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SOPA clause could outlaw Tor

...SOPA. The nonprofit Tor Project is currently funded in part by multiple US federal agencies in the hope that Tor will let internet users in... Read more

22 December, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

GCHQ calls for better defences against Shady RAT

...report revealed attacks against a number of organisations, including the UN, various US federal agencies, a UK defence contractor, and a UK computer security company... Read more

4 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Sun's Liberty gets US government backing

The US Department of Defense is to join the Liberty Alliance Project as part of a drive for greater online security Read more

6 March, 2003 by Jim Hu

US Army orders Microsoft to stop sending free software

US federal agencies are warning workers that accepting the software Microsoft sends the... Read more

10 March, 2004 by Ina Fried

UK trailing USA in adoption of open source defence technology

...exacting standards needed to meet the governance, retention and compliance strategies of US federal agencies and government is no small matter. So any open source... Read more

19 October, 2009

US e-government wins higher ratings

US federal agencies are beginning to make progress on e-government, says an... Read more

15 July, 2004 by Kable

US report urges slow road to XML

A new report is cautioning US federal agencies to go slowly in adopting XML. The General Accounting Office... Read more

9 April, 2002 by Margaret Kane
Combined Hardware/Software Solutions to Malware and Spam Control

Combined Hardware/Software Solutions to Malware and Spam Control

...of those most frequently referenced. This paper summarizes the experiences of 21 US Federal agencies in deployment of one such combined solution: IronPort. While relating... Read more

1 October, 2005

MCI re-emerges from bankruptcy to shake world telecoms?

Price war and consolidation loom Read more

20 April, 2004 by Ron Coates

Code Red: Internet destructor or damp squib?

...the biggest damp squib since the Y2K bug. The malicious code, which US federal agencies claim has infected 300,000 computers and could have halved... Read more

2 August, 2001 by Joey Gardiner

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Iain Sutherland

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SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

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NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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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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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

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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apexwm

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