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Burst.com wants Gates' deposition made public
News This isn't the first time a Gates deposition has become the focus of some scrutiny: excerpts from a three-day interrogation of Gates were a staple of the Justice Department's long-running antitrust suit against Microsoft.
[September 2, 2004, 14:10]
Electronic Voting Is Audit free!
Blog Comment This makes public scrutiny impossible, and leaves statutory elections open to error and fraud. Yes they did manage to butcher my name when they pronounced it. If you want the full report of what went wrong in the electronic voting trials in the UK...
[October 22, 2008, 13:44]
Bing muscles in on IE6 users
News Although it is only affecting its older browser, many people still use IE6 and Microsoft has faced a lot of regulatory scrutiny over how default search preferences are set and changed within Internet Explorer.
[June 3, 2009, 9:25]
If there was ever a place for non-violent protest...
Talkback The highest scrutiny and care must be used in forming "International Standards". All ethical means possible should be used to prevent anything Microsoft produces becoming an international standard. Their shoddy products, consumption centered design...
[April 14, 2008, 21:41]
Government backs anti-spam mission to US
News Around a dozen pieces of anti-spam legislation are currently under scrutiny in America. E-commerce minister Stephen Timms is giving his support to a delegation of UK politicians who are travelling to America next month to lobby for stricter spam...
[September 19, 2003, 14:50]
Not Open Source
Talkback To be approved by OSI you must admit your license to public scrutiny. the SugarCRM Public License (SPL) is not mentioned on the site of the OSI [www.opensource.org] which is the keepsake of all true open source licenses.
[March 12, 2007, 14:05]
Newham CIO sees open source as 'red herring'
Talkback This is just business as usual, and the UK Public Sector IT will continue to be open to accusations of corruption, inefficiency, and wastage of *billions* of pounds whilst these kind of practices escape the full light of public scrutiny.
[October 20, 2006, 11:22]
IT services chief dragged into Labour loans row
News Aldridge's donation has come under scrutiny in the media because Capita runs many high-profile government IT projects, including the London Congestion Charging scheme, TV licensing and the Criminal Records Bureau.
[March 21, 2006, 15:20]
Greenpeace says iPhone ain't green
Blog No doubt Apple fans will argue that, any product subject to this much scrutiny will have flaws - which is true - but Apple claim to be striving to be different - and being absolutely whiter than white - when it comes to recycling and the...
[October 15, 2007, 20:53]
Union hits out over employee surveillance
News In an article published in the TUC-backed Hazards magazine, the organisation said that many companies are keeping their employees' telephone calls, email, Web surfing and general computer use under scrutiny, and are also using hidden cameras...
[March 11, 2004, 16:35]
Bumpy road(map) to Mozilla browser
News Mozilla.org found itself facing tough scrutiny in the intervening months, with everything from key coder defections, to feature bloat, blamed for the seemingly never-ending browser development process.
[September 22, 2000, 7:51]
Europe moves away from cookie clampdown
News The issue of cookies was being considered by the committee as part of its scrutiny of the draft European electronic data collection and privacy directive. Internet users will not be warned before a cookie is installed on their computer if the...
[April 18, 2002, 16:23]
Care Plan Oversight Log
Downloads In addition, the Office of Inspector General, the investigative arm of Medicare, recently increased its scrutiny of physician documentation to support billing for Care Plan Oversight, as described in a report from Puerto Rico.As a nationally...
[December 19, 2003, 7:00]
Project Kangaroo leaps into alpha testing
News The project is making plans to test the technology despite being under scrutiny from the Competition Commission. Project Kangaroo, the online TV joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, is planning to start testing the on-demand...
[November 19, 2008, 14:30]
The Future of Reputation review
Reviews The internet imposes this level of scrutiny on all of us, as George Washington University Law School associate professor and privacy advocate Daniel J Solove writes in The Future of Reputation. Think of life as a celebrity.
[April 21, 2008, 8:29]
Government to rethink data-sharing plans
News Parliamentary and public scrutiny turned up justifiable concerns with the clause. The Ministry of Justice has said it wants to rethink a clause in a bill that critics have said could have undermined the rule of law.
[March 9, 2009, 14:50]
Firefox slips up through Greasemonkey flaw
Talkback Now firefox is beginning to make a dent in IE's market share (which will no doubt be helped by lack of 2000 support in IE7), it is becoming more of a worthwhile target to exploit-finders, as well as coming under increasing levels of security...
[July 22, 2005, 11:54]
Vivendi exec shuffle raises Net questions
News But many of Messier's costly Net acquisitions, such as Vivendi's $372m (£252m) purchase of MP3.com, have offered questionable financial return and will likely come under heightened scrutiny once a new guard of executives grabs the reins.
[July 2, 2002, 8:25]
Wind up the Internet Watch Foundation
Leader But the immediate consequences of that decision require close scrutiny. Over the weekend, thousands of UK web users found their access to Wikipedia curtailed or removed altogether, without warning or explanation.
[December 8, 2008, 15:42]
Privacy Abuse by Technology
Blog College students have already been subjected to this sort of scrutiny by their network provider, usually their own college. The RIAA using Internet Service Providers to hunt down IP "pirates" are going to do it without search warrants.
[December 30, 2008, 8:34]
