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Spam – the Legal Position
These days an average email inbox has more spam than a cold war bunker. The new Electronic Communications Privacy Directive (a new piece of EU legislation which must be implemented…
Marketing to Children and The Law
"Its that time of year when adverts and marketing gear up for the Christmas rush. Since no-one has discovered the database Santa and his elves must have to assess which…
Data Protection and the Workplace – Regulatory Powers and Code of Practice
We live in a world where our personal details are beknown to an ever-increasing number of people. Just look at the amount of mailshots that land on your doormat every…
An „easy” Target? easyGroup v BPI
Yesterday (27 September 2002) Stelios, the founder of easyGroup led the easyGroup orange boiler suit brigade in a protest at the High Court in London. The reason for the protest?…
Domain Names – Use Them or Lose Them
Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) The majority of disputes relating to domain names are brought under UDRP. The complaints are usually brought by the holder of a registered trade mark…
Transfering customer data abroad
Intra-group transfer of data outside of the EEA Background Boombust Limited intends to transfer details of all its existing customers to an off shore company within the same group of…
Monitoring Email in the light of the Ford Decision
The Dangers of E-mail and Internet Use in the Workplace Because employers can be held legally liable for the content of e-mails sent from their premises and for the content…
Mobile Marketing
Simon Halberstam of specialist e-commerce solicitors Sprecher Grier Halberstam says that companies considering email marketing campaigns need to consider some basic legal issues before spending money on such campaigns. "Ask…
Call Centres and the 1998 Data Protection Act
Call Centres and the Data Protection Act 1998: some legal points to note: * Customers should be advised if their details are to be stored, by whom and for what…
Online Casino – A new era?
Following the report published by the Gambling Review Board ("the Budd Report") last summer, the Government has produced proposals which could potentially make the UK one of the best and…
Christmas: Origin and History
ORIGIN OF THE WORD The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, first found in 1038, and Cristes-messe, in 1131. In Dutch it…
Russian walrus hunting: history of crisis in the 19th century
The interest towards the walrus studies in academic circles all over the world became obvious quite recently. Numerous biological and historical publications have appeared lately. The aim of this paper…
Browser Wars
There has been a continuous battle over the years with regard to browser market share. Initially, Mosaic enjoyed the largest share of the market, later to become Netscape's Navigator only…
History of the World-Wide-Web
The Web as it is known colloquially, functions according to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Hypertext is perhaps the Web's most important feature for it enables all web content to…
A Brief History of the Internet
The Internet was born out of a military research project funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the 1960s, whose goal was to devise a way of successfully…
Bandwidth, Connection Speed & Download Time
"Bandwidth (the width of a band of electromagnetic frequencies) is used to mean (1) how fast data flows on a given transmission path, and (2), somewhat more technically, the width…
In the Spirit of Tradition
By Nazim Baksh "Tradition" in academic circles has come to signify old fashioned customs, archaic cultural practices, ossified ideas handed down from the past and articulated to the letter by…
The Post Classical Yoga
This is again a very comprehensive category, which refers to all those many types and schools of Yoga that have sprung up in the period after Patanjali's Yoga-Sūtra and that…
Classical Yoga
This label applies to the eightfold Yoga-also known as Rāja-Yoga-taught by Patanjali in his Yoga-Sūtra. This Sanskrit texts is composed of just under 200 aphoristic statements, which have been commented…
Preclassical Yoga
This category covers an extensive period of approximately 2,000 years until the second century Preclassical Yoga comes in various forms and guises. The earliest manifestations were still closely associated with…