Cross-border Small Claims in the EU
Pablo Cortés reviews the proposal for a Regulation establishing a European Small Claims Procedure, which is due to be implemented by January 2009…
Telecoms & the Internet
Predictions 2008 – Social Trends and IT Law
From Roger Bickerstaff, Partner at Bird & Bird and SCL Trustee: www.twobirds.com 1. I predict an increasing focus on open source software in the business applications environment for major corporate users – not for cost or ideological reasons but more for vendor independence reasons. Open source gives major corporate users an opportunity to develop and…
Pop–ups and Child Pornography
In R v Harrison [2007] EWCA Crim 2976, Mr Justice Cranston, giving the lead judgment of the Court of Appeal, has dealt with what he described as a novel argument. The case concerned a conviction under the Protection of Children Act 1978, s 1 and the Criminal Justice Act 1988, s 160 – what might…
Russian Software Development: A Personal View
I don’t like the taste of straight vodka, however expensive. This can be a social obstacle while working in Russia, I’ve found. But apart from one’s particular taste in alcohol, I’ve found that there’s much to recommend outsourcing one’s software development there. The country is loaded with brainy, entrepreneurially-minded engineers who yearn for bigger and…
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Predictions 2008: Early Birds
From Roger Bickerstaff, Partner at Bird & Bird and SCL Trustee: www.twobirds.com 1. I predict an increasing focus on open source software in the business applications environment for major corporate users – not for cost or ideological reasons – but more for vendor independence reasons. Open source gives major corporate users an opportunity to develop…
Olswang Consumer Convergence Survey
The Olswang Convergence Consumer Survey 2007 is an online survey of 1,793 GB consumers, aged 13 to 55. What follows is an edited version of its Executive Summary and a link to the full survey appears below. Currently in its third year, the annual survey was conducted for Olswang by international polling agency YouGov Plc,…
EU v Microsoft: Competition Wins!
Davina Garrod and Benoît Keane analyse the significance of the judgment in the long-running EU action against Microsoft….
Master of All the Surveys
October has been quite a month for survey results. Read a summary here….
.asia Registration
The doors are open for registration of .asia domain names…
Computer Trends for Your Desk and Pocket
It is usually software and gadgets that gets the attention and the hardware we spend most of our time using tends to get neglected. Adam Westbrooke helps corrects the balance and examines the trends….