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Defamation settlement over quick-fire allegations about election rival demonstrates Twitter dangers

19 March 2011 | Mark Weston

It was a case of one political victory to one candidate and one court victory to the other in a couple of election day battles. Colin Elsbury had beaten Eddie Talbot in a closely contested Welsh council...

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Judge refuses to require online newspaper to disclose anonymous posters’ details over ‘pub talk’ comments after article– Clift v Clarke, High Court

3 March 2011 | Paul Gershlick

After Ms Clift had successfully sued Slough Council for defamation proceedings, the Daily Mail newspaper ran a story about the case. In correspondence, Ms Clift described the newspaper’s report as excellent....

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Google accuses Microsoft in ‘Bing Sting’

4 February 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Google and Microsoft are engaged in a war of words after the long-standing search engine giant has accused Microsoft’s Bing search engine of copying and cheating following a sting operation coined the...

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BT defends two-tier Internet allegations

20 January 2011 | Mark Weston

BT has defended itself against allegations that it is splitting from the net neutrality concept and creating a two-tier Internet. This follows BT’s introduction of Content Connect, which allows Internet...

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ASA launches advertising campaign on the online marketing regulation

19 January 2011 | Simon Weinberg

The Advertising Standards Authority has started an advertising campaign to warn businesses of the impending extension of its remit to marketing on websites from 1 March 2011. As reported in Upload-IT...

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Government to discuss censoring certain material on the Internet with ISPs

21 December 2010 | Mark Weston

Ed Vaizey, the Culture Minister, is meeting with Internet service providers to discuss censoring parts of the Internet at source. What he is really concerned about is stopping children accessing pornographic...

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Microsoft founder fails in infringement lawsuit

21 December 2010 | Simon Weinberg

Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates, has failed in his claim that a number of household names, including Facebook and Google, had infringed patents registered by his firm Interval Licensing....

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