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Family in battle over web address
An Edinburgh father who bought a website domain name for his son is facing a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis.
Richard Saville-Smith paid £70 for the name www.narnia.mobi so his son Comrie, 10, who is a CS Lewis fan, could use it for his e-mail address.
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Useless Disclaimers
Since Steve Jobs did not descend from the heavens to give the keynote at the Macworld conference last week, and the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas failed to reveal anything interesting (with the exception of a neat application called Songsmith from Microsoft), we can turn our attention to things that really matter. Like email.
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Software Terms and Conditions
Do you click on the button marked Next when the licence agreement for your new software pops up?
Do you read the text in the agreement before clicking? Be honest.
We often just click to agree to the terms without reading first, too. But did you know that clicking through this is a legally binding contract?
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Minimising exposure to Project cancellations
This article was first published in Event Magazine in November 2008
The western world is facing financial armageddon, but you can protect yourself against cancellations. Insurance is vital, but the area on which I want to focus is contractual.
Try to ensure contracts with suppliers are ‘back to back’ with the ones you have with customers. If [… read more]
Open Facebook is good PR, but will users benefit
Facebook announced plans for a Statement of Rights and Responsibilities that users will be able to discuss and vote on in the interest of their own privacy. As a result Facebook will become more “open and transparent”, the company claims.
The move has clearly been prompted by the strong criticism of recent changes to the social [… 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 somtheing 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]
