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All Legislation and Regulation News - July 2006

Cambridge outsources IT to Serco in five-year deal

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Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 31 July 2006

Cambridge city council has signed a £6m five-year deal with Serco Solutions to provide and support its IT infrastructure.

Birmingham council cuts costs using on-line reverse auctions

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 28 July 2006

Birmingham City Council has more than halved it expenditure on office supplies using a pilot online auctions scheme to award supplier contracts.

Government saves £412m on procurement

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 27 July 2006

A total of £412m was saved by Treasury buying agency OGCbuying.solutions last year, through a variety of new procurement methods.

74,000 .eu domain names suspended over alleged fake registrations

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 26 July 2006

Thousands of .eu domain names have been suspended by the body that administers the domain, over allegations that they have been registered unfairly.

Beware bespoke code copyright issue

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Author: Christian Annesley
Date: 25 July 2006

Concern is spreading among IT managers that software firms are driving an ever-harder bargain over the ownership of any intellectual property created when they work with a user to tailor products for an industry-specific business process.

Philips picks BT for five-year comms deal

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Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 24 July 2006

Electronics giant Philips has signed a five year contract with BT to provide communication services across Europe, the Middle-East and Africa along with a global data infrastructure and access services.

More to come in Google copyright case

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 19 July 2006

A copyright case brought by Agence France-Presse against Google is still rumbling on after the two sides failed to produce the evidence required for the judge to make an initial ruling.

DTI gives flexiwork an infrastructure boost

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 19 July 2006

The Department for Trade and Industry is supporting a drive towards more flexible working with a new structured cabling installation contract with NTL Telewest.

Rolls-Royce signs £11m contract

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 14 July 2006

Rolls-Royce has signed a $20m (£11.4m) seven-year contract with Nortel to supply a global IP-based voice service, to increase functionality and cut costs.

US states start class action against memory chip companies

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Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 14 July 2006

Over 30 US states are suing seven computer memory chip makers over charges that they conspired to keep US market chip prices artificially high.

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