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Fury over Facebook terms of service changes
Blog Arguments are raging about a change Facebook has made to its terms of service (TOS). The Facebook terms of service currently say the following: You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide...
[February 18, 2009, 11:34]
Twitter introduces revised terms of service
News Twitter posted changes to its terms of service Thursday, assuring users that they own their tweets while leaving "the door open for advertising" opportunities. In announcing the new terms of service, Stone also addressed the topics of abusive...
[September 11, 2009, 10:02]
Service Oriented Architectures Without Openness - A Contradiction of Terms
White Papers This paper looks into the conversational frameworks that are needed to implement the European and national goals on service oriented architectures in the educational sector. Interoperability of eGovernment services is high on the agenda of the...
[March 29, 2007, 1:00]
Microsoft Azure evangelist tackles cloud doubts
News As Microsoft spells out the first service terms and pricing for its Azure development and hosting platform, ZDNet UK spoke to Mark Taylor, the company's director of developer and platform evangelism. We've got an aggressive programme to continue to...
[July 14, 2009, 15:36]
Google denies ownership of users' words
News Google has denied claims that the terms and conditions for its Google Docs service means it owns any user's content published in the application. On the other hand, Vaile said Google offered two sets of terms and conditions — a universal set and...
[September 12, 2007, 9:39]
Controls eased on MS Passport
News Microsoft said Wednesday that it plans to revise the "terms of use" policy for its Passport service following criticism that the agreement gives the software behemoth Draconian control of customer communications.
[April 5, 2001, 8:03]
AOL redefines spam
News America Online has released a revision of its terms of service agreement that expands its definition of spam beyond email to include messaging and chat postings. The new terms of service (TOS) agreement, AOL's first revision in five years, is...
[July 9, 2003, 13:56]
Apple's tunes could threaten Microsoft
News MP3 also comes burdened with patents and licensing terms that have made it an unattractive alternative for some developers. Liberal licensing terms mean the songs also can be burned to CDs or moved to portable music players, such as Apple's iPod.
[April 30, 2003, 11:42]
A Network Calculus With Effective Bandwidth
White Papers This paper presents a statistical network calculus in a setting where both arrivals and service are specified in terms of probabilistic bounds. By formulating well-known effective bandwidth expressions in terms of envelope functions, they are able...
[September 10, 2008, 0:00]
Irish controversy dogs America Online
News AOL closed 23 Irish Heritage discussion groups on Dec.saying that the political forums had included profanity and personal attacks, which are banned under its terms of service. There needs to be somebody who knows what's being posted, to react to...
[January 8, 1999, 9:44]
Yahoo! hikes listing service fees
News Express terms of service late on Friday, according to Andrew Braccia, director of business development at Yahoo! Under the new terms, which started 28 December, businesses that want to be considered for a listing in Yahoo's directory must pay $299...
[January 3, 2002, 10:34]
How Google will continue its watch over you
News When Chrome was first released, Google found itself in hot water over its terms of service, which stated that the company had the rights to license any content that went through its browser. What we do not know is how its terms of service will...
[July 9, 2009, 11:22]
Motorola's UTRAN Sharing Feature
White Papers A key enabler for mobile broadband is the wide availability of HSxPA networks, which offer clear benefits in terms of both subscriber experience and reduced cost per bit of data delivered [compared to R99 UMTS].
[August 4, 2009, 0:00]
Glitch wipes out some Tripod pages
News Tripod, which lets people create personal home pages, routinely polices its online community for sites that may host content that violates its terms of service. Tripod spokeswoman Dorianne Almann said the company's computer systems had been...
[March 20, 2001, 10:04]
Google protects its search results
News This month, about 100 Comcast subscribers were temporarily shut out of Google when the search company charged the high-speed Internet access provider with hosting some accounts that had abused its terms of service by performing "automated queries.
[April 16, 2002, 14:47]
BTopenworld attacked for terminating Anytime accounts
News Customers of the BTinternet Anytime service were booted off the service permanently on Thursday, for allegedly abusing the terms and conditions of their 24/7 unmetered package. The terms and conditions of the Anytime service warn, "if you are a...
[September 28, 2001, 17:55]
Ntl extends business ban on cable service
News Customers of cable operator ntl's broadband service were left angry this week by what they view as a change in ntl's terms and conditions. Cable modem customer Zane Wilson claims he was informed he was breaking ntl's terms and conditions when he...
[March 28, 2001, 15:55]
Spammers face lawsuits and jail
News Antispam sentiment on Capitol Hill spiked on Thursday, with one bill voted out of committee and another proposal introduced that would set lengthy prison terms for senders of junk mail. A first offense would be punishable by up to three years in...
[June 20, 2003, 9:27]
Thousands of BT Anytime users face the axe
News We've been monitoring the service to spot people who have been breaking the terms and conditions of the service, and we're about to take action against over 1,000 users," said Duncan Ingram, senior vice-president of BTopenworld.
[October 15, 2001, 18:14]
What's hidden in your hard drive?
News But the 65-year-old Massachusetts resident -- who has a law degree -- didn't read Kazaa's 2,644-word "terms of service" contract, which stated that Brilliant might tap the "unused computing power and storage space" of Watson's computer.
[April 18, 2002, 15:48]
