Finnish Watchdog Raps TV Game Operators
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Finland's consumer watchdog said on Monday it had reprimanded broadcasters for causing children to run up huge mobile phone bills with interactive television game and chat programs.
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The European Court of Justice pushes for openness In a ruling sure to ruffle the feathers of those opposed to open and regulated gambling environments, the European Court of Justice today issued its most forceful opinion yet covering the cross border provision of gaming services. The ruling in the Placanica case, in which Italian suppliers of gambling services for British bookmaker Stanley faced criminal prosecution in Italy for operating without a license, establishes once and for all that national licensing procedures cannot be applied in a de facto discriminatory manner against foreign gaming operators.â¦
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Kenya's state-run broadcaster is accused of bias in favour of President Mwai Kibaki in its election coverage.
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A computer game poster is criticised as "irresponsible" by the advertising watchdog.
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A major mobile phone service provider and the UK's largest catalog-shopping service have both been criticized by that government's Information Commissioner's Office for privacy violations affecting employees and consumers. Critics charge that the ICO is all hat and very few cattle.
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Â· Consumers should come before industry, says letterÂ· Warning that watchdog is at risk of losing credibility
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A government agency in Finland is urging the country&#39;s citizens to avoid use of Internet Explorer until Microsoft has patched the Bofra vulnerability.
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Rebrand to beat off premium rate rip-off merchants The watchdog formerly known as ICSTIS has rebranded itself PhonePayPlus and promised to come down harder on TV shows, after a series of rip-off scandals in the last year garnered it widespread criticism.â¦
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Signal piracy clampdown 'unnecessary' Dell, HP, AT&amp;T, Sony and others have joined forces to oppose a plan that would give broadcasters a whole new set of intellectual property rights over television programmes. They will fight to stop the UN proposal being adopted internationally.â¦
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Should we be able to watch the football how we want? Ofcom has launched an investigation today into whether consumers are being harmed by Sky's movie and sport rights-buying supremacy.â¦
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Professor Tuomas Forsberg thinks the reputation enjoyed by Finland's European Union policy is not what it used to be.
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A Finnish member of parliament is  aiming for re-election by campaigning with a translation of his  Web site into Klingon, used in the TV series "Star Trek."
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John Reid says 'do as we say' Franco Frattini, the reactionary EU commissioner leading a campaign against violent and "perverse" video games, is expected to push for the UK's ratings laws to be applied across Europe.â¦
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Premium rate phone lines watchdog Icstis is to meet TV companies amid probes into calls to shows.
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Swedish regulators sued TeliaSonera Corp., the Nordic region's largest telecom operator, on Tuesday for misusing its monopoly on Swedish land lines to get an unfair edge on the broadband market, the Competition ...
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Regulation of online betting on the cards
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Mixed news from Finland, where newcomer Elisa has thrown open its next generation mobile phone network to commercial use, but the authorities are threatening to remove Tele2's 3G licence as it has not met ...