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Boston Airport Battles With Free Wi-Fi
News In an escalating series of threatening letters sent over the last few weeks, airport officials have pledged to "take all necessary steps to have the [Wi-Fi] antenna removed" from Continental's frequent flyer lounge.
[August 4, 2005, 9:50]
Lawyers Busted Over 'sexist' Email
News The two senior lawyers involved have written letters of apology, and Hopwell offered the woman the chance to discuss the issue informally over lunch. And read other letters. The dangers of email misuse were highlighted again this week as one of the...
[September 7, 2001, 17:39]
Internet Giants Agree Beijing 'code Of Conduct'
News The letters were addressed to Durbin, Chairman of the Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee, and Senator Tom Coburn, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee, after the senators inquired in a letter dated 21 July about the progress of the code of...
[August 6, 2008, 10:33]
Spammers Busted In Net Fraud Crackdown
News The law enforcement steps included asking a court to shut down sites accused of promoting illegal chain letters, reaching a settlement with a company that violated mail-order regulations by failing to promptly ship CDs.
[April 3, 2002, 10:01]
File-trading Pressure Mounts On ISPs
News Many, including DirecTV Broadband and Excite@Home, issue warning letters to their subscribers. We've sent out substantially more letters over the last several weeks, as more customers are interested in protecting their copyrights online," said...
[July 26, 2001, 11:19]
EU Telecoms Vote Prompts File-sharing Fears
News Such legislation, enthusiastically backed by many in the content industry, would have internet service providers (ISPs) issue warning letters to those customers they think have been illegally downloading or uploading copyrighted material, before...
[July 7, 2008, 17:12]
Government Moves To Tackle Phishing
Talkback The law should be able to trace ghost letters which are from phishers standing in the dark to collect personal data for illegal gains. Once these letters can be traced to the actual sources, I think it may deter the ghost workers a bit,
[June 3, 2005, 4:23]
The Science Of Self-Realization
Downloads In the interviews, lectures, essays, and letters chosen for this book, His Divine Grace A.C. This book discusses practicing meditation and yoga in the modern age, gaining liberation from the law of karma, and achieving super consciousness.
[January 25, 2006, 6:16]
Companies Warned Over Corporate Identity Theft
Talkback I don't believe the banks gave out email addresses as we received 'bank' letters from two banks we don't even use. The more irritating factor in all this is that we are again being punished for being law abiding by feeling forced to spend on...
[November 4, 2003, 13:12]
Guidance On Initial Responses To A Suspicious Letter / Container With A Potential Biological Threat
White Papers A large number of potentially suspicious letters and packages continue to be reported to federal, state, and local law enforcement and emergency response agencies nationwide. In some instances these letters or packages may include powders, liquids...
[February 15, 2005, 2:00]
Microsoft Sends Threatening Letters To Source-code Posters
News The letters explain to the individuals that downloading or using the source code is a violation of the law. Microsoft has sent several letters to people known to have posted Windows source code on the Internet, warning them to stop offering the...
[February 19, 2004, 7:40]
UK Gets Final Warning On E-waste
News The EC has sent letters to these eight countries asking for their reasons for not implementing the WEEE directive. All eight countries have yet to enact the EU Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) directive into national law.
[July 12, 2005, 19:00]
EU Members Ignore Spam Directive
News In December 2003 and on 1 April, 2004, the EU sent warning letters to the offending countries, which include Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Portugal, Luxembourg and Finland. The EU's anti-spam directive, which was passed in July...
[April 27, 2004, 15:00]
Web War Rages Over DVD-cracking Site
News Many ISPs, especially smaller ones that don't have large legal departments, yank sites immediately after receiving threatening letters from content providers to avoid liability. And read other letters.
[January 25, 2001, 9:03]
Students Defy DMCA To Post Email Online
News When Diebold Election Systems learned that its internal email correspondence had popped up on the Web, it used a common legal tactic: sending cease-and-desist letters to Webmasters. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford Law School's...
[November 4, 2003, 8:40]
Moore's Law To Roll On For Another Decade
News The number of transistors produced annually is now roughly equal to the number of letters and/or characters printed annually -- and they cost about the same to produce, Moore noted. Moore's Law will continue for at least another 10 years, according...
[February 11, 2003, 7:59]
Freeserve Launches Legal Service On Net
News Users will be able to download legal letters, wills, trusts, employment agreements, guarantees, terms and conditions and property agreements from the Freeserve site. Richard Cohen, partner at London law firm Landau & Cohen believes the service will...
[April 26, 1999, 11:52]
ISPs Face Data Interception Deadline
News The interception capability is mandated by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which was introduced to give police and other law enforcement authorities the same powers to intercept digital communications as they already possess to...
[July 10, 2002, 16:03]
2001: Microsoft In Court
News Lobbyists acting for Microsoft were exposed as having dispatched letters from two deceased people as part of a campaign to persuade government prosecutors to lay off the company in the antitrust case.
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
Election 2001: Labour Trails Web Site Poll
News And read other letters. Labour may be ahead in the polls but when it comes to Web sites the Natural Law and Green parties are streets ahead. According to performance testing from software testers SIM Group, the Natural Law and Green Party Web sites...
[June 7, 2001, 16:28]
