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Sainsbury expands e-commerce offering
News Sainsbury's admitted last month it had fallen behind rival supermarkets in developing e-commerce ventures. Sainsbury's increases its online presence Monday with the launch of a free ISP and Web site and plans to expand its online shopping early...
[November 22, 1999, 11:43]
MPs condemn government's data failures
News Transport secretary Ruth Kelly admitted to Parliament this week that a hard disk went missing from a secure facility of the DSA's third-party contractor, Pearson Driving Assessments in the US, in May.
[December 19, 2007, 7:12]
Government 'bang to rights' over HMRC fiasco
News The government admitted on Tuesday that HM Revenue & Customs had lost two password-protected discs, which were unencrypted, containing the details of everybody in the UK claiming child benefits. The Information Commissioner's Office has said that...
[November 21, 2007, 13:13]
Microsoft: Linux is anti-commercial
News Microsoft asked for references to free software to be removed from a document presented at last week's UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) conference, the software giant admitted on Friday.
[November 25, 2005, 16:30]
Symantec patches four critical firewall flaws
Talkback Symantec Tech support in the UK (after 40 minutes awaiting an agent to answer) admitted that it was a bad update and the solution was to uninstall, reinstall from CD. I also had problems with the glacial speed after updating Norton Personal...
[May 24, 2004, 16:13]
Email: When E stands for embarrassing
News The Microsoft chairman, who's been stung by email several times, got caught yet again discussing schemes against a corporate enemy in email messages admitted as evidence in antitrust testimony last week.
[May 17, 2002, 12:29]
LogicaCMG squeezed by graduate shortage
News In its interim financial results, released on Wednesday, LogicaCMG admitted that it was finding it harder to hire high-calibre graduates in the current labour market. IT services firm LogicaCMG is struggling to hire qualified staff in the UK...
[September 1, 2006, 11:55]
News Burst: Sony stumbles on Playstation2 promise
News Despite claims the forthcoming PlayStation2 would be backwards compatible with existing Playstation games, Sony has admitted this is not the case. Sony Computer Entertainment admits that the PlayStation2 is not fully compatible with all current...
[February 10, 2000, 12:19]
All fall down - CallNet buckles
News The company admitted this morning that it had not been able to cope with overwhelming initial demand for its free Internet service. Despite hopes that today would herald a new age of totally free Internet service in the UK, analysts' fears were...
[November 1, 1999, 11:10]
April launches fuel tech industry
News Unlike many launches in the tech industry, Xtraordinary Hosting candidly admitted that the hosting platform is not good for much. UK Web-hosting firm Xtraordinary Hosting went retro on Tuesday with the launch of its TRS-80 Model 4 platform hosting...
[April 1, 2003, 14:09]
Motorola warning fuels mobile fears
News The company admitted that it was not going to achieve its sales and earnings targets for the first quarter of 2001. Mobile manufacturer Motorola announced Friday that it had been hit by an economic slowdown in the US which could push it into loss...
[February 23, 2001, 13:45]
Hackers go after charitable Web users
News UK charity Aid to the Church in Need admitted today that its online security systems had been breached by hackers. Hackers have stolen the personal details of thousands of donors to a Christian charity Web site and tried to extort money from the...
[December 12, 2005, 9:25]
Turbolinux confirms investor woes
News Turbolinux, which makes a distribution of the Linux operating system that is popular in Asia, has been forced to issue a statement denying that it has gone out of business, although the company admitted it is restructuring its US operations.
[July 22, 2002, 11:01]
Intel: Caught with its PIIIs down
News Eating a little bit of crow, Intel admitted that it miscalculated its transition from a .25-micron manufacturing process to an .18-micron process and was caught off-guard when the demand for high-end Pentium III chips spiked.
[April 28, 2000, 9:49]
GCHQ wrong-footed by pace of IT change
News The rapid pace of change in the information technology sector was responsible for a massive increase in the cost of moving the headquarters of GCHQ, Britain's secret electronic monitoring agency, the organisation has admitted.
[December 3, 2003, 16:55]
Web problems make tax taxing
News The government tax office admitted on Monday that its servers slowed over the weekend, due to a massive volume of online tax returns. The Inland Revenue (IR) will issue £100 fines to people who failed to file their tax returns at the weekend...
[January 31, 2005, 11:30]
Microsoft creates public bug database for IE
News The company admitted that customers have often asked why it doesn't have a public bug database, something that is standard practice for open source projects, such as Mozilla's Firefox browser. Microsoft is for the first time encouraging people to...
[March 27, 2006, 13:50]
Microsoft may be scoring own goal with IE plans
News Earlier this month, Microsoft admitted it would not release any new versions of IE as a standalone browser. Lars Ahlgren, EMEA support policy manager at Microsoft, told ZDNet UK that he knows it is "very unwise to force customers to upgrade" to a...
[June 30, 2003, 9:24]
Cost-cutting firms gamble with IT security
News Out of 100 enterprise IT managers interviewed, one in five admitted that they had jeopardised network and data security over the past 12 months because of budget constraints. Research released by 3Com on Friday suggests that many UK firms have been...
[April 8, 2004, 17:40]
Archaic PCs to blame for government e-commerce mess
News An archaic computer system is to blame for the government's failure to meet its first e-government target of buying 90 percent of routine goods and services online by March 2001, HM Treasury has admitted.
[August 17, 2001, 8:30]
