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EU takes control of Intel antitrust inquiry
News Bearing in mind that [the suspected actions] seem to belong to a set of practices already under scrutiny by the Commission.a range of tactics used by Intel to limit the market share of AMD. European Commission regulators have taken over a German...
[September 12, 2006, 15:50]
AOL chief to step down
News Once billed as the company's "jewel in the crown," the AOL division has come under tremendous scrutiny from Wall Street for expected flat revenue growth. Barry Schuler, the chief executive of AOL Time Warner's America Online division, will...
[April 9, 2002, 17:16]
ID card bill set for Lords vote
News The "report stage" of the bill will now take place in mid-January in the House of Lords where the legislation is expected to come in for stronger criticism from peers and be put under much closer scrutiny.
[December 22, 2005, 10:45]
Pentagon database to spy on Americans
News On 20 February, as part of a large spending bill for the federal government, Congress approved additional scrutiny of research and development on the TIA project. The US Defence Department has awarded millions of dollars to more than two-dozen...
[February 28, 2003, 11:36]
Palmisano named as IBM chairman
News But these dual roles have come under increasing fire because of greater scrutiny over corporate governance issues since the collapse of Enron and WorldCom. IBM announced on Tuesday that its chief executive, Sam Palmisano, has been elected chairman...
[October 30, 2002, 10:42]
OOXML Approval System has already been seriously abused
Talkback Of course, the haste, the improper scrutiny, and disregard of serious technical comment are shameful. "if it is not, then a chance to make a key part of our IT infrastructure truly open may have been missed.
[August 30, 2007, 20:02]
Report gives thumbs down to e-voting
News This makes public scrutiny impossible and leaves statutory elections open to error and fraud. The Open Rights Group published a report on Wednesday that includes scathing criticisms of the way e-voting and e-counting proceeded at a number of sites...
[June 22, 2007, 9:16]
HP gets new ethics officer
News Besides being the subject of a criminal investigation, former HP officials have had to appear before a congressional subcommittee on the leak probe matter and the company faces related scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
[October 13, 2006, 9:05]
Europe can't wait for Microsoft to play ODF catch up
Leader It is an ISO standard: it has passed expert scrutiny and can be considered fit for use. The European Commission wants an open standard for documents. ODF has been approved by the ISO as just that, and was expected to become the official EC...
[May 8, 2006, 15:55]
Lords to consider data retention objections
News This section of the Bill received a critical response from the Earl of Northesk in its second reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday, and will now face close scrutiny in Monday's committee stage. The House of Lords will on Monday consider...
[November 30, 2001, 17:40]
Firms denounce government broadband plans
News Unbundling of the local loop, viewed as a key component of creating a competitive telecoms market, has now seen nine players drop out and the wholesale service BT offers ISPs is under scrutiny following accusations from Freeserve and AOL that BT...
[February 15, 2001, 16:05]
PGP creator launches voice encryption for Windows
News But some in the industry are speculating that Zfone may put Zimmermann under renewed government scrutiny. Phil Zimmermann, the creator of email encryption software Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), has released Zfone, a VoIP encryption program for Windows.
[May 23, 2006, 13:15]
MoD loses 600,000 personal details
News Action has already been taken with the assistance of Apacs [the Association for Payment Clearing Services] to inform the relevant banks so that the relevant accounts can be flagged for scrutiny against unauthorised access," read the statement.
[January 21, 2008, 13:38]
FBI releases first Carnivore data
News The agency has fought against any requests to open the source code to public scrutiny. The FBI released the first documents about its controversial Carnivore email surveillance software on Tuesday, but more than half of the 750 pages were blacked...
[October 4, 2000, 8:53]
Legal Napster opens for business
News The buzz around all of these services will ultimately have to face the consistent, long-term scrutiny of fickle computer users, who are already doing hard comparisons between the companies' products. Napster is back, with an inescapable marketing...
[October 30, 2003, 8:00]
Patent and event reignite iPhone rumours
News The application, made in the name of Steven Hotelling, at legal firm Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford, and Brucculeri (a name associated with previous Apple patent applications) has not yet been granted, and is subject to scrutiny for prior art.
[September 11, 2006, 13:35]
Parliament to probe Digital Britain plan
News The 50p-per-month levy on each fixed copper line, as proposed by Carter, will also come under scrutiny. A parliamentary select committee is to check whether the recommendations proposed in the Digital Britain report are realistic, particularly...
[June 30, 2009, 12:47]
Google: An Apology
Talkback They would certainly have asked permission before publicly holding anyone up to such unwanted scrutiny. Congratulations - with your unrepentant attitude and sophomoric sarcasm you've clearly identified yourselves as the bad guys here.
[August 11, 2005, 15:44]
EU backing gives boost to telemedicine
News Telemedicine tech will come under the EU's scrutiny, as states look to improve broadband infrastructure and interoperability of the devices used in remote health services. EU citizens could soon be consulting their doctor over broadband, after the...
[November 10, 2008, 8:15]
On roaming, fibre to the home, and the Marquis de Sade
Leader But churlish as it may seem, it is precisely this sort of good news that deserves the closest scrutiny. There is only one future for broadband that makes sense — fast, cheap and everywhere. Without those attributes, the companies, services and...
[July 15, 2008, 12:50]
