On a day in March this year, Amazon found itself under public scrutiny when its UK site – www.Amazon.co.uk – displayed a pricing error on iPaq PDAs, offering the product for sale at £7.32, when its normal retail price is £192. By 11 am that same day, the site was flooded with requests for iPaqs….
The use of earn-outs in the sale of owner-managed IT businesses is examined by Rosemary J Downs of v-lex limited, solicitors (www.v-lex.com)…
A review of a new book from Amanda C. Brock by Helen Hart….
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Outsourcing continues to be a high growth activity for many UK businesses, especially in relation to IT and telecoms functions. All the surveys researching the drivers for outsourcing appear to confirm that the main one continues to be the need to reduce cost in order to remain competitive. For the moment at least the most…
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Catherine Colston looks at the problems with database information retrieval and suggests a way forward….
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In the light of recent reports that the DTI is considering imposing the ISO17799 information security management standard as mandatory, IT & E-commerce lawyers Nigel Wildish and Viv Nissanka of Field Fisher Waterhouse argue the case for compliance….
Cyber-Risks specialist, Rupert Kendrick, highlights some practical IT solutions for lawyers and law firms. E-mail: RupertKendrick@aol.com…
The Bar Council has recently published guidelines concerning the incorporation of counsels’ advice to clients into knowledge management systems created by firms of solicitors for their own internal use for the benefit of other clients. Kirsten Houghton of 4 Essex Court explains….
Outsourcing is of major importance commercially, and especially important in the IT sector. Outsourcing as a business practice has grown rapidly over the last decade. Bill Jones of Wragge & Co considers current trends in outsourcing from a legal perspective….
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Adam Edwards reviews the e-mail problem and explains why he thinks Ensure Legal offers one solution….