In traditional computing infrastructure, a computer's operating system (e.g. Microsoft Windows), applications (e.g. Microsoft Office) and data are stored on an individual user's computer.

Latency is the delay experienced in an IT system between an input being sent and an output being received and it is becoming a focal issue for IT suppliers and consumers.

The European Commission has published its legislative proposals for reform of the EC telecoms rules. The Commission hopes that the proposed changes will improve competition, complete the single market in electronic communications and improve consumer protection.

As the pandemic continues to threaten our health, our economy and our world as we know it, a more covert threat is rapidly increasing in our digital world: cyber-attacks. In this current climate, ...

The Story Continues. Eighteen years on from when it was first a glimmer in the European Commission’s eye, database right continues to vex rightholders, legislators and legal practitioners alike. This article takes up the story from the end of the previous chapter of the saga, the series of judgments handed down by the European Court of Justice on November 2004, and briefly overviews the follow up case law so far and the Commission’s Evaluation of the Database Directive currently in progress.

The Companies Act 2006 (the Act) is a major overhaul of company law. It is intended to simplify and modernise the existing law, including by removing a number of administrative requirements for private companies.

According to recent reviews carried out by the FSA, a quarter of all financial advertising on websites reviewed failed to meet the FSA’s financial promotions standards and many firms’ sponsored links were found to mislead consumers.

In January 2007, the NCC Group published the results of a study they had conducted into IT security. They had sent a gift-wrapped USB memory stick to the Finance Directors of 500 UK public companies wrapped in packaging suggesting that its contents contained an exclusive "party invitation of a lifetime". More than half of the Finance Directors plugged in the USB stick and even clicked on the "Yes I want to install some software" option.

Electronic databases are an important part of the information economy. The Internet, and the development of on-line services as an effective business tool, has meant that electronic databases are now one of the key platforms for the delivery of information and content.

The European Court of Justice gave its first judgments on database right, itself a creature of European Union law, on 9 November 2004 in a series of cases that included the long awaited decision in The British Horseracing Board Ltd v The William Hill Organization Ltd. It is to be hoped that the Court of Appeal will salvage some coherence from this odd judgment when the case returns to that court.

Advertising used to be about informing consumers where the products they purchased came from and which person or corporation was responsible for their manufacture.

This article provides a brief explanation of the key provisions of the Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC (the "Directive") and examines the proposed transposition of the Directive into UK law by way of the draft Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2007. The draft Regulations are expected to replace the existing Voluntary Code of Practice for the Retention of Communications Data under Part 11 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001.