EU Launches Massive Campaign To Stop Ringtone Scams

1pm, 26th September : It's been two weeks now that we've last updated this thread and it seems that there's next to no chance for anyone to get hold of a brand new TouchPad. Carphone Warehouse has issued this statement to...

Samsung has officially responded to the injunction preventing it from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 anywhere in Europe - except the Netherlands - with incredulity, claiming that it was unaware that a hearing was being conducted.The...

Mobile maker Ericsson's Director of Government and Industry Relations has called on European law-makers to change the way we are all allowed to consume digital content. Writing in the latest issue of Ericsson Business Review,...

Online advertising giant Google expanded its leadership in the worldwide search advertising market during 2010, according to new research from IHS Screen Digest. If it wasn't for the likes of Facebook, the firm would have the...

Employees continue to discuss sensitive business issues on mobile phones despite the fact that mobile phone encryption was cracked in recent weeks. A survey by voice encryption firm Cellcrypt found that fewer than 20% of people...

Viral marketing which relies on people to hand over friends' contact details can be legal but only if certain conditions are met, Dutch authorities have ruled. Companies must be careful not to break telecoms and data protection...

The European Commission has admitted that its rules on e-money have stifled the market for virtual currencies over the past eight years and has proposed a revised set of regulations that it hopes will stimulate demand. The...

Interesting to read a report over the weekend - from India of all places - about some of the legal issues surrounding the forwarding of anonymous (and naughty) text messages and emails.And let's face it, we've all had the odd...

Cisco could be on the brink of losing the rights to the iPhone trade mark in Europe, according to trade mark experts. Apple could end up with European rights to iPhone, in contrast to reports around the world suggesting that...

Consumer confidence in cross-border retailing may have been undermined by the rash of laws that followed the European Commission's Distance Selling Directive, according to Europe's consumer protection Commissioner Markos...

A music industry coalition has proposed that ISPs and others should pay a licence fee to compensate rights-holders for unlawful file-sharing by their customers. One critic called the plans, which would change copyright laws,...