December 2004 Articles

    • Web sites fail disabled shoppers this Christmas

      23 Dec 2004

      The UK's top e-tailers have let down disabled internet users and missed an opportunity to boost their Christmas sales by effectively closing their doors on a sector with significant buying power, according to the latest survey from AbilityNet.

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    • Microsoft loses fight to delay EU sanctions

      23 Dec 2004

      The European Court of First Instance has rejected Microsoft's request that sanctions imposed on them following an antitrust ruling by the Commission be suspended until an appeal of the antitrust decision is completed.

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    • Judge rejects guilty plea in spam trial

      23 Dec 2004

      A former AOL employee accused of stealing the ISP's customer database and selling it to spammers had his guilty plea rejected on Tuesday when a US judge queried whether his actions actually amounted to a crime.

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    • Top five legal changes for the IT industry in 2005

      23 Dec 2004

      Will you get socks this Christmas? Will it snow? What laws will change in 2005? For those who care about the latter, OUT-LAW presents its best guess at the five biggest legal changes for the IT industry in 2005.

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    • Patents Directive stalls once again

      22 Dec 2004

      The Polish Government yesterday disrupted plans to push through the draft Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions when it requested – and received – a surprise delay in a crucial vote on the proposals.

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    • PLCs hit back at complaints on web accessibility

      22 Dec 2004

      Some FTSE 100 companies receive three or four complaints every week saying that their web sites are not accessible, according to a corporate forum which this month attacked the lack of guidance to accompany the UK's disability rights legislation.

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    • Recycle your old mobile for charity

      22 Dec 2004

      If you get a new mobile phone for Christmas, don't forget about your old one. That's the seasonal message from The Recycling Appeal, which is looking for donations of old mobile phones to support some of the UK's leading charities.

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    • OFT appeals ruling on overseas credit card purchases

      22 Dec 2004

      The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to appeal a High Court ruling that consumer safeguards on credit card purchases made in the UK do not generally extend to cover purchases made abroad, whether in person or on-line.

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    • Some relief for Ryanair, some clarity for disabled rights

      22 Dec 2004

      The Court of Appeal has partially overturned a disability discrimination ruling against Ryanair. The no-frills airline was discriminating, the judges agreed, but so was Stansted Airport, and both airline and airport must share the consequent liability....

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    • Chip and PIN is flawed, says security expert

      21 Dec 2004

      With the rollout of the new chip and PIN payment system due to become fully operational in January, an expert on security engineering has warned that the supposedly secure system is "fundamentally flawed".

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