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US Congress ignites Net filter fight
News However, critics complain the software often goes too far, unintentionally banning sites that are neither offensive nor controversial. Schools and libraries that receive federal funds will find new strings attached to the money -- they'll have to...
[December 19, 2000, 15:10]
Spam 'more of a menace than hackers'
News There may be somebody who feels they should be protected from pornographic content, for example, and in some cases they may be prepared to sue their employer if they feel they are being exposed to offensive material on the company's network.
[June 13, 2003, 9:10]
HP and Sun intensify war of words
News Taking the offensive in the current spat, Sun's Singer said HP isn't afraid to discuss its conclusions about Sun. Hewlett-Packard has formally demanded that Sun Microsystems and its president, Jonathan Schwartz, stop publishing what it calls...
[October 5, 2004, 9:20]
The interview: Strategies for fielding common questions
News You never know what the interviewer might find offensive. As we all know, it's the interview that gets you the job. But for most of us, interviews are no walk in the park. Goofing up on an interview can not only cost you a job offer; in the worst...
[May 31, 2002, 14:38]
Intel vows deeper price cuts
News Intel's low-price initiatives are seen as key to its offensive against AMD, which this year increased its overall share of the PC market from the upper teens to about 22 percent. Despite plunging profits and a bleak earnings outlook, Intel...
[July 18, 2001, 15:48]
Sun to supercharge UltraSparc with Afara acquisition
News Facing the imminent arrival of Intel's Itanium 2 processor, expected in July, Sun is taking the offensive, breaking out the "road map" and showing some of what it has planned. Sun Microsystems has signed an agreement to acquire chip design start-up...
[June 26, 2002, 9:43]
AMD looks for fix during rough year
News Intel offensive It doesn't take long to fall from grace in Silicon Valley. AMD is hurtling towards what could be another disappointing period as the second quarter draws to a close next week. Wall Street expects the company to have lost 84 cents...
[June 20, 2007, 18:23]
Microsoft prepares counter-attack to iTunes
News But it missed that deadline, giving Apple the opportunity to take the offensive by launching the iTunes Music Store first. While Apple Computer grabs publicity for its new 99-cent music download store, Microsoft is quietly preparing for a...
[May 27, 2003, 7:47]
European firms 'still failing on security'
News The levels of scam emails hitting users inboxes is now the same as the amount of potentially offensive adult spam, exposure to which could also result in claims of a failure in the duty of care on the part of companies.
[July 20, 2005, 18:45]
FSF recommends express patent licences
News As ZDNetUK reported yesterday, at that event Baker & McKenzie partner John MacPhail, struck fear into the hearts of developers declaring that patents were being used as "an offensive weapon". Free Software Foundation (FSF) senior counsel, Dan...
[November 5, 2004, 10:08]
China opens up to e-tail
News She said: "The Chinese government does reserve the right to delete domain names if they believe they are offensive or anti-Chinese. On 16 March, businesses outside China will be able to register .cn domain names for the first time ever -- providing...
[March 11, 2003, 9:03]
Itanium ready for radical reworking
News Intel and HP, the initiator of the Itanium project and its biggest advocate, have begun trying to take the offensive with the chip family. When the Tukwila chip arrives in 2008, the biggest difference will be system-level changes such as how the...
[March 9, 2006, 14:55]
Germans stamp out 'heil-hitler' domain
News Strato has also called for Denic to start filtering domain name registrations to eliminate offensive URLs. German prosecutors are currently investigating who registered the domain name "heil-hitler.de" -- and a soldier is the lead suspect.
[August 10, 2000, 9:08]
Statistics firms rethink QuickTime stats
News Despite their well-documented flaws, Web statistics have long been used as a key weapon in Internet marketing wars, and Apple is looking to expand its arsenal these days as it launches an offensive on behalf of MPEG-4, technology for video and...
[June 19, 2002, 15:40]
Gator looks for new image with name change
News In recent weeks, it launched a legal offensive to divorce its name from the hated term, with some success. Gator, the controversial advertising software and e-wallet company, has changed its name to better reflect its business in behavioural...
[October 30, 2003, 8:25]
Sun steers clear of computing slump
News The company positioned new thin, rack-mountable servers unveiled Wednesday as products that put Sun on the offensive in fighting off competing machines using the Windows operating system from arch-rival Microsoft.
[January 19, 2001, 8:19]
China dictates purchase of local software
News In response, Microsoft has been on a charm offensive, including granting the government inspection rights over Windows source code and creating a new chief executive position for Greater China. A new policy by China's governing body, the State...
[August 18, 2003, 9:30]
Old ally slams Amazon on patent filings
News They're being a bad citizen, and the most offensive thing is that they did not actually invent this stuff (that they are patenting). Online retailer Amazon.com came under increasing pressure Tuesday to back off from patent claims on "obvious...
[March 1, 2000, 9:38]
Antitrust scrutiny holds up Yahoo-Google deal
News Facing the criticism, Google and Yahoo both have begun a publicity offensive. Yahoo and Google are delaying implementation of their search-ad deal to give US Justice Department antitrust investigators more time to look into the deal, according to...
[October 6, 2008, 9:18]
The BPI's grand waste of paper
Blog This whole campaign is nothing more than a PR offensive to try scare the public into changing its ways. What's going to happen is that hundreds of thousands of letters will be sent out, threatening.not much, actually.
[July 24, 2008, 16:43]
