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Internet needs no 'digital handcuffs', says Kroes

...a pair of handcuffs sent to her by the Free Software Foundation lobby group. "Let me show you, these handcuffs are not closed, not locked... Read more

19 April, 2012

Home Office: Police will retain data on innocent people

...six years. Commenting on the latest developments, Daniel Hamilton, director of privacy lobby group Big Brother Watch, said: "James Brokenshire's letter confirms that the... Read more

27 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

Privacy group highlights police data breaches

...New figures released to the privacy lobby group Big Brother Watch show that 904 police employees have been subjected... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

Superfast broadband: We want UK to lead Europe by 2015, says gov't

...to catch up with the rest of Europe. A report commissioned by lobby group the FTTH Council Europe predicts the UK will be the last... Read more

9 June, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Australian group to lobby for IPv6

A new forum will attempt to boost the next-generation protocol's image and speed its adoption Read more

7 January, 2004 by Patrick Gray

Lobbyists seek to 'Click the Vote'

A new group wants to mould the US online community's energy into a political force Read more

3 December, 2003 by John Borland

Linux lab wants non-tech members

The Open Source Development Lab -- home of Linus Torvalds -- has signed up its first member from outside the computing industry Read more

25 July, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

VoIP lobby group formed over 999 issue

A new lobby group has been set up in an attempt to influence the regulation... Read more

17 December, 2007 by David Meyer

Open-source lobby group lambasts Gartner's analysis

Open source lobby group Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) has lashed out at Gartner analyst... Read more

4 October, 2004 by ZDNet UK

Ofcom 'could slow reform', warns telecoms lobby group

...of telecoms regulation in the UK. That's the warning of the lobby group representing professional telecoms managers, CMA. The current telecoms watchdog, Oftel, has... Read more

13 December, 2000 by Lisa Burroughes

Lobby group calls for an end to software entrapment

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30 May, 2000 by Felicity Ussher

Broadcasting industry forms EU lobby group

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12 April, 2000 by Lisa Burroughes

Lobby group slams government smartcard plans

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15 March, 2000 by Polly Raymond

DMA buys up Internet lobby group

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5 May, 1999 by Polly Raymond

Environmental group publishes phone radiation list

An environmental lobby group has published a list of the relative amounts of electromagnetic radiation... Read more

10 September, 2009

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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Philip Charles Cohen

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apexwm

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Chris Wortman

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PatrickG

openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...

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Jack Schofield

@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

3 days ago by Jack Schofield on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
Jack Schofield

@Phil at Cloud4 What, Microsoft gets £1,200 per PC and £1,622 per server? Gosh, I'm amazed....

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