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Dangers of email and internet use in the workplace
Please note the Law may have changed since publication of article.
Because employers can be held legally liable for the content of e-mails sent from their premises and for the content of downloads from the internet onto their computers, it is vitally important for companies to ensure that they establish and enforce a policy on the [… read more]
SLAs
Seven steps to Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
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The author has created a model service level agreement for its webdesigner clients. Working from that template, he sets out some of the most important points for designers to bear in mind when constructing a SLA.
1. Classification of Problems
You [… read more]
eBay escapes pirates liability
Online auction giant eBay has been trumpeting a recent victory in the courts which means it is not liable for offering pirated videos for sale on its site.
Please note the Law may have changed since the publication of article.
Film-maker Robert Hendrickson sued eBay after it refused to stop selling copies of a documentary he made [… read more]
Email retention policies
Please note the Law may have changed since the publication of article.
Solicitor, Simon Halberstam assists clients to draw up policies and provides a few pointers in this overview.
DOs!
This is a very complex subject covering various categories of information and various divisions of a company. Different retention rules will apply depending on the area in question.
A company must [… read more]
Email disclaimers and the law
Email Law
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Q: What does the law stand in terms of responsibility for contents of email? If it goes out under a company name is it the company’s responsibility?
A: The doctrine of vicarious liability applies equally to emails as it does to other forms of [… read more]
Whats the best application of WiFi networks
My favourite Wi-Fi gizmo is my Blackberry, which seldom leaves my side. Perhaps I’m too addicted to work, as my colleagues and clients often get emails from me in the wee small hours. It can be very tempting to take a quick peek at what’s in the inbox in the middle of Newsnight, and I [… read more]
Illegal filesharing
The idea of making device manufacturers pay a license fee for any illegal filesharing their products enable is not going to stop illegal filesharing at all. If anything it indicates a grudging acceptance of the state of affairs that currently exists.
Read full scanned article from .Net on Illegal Filesharing (Sept 2006)
Technological advances
Casting my mind back 25 years, when the nation eagerly tuned into Tomorrow’s World to give us the latest on hover-cars and domestic robots, it is obvious that we did not have a clue about the technological advances that lay around the corner.
But rather than think about sensible forecasts, here’s something more off the wall.
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Virtual worlds – good or bad?
A century and a half ago, Victorian social commentators were seriously concerned that the reading of novels was a worthless pursuit that would result in young ladies escaping into daydreams and fantasy. These days, we’re desperate to get our kids to pick up a book at all. Virtual worlds have no more or less merit than [… read more]
Biggest web usability issue
Probably the most annoying thing about modern websites are forms that keep rejecting the information you have put in, even though you have checked it three times and there’s nothing wrong with it. Sites with fancy flash animations that you have to sit through before you can actually see the contents are extremely tedious, though [… read more]