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The low-down on domain name disputes
News Dispute resolution procedures were designed to institute a level of fairness into the system, and domain name registrars will abide by the findings of dispute tribunals. Raising a dispute resolution action for one domain name with a single WIPO...
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
US endorses Internet Governance Forum
News The last-minute deal, reached just hours before the WSIS began on Wednesday, effectively postpones a long-simmering dispute over the future of Internet management. At issue in this dispute is the unique influence the US government wields over the...
[November 16, 2005, 13:40]
Biscit customers still stranded
News The relationship between V21.co.uk Limited and Biscit Internet Limited is subject to a legal dispute, and does not involve Breathe Networks," the statement added. According to a post by Breathe's chief executive, Marcus East, on the ISP Review...
[March 13, 2007, 16:29]
Google cedes right to Gmail in the UK
News We also want to relieve both Google and our users of the distraction of the dispute. In a recent report from IIIR on the name dispute, however, the company said it "considers the proposals it made to Google for settlement of this matter to be fair...
[October 20, 2005, 14:55]
Gartner advises halting BlackBerry rollouts
News There is a possibility that RIM could bypass the patent dispute by deploying a workaround but Gartner said this path could be "highly problematic". According to Gartner, enterprises should "not to sign any agreements that could involve them in the...
[December 7, 2005, 9:40]
Trouble in HP's post-merger paradise
News HP representatives said that, overall, the integration process is on track and added that this dispute highlights the processes that the company has put in place to resolve disagreements over integration plans.
[August 2, 2002, 8:51]
Google's copyright controversies
News It's part of their absolutist approach," said Joshua Kaufman, an attorney representing Agence France-Presse in the wire service's copyright dispute with Google. In addition, its keyword advertising has antagonised some trademark holders, though...
[August 8, 2006, 16:55]
Cybersquatting cases branded as 'biased'
News Two smaller bodies, which also handle disputes --- EResolution and the CPR Institute for Dispute resolution -- rule in favour of trademark holders in 59.1 percent and 63.4 percent of cases respectively.
[August 21, 2001, 17:15]
Unite to hold strike ballot at HP
News HP, which has around 18,000 employees in the UK, said in a statement that it is keen to try and resolve the dispute. The union is in the midst of a separate IT services worker dispute with Fujitsu Services over proposed pension cuts.
[October 29, 2009, 11:57]
O2 baffled by huge roaming bill
News But to be fair, he did get my service restored and raised a dispute against the data charged. O2 then contacted him to say that "the amount in dispute had been put into suspense" and that "pending resolution I should cancel my direct debit, pay the...
[March 3, 2006, 12:45]
Ofcom: Return of the MAC
News The new rules will also mean that wholesale providers have to provide MACs to the retail providers reselling their services, regardless of any contractual or payment dispute that may be going on between the wholesaler and retailer at the time.
[December 13, 2006, 11:52]
BT holding back DSL say rivals
News There is a dispute in the technical working group on what appears to be an attempt to restrict technology to ADSL," she says. Another member of the forum, Colin Annette -- senior manager for network trading at MCI WorldCom -- is keeping an open...
[April 19, 2000, 7:05]
Striking Fujitsu Services staff return to work
News The dispute between Fujitsu Services management and staff has been running since the end of 2006. The dispute revolves around redundancy rights, better pay and union recognition. The union says it had agreed to shift its stance on one of these...
[March 20, 2007, 15:51]
Cybersquatting OK for 'freedom of speech' sites
News The dispute was over a website, chelwest.com, operated by Frank Redmond, which expresses inflammatory opinions about a public hospital — Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. A similar dispute was held in 2003 over an Australian website.
[December 6, 2007, 9:46]
Morpheus' downfall: Bills weren't paid
News Zennstrom did not provide details on how the Morpheus software could have been shut down as a result of the fee dispute. StreamCast's Griffin conceded last week that there had been some dispute over licensing terms for the peer-to-peer software.
[March 6, 2002, 11:37]
Orange backs down over mobile phone mast
News However, Orange is still refusing to remove another mast from a second Stockport school, Cheadle Hulme College, and this dispute is set to be decided by the courts in November. The company has issued a counter-notice against the council's...
[May 10, 2001, 16:48]
OLPC and Intel bury the hatchet
News After some discussion, the two groups realised they had more in common than they had in dispute, said Will Swope, a corporate vice president and general manager of corporate affairs at Intel. The dispute appeared petty at times, beneath both the...
[July 16, 2007, 8:18]
DTI seeks views on the shape of ICANN
News ICANN's key technical functions include: managing the DNS root zone files (essentially, the master list of top level domain names (TLDs); recognising the Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs); allocating blocks of IPv4 and IPv6 (next generation...
[June 6, 2002, 11:52]
Microsoft revives Java in Windows
News Microsoft decided in April 2001 not to ship a Java virtual machine, instead adding a "download-on-demand" feature that Sun said in its antitrust suit violated settlement terms of an earlier Java legal dispute between the two companies.
[June 19, 2002, 10:05]
Fujitsu staff start five-day strike
News Amicus' deputy general secretary, Graham Goddard, said in a statement on Friday: "We are dismayed and saddened that management have refused to hold meaningful talks to settle the dispute. We hope the five-day strike will send a message to Fujitsu...
[January 29, 2007, 13:14]
