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M'Learned Web: Drugs On The Net -- Viagra
News Robin Bynoe is a partner of the Charles Russel law firm. Sex on the Internet has always been a contentious issue but now, inevitably, we have drugs on the Internet as well. Equally inevitably, the drug of choice tends to be the mighty Viagra, which...
[April 6, 1999, 15:50]
M'Learned Web: The Problem With Spam
News Robin Bynoe is a partner of the Charles Russel law firm. If you get your email at the office it's quite nice to get spam. You may not particularly want to hear about exciting hardware products available to you at competitive prices, or about six...
[July 13, 1999, 15:54]
M'Learned Web: The Trouble With E-commerce...
News These are governed by contract law which is a tad older than the Internet, going back centuries. It was not designed with e-commerce in mind, rather for two men standing in a barn preparing to sell cows to one another.
[December 3, 1999, 13:25]
M'Learned Web: Do Online Auctions Work?
News Last time, I wrote about the basic rules in English law about making a contract that works on the Web and some of the legal oddities in trading online. The moral, for the people behind the Web sites, was to eliminate as many of the oddities as...
[January 26, 2000, 14:58]
M'Learned Web: What Are Internet Millionaires Like?
News They say that art is where money goes when it has nowhere else to go. Consequently, art dealers have always tended to be barometers of the amount of spare money swilling around in the economy. This time, it's different.
[September 14, 1999, 16:30]
M'Learned Web: The MP3 Debate
News In this case both the owner of the Web site and the consumer will have breached copyright. Robin Bynoe is a partner of the Charles Russel law firm. A short history lesson Not long ago in the great scheme of things, the record industry warned that...
[May 14, 1999, 15:08]
M'Learned Web - Technology And Law In The UK
News How to make a nuisance of yourself under the Data Protection Act The Acts, 1984 and 1998, derive from a concern to protect the privacy of individuals. They impose rules on companies which keep data on people.
[February 15, 1999, 14:41]
M'Learned Web - Technology & Law In The UK
News The Data Protection Act 1998 The main thing about the Data Protection Act 1998 is not so much the new stuff in it but that it underlines the obligations in its predecessor, the 1984 Act which have been extensively ignored.
[January 14, 1999, 12:22]
M'Learned Web - Technology & Law In The UK
News With the explosion of computer-use every new PC-owner became a potential registrant, particularly when Web use took off. The Data Protection Act 1998 In 1984, they hardly had PCs. They hardly had direct marketing.
[November 26, 1998, 14:58]
Website Security: Avoiding Attacks
White Papers Boster, in charge of information resources management, ordered the department to review its online security, and what he learned can help others who want to make their systems less vulnerable. Just after midnight on Aug.hackers cracked the Justice...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Why Dilbert Loves The Internet
News We recently caught up with Adams, who discussed the vagaries of cubicle culture and the impact of the Internet on cartoonists -- not to mention the lessons that Dilbert learned during the dot-com boom and bust.
[June 4, 2002, 7:32]
Video: Microsoft Learns A Web-standards Lesson
News Microsoft has learned some very serious lessons when it comes to complying with web standards after taking heavy criticism from the industry and, more importantly, a beating in the browser market share.
[July 19, 2007, 13:07]
Microsoft Taught Security By Open-source Community
News Microsoft's global director of product security, George Stathakopoulos, has told ZDNet Australia that the software giant has learned security lessons from the wider software community. I think in the industry in general there are lessons to be...
[May 7, 2003, 12:10]
The Industry Standard To Stop Publishing
News Editor in chief Jonathan Weber said about 15 employees were in the San Francisco office working on the next edition when they learned the news. Other investors included Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Venture Partners, Pearson PLC, Europ@Web, J.
[August 17, 2001, 9:41]
Government May Ignore ID Card Opposition
News Civil liberties group Stand says it has learned that the 5,000 responses that were send to the Home Office from its Internet site will be treated as a single vote. Concern is growing that the government may ignore thousands of people who have said...
[May 30, 2003, 16:29]
Hidden Text Reveals SCO's Original Target
News But as some lawyers, businesspeople and politicians have learned the hard way, Word can also display so-called metadata in the document -- including the original version and all subsequent changes. Hackers have rendered SCO's Web site inaccessible...
[March 5, 2004, 7:30]
Author Of Web Attack Tool Speaks
News I consider it as a mistake in my past, from which I've learned. While chatting online with ZDNet about last week's spate of Web attacks, "Mixter" -- a self-proclaimed "white-hat hacker" who created the Tribal Flood Network denial-of-service tool...
[February 15, 2000, 9:08]
Acrobat: No Longer Written On Stone
News But the lesson I learned.is that as long as we stay close to what we do well, things that help people communicate better.we'll do better than Microsoft. Additions using the XML Web services language and other tools will allow people to add...
[October 18, 2002, 8:25]
Web Content: Will Users Ever Pay?
News One specific thing that we learned was that we wanted to have a co-marketing, co-branding model, whereas believing that you can go out and buy eyeballs to build a brand -- we learned you just can't go that way.
[August 4, 2003, 13:25]
Training The Cyberwar Troops
News As leader of the students in the team that was responsible for securing the network's Web servers, Ziegenhagen says she's learned a lot in the last week, especially since Web servers were among the first computers attacked.
[April 29, 2002, 12:38]
