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BSI silent on OOXML vote result
News The British Standards Institution has sent its response to the International Organization for Standardization on the subject of whether Microsoft Office Open XML should be certified with the ISO, but has refused to say whether it voted "yes", "no...
[September 4, 2007, 10:13]
Government U-turns on passport pledge
News In his speech to the Labour Party conference on 29 September, prime minister Gordon Brown said: "We will reduce the information British citizens have to give for the new biometric passport to no more than that required for today's passport.
[October 1, 2009, 12:20]
Startup Spotlight: ihavemoved.com
News Before setting up the company, I conducted research with companies such as British Gas, and discovered that it was costing companies a pound a minute to hire people at call centres. With a company as large as British Gas that has two and a half...
[May 4, 2000, 15:45]
Election 2001: Tory manifesto embraces freedom of the Net
News A report commissioned by the British Chamber of Commerce estimated RIPA could cost the British economy £46bn over five years in lost revenue, which Duncan brands "unacceptable". Shadow technology minister Alan Duncan has criticised the government's...
[May 22, 2001, 12:46]
Yahoo! racist chatrooms 'untouchable'
News US is hosting racist propaganda on its Messenger chatrooms, but British police admit the Internet portal is doing nothing wrong under British law. The present law isn't particularly easy to get a prosecution from -- if the new government and...
[May 23, 2001, 12:45]
CIA starts 'fun' high-tech fund
News Q is the British minister of gadgets in the Bond films. I reminded them that Q is British and we're working for the US. The CIA needs to move at the speed of the Internet and not at the speed of government.
[September 30, 1999, 10:08]
Roundup: UK online banking security crisis
News Thu, 20 Jul In the wake of Powergen's security scare, experts argue not enough is being done to protect consumers who spend online.in 5 British firms suffer security breach -- report Fri, 3 Apr Report suggests British business is far from being...
[August 11, 2000, 17:00]
The OSC's open letter to Becta
Blog The losers, as usual, are British schools, British schoolchildren, and British taxpayers. But no, impeccable and proven Open Source credentials, capability and community building skills are apparently a hindrance to building a community of British...
[June 13, 2008, 15:10]
Embassy cracker may be playing government's game
News Top British computer security experts have warned that those responsible for cracking and defacing the US embassy Web site in China on Wednesday may be playing into the hands of the US government. British government security expert Ian Jonsten...
[September 10, 1999, 16:41]
British Library lends itself to intellectual-property wisdom
Leader In the search for sanity in digital rights management, he suggests that the British Library leads the inquiry and report back to government. The British Library itself is built on the 200-year-old Library of the British Museum, with its principle...
[March 15, 2006, 14:35]
British hackers: Spotty teenagers they ain't
News Hackers in this country also tend to target ISPs and bandwidth providers rather than the government because of a natural British respect for authority. Ask a police man though, and it is the law and not some mysterious British hacking ethic that...
[July 16, 1999, 11:50]
E-Commerce law raises liability concerns for ISPs
News The British government admits that it is considering whether regulation is needed, but believes that this would be better dealt with by industry codes of conduct. British ISPs were shocked by a controversial injunction earlier this year surrounding...
[August 20, 2001, 15:40]
Big Brother frowns on Vodafone and the Home Office
News But PI says it is "offensive and invasive", and accuses the British government of capitulating over the issue. The award for Most Invasive Company is between British Gas, the early favourite, for its claim that the deaths of two elderly customers...
[July 5, 2004, 12:10]
Update: America uses Echelon to spy on Britain
News The [British] government has a duty to protect the country against adverse developments overseas that might have grave and damaging consequences for the nations economic well being. That America is spying on British businesses using Echelon is...
[July 3, 2000, 13:10]
British life 'unthinkable' without ID cards
News He described the system as "another great British institution without which modern life, whatever it looks like in 2020, would be quite unthinkable". The National Identity Scheme will be essential in combating the challenges presented by the...
[June 20, 2007, 8:53]
British children are surfing the Web for porn
News However, the report reveals that one in five British children visited pornography sites in March, remaining for an average of 28 minutes. A recent government-backed Internet Crime Forum report found 4.8 million children under 16 to be using the...
[May 10, 2001, 11:31]
Multinationals build private Echelons
News British computer security firm Firetrench confirms that it has been contacted by various companies to supply equipment for spying on commercial competitors. The British are keeping a stiff upper lip, the US simply avoid mentioning it and the French...
[June 30, 2000, 10:35]
A Year Ago: Multinationals build private Echelons
News British computer security firm Firetrench confirms that it has been contacted by various companies to supply equipment for spying on commercial competitors. The British are keeping a stiff upper lip, the US simply avoid mentioning it and the French...
[June 30, 2001, 6:28]
British man to be extradited for US military hacks
News The US Department of Justice on Tuesday indicted a British man who allegedly hacked into military computer systems and shut them down in the wake of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. In May of last year, government contractor Exigent...
[November 13, 2002, 9:10]
Jane Wakefield: Window on the world
News Mr Blair, who proved his Net-savvy credentials by sending Cherie a bunch of flowers via the Internet, will be relieved to hear that the good 'ol British citizen is also beginning to enjoy surfing and shopping online.
[September 17, 1999, 11:40]
