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Push wording removed from Mobile me site, and 30 day extended membership
Blog It's now been replaced by this wording: So here we are live from the Regent street Applestore and following the less the shiny launch of the new in the cloud Mobileme contacts, calendar and email service Apple has to day removed all reference to...
[July 17, 2008, 9:20]
MS slates DoJ's proposal -- 'unjustified', Part II
News Adding wording that would let the new separate companies work with each other under certain circumstances, such as when they're trying to make products work well together. Changing wording so that it could continue to offer different prices to...
[June 1, 2000, 10:05]
DoJ rejects most MS changes
News In what is expected to be their final filing to the judge deciding the Microsoft antitrust case, the DoJ and 17 state attorneys general agreed to call the plan a "divestiture" rather than a "reorganisation," but they also asked the judge to ignore...
[June 6, 2000, 10:09]
Microsoft: We won't sue over future OOXML versions
News The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) recently warned that patent protections would only cover current, not future, versions of the specification, drawing attention to Microsoft's wording of the OSP: "New versions of previously covered...
[March 28, 2008, 7:13]
Workers, managers at odds over email - or are they?
News The wording used in the survey, which makes references to email and the Internet as separate and equal office devices, has invited scepticism about the survey's credibility, with one spokesperson for an Australian Internet interest group pointing...
[April 18, 2002, 14:37]
EU seeks 'legally clever' patent definition
News Speaking to ZDNet UK on Tuesday, an EP spokesman said that JURI will seek the help of legal experts in a meeting next Monday to ensure that it knows the legal implications of any amendments to the wording of the directive.
[May 17, 2005, 16:00]
Kodak snaps under customer pressure
News But lawyers said Kodak would have been unlikely to win because the wording of the confirmation email it sent to customers did nothing to protect it in such situations. What Kodak should have done is to use wording that would cover them when this...
[January 31, 2002, 11:01]
UK gets its own Creative Commons
News If Creative Commons is tested in court, it's better to have used a version with UK legal wording rather than US legal wording," Ahlert added. A version of the Creative Commons licensing scheme adapted for the UK's legal landscape will be formally...
[March 16, 2005, 16:20]
Patent suit may prompt changes to HTML
News The "object" and "embed" tags in HTML, consortium members worry, may fall under the wording of the Eolas patent. Options the PAG could recommend include a technical workaround or new wording in HTML and related specifications warning that authors...
[September 22, 2003, 9:50]
Anti-piracy directive could expose consumers
News The intellectual property rights directive's vague wording promises a period of legal uncertainty for firms as well as consumers, Brown said. While its wording limits the scope of the directive to offences on a "commercial" scale, the word...
[March 10, 2004, 13:20]
Mystery Segways go up for eBay bidding
News Additionally, the wording of the ads appeared very similar to the wording of the previous auctions on Amazon. An organisation called the "AI Foundation" has listed two Segway scooters on eBay. The auction for one of the devices has already received...
[June 6, 2002, 9:13]
Is the Microsoft trial over?
News However, officials and attorneys have glossed over wording in the ruling that leaves the door open for a reversal. This was a ruling on a preliminary motion, so if a more complete set of facts is entered into the record, the wording gives the...
[February 8, 1999, 11:11]
Lord vows to fight cybercrime laws
News Cormack said the problem lay in the wording of part (b), which only requires that it is "likely" that some person will misuse the tool. Consider what would happen if the same wording were applied to, say, the sale of kitchen knives.
[May 25, 2006, 16:05]
Security fears over London's blanket Wi-Fi
News The technical risks can be avoided by installing and using the necessary systems, and the legal risks can also be minimised by including the necessary legal wording in business contracts," Robin Bynoe, partner at Charles Russell, said last week.
[February 22, 2006, 13:15]
Windows 7 may offer a 'Family Pack'
News This week enthusiasts started buzzing over wording in the licence agreement in the test build that suggests Microsoft will have an option to buy a licence for Windows 7 that covers up to three PCs in the same household.
[July 3, 2009, 8:19]
CarryOut lite
Downloads Plain and simple, CarryOut lite is task management software (fancy wording for a to-do list). It is designed to be fully functional while maintaining an easy to use interface.
[March 28, 2006, 8:00]
This should be watched
Talkback BTs wording is very curious. I'm not at all convinced this is the end of the matter. I won't be at all surprised if this quietly re-appears with a different name and from a 'new' company.
[July 7, 2009, 9:29]
Is it easier to hire open source developers?
Blog Comment Recently I came across one comment by an ardent Linux proponent saying approximately (don't remember exact wording) that "It is a violation of my rights -- like 1st amendment right -- when software vendors oblige me to purchase a software.
[October 31, 2007, 10:41]
EU committee gives 'file-sharing' law go-ahead
News Edwards had told ZDNet.co.uk ahead of the vote that the wording was "definitely wide enough to provide a legitimate foundation in EC law for 'three strikes and you're out'". A set of telecommunications laws has been given the green light by a...
[July 8, 2008, 16:43]
EU telecoms vote prompts file-sharing fears
News This wording, argued Edwards, could be interpreted either as calling for the public to be educated about the illegality of some file-sharing, or calling for ISPs to be forced to send warning letters to, then disconnect, users who flout these rules.
[July 7, 2008, 17:12]
