantly cut the cost of terminating calls from fixed and mobile networks....
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30 Jun 2003
A US appeals court has dismissed a lower court's order that required Microsoft to carry Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on Windows but upheld another part of the judgment that requires Microsoft to stop distributing certain copies of its own rival version...
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30 Jun 2003
A US-based service to give consumers the right to opt-out of getting telemarketing calls at home has received 10 million registrations since it opened on Friday, the FTC announced today. The service is similar to the Telephone Preference Service operated...
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30 Jun 2003
On Thursday, 309 companies that floated during the dot.com boom years agreed to pay $1 billion to settle a class action lawsuit filed by investors for allegedly inflating their IPOs. But the agreement needs court approval and the companies could avoid...
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26 Jun 2003
In its toughest crackdown to date on file-swapping, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) yesterday announced that it is preparing to sue thousands of individuals who share substantial amounts of copyrighted music on-line over peer-to-peer...
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26 Jun 2003
Internet publishers, listserver operators and mailing list editors are not liable for publishing defamatory statements made by a third party, according to a decision by a US federal appeals court on Tuesday. Free speech advocates are hailing the ruling...
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26 Jun 2003
Most businesses use internet cookies on their web sites. But a new UK law, in force later this year, introduces a new challenge: to tell visitors about the use of cookies and how they can control them.
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26 Jun 2003
Nearly one third of UK organisations dismiss staff for excessive or inappropriate use of e-mail or the internet, according to a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
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25 Jun 2003
By 2004 over 40% of US enterprises will either have completed some type of offshore outsourcing pilot for their IT services, or will actually be sourcing IT services through a global delivery model, such as near shore and offshore, according to a report...
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25 Jun 2003
A former Microsoft employee has been charged with mail and computer fraud after allegedly obtaining software with a retail value of $17 million through Microsoft's staff software purchasing system and selling it at a profit.
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