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HMRC extends late-fee amnesty after site crash
News People who filed their tax returns online over the weekend will be exempt from a £100 late filing penalty, following problems with the HMRC Self Assessment Online website. The HMRC self-assessment tax website was unavailable for a large part of the...
[February 6, 2008, 8:30]
Patent amnesty for Java phone updates
News Six companies, including IBM, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, are expected on Wednesday to open up patents relating to software for remotely updating mobile devices such as cell phones. The move will give developers royalty-free access to patents...
[July 26, 2006, 10:25]
Microsoft proposes Chinese piracy amnesty
News Microsoft has extended its anti-piracy olive branch to China, offering users of bootleg copies of Windows a 50 percent discount on a legitimate version if they come clean on how they got their pirated copy.
[March 4, 2005, 8:45]
Redmond proposes piracy amnesty
News Microsoft has announced what it hopes will be a new attack on piracy -- the Redmond-based giant has decided to give away free software to those who bought machines with fake copies pre-installed. Microsoft will be offering anyone who's "unsure...
[November 24, 2004, 16:20]
Vietnam jails online activists
News Human rights group Amnesty International has slammed the Vietnamese government for jailing at least 10 people for online activitism, saying the government is using national security legislation to prosecute government criticism on the Web.
[November 28, 2003, 8:59]
Illegal-software crackdown targets Glasgow
News Hundreds of businesses in the city escaped punishment during a 30-day amnesty last November on unlicensed software by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an anti-counterfeit-software group. But now the BSA is investigating 41 firms after a 20...
[February 8, 2008, 8:23]
Sometimes it takes a crowbar to convince the Microsofties
Talkback Call it an amnesty program for the illegals. Send a packet back to the transmitter and offer the amnesty or the link to the SP2 feed. I guess the MS salesman hasn't a clue that he's peddling damaged goods.
[November 14, 2007, 1:16]
Investment losses sap Microsoft profit
News As part of the amnesty, customers can avoid any further liability by purchasing adequate software licences. Microsoft has led a nationwide amnesty program for software copyright violations. But investment losses of $2.6bn soured what otherwise...
[July 20, 2001, 10:38]
Ford may find that porn sticks around
News On 4 March, Ford issued a two-week amnesty to its 20,000 UK workers to remove any offensive, including racist, material either downloaded from the Internet or received via email from their machines. Internet filtering experts have criticised Ford's...
[March 7, 2002, 14:15]
Mental illness not much of a defense in the US...
Talkback I wouldn't hold out much hope that the Asperger's syndrome diagnosis is going to hold much sway in the US given that according to Amnesty International one in ten of the USA's 1,000-plus executed prisoners in the last 30 years suffered from mental...
[September 4, 2008, 11:41]
Big trouble in bigger China
Leader Human rights organisation Amnesty claims some 40 people are currently imprisoned or detained in China for terms of between two and 11 years in connection with the use of the Internet. Amnesty also recently named 33 companies including Microsoft...
[September 17, 2004, 15:00]
UN proposes net governance changes
News Similarly, Amnesty International has sent a delegation here to the Internet Governance Forum to emphasise the need for protecting free speech. The Internet Governance Forum needs to know that the online community is bothered about free expression...
[October 31, 2006, 11:12]
Tesco puts broadband in trolley
Talkback e7even are in trouble.they have used a failed business model.without a continuous stream of new subscribers they have an insufficient income stream.as the market matures to saturation point that stream slows.subscribers, like me will have...
[March 3, 2006, 17:06]
Saudis admit to locking up blogger
Blog According to an Amnesty International report on Saudi Arabia, in 2007, "peaceful critics of the government were subjected to prolonged detention without charge or trial. At least 39 people were executed in Saudi Arabia in 2007, using a sword...
[January 4, 2008, 16:35]
Is America Today a Suitable Place to Extradite to?
Talkback The US unquestionably actively pursues all of these activities, these practices are now part of US Federal and/or State Law and instances of all the above documented by Amnesty International. I wonder why this is necessary?
[August 3, 2007, 15:51]
China human rights site cracked
News The page also contained links to Amnesty International and other human rights organizations who have been critical of the country's human rights record. The Web site of the Chinese Society for Human Rights, a state-run organization, was launched...
[October 28, 1998, 9:12]
Microsoft makes peace with Indonesia
News So Microsoft has agreed to this amnesty, whereby the government will, in future, purchase legal software to run all of its PCs and launch a crackdown on the producers of unlicensed packages. Microsoft has reached an agreement with the Indonesian...
[June 9, 2005, 17:55]
Alfresco launches in UK
News Now it has added Swansea Housing Association, the MoD Defence Academy and Amnesty International, among others. Alfresco, the open-source enterprise content management company, has opened an office in the UK, and it has plans to expand rapidly.
[July 5, 2007, 13:17]
Searching for a safe ride on the tiger
Leader Human rights organisation Amnesty claimed in 2003 some 40 people were imprisoned or detained in China for terms of between two and 11 years in connection with the use of the Internet, so one can only imagine what that number is today.
[January 25, 2006, 13:05]
ISP staff face MP3 lawsuit
News The move to include individuals involved with the ISP in the litigation is intended to scare employees of companies into reporting behaviour they believe to be illegal and the music industry's copyright enforcement arm, Music Industry Piracy...
[February 13, 2004, 11:15]
