DTI minister, Michael Wills claimed that as the UK's 1988 Copyright Act already prohibits the unauthorised reproduction of copyright material online, the European directive would not affect UK businesses - in other words, caching was already illegal.
Citing "a steady decline in demand from business customers," Duncan Reid, product marketing services manager at Microsoft, said the company has removed the products from their volume price list. Volume pricing significantly reduces the per seat...
Google has already proved a serious threat to Overture's US business, which is licensing advertiser-paid results to customers such as MSN, Yahoo and Lycos. This venture through Google is in direct competition with Overture's licensing business.
The network - which spans the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong - is centrally managed and scans millions of messages each day. In a statement Mark Sunner, chief technology officer of MessageLabs, said: "The...
Apple Computer said on Wednesday that it had signed deals with three of the United Kingdom's largest independent labels, partly ending a licensing spat that had kept many popular bands out of the company's European iTunes service.
In an investigation that led from online forums to a passport-forging facility in Bulgaria, law enforcement officials arrested in the last 48 hours suspects from eight US states and six other countries on charges of identity theft, computer fraud...