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Intel tipped to lose antitrust case
News The Japanese Fair Trade Commission has reportedly decided that this practice violated Japan's anti-monopoly law as it harmed Intel's competitors. Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the commission will soon issue an advisory telling Intel to end the...
[March 7, 2005, 15:20]
Intel raided by EU
News The morning raid comes less than four months after Intel reached an agreement with Japan's Fair Trade Commission, which required the chip giant to halt the practice of requiring PC makers to limit the use of competitors' chips in exchange for...
[July 12, 2005, 14:05]
ASA cautions Orange over 'unlimited' claims
News We noted Orange's assertion that the omission of a reference to the fair-usage policy had been the result of an error and that their normal practice was to include a reference in the small print," the ASA's adjudication read.
[June 13, 2007, 12:46]
NHS IT: A critical case for treatment
Talkback It is not fair to blame the doctors on this sorry mess. General Practice in the UK has led the world in computerising the health record and implenting IT in the consultation. You have summarised the state of affairs accurately I think.
[November 15, 2005, 16:53]
Lords to consider data retention objections
News The FIPR, together with the opposition parties, will on Monday be calling for a published Code of Practice, to ensure the fair treatment of all ISPs under the anti-terrorist requirements. Section 11 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill...
[November 30, 2001, 17:40]
Privacy watchdog to get power to fine for data loss
News The ministry agreed that organisations should make it more clear what they intend to do with personal information, and said the ICO is working on a code of practice on fair processing notices. The ICO will also be able to serve a warrant on anyone...
[November 25, 2008, 11:55]
Managing electronic data - a code of ethics
News Paskoff, founder and president of Employment Learning Innovations, an Atlanta firm that trains companies on workplace ethics and fair employment practice issues. said Paskoff, who was a trial attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity...
[July 3, 2003, 14:37]
Google Print faces further delays
News Google defends its practice, saying it falls within the "fair use" provision of the copyright law. While the new digital books Google unleashed on the Internet were out of copyright and thus fair game, two lawsuits filed by the Authors Guild and...
[November 4, 2005, 8:40]
Hotmail trashes users' email
News Instead, it said the error was because of a problem connecting to the recipient--a practice that has particularly alarmed some customers. Still, to subscribers such as Johnson, the practice of blocking outgoing mail is extreme.
[January 19, 2001, 10:21]
A Year Ago: Oftel moves to stop BT's poaching
News The regulator said that customer complaints, which described how BT telesales staff had identified Internet users from their phone bills and then tried to switch them to BT's new Click service, had appeared to be "an abuse of BT's dominant...
[September 25, 1999, 7:00]
AMD edges ahead of Intel
News Intel agreed in March to recommendations issued by the Fair Trade Commission in Japan, which called on Intel to halt the practice of requiring PC makers to limit the use of competitors' chips in order to receive monetary rebates.
[November 8, 2005, 17:00]
EU takes control of Intel antitrust inquiry
News Intel will co-operate with the EU investigation, as it has done over the past five years, said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy, who added that the company believes its actions are "fair and lawful". Earlier this year, the Korean Fair Trade Commission...
[September 12, 2006, 15:50]
ISPs buckle under copyright cases
News ISPA is gathering the data to illustrate the growing problem with take-down notices in a bid to persuade the government to publish a code of practice that, it says, should effectively remove liability from ISPs.
[December 10, 2002, 10:37]
Thumbnails ruled ok
News Search engines' display of miniature images is fair use under copyright law, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, but the legality of presenting full-size renditions of visual works is yet to be determined.
[July 8, 2003, 10:52]
T-Mobile 3G Communication Centre review
Reviews In practice, the small print imposes a 'fair use' policy of 1GB of data a month; if you exceed this, T-Mobile may ask you to reduce your usage. Although T-Mobile's 3G service was, at the time of this review, running substantially slower than both...
[September 17, 2004, 9:40]
Lexmark's loss is everyone's gain
Leader But shutting out competitors was not the intention of the DMCA, yet that is effectively what Lexmark attempted with its practice of using the DMCA to stop companies -- in this case Static Control Components (SCC) -- circumventing the technology...
[October 27, 2004, 12:05]
ISP libel laws 'need global treaty'
News ISPA is gathering the data to illustrate the growing problem with take-down notices in a bid to persuade the government to publish a code of practice that, it says, should effectively remove liability from ISPs.
[December 18, 2002, 17:19]
Agile programming power everywhere, no thanks!
Blog If you look back at the last time I interviewed IBM’s Agile practice leader Scott Ambler, you’ll see that there’s lots of passion attached to this subject. Perhaps it’s the same reason why IBM has a ‘practice leader’ (I'm sure they forgot to slip...
[September 28, 2009, 6:42]
Apple escapes charges in US stock-options probe
News We were always confident that, after a full and fair review of the facts, there could be no other outcome," Cris Arguedas, a lawyer for former Apple general counsel Nancy Heinen, told the newspaper. Apple has maintained that, while Jobs was aware...
[July 11, 2008, 10:42]
Socitm calls on councils for web-accessibility checks
News In order to produce fair and accurate results, we must use testing that is consistent and transparent," states the report. The report includes the following recommendations for good practice in local government:
[April 21, 2008, 9:02]
