in diesem Fall Anbieter von Telekommunikationsdienstleistungen („TKAnbieter“) gemäß § 3 Nr. 6 Telekommunikationsgesetz („TKG“) wird und der Arbeitnehmer Dritter gemäß § 3 Nr. 10 TKG ist (vgl. zuletzt Sassenberg/Mantz, BB 2013, 889 m.w.N.). Diese Ansicht mag zwar rechtsdogmatisch begründbar sein. Für Unternehmen führt sie jedoch zu so erheblichen Praxisschwierigkeiten, dass es dringend einer Kor...

Electronic media are pervasive in daily communication. But how well can personality traits be perceived through a short e-mail message? Working independently and under experimenter supervision, thirty judges each rated 18 short e-mail texts. These texts were written under experimental conditions by authors of known personality, who briefly described their recent activities, and were collected a...

Exchanging e-mail messages is one of the most popular applications on the Internet after web access and file sharing. Email communication uses the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) thus allowing it to use the best feature in the internet – adaptability to any available bandwidth. From a quality of service perspective, an unspecified bit rate is sufficient for e-mail as an application. In this...

Filtering large amounts of unsolicited bulk e-mail, also known as spam, is expensive. Either because of the time spent on manual deletion or complex analysis by algorithms putting heavy load on e-mail servers. Due to exponential growth of the volume of spam campaigns, Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) are increasingly forced to use rigorous rejection policies to prevent their filter servers fr...

The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) predicts whether users will ultimately use software applications based upon causal relationships among belief and attitudinal constructs that influence usage behavior. Electronic mail, or email, is a collaborative technology available to virtually all members of an organization, and typically, there are alternative email applications available for use. This...

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The Semantic Web is a “living organism”, which combines autonomously evolving data sources/knowledge repositories. This dynamic character of the Semantic Web requires (declarative) languages and mechanisms for specifying its maintenance and evolution. For example, for changing the behaviour of a data source, so that a new rule becomes into effect, one should not be concerned with the complex, i...