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Google Apps: The Missing Manual
Blog My wife is currently working through Your Brain: The Missing Manual and is threatening to perform psychoanalytical tests on me any day now. Not one to shy away from a good read, I spent some of this last weekend reading Google Apps: The Missing...
[July 28, 2008, 14:32]
BBC threatens iPlayer hackers with mild annoyance
Blog In cryptographic terms, this is as effective as threatening Bond with a poke from a Hello Kitty pencil. With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, the BBC's iPlayer has provoked a chain of events with as much predictability as a Bond movie.
[June 9, 2008, 11:42]
Government: Our spam laws won't be enough
News After we block them, they're on the phone threatening to slit our throats," Linford revealed. The government has admitted that its forthcoming anti-spam law will not solve the problem of unsolicited bulk email on its own.
[July 1, 2003, 15:34]
Open-source guru backs off DVD hack speech
News Also last year, Princeton professor Ed Felten backed down from giving a speech on weaknesses in watermarking technology after receiving threatening letters from the entertainment industry. Like other researchers who've backed down for fears of...
[July 29, 2002, 9:41]
Unisys revamps server tools
News The company is seeking more than $1bn in a lawsuit against IBM, alleging that Big Blue misappropriated trade secrets in Unix and built them into Linux, a move that many see as threatening Linux overall as well as to IBM specifically.
[March 25, 2003, 10:22]
Web ties cut by hyperlinking crackdown
News Companies often hope a threatening letter will be enough to stop the practice. Say you post a scrappy one-man-band Web site on the pros and cons of pet sweaters. Like any good Webmaster, you add links to pages on outfitting pooches in ponchos so...
[July 4, 2002, 9:57]
Harmonising global cybersecurity
News The interesting piece is that the adware people are beginning to get concerned and threatening to sue people who try to uninstall spyware, which they claim end-users have agreed to licence and load. It wasn't so long ago that interest in the topic...
[April 15, 2005, 13:30]
Crypto flaw allows email shenanigans
News Perhaps more threatening is that recent digital-signature laws have assumed that such signed and encrypted messages are so secure that consumers should be held liable for any use of their signature. Common encryption standards that allow users to...
[June 27, 2001, 10:15]
Experts question plans to ban hate email
News We want to ensure that all types of threatening messages are covered -- including those sent by text messaging and email. The government wants to change the Criminal Justice and Police Bill to ban hate emails and hate text messages.
[February 23, 2001, 9:12]
Creative to develop Media2Go device
News As Microsoft and its hardware partners prep their Media2Go devices, Apple looms as a potentially threatening competitor, say analysts. Microsoft on Thursday added Creative Technologies to its coffer of manufacturers developing Media2Go portable...
[March 13, 2003, 12:46]
Copyright bill may severely limit rights
News They noted, however, that it leaves some loopholes and ignores more pressing licensing issues threatening the industry, such as a recently proposed royalty scheme that some Net radio broadcasters say will put them out of business.
[July 12, 2002, 8:02]
Love: Novell could have had it all
News It was threatening to the LAN WorkPlace team. Ransom Love's Linux ideas have come full circle -- twice in the space of one month. Love began his Linux career by leaving Novell to help found Linux seller Caldera in 1994.
[November 24, 2003, 11:00]
Military tests RFID to solve friendly fire problem
News The system allows commanders and gunners to investigate a target without having to aim the main gun at it - which could be considered threatening. The British Army has been testing technologies - including RFID tags - that could reduce casualties...
[October 20, 2005, 13:55]
Jane Wakefield: The dotcom fairy tale is over
News The storm clouds have been threatening for some time now but what is really worrying is the fact that the old school players, the telcos, the network providers and the hardware manufacturers are also now getting wet.
[March 12, 2001, 9:29]
Developers rush to exploit social-app demand
News However, he said the mobile space is threatening to take developer interest away from Web 2.0 for now. With the buzz surrounding social networking, it may surprise few that developers are flocking to develop applications on these platforms to take...
[March 10, 2009, 8:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And you, you naughty geeks, are threatening everything that by being enthusiastic. Good old Ofcom. It has a very dynamic approach to problem solving - when appropriate, it can sit in silence for years, meditating like a Zen master, inscrutably...
[June 23, 2006, 18:45]
Russia gets ready to gag online dissent
News Thus, it outlaws not only ideas but the actions of persons and organisations threatening the rights and civil liberties of our citizens and the entire constitutional order in Russia. At the request of President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Duma...
[June 25, 2002, 9:29]
An assertive job candidate vs an aggressive one
News There's nothing wrong with asking when a decision should be made, but the phrasing in the article seems threatening. First impressions count, but your last impression may be the one an interviewer remembers.
[June 14, 2002, 12:48]
Gates vs Noorda: Here we go again?
News Merkey said he received a note threatening Timpanogas with legal action, signed by Microsoft Windows licensing chieftain Dan Neault. Timpanogas Research Group may not be itching for a fight, but it could land in the middle of a legal battle...
[September 27, 2000, 13:55]
Judge extends Microsoft-DOJ deadline
News Making Internet Explorer the exclusive browser for Apple Computer, in part by threatening to end Office development for the Mac. The software giant, Justice Department and 18 states had been expected to deliver the document on Friday, but US...
[September 14, 2001, 10:24]
