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Legal Action Threatens Shell's Outsourcing Plans
News Shell is facing the threat of legal action from trade union Amicus over staff redundancy terms, which could hit the oil giant's plans to outsource up to 3,200 tech jobs. But the outsourcing plans may be affected by wider legal action being...
[January 8, 2008, 7:53]
Action Plan For The Implementation Of The Legal Framework For Electronic Public Procurement
White Papers This paper proposes an Action Plan for the implementation of the new legal framework for electronic public procurement adopted in April 2004 as part of the legislative package of Procurement Directives, 2004/18/EC and 2004/17/EC.
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
News Burst: BT Facing Legal Action Over ADSL
News British Telecommunications (quote: BT) could be hit by legal action by the likes of AOL Europe and Wanadoo-owned Freeserve over its glitchy rollout of high-speed ADSL Internet access. A Freeserve spokesman told the ISPCon conference Wednesday that...
[February 8, 2001, 9:47]
ISoft Takes Legal Action Against CSC
News iSoft has started legal action over Computer Sciences Corporation's refusal to consent to its acquisition by Australian healthcare provider IBA Health. It has claimed that Computer Sciences Corporation's (CSC) objections to the takeover are...
[June 5, 2007, 12:44]
BT Faces Legal Action Over Unbundling
News A consortium of businesses is to take legal action against BT over its slow roll out of broadband, ZDNet News has learnt. According to spokesman for business telco Fibernet Nigel Pitcher, the logical next step for operators is legal action.
[July 25, 2000, 16:56]
Mobile Firms Could Face Legal Action Over 3G
News Lars Goddell, telecoms analyst at Forrester Research, agrees that too much money was paid, and believes it could lead to legal action. It would not be the first time mobile phone companies have been hit by legal actions.
[January 31, 2001, 9:50]
OpenLogic Protects Customers Against Legal Action
News Enterprise open source software provider OpenLogic is offering indemnification against legal action for firms using its code. OpenLogic has pledged to protect from legal action customers who download its code and then purchase its support packages.
[October 17, 2006, 17:20]
EC Threatens More Legal Action Over Broadband
News The European Commission has threatened to widen its legal action against Europe's incumbent telcos over the failure of local-loop unbundling. It may well, in the near future, expand its field of action to the issue of discrimination, both with the...
[July 8, 2002, 16:14]
BT Faces Legal Action Over ADSL
News British Telecommunications (quote: BT) could be hit by legal action by the likes of AOL Europe and Wanadoo-owned Freeserve (quote: FRE) over its glitchy rollout of high-speed ADSL Internet access. A Freeserve spokesman told the ISPCon conference...
[February 8, 2001, 10:33]
Legal Action Shuts SCO Web Site
News SCO Group, the company that has warned major companies that using Linux could get them in legal trouble, has shut down its German Web site after a Linux advocacy group in the country obtained a restraining order.
[June 4, 2003, 7:34]
ISoft Halts Legal Action Against CSC
News Troubled software company iSoft has called a halt to legal proceedings initiated against Computer Sciences Corporation, one of the local service providers for the NHS National Programme for IT, after the latter blocked its takeover by Australian...
[June 7, 2007, 16:59]
EDS Threatened With Legal Action Over £51m Tax Fiasco
News An HMRC statement said: "HMRC is clear that if it is not possible to reach an acceptable negotiated settlement, it will commence legal proceedings. The Inland Revenue is threatening to drag EDS through the courts unless compensation is agreed for...
[June 22, 2005, 9:35]
Spamhaus Stays Online After Legal Action Fails
News Spamhaus, a leading UK anti-spam service, will continue to operate after a US court rejected an attempt to take it offline last week. Spamhaus provides lists of known spammers to businesses, enabling them to block junk mail in their incoming email...
[October 23, 2006, 13:50]
World Online Faces Legal Action
News It is thought that investment bank ABN Amro, which was involved with the flotation will also be named in the action. Private investors are to take Dutch ISP World Online to court following allegations that the flotation infringed Dutch securities...
[May 15, 2000, 15:36]
Napster Faces Further Legal Action
News The record companies themselves also are required to participate in this search, although the order stopped short of saying precisely how much action the labels needed to take to find misspellings. Napster itself has taken some action to block...
[March 22, 2001, 8:37]
Proposal For An Action Plan For The Implementation Of The Legal Framework For Electronic Public Procurement
White Papers The eEurope Action Plan called on the Council and the European Parliament to adopt as quickly as possible the legislative package on procurement Directives and on Member States to carry out a significant part of public procurement electronically...
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
Sun Gags UK Web Site
News Sun Microsystems has threatened a UK-based tech hardware site with legal action over a story that included product information that was mistakenly posted on Sun's Web site. The action is the latest instance of companies threatening legal action...
[November 20, 2002, 13:48]
Via And Intel Renew Chipset Wars
News Taiwan microchip designer Via Technologies on Monday began fighting back against an Intel legal action with a barrage of its own lawsuits, including accusations that Intel has violated Via patents, violated Chinese fair trade law and wilfully...
[September 10, 2001, 14:48]
Security Contractors Urged To Take Out Personal Indemnity Insurance
News The increasing number of virus and worm attacks means that significant numbers of security contractors could face legal action after their client's systems have been attacked, say industry experts Stuart Okin, Microsoft UK's chief security officer...
[June 2, 2004, 15:30]
Lawyers To Microsoft: Nice Try
News But what's at issue in the current legal action is the Windows 95 bundling. Department of Justice antitrust action against it, Microsoft Corp.claims the scrutiny will only lead to headaches for consumers.
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