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US group takes open source fight abroad
News Wendy indicated that the meeting would be sought in order to discuss the Senator's plan to introduce a private member's bill to the Senate that would promote the use of open-source software in Commonwealth departments and agencies.
[July 16, 2003, 9:49]
Social networks - future portal or fad?
News According to founding MySpace member Colin Digiaro, who spoke on Tuesday, the company is talking to "all the usual suspects and unusual suspects" about licensing Web search technology to accommodate a growing demand among its 50 million members...
[June 14, 2006, 15:10]
Junk mail threat scares MPs away from email
News Publicising an email address to the full membership of an organisation can prompt mass posting of a standard email to any one Member," said the committee in a report published last week. The Member and his or her staff will then have to deal with...
[July 23, 2002, 11:55]
Report argues case for EU-US data sharing
News The 53-page report drafted by the Future Group of interior and justice ministers from six EU member states — Germany, France, Sweden, Portugal, Slovenia and the Czech Republic — suggests the establishment of a "Euro-Atlantic area of co-operation...
[August 7, 2008, 16:18]
AOL faces hate speech issue...maybe
News Gay rights groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and an anti-hate speech organisation recently decried a move by AOL to delete a gay member's self-authored online profile because it included the phrase "submissive bottom.
[November 3, 1999, 14:18]
An outsider looks in on Icann
News He's perhaps the most visible member of the Hamburg-based group Chaos Computer Club. He also wants every board member of Icann to be elected, as opposed to being appointed. In November, the ultimate Icann outsider will become one of its ultimate...
[October 16, 2000, 8:00]
Android security team appeals to bug hunters
News As you may expect, building and maintaining a secure mobile platform is a difficult task," wrote an Android security-team member. We do appreciate and encourage responsible disclosure, especially since Android will be deployed on many different...
[August 19, 2008, 16:51]
MySpace, Facebook tackle security issues
News With the MySpace hole, people have to go through the company's mobile page and know the user ID of a member to read their private comments, said Canadian computer technician Byron Ng, who alerted ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, CNET News.com, to the...
[August 19, 2008, 10:56]
Things your PC never volunteers
Blog Take the time to carefully run through this list with each member of staff, if only a couple of these tips are of use to them it'll be time well spent. Ideally send staff on a training courses or at the very least buy in some training materials but...
[November 20, 2008, 17:03]
US Report: Email archives may be vulnerable
News I'm fairly certain that foreign governments will have built similar machines to this, and are using them to eavesdrop on conversations in the U.S.said Paul Kocher, a member of the team who helped build the machine for the Electronic Frontier...
[July 21, 1998, 6:04]
Disappearing comments and blog posts
Blog Comment CA: If a member has posted several comments in a short space of time, we will quarantine some of these so that the community part of the site is not dominated by one member's remarks. Thanks for the feedback.
[September 29, 2009, 9:36]
Ballmer issues employee call to action
News Ballmer also said Microsoft will add a new board member. While we like having a small Board of Directors that is very agile and effective, we will add a member from outside the US to continue to broaden the diversity of the board.
[June 7, 2002, 16:49]
How does your Net security rate?
News Our members are just saying that they would like to see global benchmarks," said Alan Paller, director of research for the Systems Administration Networking and Security (SANS) Institute, a founding member of the 71-member centre.
[December 22, 2000, 10:47]
PalmSource and Orange team up for mobile Linux standards
News There's a need for an alternative to Microsoft and Symbian," said John Ostrem, a Lips board member, founder of China Mobilesoft and now lead scientist at PalmSource. Certified phones are due in 2007, said Michel Gien, Lips committee member and...
[November 14, 2005, 7:55]
Outsourcing may doom future IT careers
News I'd rather my kids opt for nursing as a profession -- it has both local and global demand," said ITM member James Michaels, who works for a telecommunications company in Sydney. As a computer science student at Melbourne University, I can say it is...
[July 9, 2003, 10:36]
Civil liberties group warns of EU surveillance proposal
News These governments, Statewatch claims, are secretly drawing up a framework decision that would force the 15 member nations of the EU to bring in new laws that would place all phone calls, emails, faxes and Internet usage under surveillance.
[May 9, 2002, 14:20]
Confusion as Biscit withdraws from ISP association
News It also means that Biscit no longer has free membership of CISAS, which disgruntled customers can call upon if they have a dispute with a company that is a member of CISAS. We always tell people to choose an ISPA member," the ISPA spokesperson added.
[February 26, 2007, 10:55]
Pirate Bay defendants set course for retrial
News Norström is also a member of the Swedish Association of Copyright (SFU) — a group founded in 1954 that hosts seminars and debates, and counts members from the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry...
[April 23, 2009, 15:55]
EU to investigate VoIP-tapping techniques
News The possibility of intercepting internet telephony will be an essential tool in the fight against international organised crime within Europe and beyond," said Carmen Manfredda, Eurojust's acting national member for Italy, in a statement.
[February 20, 2009, 16:43]
British e-government hailed by UN
News It was put together by United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance (UNPAN), a division of the UN that details the public policies, administration and services of UN member states.
[January 12, 2005, 13:40]
