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29 Aug 2003
On-line businesses need to take account of changes in the way consumers use and perceive the internet, according to market analysts Forrester Research. Today's consumers spend less time on-line than they did in the late 1990s and confidence in on-line...
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29 Aug 2003
The draft Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters will help business overcome the uncertainty surrounding cross-border disputes, in the opinion of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
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29 Aug 2003
The Webcaster Alliance filed an antitrust complaint against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and its leading members on Wednesday, alleging that they had set royalty rates at an excessive level in order to drive independent webcasters...
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29 Aug 2003
A man has been arrested after a botched attempt to blackmail a Dutch dairy by placing two poisoned puddings in a supermarket. The suspect used an anonymiser service to download an encrypted message from a web site as part of his cunning plan – and...
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28 Aug 2003
A pilot scheme for the next generation passport is to be run in an unnamed town very soon, according to a report in the Guardian yesterday. The passports will contain data representing fingerprints and iris scans. But human rights groups think the test...
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28 Aug 2003
Recent e-mail abuse cases, and evidence provided by e-mails in the Hutton enquiry, show the growing importance of e-mail and other electronic evidence in court. But this evidence cannot be used properly until the police, prosecution and defence fully...
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28 Aug 2003
When your organisation is publishing in print or on the web, does anyone check where the text fonts came from? Do you have a licence for the fonts you use? If not, the message today from the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) is that you are taking...
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28 Aug 2003
Eleven spoof e-mailers from the US and Canada face court action after Amazon.com filed federal lawsuits against them on Monday and Tuesday this week. As a deterrent to others, the suits seek millions of dollars in punitive damages.
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27 Aug 2003
A woman has received £10,000 in a settlement with her former employer after nine colleagues circulated obscene e-mails about her which she discovered by chance. She argued that her employer failed to take the matter seriously.
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27 Aug 2003
A US computer consultant got more than just a BlackBerry PDA when he spent $15.50 on eBay. According to a report on Wired News, the BlackBerry device contained confidential addresses, phone numbers and e-mails relating to the previous owner's employer...
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