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ASA bans misleading BT broadband ads

BT can no longer run a series of radio, TV and print advertisements that claim the ISP offers 'consistently faster broadband even at peak times' Read more

25 August, 2010 by David Meyer
<endeca_term>Misleading</endeca_term> Stars: What Cannot Be Measured in the Internet

Misleading Stars: What Cannot Be Measured in the Internet

The authors understand their work as a first step to shed light onto the similarity of inferrable topologies based on... Read more

7 July, 2011

Australian telco fined £3.5m over broadband ads

...Australian telecommunications company Optus has been fined for running misleading broadband advertising. The Australian Federal Court ordered the firm to pay a... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Josh Taylor

Linux: 100% "Try before you buy" -- for free

...you don't really have to buy Linux, the heading can be misleading. But we've all heard of the statement that somebody might want... Read more

12 July, 2010

iPhone 4 owners rage against antenna glitch with lawsuits

...seeking class action status. Tietze accuses Apple of unfair competition, false and misleading advertising, breach of warranty and violation of the Consumer Legal Remedies Act... Read more

5 July, 2010 by Erica Ogg

DoJ seeks to outlaw lying on social networks

...who break terms of service by impersonating others on social networks or misleading people on dating websites Read more

16 November, 2011 by Declan McCullagh
The Real Fault Tolerant

The Real Fault Tolerant

...common term in the world of IT, also an often misused and misleading term. For 3 decades, Stratus Technologies has been engineering and manufacturing purpose... Read more

1 January, 2012
Error Modeling in Network Tomography by Sparse Code Shrinkage (SCS) Method

Error Modeling in Network Tomography by Sparse Code Shrinkage (SCS) Method

Errors in data measurements for network tomography may cause misleading estimations. This paper presents a novel technique to model these errors by... Read more

1 June, 2010

Watchdog: TalkTalk's broadband speed test misled users

...the presentation of its broadband speed-checking tool, as it had been misleading customers into thinking their connections were faster than in reality. In an... Read more

16 May, 2012

Nokia faces class-action fraud suit over share price

...shield those statements from liability". "[The] defendants' statements… were materially false and misleading because Nokia's migration to a Windows platform was not going as... Read more

7 May, 2012

Raspberry Pi hits new snag over CE certification

The cheap educational computer's distributors have put everything on hold until the Raspberry Pi gains the CE mark, which the foundation behind it says should not be needed Read more

29 March, 2012 by David Meyer

CentOS 6 Linux, A First Look

...to install for you. However, I found it to be a little misleading in my case because I wanted the Gnome Desktop Environment. By default... Read more

15 November, 2011

Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions

In the tenth instalment of Robert Schifreen's SharePoint 2010 circumnavigation, he finds out what doesn't work as advertised, and begins to think hard about the security of his farm Read more

17 May, 2012 by Robert Schifreen

Law change opens UK public data for re-use

...statement as to their quality or reliability – running the risk of misleading potential users," said the report. "The Government should develop a simple protocol... Read more

2 May, 2012

RIM juices BlackBerry enterprise, dilutes consumer

...RIM has said it will withdraw from the consumer market is wholly misleading," Patrick Spence, a top marketing executive at the company, said in a... Read more

30 March, 2012 by David Meyer

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

3 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

6 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

8 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

8 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

9 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

11 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

11 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

12 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

13 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

14 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

15 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

16 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

16 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

20 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

22 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

1 day ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
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...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

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

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry