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Digital Economy Bill: Industry disputes gov't claims

David Meyer ZDNet UK Published: 20 Nov ISPs have strongly disagreed with government claims that they back the anti-copyright-infringement measures proposed in the Digital Economy Bill, and UK-based registries have expressed...

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Tax-News.com: HMRC Retains 'Equitable Liability' Practice

Tax-News.com: The Chartered Institute of Taxation has welcomed the news that the UK's HM Revenue and Customs intends to retain the ‘equitable liability’ practice, which often helps taxpayers with the least means to defend...

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Why are cyberlockers suddenly such a problem, Lord Mandelson?

Companies offering online storage know that they can be used to store illicit files. But they don't need extra powers to root them out. The first question is simply: why? What's wrong with the existing copyright laws, and the...

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Hunt: Tories would extend broadband

Market can achieve universal broadband without interference, argues Tory shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative shadow culture secretary, has said his party would encourage telecoms companies to take...

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Minister announces delay to broadband quango launch

Nicola Brittain, Computing , Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 16:37:00 Little to differentiate parties' plans without Network Design and Procurement Group During a speech at the NextGen09 conference this week, Minister for Digital...

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Ordnance Survey data to be made available next year

Tom Young, Computing , Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 11:36:00 Data relating to electoral and local-authority boundaries, postcode areas and digital mapping will be released The government said yesterday it would open up...

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Breakfast briefing: Free Our Data's big win, Apple's big seller and more

Besides those, we've also got autocompletion overload, the key question about Eric Raymond, and a coding book. • First up, in case you've missed it (and you might well have), the Free Our Data campaign has had a significant...

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Malvern St James girls win first prize in Prestigious National Competition

Girls from Malvern St James are celebrating having won the Challenge the Chancellor Competition for the third time. The ‘Challenge the Chancellor’ competition gives students the chance to decide how and why they would spend...

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London Child Poverty Awards winners announced

The outstanding achievements of some of London’s most inspirational individuals and organisations were recognised at the inaugural London Child Poverty Awards last night. Held at the Barbican Centre, the awards were set up to...

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Tax disputes with HMRC now taking more than a year to resolve

Adjudication process averages 56 weeks despite Treasury promise to put mistakes right quickly Taxpayers are having to wait 13 months on average to discover the outcome of their complaints against HM Revenue & Customs, despite...

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