October 2005 Articles

    • Travel sites fail to deliver on web accessibility

      02 Nov 2005

      Travel websites in the UK are falling short on accessibility. Saga Holidays and Haven Holidays were rated as the best of a bad bunch in a new study of 10 of the UK's most popular travel agency destinations on the web.

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    • Travel sites fail to deliver on web accessibility

      02 Nov 2005

      Travel websites in the UK are falling short on accessibility. Saga Holidays and Haven Holidays were rated as the best of a bad bunch in a new study of 10 of the UK's most popular travel agency destinations on the web.

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    • Sex.com thief appears in court

      31 Oct 2005

      Following his dramatic arrest late last week Sex.com thief Stephen Cohen has appeared before a judge in San Diego and been ordered to face the $65m judgement lodged against him nearly five years ago.

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    • Warcraft's cheat-catcher is branded as spyware

      31 Oct 2005

      A program to catch cheats that Blizzard Entertainment added to World of Warcraft, its hugely popular online multiplayer game, has been dubbed as spyware by critics because it appears to monitor all software running on a gamer's PC and more.

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    • Silent cold calls: Ofcom consults on new rules

      31 Oct 2005

      Communications regulator Ofcom today launched a consultation on proposals to tackle the problem posed by silent cold calls, requiring that firms must provide calling line identification and limit the number of abandoned calls they make.

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    • Three jailed in UK for eBay fraud

      31 Oct 2005

      Three Romanian fraudsters who conned eBay users into parting with over £300,000 for non-existent goods were jailed by a London court on Friday, amid warnings that the scam could still be continuing.

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    • Mobile-makers say 3G patent licensing breaks antitrust laws

      31 Oct 2005

      Nokie, Ericsson and four other mobile phone firms on Friday asked the European Commission to investigate alleged anti-competitive behaviour by Qualcomm Inc. in the licensing of essential patents for 3G mobile technology.

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    • Sex.com thief arrested

      28 Oct 2005

      The con-man who stole the most valuable domain name in the world, Sex.com, has been arrested by Mexican police and handed over to US agents after nearly six years on the run.

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    • Strawberry scent trade mark gets creamed

      28 Oct 2005

      The European Court of First Instance yesterday dismissed an attempt to register a trade mark for the smell of ripe strawberries, on the grounds that there is no “generally accepted international classification of smells” that would identify...

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    • CD burner patent case knocked out and 'kicked upstairs'

      28 Oct 2005

      A US Court has ruled against a storage company in its patent action against Napster's owner over software that allows computer users to burn files onto recordable CDs. Optima Technology described the judge's reasoning as "senseless".

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