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Financial giants to launch UK trading site
News TheShare.com, which will hit the Web sometime in the next 90 days, will be following in the footsteps of UK-orientated trading sites from the likes of Schwab, but marks the awakening of UK e-businesses to the potential of online trading.
[October 1, 1999, 12:07]
RIAA launches more lawsuits against swappers
News The new round brings the total number of people sued in the United States for trading music online to 3,429, the RIAA said. The efforts have seen substantial growth in the public perception of file trading as a potentially illegal activity, but the...
[June 23, 2004, 11:20]
Online retailers rapped over unfair contracts
News Computer supplier Micro Anvika is among a dozen online retailers to have stopped including what the Office of Fair Trading called "unfair terms" in the contracts they formed with their customers. All 12 companies are understood to have ceased to...
[June 13, 2003, 16:38]
Anarchist coders prime unfettered file swapping service
News The drive for absolute privacy online has bubbled up from several different sources in the past few years, as technology for tracing surfers online has improved, government monitoring tools such as Carnivore and Echelon have come to light, and...
[June 19, 2001, 14:46]
Halifax Net share dealing system breached
News The Halifax admitted Monday that a flaw in its online security allowed a customer to gain unauthorised access to its Internet trading accounts on Friday morning. The fault has been eliminated and we've checked our servers and found that no illegal...
[November 29, 1999, 16:30]
RIAA sues 261 swappers
News From the rise of Napster until today, tens of millions of people have started trading songs, movies and software online through services such as Kazaa with little thought for the legality of their actions.
[September 9, 2003, 10:10]
Trading Standards condemns Internet shopping
News Shopping online has been condemned as too expensive, too slow and too much hassle in a Trading Standards Institute report released Thursday. Jenny McCruden, lead officer for National Consumer Week at the Trading Standards Institute argued "the...
[October 12, 2000, 12:50]
Trading Standards orders dot-com shake-up
News The Institute of Trading Standards has warned UK Internet businesses to clean up their customer service reputation and online security record or see Britain's Internet industry fall behind competitors from abroad.
[October 23, 2000, 9:18]
Napster crackdown drives away fans
News A year ago, the once-underground practice of online file trading was fast approaching the popularity and easy use of an America Online, with the help of Napster and its rivals. By putting enough pressure on individual file-trading services, and...
[May 9, 2001, 8:02]
A Year Ago: New program mimics Napster
News A group of software engineers who work for a unit of America Online (AOL) has released an early version of a program that mimics the operation of Napster, the popular Web software that allows for the free trading of music files, including pirated...
[March 15, 2001, 6:01]
Government fears digital divide is growing
News New figures from the DTI's International Benchmarking Study 2000 reveal an increasing digital divide amongst British businesses trading online. Byers acknowledges that in order to compete in the modern economy, the UK needs a much higher proportion...
[November 22, 2000, 15:58]
Mandelson launches 'bold' e-commerce initiative
News An Electronic Commerce Bill to remove legal barriers to online trading was just one of the measures announced by Mandelson in the White Paper. A digital hallmark for Websites to encourage online trading
[December 17, 1998, 10:21]
Lawsuit targets biggest post-Napster network
News The suit marks the fourth major legal action the copyright holders have filed in their attempt to restrain millions of people from trading copies of songs and movies online. Adding a new challenge to their list of legal attacks, the record industry...
[October 3, 2001, 9:42]
lastminute.com shares continue to slide
News The Dutch Internet service provider World Online was also trading below its offer price of E43 (£26) on Tuesday, adding fuel to speculation that the European e-commerce bubble might be about to burst.
[March 21, 2000, 10:02]
Don’t Ride The ‘Doom & Gloom’ Bandwagon
Blog Online trading is an area of the economy that continues to rise. Some retailers will even tell you that they wouldn’t have been able to afford to keep their shops open had they not set up a Web site for trading online in tandem.
[August 7, 2008, 12:03]
Government e-commerce figures 'massaged'
News According to government targets contained with the UK Online initiative, all businesses should be trading online by 2005. But research company Forrester points out that the accuracy of the ONS figures is distorted by the inclusion of financial...
[September 13, 2001, 8:30]
OFT cracks down on online electronics stores
News The Office of Fair Trading is investigating four British electronics retail websites over possible misleading advertising and unfair practices, as part of a wider European Commission effort to protect buyers.
[September 11, 2009, 12:24]
File-swap ruling heads back to court
News Indeed, the record industry's lawsuits against individual computer users who are trading songs online using services such as Kazaa continue unabated, with the latest round filed in early January. Few would disagree that file-trading networks are...
[February 3, 2004, 8:05]
New features planned for file swappers
News MusicCity, also known as StreamCast Networks, makes the Morpheus file-trading software application, which has consistently been one of the most popular downloads online for the last several months. The Morpheus software is one of three separate...
[December 27, 2001, 11:23]
If the information...
Talkback Gathered for the official reports is conclusive then yes the fair trading organizations should go ahead and name & shame all the company's involved, I also notice how the UK government never fails to get its tax's from online small business from...
[September 12, 2009, 23:04]
