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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment One recent legal controversy took place in July, when Amazon apologised to its US Kindle users for deleting copies of the George Orwell classics 1984 and Animal Farm direct from their e-reader libraries. [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet An interesting question - earlier this year, Amazon got itself into a bit of hot water after deleting copies of two George Orwell novels from users' Kindles, when it discovered that the books - 1984 and Animal... [07 Oct 2009]
Amazon offers refund or redelivery for Kindle's deleted Orwell
News In July, Amazon received a torrent of criticism over its decision to delete copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles after it discovered that certain versions of those ebooks were added to the Kindle... [07 Sep 2009]
Amazon promises no Kindle repeat of George Orwell recall
News The removal of two George Orwell books - 1984 and Animal Farm - from the accounts of those who had already purchased them sparked an outcry from customers, bloggers, and mainstream media outlets. Amazon... [20 Jul 2009]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile In true Animal Farm style some of the pigs are named after chief executives and royalty. At the weekends Suffolk escapes back to the Peak District where he runs a farm protecting rare... [11 Jun 2008]
Consorzio Produttori Bionature Automates Processes and Ensures Product Quality
White Paper The challenge was to ensure regular and prompt animal health checks to supply the market with wholesome, healthy products and enable the association to automatically measure environmental parameters and implement... [30 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment The Naked CIO: Animal farm The banks and building societies have just signed up to a new code. What the code has to say about online customers paying for fraudulent transactions on their accounts is... [15 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects
Comment The Naked CIO: Animal farm Project failures suck all the attention away from IT's real contributions. So knowing when to delay or cancel a project is just as important as giving it the green light, says... [14 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food
Comment The Naked CIO: Animal farm Written at London's Heathrow airport after a confused journey through the newly opened Terminal 5. Copy dispatched via a free wi-fi hotel service in Athens. If I could be God... [14 Apr 2008]
How will your deal weather a downturn?
Comment The Naked CIO: Animal farm What will happen to outsourcing if budgets are trimmed and belts tightened? A careful look at key aspects of existing contracts would not go amiss, suggests lawyer Margaret... [10 Apr 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment The Naked CIO: Animal farm Pool software developers and save money, or disperse them to business units and improve efficiency? That's the stark choice CIOs have struggled with for years. But McKinsey's... [09 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment The Naked CIO: Animal farm Identity theft is rife. Perhaps it's time individuals took a leaf out of business's book and adopted a personal information policy that will make life harder for criminals,... [08 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes
Comment The Naked CIO: Animal farm Preconceptions about job functions are carried like a ball and chain even into the boardroom. So however much you know about the business you'll find it hard to shake off the... [07 Apr 2008]
The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment The Naked CIO: Animal farm Cooler heads have wisely prevailed, argues Dale Vile of Freeform Dynamics. News this week that Microsoft's OOXML document format has been adopted as an ISO standard has sparked... [04 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty
Comment The Naked CIO: Animal farm There's been a shift in attitudes among IT workers, argues the Naked CIO. Gone are the days when loyalty to your employer counted for something. What most readers found... [31 Mar 2008]
