Tips To Get Out Of The Average Speeding Ticket
July 16, 2008
Insurance companies agree that drivers with speeding tickets deserve higher premiums because they are considered to be a higher risk. To avoid the situation of paying a higher premium each pay period, drivers should educate themselves on how to properly fight and prevent speeding tickets. A nice technicality to keep in mind is the fact that if an officer can show up to a court date in which the driver obtains to contest the speeding ticket, the driver will usually win the case automatically. Rules differ depending on location, but this is an easy way for the majority of drivers to get off their speeding ticket... Read more »
Guidelines For Avoiding A Speeding Ticket
July 11, 2008
A speeding ticket itself isn’t a costly matter- with most being only mildly or moderately expensive. The real kicker comes when insurance companies find out about the speeding ticket. After this occurs, the only hope a consumer has is to fight the speeding ticket in court. Luckily, there are a few ways to do so and win. The first method is also the easiest- simply show up to a court date! Court dates must be met by both the driver and the officer that wrote the ticket. If the officer can’t show for whatever reason, the driver will usually automatically win the case. This is especially beneficial in the Summer, where... Read more »
How To Avidly Avoid Speeding Tickets
July 10, 2008
Insurance companies agree that drivers with speeding tickets deserve higher premiums because they are considered to be a higher risk. To avoid the situation of paying a higher premium each pay period, drivers should educate themselves on how to properly fight and prevent speeding tickets. Fighting a speeding ticket in court can be done one of several ways. The easiest of the many ways is to simply show up to a court date- often times the officer who issued the ticket may have something come up and can’t make it. If the officer can’t show up, then the case is automatically won for the driver in most cases. This is especially true in Summer, where many officers go on vacation and can’t make every court date they... Read more »
A Web Operator’s Guide to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
May 23, 2008
If you′re a new website operator or you own a business website that children under 13 may use, you need to understand and comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA. This act was passed on April 21, 2000 to protect the privacy as well as the safety of children under the age of 13 who use the Internet. COPPA outlines specific requirements website operators must adhere to, and ignorance is no defense when it comes to COPPA. If you violate the rules outlined in this important Act, you could be charged up to $11,000 per violation. The rules outlined in COPPA regarding the responsibilities of web operators are very clear. Every... Read more »
Is Your Website Designed to Provide Access for the Disabled?
May 20, 2008
Is your website accessible to people with disabilities? It seems like today, website owners are more concerned with mobile web design than they are with making their sites available to the millions of people around the world with disabilities. It makes sense from a business perspective to make your website as accessible as possible to everyone, but it is also becoming a legal matter and much for many businesses and organizations. The World Wide Web is classified as a form of Information and Communications Technology, or ICT. Laws and policies regarding ICT accessibility... Read more »
What Employers Need To Know About Employee Blogging
November 5, 2007
With the convenience of the internet, most employers enjoy quick and effective communications with their employees. But lately, many employers are expressing some concern with employees who have started “blogging.” This concern stems from the fear that some of these employees may be disclosing company matters or worse, criticizing the employer online. Because of these reasons, it is not surprising that many employers are looking for ways to address these employee blogging issues. Employee blogging can involve the disclosure of confidential business information, disparagement or criticism of other employees... Read more »
“Domain Name Spying”-The Latest Technique In Domain Name Sabotage
August 24, 2007
If you are a new business owner, you likely have spent a good deal of time trying to determine what domain name will be best for your operations. To this end, you may have taken the steps necessary to determine the availability of a particular name. In fact, finding that it is available may have made you very pleased. Not registering the name upon your first visit, you return a couple of days later to find that someone else has registered the name you wanted in the interim. Of course, this all could have been a coincidence. Nonetheless, in this day and age, a more likely possibility may be that another entity actually tracked your search for a particular domain name and intentionally registered that name itself. Those entities that... Read more »
Combating Cyber-Squatting and Other Domain Name Maladies: An Overview of UDRP Proceedings
August 18, 2007
Businesses that are working to establish an easily identifiable Internet presence oftentimes utilize their trademarks in their domain names in order to better direct customers to their website venues. Unfortunately, disputes many times occur when a business learns that some other individual or entity is using that enterprise’s trademark or something very similar in such a way so as to confuse consumers. Moreover, some businesses have ended up having to deal with so-called cyber-squatters, individuals or businesses who register domain names with hopes of reselling them at a premium price. There are protocols and procedures... Read more »
Bloggers Need to Beware of Violating FTC Deceptive Practice Standards When Making Endorsements
August 18, 2007
The Federal Trade Commission (”the Commission or FTC”) has handed down an advisory opinion that may have dire consequences for companies that employ individuals who are involved in blogging and promote those companies products or services while blogging. According to the Commission, this may hold true even if these employees are undertaking this blogging on their personal time and even if the company management has no idea of what may be going on. The Commission advises that such a blogger must make readers aware of his or her connection with the company whose products or... Read more »
How to Stay Under the RIAA Radar When Downloading Free MP3 Music
August 18, 2007
Thanks to today’s peer to peer technology, mѣ music lovers like you and I can get unlimited downloads of mѣ music for free. But have you ever considered that your love of free music downloads could make you the next target of an RIAA lawsuit? Since June 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America has zealously brought lawsuits against more than 20,000 music lovers like you, for downloading pirated music through file sharing programs. You need to understand this is a real threat. In this article, you will discover helpful information to help to minimize that threat when downloading mѣ music from file sharing programs. While far from being foolproof, the best way to stay off... Read more »
