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Foot and mouth boosts online traffic

The foot and mouth outbreak has created huge traffic for government Web sites, with... Read more

18 April, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Foot and mouth IT systems need improvement, warn MPs

...any future outbreak of livestock disease, following the disastrous handling of the foot and mouth epidemic in 2001. The foot and mouth clean-up cost... Read more

1 November, 2005 by Andy McCue

Online booking beats foot and mouth

...The Grove Hotel managed this despite the knock-on effects of the foot and mouth outbreak on the UK tourist industry. For May, June and... Read more

23 August, 2001 by Kate Hanaghan

Sheep ID tags to combat disease outbreaks

...of a European Union ruling to help combat disease outbreaks such as foot and mouth. The EU regulations require sheep in the UK to have... Read more

19 December, 2007 by Natasha Lomas

How thin the line between phobia and philia...

...it's being out-evolved for that niche by Nintendonitis. But, like foot and mouth, it's too early to write it off. From Japan... Read more

1 October, 2007

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...farm to farm, auction, slaughterhouse and so on: due to swine fever, foot and mouth and doubtless a high incidence of ingrowing toenails, you must... Read more

21 November, 2003

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...farm to farm, auction, slaughterhouse and so on: due to swine fever, foot and mouth and doubtless a high incidence of ingrowing toenails, you must... Read more

21 November, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

New viruses on the attack

Foot and mouth disease isn't the only virus experts are finding it... Read more

5 September, 2001 by ZDNet UK

Universal broadband? Watch the skies

...villages, let alone the natives who congregate around them trying to survive foot and mouth, European agricultural policies and the easyJet-sponsored collapse of our... Read more

31 August, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

Life saving video conferencing

...of the country side, because of the fear they will spread the Foot and Mouth animal virus. Almost nobody is afraid of catching the virus... Read more

31 July, 2001 by Guy Kewney

Gambling predicted to drive interactive TV

...experienced a huge number -- 3.3million -- of hits in March as the Foot and Mouth crisis deepened. Similarly the Met Office had 1.2 million... Read more

17 May, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

European telcos to escape US slowdown

...mobile revenues is a homegrown one in the shape of the current Foot and Mouth crisis. "The agricultural problems...have the ability to somewhat undermine... Read more

27 March, 2001 by Jane Wakefield

Rupert Goodwins' diary

...the cultural memes of hotrodded Cortinas, chunky bracelets and Essex perms. With Foot and Mouth disease paralysing the country, robotic animals will be the only... Read more

16 March, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

Chatroom Danger: Opinion - when online chat leads to the Crying Rooms

Richard Barry's last opinion piece for ZDNet (he is moving on after three years at the ZDNN helm) is an impassioned plea... Read more

15 March, 2001 by Richard Barry

Nasdaq: Have we hit rock bottom yet?

As the Nasdaq composite falls below the 2,000-point threshold for the first time since December 1998, investors are forced to ask themselves: Is the worst yet to come? Read more

13 March, 2001 by Larry Barrett

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