Posts from ‘February, 2010’

SEO Contract in Context Now Free

In January the IPKAT mentioned the new product we had developed – SEO Contract in Context system. One anonymous commenter said something to the effect that the product should be offered free.  At the time I thought this was a poor idea given the amount of work we had done to produce it.  Little did [...]

Google doing nicely from typosquatting

Harvard University researchers in a recent study, estimate that Google could be making $497million a year from the practice known as ‘typosquatting’ according to ZDNet How does typosquatting work? Typosquatters register domain names, usually a well-established trade mark, in bad faith to gain a commercial advantage. This usually involves holding the domains in a portfolio [...]

Legal Services Act 2007

Nowadays, when high street businesses like Spec Savers offer a choice of designer frames for prescription glasses, it’s easy to forget what the opticians market looked like before it was deregulated.  In those days there was little choice, and opticians dispensed NHS prescription glasses. The legal Big Bang augured by Clementi’s  Legal Services Act 2007 [...]

Portsmouth FC, Non-Payment, and the Computer Misuse Act

You may have read about  the High Court ruling that Portsmouth FC must submit a statement of affairs next week, in advance of a hearing of the case brought by HMRC for winding-up the organisation.  This is the latest, and possibly the last, chapter in the club’s recent story of financial hardship, but an earlier [...]