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Issue 49
Skirmishes in the patent war
Before Christmas, Apple launched lawsuits in several countries against Samsung, claiming the Samsung Galaxy tablet computer infringed Apple's iPad patents, including its patent on the use of rounded corners. In the Netherlands, the Court of Appeals at the Hague has rejected Apple's arguments.
Pushing the boundaries
Richard O'Dwyer, a 23 year old from Bolsover, Derbyshire, and a computer science student at Sheffield Hallam University, is facing extradition to the US and a possible five year prison sentence for copyright crimes committed over the internet,... despite those actions not being prosecuted as crimimal offences here in the UK.
Bitter pill for the NHS
The Information Commissioner's Office is proposing to issue its biggest ever fine to the Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust after patient records were sold on E-Bay. But does the punishment fit the crime?
Buyer beware,... and sellers too
Cautionary tales about the perils of doing business over the internet are far from new. Sadly, in one case, it apparently led to PayPal ordering the destruction of an antique violin.
Phones from space
So how tough is your computer? Would your laptop survive if you knocked it off the table? How would your phone fare if it fell from a second floor window? And what about the third floor? Or the fourth? Some of our computer gadgets are a lot stronger than you might expect.
Recent Issues
Issue 48
Responding to text spam
Silent updates in MSIE
Driving disk prices in 2012
Resolutions
A special Christmas present
Issue 47
Unlocking the CAPTCHA code
XXX domain,... good or bad for business?
And its raining
Questions of ownership
Argentina makes Falklands bid
The phone addiction
Issue 46
Counting the cost of currency
The Transparency Report
Think of the children,... again
The loss of luminaries
Issue 45
The nation goes mobile
Networking at work
Ever faster net connections
Carder gets the red card
Do you want fries with that?
Issue 44
PC celebrates thirtieth birthday
Courts swallow Apple's tablets
The self-robbery trojan
Is this headline a literary work?
A joke for modern times
Earlier Issues
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