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Pledge 2000 seeks co-operation, not litigation
News Headed by Action 2000 managing director Gwynneth Flower and supported by two minor celebrities from the food industry, Pledge 2000 is a public scheme "intended to help all organisations to work in partnership with their customers and suppliers to...
[July 29, 1998, 16:31]
A Year Ago: Pledge 2000 seeks co-operation, not litigation
News Adding to the snowball effect Tony Blair would like to surround his Action 2000 campaign with, today saw the launch of a cuddly affair known as Pledge 2000. Headed by Action 2000 managing director Gwynneth Flower and supported by two minor...
[July 29, 1999, 6:16]
MS, Netscape pledge interoperability
News The two companies, with the support of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), will pledge to support recommended HTML tags and to submit all HTML extensions to the W3C before shipping them. Representatives of Microsoft, Netscape and the W3C are...
[June 13, 1997, 8:53]
Tories pledge to boost broadband and e-commerce
News Other areas the Tories say they will tackle include the IR35 tax rule, which they pledge to repeal along with improvements to the tax regime for share options -- another thorn in the side of e-entrepreneurs.
[April 17, 2001, 13:30]
Hayes, Cisco, Ascend pledge 56K modem interoperability
News The coming together of pledge givers is called the V.pcm Work Group but liability is limited. The trio say they will release V.pcm-only 56K modems when confident of interoperability between major modem and modem server providers.
[February 9, 1998, 14:09]
News Burst: Action 2000 announces self help 'pledge' scheme
News Action 2000, the government's millennium bug busting agency, today announced what they are calling a 'pledge scheme'- aimed at intelligent cooperation between UK businesses. Exclusive interview with Gwynneth Flower, Managing Director of Action 2000...
[July 29, 1998, 10:47]
Thus fails in paedophile pledge
News British telco Thus has failed in its pledge to remove paedophile content from its newsgroups, amid speculation that it has lost the will to take a more proactive approach in protecting children online.
[March 1, 2001, 8:18]
Microsoft makes security pledge
Talkback People. They promised that two years ago. All it got you is the promise that you'll have to undergo payed upgrades to get to the next level of security that Microsoft has to offer. Like before.
[September 9, 2005, 20:46]
Chatroom Danger: Britain breaks UN pledge to protect kids online
News If the state isn't doing enough to protect children online, this is a potential breach of the treaty, as they are failing to properly implement their pledge to protect children. Every member country of the UN except Ethiopia and the United States...
[March 15, 2001, 12:40]
Microsoft makes security pledge
Talkback Wasn't it the FBI that stated that: "crimes are invited"? Meaning, that the weakest guy within a group of ten is more likely to be attacked?
[September 9, 2005, 21:00]
Confusion over Yahoo!'s pledge to block paedophiles
Talkback i have 2 daughters ages 11,10 & everytime they go in a chatroom.they are always asked if they want to cyber chat.i don't think that should be allowed in any of the chatroom.i think they should have chatroom for young children.like the ages of 6-12...
[March 4, 2004, 16:24]
Microsoft makes security pledge
Talkback I just hope Microsoft doesnt compromise usability to increase security (Yes in the real world having a friendly fluffy interface with pretty icons is actually more important than security)
[September 10, 2005, 21:51]
Bosses sign pledge to protect personal data
News The heads of several public-sector organisations, but none from central government, have signed a promise to protect personal information. Richard Thomas, the information commissioner, launched the 10-point Personal Information Promise on 28...
[January 30, 2009, 7:45]
Tories pledge to end the database state
News The Conservative Party has promised to reduce government databases and introduce stronger measures to protect people's privacy, if it wins the next general election. The shadow justice secretary, Dominic Grieve, on Wednesday introduced a policy...
[September 16, 2009, 16:22]
Tories pledge to curb abuse of surveillance powers
News An incoming Conservative government would curb the abuse of powers granted under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, according to a Tory peer. Shadow security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the...
[October 29, 2008, 17:29]
Government U-turns on passport pledge
News The Identity and Passport Service has confirmed that passports will in future require extra information from applicants — their fingerprints. In his speech to the Labour Party conference on 29 September, prime minister Gordon Brown said: "We will...
[October 1, 2009, 12:20]
Microsoft makes security pledge
News Microsoft has pledged to improve security testing on its products by next year. Speaking at the Information Systems Security Association conference in London on Thursday, Ed Gibson, chief security advisor for Microsoft UK, said the company's...
[September 9, 2005, 17:00]
Nokia makes Linux patent pledge
News Nokia said Wednesday its patented technology may be freely used in the Linux kernel, making the Finnish mobile phone giant the newest computing company to begin offering intellectual-property protections to open source programmers.
[May 26, 2005, 10:15]
Tories pledge to 'dismantle' NPfIT
News An incoming Conservative government would fundamentally alter NHS information technology systems, according to plans revealed on Monday. If elected, the party would "dismantle Labour's central NHS IT infrastructure" and instead use local systems...
[August 11, 2009, 14:08]
Confusion over Yahoo!'s pledge to block paedophiles
News Two weeks after ZDNet News UK handed over ID information on suspected paedophiles believed to be abusing the Yahoo! Messenger (IM) service, the Internet portal is still unable to confirm whether it has blocked the offending accounts.
[March 30, 2001, 16:36]
