Mondaq UK: Information Technology and Telecoms
Quarterly update summarising regulatory and legal developments from the last three months in the communications, media and satellite sectors in Europe and China.
Quarterly update summarising regulatory and legal developments from the last three months in the communications, media and satellite sectors in Europe.
Oracle is a licensor of software, of which a large proportion is obtained through download.
This weekend, the 12 month grace period for compliance with the new EU cookie rule comes to an end.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK is now officially in recession as the economy has contracted for the past two quarters.
The Pirate Bay (TPB) is a Swedish website that links to online copies of music, films, and software – anything that can be easily copied and distributed online.
Welcome to the 11th edition of Deloitte’s Predictions for the technology, media & telecommunications (TMT) sector.
The United Kingdom's new laws for cookies and e-commerce will be enforced from 26 May 2012.
We are pleased to present the new edition of our Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions report.
As we head into 2012, it’s worth taking a moment to consider just how much the entire outsourcing market has changed.
On 29 November 2011, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal lodged by Digital Satellite Warranty Cover Limited (DSWC) and Bernard Freeman and Michael Sullivan, trading as Satellite Services (SS)[1] , in respect of winding-up orders previously secured by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) against these companies.
Carefully review the terms on which you are intending to contract with your cloud provider.
In its latest whitepaper "Cloud Adoption and Trends for 2012", the Cloud Industry Forum reiterates that data security and data privacy remain the key concerns for businesses around cloud adoption.
In 2021 m-commerce spend will be 15 times higher than it is today and will account for £1 of every £20 in retail sales.
The Government recently announced its plan to accelerate the dismantling of the NHS £11 bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT), a project which began in 2002 to modernise NHS IT systems and which was labelled as the largest civilian technology undertaking in the world.
Tiger Communications plc has reportedly paid £25,000 to the Business Software Alliance (BSA) after an audit turned up unlicensed software use.
The global IT services market saw contract value fall 40 per cent in the second quarter of 2011 year-on-year, representing a low not seen since 2003.
William Hill has entered into preliminary talks about a purchase of Probability, the mobile gambling company.
Google’s Street View service was truly revolutionary when it launched in 2007. A collection of cars kitted out with special cameras and computer technology roamed the streets of America capturing images.
Latency is the delay experienced in an IT system between an input being sent and an output being received and it is becoming a focal issue for IT suppliers and consumers.
Your commercial negotiations have reached a certain stage. You now wish to record the main points and the basis on which you agree to proceed with the transaction in the form of Heads of Terms (also known as heads of agreement, memoranda of understanding, term sheets or letters of intent).
Although all Open Source Software ("OSS") licences guarantee certain fundamental freedoms to licensees, there is a vast amount of variation between them. When reviewing the terms of any particular licence, one consideration is whether it will constitute a bare licence or a contractual licence.
Welcome to the 10th edition of Deloitte’s Predictions for the technology, media & telecommunications (TMT) sector.
‘Boilerplate’ is the term often used to describe clauses, such as governing law and entire agreement clauses, that are so commonly found in commercial contracts that they often seem to have become standardised.
It's happened: the other party is in serious breach of contract but the exact situation is not expressly described in the contract terms. You might be entitled to terminate the contract, but you'd probably rather just receive what you contracted for, in which case termination can look more like a foot wound waiting to happen than a solution to your woes.
The Story Continues. Eighteen years on from when it was first a glimmer in the European Commission’s eye, database right continues to vex rightholders, legislators and legal practitioners alike. This article takes up the story from the end of the previous chapter of the saga, the series of judgments handed down by the European Court of Justice on November 2004, and briefly overviews the follow up case law so far and the Commission’s Evaluation of the Database Directive currently in progress.
Detractors have argued that the concept of a government cloud (g-cloud) is so complex and fraught with privacy issues that it will never get off the ground, but supporters argue that in a time of austerity, reuse of software and systems is essential.
What appeared to be at first a problem affecting the US sub-prime mortgage sector may actually lead to a wide-reaching economic slowdown. This may in turn cause a downturn for the telecommunications sector in 2008. Equipment manufacturers may be hit by customers deferring equipment purchases
These days software supply options abound, but by far the most common choice remains an ‘off-the-shelf’ package with its take-it-or-leave-it licence. But before you accept those standard terms and conditions have you ever stopped to wonder what the small print might actually mean? Read on.
The Government recently announced its plan to accelerate the dismantling of the NHS £11 bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT), a project which began in 2002 to modernise NHS IT systems and which was labelled as the largest civilian technology undertaking in the world.
On 29 November 2011, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal lodged by Digital Satellite Warranty Cover Limited (DSWC) and Bernard Freeman and Michael Sullivan, trading as Satellite Services (SS)[1] , in respect of winding-up orders previously secured by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) against these companies.
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