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Bulldog's broadband u-turn 'may improve customer support'
News Disgruntled Bulldog subscribers may be the winners now the Internet service provider (ISP) has stopped courting new residential customers — at least in the short term. Analysts have suggested that the ISP's legendarily poor customer service "may...
[June 13, 2006, 11:15]
Microsoft executes Wi-Fi U-turn
News Despite quickly becoming one of the leading sellers of wireless networking products, Microsoft has decided to discontinue its entire line of Wi-Fi gear, CNET News.com has learned. A source close to the company said that Microsoft entered the Wi-Fi...
[May 11, 2004, 8:45]
Furore spurs Aussie IT visa U-turn
News The federal government has reversed its stance on whether recruitment companies can be considered eligible to sponsor offshore labour, following a meeting with Australia's primary information technology recruitment industry association.
[December 8, 2003, 9:00]
UK may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML
News The British Standards Institution could change sides, days before voting closes, and register a vote in favour of Microsoft's Office Open XML becoming an International Organization for Standardization standard — having previously voted against.
[March 27, 2008, 16:51]
NHS U-turn over deletion of patients' records
News NHS Connecting for Health has changed its policy on deleting summary care records. Following discussions with the Information Commissioner's Office, the agency in charge of the NHS National Programme for IT has given patients the right to delete an...
[May 27, 2009, 9:24]
Duke does a U-Turn
Talkback Thanks for your comments - Duke has indeed changed its position since we wrote this leader but at the time it was accurate based on comments from the University itself. While the basis for the Leader may have changed, we still stand by the wider...
[July 26, 2007, 12:28]
Microsoft's U-turn: ODF support and not OOXML?
Blog After all its efforts in support of OOXML, Microsoft has decided Office 2007 will handle ODF documents - and will never support the standardised version of its OOXML format, which it fought so hard for.
[May 22, 2008, 7:39]
Government U-turn on mobiles
News Hands free kits for mobile phones may not offer users any protection against radiation according to the latest government information which contradicts a statement on their use earlier this year. As part of a £7m research programme into the health...
[December 8, 2000, 17:32]
Lawyer: Home Office unlikely to U-turn on hacker
News Lawyers for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon are expecting no quarter from the UK government in McKinnon's continuing extradition battle. The replacement of Jacqui Smith as home secretary by Alan Johnson is unlikely to alter the government position on...
[June 8, 2009, 15:26]
Microsoft does DRM flaw u-turn
News Last week, Microsoft declared Windows Media Player's method of handling DRM licences wasn't a security flaw, and said they wouldn't be issuing a patch. This week, the Redmond giant has changed its mind.
[January 21, 2005, 8:25]
Microsoft U-turn as WMF patch released early
News Microsoft released a fix for a serious security vulnerability in Windows on Thursday, several days before the patch's scheduled delivery. The company is breaking with its monthly patch cycle because it completed testing of the security update...
[January 5, 2006, 20:35]
Google in banner-ad u-turn
News Google is taking a big step toward becoming an online banner-advertising network as the market for brand ads heats up. Beginning on Monday, the search giant will start allowing advertisers to display animated image ads on third-party partner sites...
[April 25, 2005, 11:15]
Police u-turn on ISP server logs
News The National Crime Squad (NCS) on Thursday denied that it had access to the traffic logs of Demon Internet for Operation Landmark, despite implying on Wednesday that it had "imaged" the servers of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) for 16 days.
[November 29, 2001, 17:53]
Cynicism over Newham Linux U-turn
Blog The cio, Richard Steel, evaluated a Linux environment two years ago, only to turn his back on open source and pursue almost exclusively Microsoft software. The controversial CIO at London's Borough of Newham brought on more controversy this week as...
[October 20, 2006, 17:12]
Microsoft does open source u-turn
News For years, Bill Gates and other top executives at Microsoft railed against the economic philosophy of open-source software with Orwellian fervour, denouncing its communal licensing as a "cancer" that stifled technological innovation.
[October 14, 2002, 15:27]
Another Apple U-turn?
Talkback Depending whether you see this as a positive or negative for Apple I guess depends on whether you're a "the apple is half-eaten" or a "yummy, there is half an apple left to eat" kind of person. One the hand, not providing this access to third-party...
[October 18, 2007, 16:35]
Microsoft's server u-turn
News For years, Microsoft has argued that servers containing only a handful of processors are good enough for most of the world. But now, with the advent of huge Intel machines and the approaching release of a new version of Windows that will run on...
[November 25, 2002, 7:47]
Microsoft U-turn on Vista virtualisation
News Microsoft planned this week to announce that it was broadening the virtualisation rights for Windows Vista, but decided at the last minute to reverse course and stick with existing limits. The software maker had briefed reporters and analysts on...
[June 20, 2007, 9:09]
Dell does a U-turn on the Apple iPod
News Dell has stopped selling Apple's iPod music player after only six months, bringing to an end an unusual marriage of marketing convenience. Meanwhile, the 5GB iPod is fading further into the sunset. Dell started selling the iPod last October through...
[April 10, 2003, 11:21]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback what do u mean by third world .u r a racist wrapped in his own stupidity who wouldn't know a motherboard from a hard disk .u plundered and still plunder the poor countries .u exported ur stuff to India and Africa for ages and closed our domestic...
[January 30, 2006, 12:49]
