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30 Jun 2008
Packaging firm Smurfit must pay a rival damages because it made groundless threats about a patent infringement lawsuit to one of its rival's customers.
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30 Jun 2008
Nearly two out of three people working in marketing have been part of an exercise in which customers' data has been lost or stolen in the last two years alone, a study has found. In 90% of cases the incident went unreported.
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30 Jun 2008
A man who ran a business selling computer chips that helped games consoles play pirated games has had his conviction for copyright infringement overturned on appeal. The High Court judge called him "fortunate" and criticised the prosecution case.
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27 Jun 2008
A direct mailing and internet banner ad that poked fun at financial software giant Sage has been banned by the UK's advertising regulator. A rival's product was promoted with the headline "Sick of Sage?" and a claim that Sage's product range was a "bag...
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27 Jun 2008
The managing body for the internet's domain name system will massively increase the 'real estate' of the internet, letting brands and generic words become top-level domains. A legal expert said that the plans will make brand protection a nightmare.
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27 Jun 2008
EasyJet has confirmed that Expedia is not the only online travel firm to have felt the airline’s wrath – it has also fired off letters to several other UK websites warning them to stop selling its flights.
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26 Jun 2008
Employers will be allowed to discriminate in favour of female or ethnic minority job candidates under a new law announced by Harriet Harman MP today. The Equality Bill will also ban contractual prohibitions on staff discussing pay with each other.
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26 Jun 2008
Sir Gus O'Donnell wrote one of the four reports published yesterday on the security of Government information systems. The report will have a major impact on both the public and private sectors.
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26 Jun 2008
Four reports were published yesterday that relate to the security of Government information systems. The recommendations in one of them, the Poynter report, may be familiar to anyone who knows international security standard ISO27001.
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25 Jun 2008
The loss last year of 25 million records by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was the result of "woefully inadequate" processes for data handling, not individual employees, according to an investigation. The Government has responded with new data security...
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