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31 Jan 2006
Fraud rocketed in 2005, with a surge in the second half of the year resulting in over £900 million of fraud – up nearly three times from the previous year according to KPMG which has been following fraud trials in UK courts for 16 years.
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31 Jan 2006
New public procurement and utilities regulations come into force today that could make e-procurement more attractive to contracting authorities but also make it easier for private sector bidders to challenge wrongful award decisions.
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31 Jan 2006
The English High Court has ordered 10 ISPs, including BT, Tiscali and Telewest, to reveal the identities of 150 file-swappers accused by the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) of illegally uploading software to networks like Kazaa.
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31 Jan 2006
Card issuers have let down elderly and disabled customers by failing to tell them that they can use alternative cards in order to pay for goods after the Chip and PIN implementation deadline of 14th February, the National Consumer Council (NCC) warned...
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31 Jan 2006
ICANN, the body responsible for the internet’s domain naming system, has published revised agreements intended to settle all pending litigation with domain registry VeriSign and to detail the terms under which VeriSign will retain control of the...
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31 Jan 2006
A man who admitted selling portions of the source code for the Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 operating systems after the Microsoft code was illegally leaked onto the internet has been sentenced to two years in prison, according to reports.
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30 Jan 2006
A California man who allegedly duped AOL users into handing over credit card details to a fraudulent website has been arrested in the US. Police charged Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 46, of Azusa, with wire fraud and other charges over allegations he masterminded...
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30 Jan 2006
The UK Paymaster General has asked the European Commission to approve a new strategy to tackle a VAT scam known as carousel fraud. The proposals would put the responsibility for collecting VAT on high-tech goods onto the purchasers of those goods.
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30 Jan 2006
Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is suing the companies behind Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, alleging that they engaged in unfair business practices by hiding scenes of a sexual nature in the video game, originally rated as suitable for over...
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30 Jan 2006
Features in coin-operated games Jackpot Pool and Trick Shot were inspired by another pool game, Pocket Money; but the features did not form a substantial part of the original, according to the High Court, which ruled that there was no copyright infringement....
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