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November 20, 2008


Google recently reached an agreement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers under which the firm will pay USD125m to resolve outstanding legal actions against it in relation to its Google Book search service, which offers full-text searching facilities to users.

November 18, 2008


The United States Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board have announced the release of a joint final rule to implement the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which effectively blocks access to the lucrative US internet gambling market for offshore operators.

November 17, 2008


South Africa's Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, has released for comment the Interactive Gambling Tax Bill, which proposes to give effect to the taxation of interactive gambling activities in South Africa.

November 14, 2008


Individual taxpayers e-filed almost 90 million tax returns in the United States during 2008, an increase of more than 12% over the prior year, the Internal Revenue Service has announced.

November 13, 2008


The United States Internal Revenue Service has awarded almost USD8m in matching grants to support its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which provides free tax preparation and filing for low income individuals.

November 10, 2008


A surprise Telecoms Package proposal issued on Friday by the European Commission flies in the face of French plans for an Internet 'police force' which would have the power to cut off users' access to the Internet without a court order if for instance they persistently violate copyright by downloading pirated materials.

November 7, 2008


Dubai is ushering in a new era for air cargo, as it becomes the first city in the Middle East to launch the International Air Transport Association's e-freight initiative, which aims to improve efficiency in air cargo transportation and reduce expenditure.

November 4, 2008


Promising findings have come from a report which studied the level to which e-commerce in Bermuda has penetrated the business sector and the community at large, which was released by the government on Thursday.

October 29, 2008


The private use of cell phones and laptops that are provided by companies to their employees will no longer be taxed as a result of new amendments in the Revenue Laws Amendment Bill.

October 15, 2008


On October 10, Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard and the US Trade Representative Susan Schwab signed a joint declaration on e-commerce in Washington, D.C.

September 30, 2008


The Chartered Institute of Taxation announced on Friday that it is returning to Second Life® to discuss the tax implications of doing business in a virtual world.

September 30, 2008


The World Intellectual Property Office has announced that as of October 1, 2008, the terms of two key international copyright treaties will extend to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

September 30, 2008


The European Union has launched a debate into how it can achieve its goal of allowing all Europeans equal access to broadband internet.

September 25, 2008


Magico.ie, a leading Irish ecommerce firm, has announced this week that web sales in Ireland are now exceeding EUR12m a day.

September 22, 2008


In the long-running patent struggle between Qualcomm and Broadcom the litigation for once turned in Qualcomm's favour on Friday when an appeals court held that seven Qualcomm chips used in mobile phones did not infringe a power-saving patent.

September 18, 2008


It was announced on Wednesday that Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is seeking expressions of interest from the market in developing a business model for the free dissemination of basic real-time HKEx market prices on websites.

September 10, 2008


The European Commission has this week confirmed Malta’s high ICT ranking, recognising it again this year as 'well advanced in information society, with many benchmarking indicators significantly above the EU average', the Maltese government has announced.

September 9, 2008


It has emerged that search giant Google has been obliged to amend the End User License Agreement for its new browser, Chrome, which launched on September 2, 2008.

September 2, 2008


The Irish Revenue has announced this week the implementation of a set of new regulations entitled 'Tax Returns and Payments (Mandatory Electronic Filing and Payment of Tax) Regulations 2008.'

August 29, 2008


The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has announced this week the launch of its new eServices Project.

 

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