29 January 2010 | Mark Weston
The Government has announced that it plans to create the ‘G-Cloud’ - a cloud of software applications for the public sector to use. The aim is to save £3 billion a year so that central government,...
Tags on this discussion: G-Cloud interoperability Software
27 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick
Sky has won a long-awaited landmark case against EDS that is bound to have massive implications - not just for all IT contracts, but also for any business that has sales-people that push the boundaries...
Tags on this discussion: contract contract law fraudulent misrepresentation IT law misrepresentation
12 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick
Microsoft has been forced to pull some of its versions of Word and Office from sale in the US, after a US court had ruled that its software applications had infringed i4i’s patents. Microsoft was also...
Tags on this discussion: Intellectual property intellectual property rights Patents Software
7 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick
M-Tech was a parallel importer of Sun Microsystems’ computer hardware products, meaning it bought products with Sun’s registered trade marks on in one country and re-sold them in the UK at a profit....
Tags on this discussion: competition law consent distribution agreement EEA High Court Intellectual property intellectual property rights parallel import reseller summary judgment trade mark
4 January 2010 | Mark Weston
The digital rights management software for Amazon’s Kindle has been hacked. Kindle is a platform developed by Amazon for displaying e-books. The hack attack means that e-books stored on the reader can...
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31 December 2009 | Mark Weston
Intel has developed a prototype that has 48 separate processing cores on a single processing chip, called the Single-chip Cloud Computer. Each core could run a separate operating system such as Windows...
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22 December 2009 | Mark Weston
Microsoft and the European commission have ended 10 years of fighting with an agreement over Microsoft’s alleged bundling of its Internet Explorer browser software with its Windows operating system....
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17 December 2009 | Paul Gershlick
Here are my predictions for 2010, as quoted by the Society for Computers & Law:
"Last year, I predicted that IT projects would take a battering unless they could be financially justified by reducing...
Tags on this discussion: data protection DPA IT project licence misuse of data Software
15 December 2009 | Mark Weston
ICEL and Virrage entered into an agreement regarding the development of infection control software for hospitals. One of Virrage’s directors had also been a director with LIS, a company that had not...
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14 December 2009 | Mark Weston
A law firm which is sending letters to thousands of alleged illegal peer-to-peer file-sharers has been accused of scattergun tactics which affect many innocent Internet users. Which?, the consumer group,...
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