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Government promises G-Cloud so public sector can share applications

29 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick

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,...

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Microsoft forced to change Word and Office in US in response to patent infringement ruling

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...

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Protection for Amazon’s Kindle hacked

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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My IT predictions for 2010

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...

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Software case highlights need to deal expressly with copyright ownership in contract if commissioner wants to own it – ICEL v Virrage, High Court

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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