Those Pirate Bay boys and their file sharing behemoth certainly took a major broadside this week, each receiving a years worth of reflection time at the pleasure of Queen Silvia of Sweden, plus a multi-million dollar fine to boot.
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Despite Skype’s popularity, responsible for 8% of the world's international phone calls and generating revenues of $551 million in 2008, since its purchase in 2005 for $3.1 billion, eBay has struggled to integrate Skype’s functionality into a viable business model. For
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The UK Government has recently announced the adoption of an EU directive requiring all internet service providers to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites and telephone calls made over the internet, for a period of 12 months.
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Whatever your preferred tastes in music and whether you (or anyone else for that matter) favours the musical abilities of Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nails there’s little doubt about their marketing abilities or their energy in promoting all things Web 2.0.
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When it’s common knowledge that everyone’s up to something less than legal it’s the being caught seems to cause most problems - all the other similarly guilty parties able to take the moral high ground and point haughtily at those with the stickiest fingers.
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Microsoft reported recently that 97% of all email is spam. UK security specialists Message Labs largely concurred saying that their figures reveal around 81% of email as being junk – despite Bill Gates having predicted in 2004 that spam would be "a thing of the past" within two years.
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