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Infotech: quiet takeover has great importance

4. July 2008

A quiet takeover has been completed that consolidates part of the Web that is low profile but remarkably popular.

Aviation: Continental to face trial over Concorde crash

4. July 2008

Air France sued Continental Airlines in 2000 claiming that a piece of metal falling from one of Continental's planes directly led to the crash that killed more than a hundred people, and the world's only supersonic airliner.

BizLawCentral: IP law: disclosing visitor logs

4. July 2008

If you join up the dots, the internet just became a place where the US no longer fears to tread. And does a recent decision negate other countries' laws on data protection and rules of evidence?

HR: Japan fights the flab

3. July 2008

It seems that several generations of the Japanese practice of enforced star jumps before work have not resulted in a sufficiently lithe workforce, and the Japanese government is forcing workers and employers to solve creeping weight gain.

BizLawCentral: Intellectual Property: Adobe to help access Flash content

2. July 2008

One way of defeating data thieves has been to put data into flash presentations. This trick has been used by, for example, e-learning developers to prevent one user copying the content and passing it onto his colleagues. But now Adobe is making it simple to access the data as text.

Tax revenues: what governments are hiding

1. July 2008

If you think everyone is suffering from high oil prices, you are mistaken. Around the world, Governments are crying crocodile tears. They are blaming OPEC, oil companies, speculators and anyone else they can think of. But guess who's making the really big bucks - and how.

Outsourcing: Scottish Icon heads for the hills

1. July 2008

If you are a golfer, there's a good chance you have a Pringle sweater, or sleeveless pullover, somewhere in your past. Unfortunately for Pringle, that's where too many of its products repose.

IndyCar: why bother racing?

30. June 2008

To describe the Richmond Virginia track as mickey mouse would be an understatement. The oval is so small, there are bigger eggs. Everything about last night's race screamed "stop this madness."