Tagged: Law & News
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Political pirate Rickard Falkvinge is out to prove a point News
16.04.2013 A fortnight ago, when the third season of fantasy TV series Game of Thrones was broadcast, digital pirates around the world illegally downloaded the episode more than 1m times –... -
New guide gives helicopter view of Ireland’s tech start-up scene News
08.04.2013 For anyone wishing to get more insight into Ireland’s technology start-up ecosystem, Dublin-based venture capital (VC) firm Frontline Ventures has come up with a new guide that...Categories: Web, Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Online Business, Networking, Mobile, Media, Marketing, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Engineering, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Firms urged to quash cyberbullying in the workplace News
11.03.2013 Law firm McDowell Purcell has urged companies to clamp down on cyberbullying in the workplace and has warned that unlimited access to Facebook and Twitter by employees carries a... -
Technology M&A activity to pick up in 2013, claims report News
25.02.2013 A review of Ireland’s merger and acquisition (M&A) market for 2012 predicts that there will be a new phase of activity in this sector over the coming years, particularly as a... -
pTools wins contract to makeover Canadian law firm’s website News
23.11.2012 Dublin-headquartered enterprise web content management provider pTools is overhauling a Canadian law firm’s website in a deal that employs pTools’ content management software... -
Google ordered to pay AUD$200,000 for defamation in search results News
12.11.2012 A court in Australia has ruled in favour of a man who claimed he was defamed by Google’s search results, which linked him to a notorious figure in the Melbourne drug trade,... -
Facebook refuses to take down Jill Meagher-related pages - police News
01.10.2012 Social networking giant Facebook has refused a request by police in the Australian state of Victoria to take down pages which contain content that may taint a fair trial in the... -
'Intexticated' - teens and adults texting behind the wheel (infographic) News
26.06.2012 Driving while text messaging makes a crash 23 times more likely to take place, reveals a new infographic that examines the subject of teens and adults texting behind the wheel. -
Fugitive porn star arrested in internet café Googling himself News
05.06.2012 A group of police officers in training arrested at a Berlin internet café yesterday the man suspected of murdering and dismembering a student and mailing body parts to the... -
Gang members post heist activity, befriend cop on Facebook (video) News
01.06.2012 Teenage members of a New York street gang who used Facebook to boast about their activities, squabble over who got what of acquired goods, and even befriended a police officer... -
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange loses extradition appeal News
30.05.2012 The founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks Julian Assange has lost his appeal in a central London court this morning and faces extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted... -
WikiLeaks founder to learn extradition decision tomorrow News
29.05.2012 The founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks Julian Assange will find out tomorrow morning whether he will be extradited to Sweden from Britain when the UK Supreme Court... -
Judge in Breivik trial dismissed over Facebook post News
17.04.2012 A lay judge presiding over the trial of accused mass killer Anders Behring Breivik in Norway has been dismissed today for having posted "the death penalty is the only just... -
The legalities of cloud (infographic) News
17.04.2012 While cloud computing, which enables the use of files and applications over the internet, offers many benefits to companies, one of the biggest concerns surrounding the...Categories: Virtualisation, Legal, IT Management, Internet, Intellectual Property, Data Management, CIOTags: Security, global , Law, Business , Infographic, Cloud Computing, Copyright, Privacy, Data protection -
US court prevents Motorola from blocking Microsoft products News
12.04.2012 A US judge has given Microsoft a motion for a temporary restraining order to prevent Motorola from blocking the sale of Microsoft’s products in Germany in their patent dispute. -
David Dobbyn appointed EMEA regional counsel for Xilinx News
10.04.2012 David Dobbyn has been appointed EMEA regional counsel for US tech multinational Xilinx. Dobbyn previously worked for A&L Goodbody in corporate law. -
Australian government body sues Apple over 4G iPad claims News
27.03.2012 Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is planning legal action against Apple, alleging that by promoting its new iPad with 4G capabilities which don’t work in... -
US senators seek probe into Facebook passwords and employers News
26.03.2012 Two US senators are reportedly planning to ask the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether employers who ask for access to employees’ Facebook accounts are, in fact,...Categories: Careers and Employment, Consumer Tech, Finding a Job, Government, Graduate, In the Workplace, Internet, Multimedia, Social Media, Web, Web 2.0 -
France to crackdown on hate websites News
22.03.2012 The French government will act to punish anyone who "goes online to express sympathy for terrorists", French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said, after a standoff in Toulouse... -
Removing child pornography online more effective than blocking it - ISPAI News
29.02.2012 Paul Durrant, general manager of Internet Services Providers Association of Ireland (ISPAI) hit back at claims that Irish ISPs were not doing enough to battle child pornography...