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28 Apr 2006
Steve Ballmer is blaming software pirates for the premium pricing Microsoft charges on products like Office and Windows. But he speculated that the advent of web-based services could see a lowering of Microsoft's charges.
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28 Apr 2006
The UK’s Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society has introduced a new blanket licence to enable easier access to music for use in computer games, board games and DVDs. rates start at £1.50 for games that use up to 150 music clips of up to...
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28 Apr 2006
A fact-finding study into online shopping was launched by the Office of Fair Trading yesterday to determine whether consumers have confidence in e-commerce – and whether they receive a fair deal with, for example, music downloads and holiday bookings....
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28 Apr 2006
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued brief guidance to bring to a wider audience the use of privacy enhancing technologies, or PETs, to help protect people’s personal information.
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27 Apr 2006
Three times as many companies have a security policy as did six years ago and 98% of businesses have anti-virus software in place – although a quarter are still without spyware protection, according to the latest Government-sponsored survey of information...
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27 Apr 2006
The UK pioneer of giving an experience as a gift has failed in a bid to confiscate the domain name redletterdays.com from a Swiss seller of "special envelopes for special days" whose site advertises another seller of experience vouchers.
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27 Apr 2006
Acas, the employment relations organisation, launched new guidance today to help employers and individuals understand how imminent age discrimination legislation will affect them. It comes with a warning: employers need to act now to beat the deadline....
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27 Apr 2006
The Government announced last week that data from the National Identity Register (NIR) will also be used as an adult population register for a range of novel data sharing functions. The Office of National Statistics had promoted a separate adult population...
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26 Apr 2006
Better ethics can help IT professionals deliver more effective products and services according to a De Montfort University computer expert. Too much is left to chance, warns Professor Simon Rogerson, but "explicit use of ethics" is the answer.
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26 Apr 2006
Perhaps in celebration of this being World Intellectual Property Day, the European Commission has today adopted an amended proposal for a Directive to combat intellectual property offences. Minimum fines of €100,000 are proposed.
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