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BBC slipped up over outsourcing savings
News The National Audit Office also criticised the BBC for saying it could "guarantee savings", which the BBC recognised was not apt. The Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (Bectu), which represented approximately 370 of the IT...
[July 12, 2006, 12:25]
Porn spammers to face jail in US
News Anti-spam activists have criticised the RID Spam Act for pre-empting state laws against spam, which in some cases are far stricter, and for granting many thousands of email marketers the right to send email messages to consumers until they click...
[July 9, 2003, 13:27]
VeriSign relents on browser 'hijack'
News In addition, at least seven organisations have criticised VeriSign's wildcard change, including the Internet Society, the Public Interest Registry and several engineering groups within ICANN. Internet service providers have criticised the service...
[October 6, 2003, 14:20]
RIAA draws civil liberties opposition
News Civil liberties groups, including the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, have criticised the amnesty program, saying that the RIAA could still sue in some circumstances -- and that the person signing an affidavit could be...
[September 30, 2003, 12:40]
NERC gets Aurora slap on the wrist
Blog Langevin also criticised security controls put in place (or rather, not put in place) by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the largest US public power company. In a report released this month by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) the...
[May 28, 2008, 16:49]
Mobile phone masts to face public consultation
News The government was criticised by Kent County Council for not responding faster to the Stewart Report. Speaking in January, deputy council leader Keith Ferrin criticised the mobile phone companies for not doing more to address public concerns.
[March 20, 2001, 6:10]
ISS slammed for 'selling' security patches
News Unsurprisingly, ISS customers and security experts have criticised the company for not providing protection against known vulnerabilities to all customers, regardless of their maintenance contracts. The same site -- ZDNet UK has been asked not to...
[March 30, 2004, 15:40]
Dutch watchdog savages spammers
News It cited predictions from Radicati Group analysts that 71 percent of all email will be spam by 2008, and criticised governments -- such as the UK's -- which have chosen not to make spamming business email addresses an offence.
[December 29, 2004, 13:00]
EC may put antitrust focus on Google
News Other potential targets for the EU include Apple, whose iTunes and iPod have been criticised for excluding other products, and Intel, whose dominance in microprocessors has been criticised. Following the rejection of Microsoft's antitrust appeal...
[September 21, 2007, 15:30]
Amazon gives cut workers more time to sign
News Workers have criticised the separation agreement, worrying that if they signed it they would lose the right to sue Workers have also criticised the lack of an end date for the contract, and the possibility that Amazon could fire workers before the...
[February 9, 2001, 8:19]
Report: Some gov't databases almost certainly illegal
News The National Identity Register — the database behind the government's plan to record all UK citizens' biometric and personal details for its identity-cards scheme — was criticised by the report's authors for breaking down privacy barriers.
[March 23, 2009, 11:12]
Apple wireless flaw revealed
News In particular, LMH is referring to the widely publicised and often-criticised presentation on Wi-Fi driver flaws at a high-profile security conference. At the time, Apple criticised the two for not proving their case.
[November 2, 2006, 8:52]
Big Brother Awards nominees plumb new depths
News Explaining his resignation, Hutty criticised the IWF for forcing key decisions through with no debate. Specifically, the IWF was criticised for introducing a policy to censor newsgroups on the basis of the newsgroup name alone, regardless of content.
[February 25, 2002, 11:13]
Dell to cut PC power by 25 percent
News Dell has also been criticised in the past for installing unnecessary software — or bloatware — to its PCs which users have claimed slow down the performance and ultimately contribute to a shorter lifespan for the devices.
[May 16, 2008, 11:38]
Home Office 'wrong' over criminalisation of IT pros
News Robertson heavily criticised the amendment itself, saying that part b is an "unreasonable burden on developers" as it expected them to predict how the tool would be used. Security experts have also heavily criticised the amendment, saying that the...
[July 19, 2006, 16:45]
Microsoft censors Chinese blogger
News Electronics Show which begins on Thursday, states that he has had problems tracking down the relevant parties in Microsoft to comment on the issue and that some individuals have criticised him for commenting on the issue without checking further.
[January 4, 2006, 13:30]
UK failing to fight Internet fraudsters
News The police were also criticised for being unsympathetic towards businesses fooled by tricksters. The report criticised the attitudes of some police officers towards fraud perpetrated against businesses, saying that "there is often, though by no...
[July 27, 2006, 10:30]
EC pushes on with Europe-wide patents
News The suggestion that judges from the European Patent Office's Board of Appeal could be appointed at the European Patent Court was also criticised by Justice Jacob. In his speech to the Society for Computers and Law, Justice Jacob also questioned...
[January 16, 2006, 16:10]
Sun to boost Solaris' firepower against Linux
News Schwarz himself has criticised the US patent system, but at the same time, he has applied for a patent on Sun's per-person, per-year pricing. Sun long has been criticised by open-source advocates, including Red Hat, for not releasing its Java...
[November 18, 2004, 15:20]
New IBM technology to boost chip speed
News A form of SOI is also critical to Intel's upcoming "Terahertz" transistor, which Davari finds ironic because Intel has criticised it for years. Although Intel executives admit that the company has criticised SOI, researchers there claim that their...
[December 3, 2001, 8:53]
