Location, Location, Location
Catherine Reed explains why the three most important rules in house purchase are also important rules in data handling. Your location can be data and some stringent rules apply to that data….
Commerce, Contracts & Finance
When “Good Enough” May Be Best
Anna Cook examines the difficulties arising from defining what the customer wants from outsourcing and services contracts. She suggests that there may be a lesson to be drawn from the approach taken in many software development contracts….
Payment Mechanisms in Outsourcing Agreements
Outsourcing transactions have increasingly sophisticated payment options. Kit Burden looks at developments in payment mechanisms….
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IT Outsourcing deals – taking employee rights into account
Jimmy Desai looks at the new TUPE Regulations and lays particular emphasis on their implications for IT outsourcing deals….
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Mobile TV: Content will be King
Davina Garrod Convergence makes mobiles into entertainment centres. Davina Garrod and Alana Tervo look at developments as big-screen content migrates to small-screen devices. Hailed as the next “killer mobile application”, mobile TV is taking off in Europe. 2005 saw the launch of pilot programmes, new handsets and new consumer and audiovisual services. Amongst significant deals…
Predictions 2006: A Miscellany
This is a selection of the predictions on the SCL Web site made by leading legal IT experts and IT lawyers….
Predictions 2006: More Technology, More Protection
Based upon the last few months in 2005, Jimmy Desai offers his predictions for 2006….
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IT Outsourcing – Ten Risk Issues the Irish Perspective
Pearse Ryan suggests you get your ducks in a row and makes nine other constructive suggestions for happy outsourcing. This article first appeared in the Ernst & Young eZine Risk Management (November 2005)….
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Outsourcing Settlement Terms Revealed under FOIA
Richard Cumbley and Peter Church report and comment on the collision between traditional outsourcing settlement confidentiality and the new freedom of information regime…
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Transferring data through model contracts: original clauses v alternative clauses
The regulatory limitations affecting international transfers of personal data have been a controversial issue since the early nineties. Even before the deadline for implementation of the 1995 Data Protection Directive kicked in, businesses across the European Union struggled to find a way to accommodate their normal data sharing and communication practices to the impending legislation….
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