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30 Jan 2009
Demand for outsourcing has fallen as global economic troubles hit the outsourcing industry, according to research produced by an outsourcing consultancy. Its advisors expect demand to increase early this year, the company said.
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29 Jan 2009
The Government will create legislation forcing internet service providers (ISPs) to gather information on customers engaged in illegal file-sharing, and forcing them to contact repeat offenders warning them that their behaviour is against the law.
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29 Jan 2009
If a company that is recruiting is to be exempt from making provisions for disabled applicants it must fulfil all the criteria laid down in law and not just some of them, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has said.
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29 Jan 2009
It has become illegal in most of the UK to own extreme pornographic images. A new law came into force making it a criminal offence to possess the images in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. A similar law is proposed in Scotland.
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29 Jan 2009
A major electronics manufacturer has admitted that it offered to pay people to review positively a product which had been poorly reviewed by users. A Belkin employee in the US said it would pay people to write five-star reviews on Amazon.com.
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28 Jan 2009
A Dutch search engine has become the first to operate without recording the address of the computer used to make the search. Ixquick said it had taken the move to protect users' privacy.
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28 Jan 2009
The Post Office was not allowed to walk away from a contract because it had continued to perform its duties for 11 months after the other company breached the contract, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
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28 Jan 2009
A software distributor faces nine months in jail for selling 'grey' imported copies of Microsoft software. Sales firm ITAC's founder Barry Omesuh must pay £2.5 million in damages to the software giant.
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27 Jan 2009
A man who was criticised in the comments section of his own blog cannot sue for defamation because he did not delete the comment when he discovered it, the High Court has said. The Court said that the man consented to the comment's publication.
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27 Jan 2009
Airline Virgin Atlantic has lost its claim that a rival airline's seat infringed its intellectual property rights. Virgin Atlantic's patent design rights were not infringed by a design produced by Virgin's seat design contractor for a rival, the High...
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