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16 Nov 2006
Ryanair has agreed to change its contract terms to give air travellers a fairer deal, following action against the budget airline by the Office of Fair Trading.
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16 Nov 2006
An online car dealer has agreed to be more open and fair in dealing with customers following action by the Office of Fair Trading and Nottingham City Trading Standards Service.
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31 Oct 2006
The Department of Constitutional Affairs has refused a request to make public the data behind a controversial recent report. The DCA is in charge of policy for the Freedom of Information Act.
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31 Oct 2006
A case claiming that two Russian companies hacked into a London computer system can be heard in English courts, a judge has ruled. The Russian companies involved had argued that English courts had no jurisdiction.
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31 Oct 2006
A survey has found that 13% of the UK's biggest companies did not have their websites ready for the launch of Internet Explorer 7, the first new version of Microsoft's market-leading browser since IE6 launched back in 2001.
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31 Oct 2006
A court in Denmark has ordered an ISP to block its subscribers' access to a Russian music site because it believes that the Russian site operates illegally. Tele2 has been ordered to try to stop its users from accessing Allofmp3.com.
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31 Oct 2006
Ordinary internet users will have a chance to make points and ask questions of the world's governments, not to mention business, engineers and media, over the next four days as the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) opens its doors – both physically...
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31 Oct 2006
The arrest of a blogger by Greek police just days before Athens hosts the inaugural meeting of the Internet Governance Forum has left the blogosphere in uproar and the authorities with egg on their face.
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30 Oct 2006
A landmark Court of Appeal ruling has refused a company the right to a patent for a piece of software. The ruling, at an unusually high judicial level, is a blow for companies which want the UK to follow America's lead and allow software to be patented....
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27 Oct 2006
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is wrong, according to a French scientist who claims to have discovered a new magnetic force that appears to support flying carpets and perpetual motion. But Professor Yuly Zagyansky has been refused a patent.
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