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Fire Words
Downloads Find as many words as you can by connecting the letters on the board. In each round, the letters get hotter so don't wait too long to use all of them.
[August 15, 2008, 8:00]
Microsoft draws fire for EC appointment
News Microsoft has sparked an angry reaction from its legions of detractors by employing an official from the European Commission (EC) at a time when the software giant is in the middle of an EU antitrust investigation.
[December 2, 2002, 8:04]
MP3.com under fire from music biz
News Hollywood seemingly has made a New Year's resolution: To aggressively sue any perceived threat to their content. On Friday, following the path of two Digital Video Disc lawsuits, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a copyright...
[January 24, 2000, 9:04]
Relighting the fire for science
Leader Europe's place in the new economy should be secure. With manufacturing and services sucked into the Far East by Adam Smith's invisible vacuum cleaner, we can look to our tradition as the home of the oldest, most revolutionary strands of scientific...
[March 12, 2007, 16:46]
Wikipedia under fire
News For Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, last week was a tough one. And he's going to change the ground rules for the popular anyone-can-contribute encyclopaedia because of it. First, in a 29 November op-ed piece in USA Today, a former administrative...
[December 5, 2005, 17:05]
ICANN under fire for dodgy domains
News More than 8 percent of all Internet domain names are registered with false or incomplete information, according to a US government study into the prevalence of phoney Web sites. The study, released Wednesday by the US General Accountability Office...
[December 8, 2005, 8:40]
'Stupid' linking policies come under fire
News Want David Sorkin to link to your Web site? Just ask him not to. Sorkin, associate professor of law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Ill.is the man behind Don't Link to Us, a Web site that exists merely to flout what it terms "stupid...
[August 21, 2002, 14:33]
Usenet under fire
News In a new series of lawsuits, Hollywood studios for the first time are targeting companies that provide access to Usenet newsgroups. This corner of the Internet, largely a leftover from the days before the Web exploded into the mainstream, rarely...
[February 27, 2006, 14:30]
Baptism of fire for new WorldCom chief
News At the peak of the telecommunications boom, John Sidgmore was WorldCom's designated cheerleader, pointing to the explosion of the Internet as an unending trail of profits for his company. Today, as the hastily selected new chief executive of...
[May 1, 2002, 9:11]
O2 recalls 140,000 handsets over fire risk
News Mobile operator O2 is recalling over 100,000 of its X1 mobile phones after customers reported that their handsets had melted while being charged. O2 published adverts in several national newspapers on Thursday, urging X1 users to return their...
[March 23, 2006, 13:45]
UK Patent Office under fire over software report
News The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has been criticised by anti-patent campaigners on Monday for an article it published last week on the software patent directive. The article, entitled Patents & Software: Fact and Fiction explains the details of the...
[November 8, 2004, 17:18]
Anti-spam tool brings MSN under fire
News Microsoft added a widely-used spam filter to its MSN Internet service this week in a belated decision that underscores the ongoing difficulties of striking out against unsolicited bulk email. Anti-spam activists called the move long overdue, saying...
[April 9, 2001, 11:54]
Oracle Linux customer undergoes trial by fire
News One of the first converts to Oracle's support for Linux said it has endured a public backlash since its decision to drop Red Hat. Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking told ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia that in the weeks following its...
[April 2, 2007, 11:56]
Lighting a fire under Solaris
News Sun Microsystems plans to release two significant updates to Solaris this year, promising a range of improvements as it tries to keep the operating system competitive. For many years, Solaris has been the most widely used version of Unix.
[April 26, 2006, 11:45]
ICANN comes under fire - again
News However, Lynn's proposals to solve the problem -- which include scrapping at-large board members in favour of government appointed-directors -- have fueled fire of those frustrated by the group's closed-door policies.
[April 2, 2002, 11:28]
T-Mobile to fire up Euro HSDPA network
News Mobile operator T-Mobile will move a step closer towards towards offering faster 3G services in the UK on Thursday, when it launches an HSDPA network in Germany. HSDPA, also known as Super 3G, will allow mobile users to download data at speeds of...
[March 8, 2006, 16:55]
Intellectual property under fire at the WCIT 2002
News A series of apparently unrelated comments at the World Congress on IT (WCIT) 2002 signal an increased questioning about the legitimacy of current intellectual and copyright laws in the digital age. The first came as Don Tapscott, futurist and...
[March 1, 2002, 9:34]
New surveillance bill comes under fire
News The government Thursday published the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill, branded "impossible" by Internet campaigners for its potential human rights conflicts. The bill is designed to regulate the measures that police and security...
[February 10, 2000, 16:27]
Paperboy Wheels On Fire (BlackBerry 87xx, 88xx)
Downloads The ultimate arcade-hit PAPERBOY is back on mobile, in a brand new and skillfully refreshed version, supercharged with numerous innovative and exciting features! Experience trusted gameplay & familiar controls, but also enhanced graphics, a re...
[April 3, 2009, 8:00]
Siebel under fire from shareholders
News The appointment of a new CEO at Siebel Systems on Wednesday has done little to appease a group of shareholders demanding better management of the ailing company. A group of shareholders that collectively owns about a third of Siebel's shares agrees...
[April 14, 2005, 12:50]
