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BIS consults on implementation of new E-Privacy Directive

28 September 2010 | Mark Weston

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is consulting on plans to implement a new E-Privacy Directive. The European Union law was passed in 2009 and needs to be implemented into domestic law...

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‘Rate parity’ practice for online hotel sales under investigation for competition law issues

28 September 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The Office of Fair Trading is investigating whether the practice whereby hotel chains demand that online resellers of their room bookings keep to minimum prices breaches competition law. The practice –...

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Sophisticated fake sites set up in seconds

28 September 2010 | Paul Gershlick

It takes just seconds to set up sophisticated fake web sites. Those are the claims made by First Cyber Security, the Internet security business. The problem is growing. The number of counterfeit goods...

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US Appeal Court says first sale doctrine doesn’t apply to software

17 September 2010 | Mark Weston

A US Appeal Court has ruled that software companies can stop people from ‘re-selling’ their software if the terms of the software licence prohibit such re-sales. The case involved Autodesk trying to...

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Broadband in more than seven in ten UK homes

8 September 2010 | Paul Gershlick

More than seven out of every ten UK homes now have a broadband connection through BT or Virgin’s networks. According to those companies’ latest figures, 19 million UK premises use broadband. At 71%,...

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CAP Code to apply to material on own websites

8 September 2010 | Mark Weston

The CAP Code is being extended to apply to material on organisations’ own websites. The CAP Code is a code of practice governing the content of adverts and marketing communications. It is administered...

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Security firm highlights dangers of web browsing in some countries

27 August 2010 | Paul Gershlick

UK Internet users have a 1 in 63 chance on any given day of suffering an online attack when they are on the web. The world average is 1 in 73. Going online in Africa and South America were much safer than...

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Argentina overturns previous ruling that had made search engines liable for links to content relating to superstars

26 August 2010 | Mark Weston

An Argentinian appeal court has overturned a controversial 2008 ruling in which search engines had been made liable for the content of sites to which those search engines provided links in the results...

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Facebook launches feature that shows user’s real-time locations

24 August 2010 | Mark Weston

Facebook has launched a new feature that allows people to see where a user is. Facebook has extolled the virtues of Facebook Places by saying that it is useful for two friends to see if they are both in...

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Online sales grow at fastest rate for three years

24 August 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The signs of economic recovery are looking good, as online sales have grown at their fastest rate for three years. Between July 2009 and the same month in 2010, sales grew by 18%. Sales in that month were...

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Latest news and views tagged Online

BIS consults on implementation of new E-Privacy Directive

‘Rate parity’ practice for online hotel sales under investigation for competition law issues

Sophisticated fake sites set up in seconds

US Appeal Court says first sale doctrine doesn’t apply to software

Broadband in more than seven in ten UK homes

CAP Code to apply to material on own websites

Security firm highlights dangers of web browsing in some countries

Argentina overturns previous ruling that had made search engines liable for links to content relating to superstars

Facebook launches feature that shows user’s real-time locations

Online sales grow at fastest rate for three years

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