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ScanSafe tackles unsafe search
News A Web-filtering specialist has joined the ranks of companies aiming to take the risk of spyware and adware downloads out of online searches. ScanSafe will officially launch next week a trial version of a new service that adds labels to the results...
[May 16, 2006, 9:40]
Adult industry welcomes .XXX domain rejection
News Adult companies have joined conservative groups in celebrating ICANN's decision to reject the creation of a domain for adult Web sites. On Wednesday, the Internet regulator voted against the proposal, which would have led to the creation of a .XXX...
[May 12, 2006, 17:25]
MS lawyers join open source fray
News Microsoft lawyers have joined the company's campaign against open source software, restricting how developers may use what it terms "viral software" in connection with Microsoft programming tools. The license of the second beta version of Microsoft...
[June 25, 2001, 9:12]
'Phone number' Internet addressing gains support
News Korea has joined the group of countries backing a simpler Internet address method that could theoretically give everyone a Web presence through a telephone number. The simpler Internet electronic numbering system, known as Enum, was first conceived...
[August 14, 2003, 11:15]
BT unruffled by ntl's faster broadband promise
News Ntl has joined fellow cable company Telewest in promising its customers a faster broadband service. Starting next week, ntl subscribers will be able to sign up for a 1mbps link to the Internet. Like BT, ntl has previously offered its home users a...
[March 5, 2002, 13:40]
More ISPs react to broadband price cuts
News Internet service provider One.Tel has joined the rush to announce new broadband pricing and is planning to undercut the UK's largest ISPs, following last week's cuts in the cost of BT's wholesale ADSL services.
[March 5, 2002, 16:04]
BT to sell NetSuite on-demand software
News BT and NetSuite have joined forces to bring web-based, on-demand software to the telco's 1.6 million business customers. In addition to offering NetSuite's business-management applications, BT will soon provide customer-relationship management (CRM...
[April 23, 2008, 9:10]
UK government minister joins pirate raids
News In the early hours of Wednesday morning Kim Howells, culture minister for the UK, joined a raid being led by Cardiff Trading Standards on an address in Cardiff, Wales. UK culture minister Kim Howells has attended a dawn raid on an address used to...
[December 4, 2002, 16:42]
ISP cuts cost of ADSL connection and hardware
News Eclipse Internet has joined the ranks of UK Internet service providers cutting the price of their broadband offerings in early 2003. The ISP announced on Thursday that a consumer can save up to £50 on the cost of getting broadband by buying an ADSL...
[January 8, 2003, 15:26]
Film studios create new standards body
News Seven major US film studios said on Tuesday that they have joined forces to promote standards for digital cinema technology. The core members of the new venture include Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Sony...
[April 3, 2002, 15:32]
Open-Xchange signs up IDC analyst
News Dan Kusnetzky, for years a fixture in the open source software realm as an IDC software analyst, has joined collaboration software company Open-Xchange as executive vice-president of marketing strategy.
[January 17, 2006, 8:00]
Northern Ireland launches online-security campaign
News The Executive has joined an initiative run by the Republic of Ireland's government over the past two years, focused around the makeITsecure website. The Northern Ireland Executive has launched a campaign for online security.
[February 12, 2008, 11:50]
Electronics industry gets ethical
News Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell joined a host of electronics makers on Thursday in an effort to promote a unified code of socially responsible business practices across the world. The new Electronics Industry Code of Conduct governs areas such as...
[October 22, 2004, 10:00]
Dell joins blade server fray
News Dell has belatedly joined its competitors in offering own-design blade servers with the launch in Paris on Monday afternoon of the PowerEdge 1855. With shipments of blade servers due to double each year until 2008, according to industry analysts...
[November 15, 2004, 14:05]
ARM joins Symbian Foundation, releases tools
News ARM has joined the Symbian Foundation and has collaborated on one of two developer tool releases for the soon-to-be-open-source platform. The processor firm announced its involvement in the Symbian Foundation on Tuesday, alongside other new...
[October 22, 2008, 12:16]
Election 2005: Time for MPs to get behind tech
Talkback Joined up E-government - don't make me laugh. I was fined last year when I filed online; this was only rescinded when I sent them a paper copy of a screenshot showing that I had completed it. And I have just had an email notifying me that I have...
[May 3, 2005, 14:46]
Apple joins critics of Microsoft deal
News Apple Computer on Tuesday joined a chorus of critics attacking a proposed settlement that would let Microsoft give schools up to $1bn in free software, training and services. Lawyers representing the Redmond, Washington-based company and the...
[November 28, 2001, 9:55]
Nokia gets on the mobile banking bandwagon
News The world's leading handset maker has joined the rush into mobile banking. Nokia's networks division said on Tuesday that it has developed new software to enable people to conduct banking transactions on mobile phones, and the company is peddling...
[June 21, 2001, 15:37]
Privacy groups take efforts to European level
News Ten European privacy and civil rights groups, including two from Britain, have joined forces to create an international body for lobbying at a European level. The move comes as concerns grow over erosion of data privacy by the UK's Regulation of...
[June 13, 2002, 16:10]
Flash rivals to create USB drive standard
News M-Systems and SanDisk -- creator of the USB flash drive and the world's largest supplier of flash card storage respectively -- joined forces on Tuesday to develop and promote the next generation of USB flash drives.
[September 7, 2004, 16:15]
