Archive for September, 2007
Shaker applied to register 'LIMONCELLO' and a blue and white dish decorated with lemons as a European Community trade mark (CTM) for lemon liqueurs. Limiñana opposed it, citing its earlier Spanish registration...
Lawyers representing AT&T use mafia tactics by making threatening midnight calls to company who makes iPhones interoperable with all networks
UniquePhones - a Northern Ireland company – claimed that it had software that could make an Apple iPhone work on any mobile network in the world. Normally the company spends its time unlocking mobile...
US$1.5bn patent infringement award against Microsoft reversed
Microsoft has successfully seen a US$1.5bn patent infringement award from a US jury reversed by a judge. The damages, awarded to Alcatel-Lucent in a dispute over MP3 software, had been the largest ever...
Which? says advertised broadband speeds are misleading
The actual broadband speeds on offer are often substantially less than the speeds advertised by Internet service providers, according to Which?, the consumer group. It found that broadband speeds advertised...
OFT takes action to force airlines to come clean over prices
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has warned 13 airlines to come clean when advertising ticket prices, so that they clearly display all non-optional additional fees and taxes payable as part of the price....
ICSTIS says there is no deal for Channel 4’s ‘Deal or No Deal’ game show and fines it £30,000 for misleading punters
The Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of the Telephone Information Services (ISCTIS) - the regulator of providers of premium rate phone lines - has fined the phone company (iTouch)...
Wet July causes online sales to reach record levels
Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG), the trade body for online retailers, has reported that online sales rose to £4.2 billion in July - up from £2.34 billion in the corresponding month a year ago....
Amazon is ‘top of the trees’ when it comes to the list of most used online retailers in the UK
Amazon has been found to be the most used online retailer in the UK by an Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) survey. IMRG is a trade body for online retailers and produces a quarterly ‘Hitwise...
Sony BMG’s memory stick is not a ‘stickler’ for security as security firm alleges that it poses security risk for users
Sony BMG has been accused by F-Secure – a security company – of having software in its USB memory sticks with fingerprint readers which embeds itself in a user’s computer and offers viruses a place...
More and more UK homes ride on the information super highway and connect to the ‘Net
In May 2007, 61% of UK homes had Internet access, according to research from the Omnibus Survey of the National Statistics (a monthly survey of 1,200 people in Britain aged over 16 and 400 people over...