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Demand clobbers government petition site on launch

...Directgov's new e-petition site was intermittently unavailable at launch as it failed to cope with... Read more

5 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

Skunkworks boss hails success of e-gov petition site

...The government's new e-petitions service has attracted large numbers of users in the two weeks since... Read more

18 August, 2011 by Mark Say

Petition seeks to bring back 'professional' Final Cut Pro

...A new petition says that Apple's latest version of the Final Cut Pro video... Read more

28 June, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Public e-petitions to spur laws

...The government is planning to strengthen the link between its e-petition system and the legislative process. Government sources have indicated that the most... Read more

28 December, 2010 by Kable
Stop the data-roaming madness

Stop the data-roaming madness

...If you want the network operators to commit to fairness, sign our petition asking them to agree. You can also talk to us at dataroaming... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Leader

Apple refunds buyers for Final Cut Pro

Despite having a policy of 'all sales are final', Apple is quietly refunding the purchase price of its new Final Cut Pro X video-editing software to some unhappy buyers Read more

29 June, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

EU shrugs off e-petition hijack fears

Lobbyists attempting to take advantage of European citizen e-petitions will be blocked by safeguards in the petitioning process, according to the... Read more

10 April, 2012

Petition to pardon Alan Turing in Turing Year

A Leeds University professor is backing an e-petition asking the UK government to pardon computer pioneer Alan Turing, who worked... Read more

2 December, 2011

Sign our petition to stop the data-roaming rip-off

ZDNet UK has set up a petition against the unnecessarily high data-roaming charges levied by operators on those... Read more

30 March, 2011
<endeca_term>Petition</endeca_term> 2.0.2

Petition 2.0.2

...Petition' is an easy to use, paperless version of the traditional paper petition... Read more

11 April, 2012
AktNow <endeca_term>Petitions</endeca_term> 1.0

AktNow Petitions 1.0

...to participate in grassroots activism campaigns hosted on www.aktnow.com. Sign petitions and forward them to one or more friends to promote your cause... Read more

27 August, 2010

Apple iPhone 4S launch goes ahead in Italy

...month as planned after a judge postponed a decision on Samsung's petition to have the device banned Read more

27 October, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Winklevoss twins relaunch Facebook case in Boston

...with a court in Boston, having said they would not file a petition with the Supreme Court Read more

24 June, 2011 by Steven Musil
The Application and Research of Classification of POCP SMS Based on Text Mining

The Application and Research of Classification of POCP SMS Based on Text Mining

People's Opinion Collection and Processing system (POCP) is the electronic petition system with the function of website, hot line, E-mail and Short... Read more

1 July, 2011

How will G-Cloud save £340m? 'Er, not sure,' says Whitehall

...to Google applications; Alphagov.uk [sic] single domain prototype; Relaunched government E-petitions website along with an analysis of how these models would impact existing... Read more

26 May, 2012 by Jo Best

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SoapyTablet

'Cut Price' Data Roaming? The price has been cut, but it is certainly not 'cut price' in the sense of the phrase, and nowhere near local EU data...

29 minutes ago by SoapyTablet on Cut-price data roaming gets all-clear for July
apexwm

BrownieBoy: "Such crashes are normally down to the OS and/or a rogue application, which could be fixed by re-imaging. Everybody knows how Windows...

1 hour ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Thomas Gellhaus

I've just started using it too, and like you I feel that Fedora is a fine GNOME 3 showcase distribution. I am torn, though, because I checked out...

1 hour ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
pjc158

Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

1 hour ago by pjc158 on Judge orders US to share MegaUpload evidence
Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

4 hours ago by Dean Talboys via Facebook on Assange loses extradition battle in Supreme Court
SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

4 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

8 hours ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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

...... and PDP11s too

15 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...

16 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...

18 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...

20 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...

20 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...

21 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.

23 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...

24 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

1 day 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

1 day 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....

1 day 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...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC