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Corporate should ban using USB/portable storage
Talkback i strongly recommended USB/portable storage should not be used in the company for security purposes.if data backup is required, why not backup to server?
[September 7, 2008, 22:47]
Ban mobiles - bring back smoking!
Talkback Mobile phone usage has been widespread for about ten years now, and people have got used to the fact that they cannot make calls while flying. The global economy has not ground to halt because some merchant banker is unable to phone his secretary...
[October 18, 2007, 14:23]
Chris Long's Column: Ban the Internet...
News I don't know about you but I often have brilliant ideas when I'm on the way somewhere. Occasionally I have the foresight to carry a piece of paper or a notebook to jot it down on. Alas as I am invariably late for wherever it is I'm going, I have to...
[March 12, 1999, 12:19]
Hopes raised for Internet grooming ban
News Internet grooming, the practice by which paedophiles use the Web to cultivate relationships with children with the aim of making contact and abusing them, could soon be made illegal. The Queen's Speech, which was delivered on Wednesday morning and...
[November 13, 2002, 13:23]
RSA: Resistance is futile
Blog Companies need to embrace consumer and Web 2.0 technologies, rather than ban them, according to security vendor RSA. Organisations] try to fill USB ports with epoxy or ban iPhones," said Young. Christopher Young, RSA senior vice president of...
[October 20, 2009, 12:21]
Deceptive URLs and 'virtual' porn banned
News The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ban pornographic Internet sites with misleading addresses and computer-generated child pornography. The other amendment, which free speech advocates like the American Civil...
[March 28, 2003, 12:14]
Court cuts off deep linking
News In one of the first legal decisions to ban so-called deep linking, a Danish court has ruled that a news site cannot provide hyperlinks to certain Web pages without the permission of publishers. Web sites including those for The Dallas Morning News...
[July 9, 2002, 8:20]
The $100 laptop - don't get carried away
Talkback Should we ban the dreams? Should a vision ban be legislated? A USD 100 PC, multiplied 150 million times. Who will produce this? Under the basement by inexperienced workers, designed by fools? No pre-production?
[November 18, 2005, 16:38]
Search engines sidestep China censors
News AltaVista has hit out against the ban imposed upon its service by the Chinese government. Rival search engine Google has also been affected by the ban but the Chinese government's plans to block access to its search service have come up against...
[September 12, 2002, 8:03]
US Report: Senate passes CDA II, filtering measure
News The Senate passed legislation to ban the open display of sexually explicit materials judged "harmful to minors" on the Internet. In addition, the Senate passed the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, a bill that would ban Internet gambling in the U.S.
[July 24, 1998, 10:33]
Greece warned over gaming 'mess'
News The Greek government has been warned by the European Commission over a law it passed last year that seemed to ban all computer games. Robertson believes the Greek parliament never intended the law to ban all computer games: "The way the Greek law...
[July 24, 2003, 11:33]
Keeping your ear to the blogosphere
News In May 2003, the consumer advocacy group Ban Trans Fat sued Kraft Foods, demanding that the comestibles giant stop selling its Oreo-brnad biscuits in California. The Ban Trans Fats suit was eventually dropped, but BuzzMetrics' study showed that the...
[January 4, 2006, 14:15]
Ignore consumer tech at your peril, CIOs warned
News Businesses must embrace the "consumerisation" of technology and not ban staff from downloading or using new technologies and software at work. Gartner warned these new technologies will find their way into the enterprise whether CIOs like it or not...
[May 5, 2006, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Today's story, Bishops Call For Mobile Mast Ban, is not the version that was first submitted by superstar reporter Graeme Wearden to top news honcho Matt Loney. While Matt 'Sensible' Loney decided that 'Bishops Call For Mobile Mast Ban' was more in...
[March 9, 2001, 15:45]
NCC grasps at straws to save telecom consumers in limbo- Contd.
Blog Nigerian Cellcos Subject to Fresh Ban The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has imposed a blanket ban on all four GSM cellcos preventing them from putting out adverts to attract new customers. A similar ban was imposed in July 2007 and was...
[March 22, 2008, 15:42]
Wi-Fi: Coming soon on board US planes?
Talkback Nice, succinct, accurate.ban them, ban them now!
[June 9, 2006, 14:11]
Watchdogs bark at eBay's privacy update
News EBay is updating its privacy policy and user agreements, making it easier for the company to disclose members' personal information or to ban people from the site. Under that reading, the company might be able to ban customers for negative...
[February 27, 2002, 15:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And finally, let us go into the weekend celebrating the fall of one little fortress of foolishness, the T-Mobile ban on instant messaging and voice over IP (VoIP). Just as well, as T-Mobile has been shipping MS Messenger on its Windows Mobile...
[October 6, 2006, 18:55]
Blair reshuffles IT
Talkback Appointing someone whose sole claim to fame seems to be driving through the fox-hunting ban - which 90% of people I suspect cared less about - and wasted an inordinate amount of time in government when they should have been considering important...
[May 12, 2005, 13:03]
Phones 4U bans staff from email
News The reasoning behind the total ban is apparently to improve productivity by reducing the time Phones 4U employees spend unnecessarily on email -- which Caudwell estimates will save the company £1m a month.
[September 19, 2003, 9:45]
