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.Me.uk Domain Scheduled For Release
News A new second-level domain (SLD) set to arrive next week will put a more personal spin on UK Web addresses. The .me.uk domain is intended to work in the same way that .co.uk does for British businesses, but is reserved for the names of individuals...
[January 8, 2002, 17:51]
Nokia Wins First .me.uk Domain Name Dispute
News Nokia has won the first .me.uk domain name dispute after the registrant, who claimed that Nokia was his nickname, was found to have registered a raft of other well-known brands. The .me.uk domain was launched by .uk registry Nominet in January with...
[June 27, 2002, 15:40]
Britons Get .me.uk Domain
News The .me.uk second-level domain (SLD) opened for registrations on Monday morning, following a strong vote of approval by the UK's national registry Nominet on Friday night. It is the first new SLD to be introduced since Nominet started operating the...
[January 14, 2002, 11:03]
Company Memorandum: Watch Your Behaviour!
Blog A little birdie - who did a survey - told me that UK companies have become increasingly aware of the need to have information security policies in place, with seven out of eight large businesses now claiming to have one.
[March 28, 2008, 8:26]
The 3 'G's Of Mobile Data
Talkback From Ireland I bought a 3-locked phone on eBay (with no simcard in it) from the UK. So I rang the UK parent company who told me that they'd sell me the unlock code if I got a UK simcard to put in it. She did this, and gave me her account code with...
[October 24, 2006, 19:59]
Want To Get Your Photo In Your ZDNet Profile?
Blog We know that many ZDNet UK members would like to be able to upload their own images onto their member profile, but we're still looking into the tools. Drop me a line at Community.Manager@zdnet.co.uk with a link to your blog and with attached image...
[June 27, 2007, 13:04]
24Mbps Broadband Arrives In The UK
Talkback I for one welcome BeThere & their 24Mbit service to the UK market. It is high time some new operators shook up the UK market; too many white elephants have left us artificially behind the technology curve.
[November 1, 2005, 20:34]
Sorry You've Been Having Problems Posting
Talkback To sort this out, would you please drop me a line at Community.Manager@zdnet.co.uk to tell me when you made the missing post and which browser version you are using? Also, did you submit the post before or after you clicked on the email to confirm...
[June 9, 2008, 15:18]
New Microsoft Wi-Fi Gear Runs On Latest Standard
Talkback Bought an MN-700/MN-720 kit in the USA and took it home to the UK. Called Microsoft US helpline - suspiciously Indian voice made it clear he did not understand the problem but could not help me as I am in the UK.
[February 23, 2004, 15:21]
Never Ending Spam
Talkback The fact that so few are complaining makes me think maybe I should have a moan to ICO the next time I am hit with SPAM from a UK business. Despite this amount and type of spam I get from UK businesses do not annoy me - they are usually easy to opt...
[January 8, 2007, 9:56]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary - Holy Land Special
Blog Spend the flight chatting to a Palestinian Christian businessman next to me who's accompanying his daughter back from her university interviews in the UK. Intel took me at my word and booked me on the 10:30pm to Tel Aviv, getting in at an eyeball...
[January 6, 2006, 17:40]
RSS Feeds
Forum You can reach me via internal messaging or at Community.Manager@zdnet.co.uk. Here's how the RSS feed works in general: On a category page (Community, for example), clicking on the orange button will take you to the feeds page: http://feeds.zdnet.co...
[July 6, 2007, 11:33]
UK Gets Final Warning On E-waste
Talkback I wish it didn't have to come to this, even now if we [UK] do entwine this WEEE legislation into British law it'll probrably be done by halves. I notice Germany is absent from this lest and as an environmentalist I know how good they are at...
[July 13, 2005, 1:09]
Concern Grows About Bulldog's Broadband Service
Talkback I feel the most worst broadband and unreliable broadband in UK is "BULLDOG".I have lost so many pounds to call them on a query but no solution.They cheated me alot.They sent their sales agent to my house.I have signed a contract.In that,he said we...
[June 9, 2006, 14:09]
Apple Reveals IPhone Details
Blog Comment The UK carrier will be O2, the German carrier T-Mobile and who-knows-who will supply other countries. When I will be travelling in the UK with my new Iphone my UK contacts will have to dial Germany in order to reach me next door.
[September 22, 2007, 13:49]
Photo-Me Booths Hit The Web - Curtains N' All
News Photo-Me is teaming up with BT to give the majority of the 4,300 booths in airports, railway stations and supermarkets across the UK a refit. John Swingewood, director of BT Internet and multimedia services said: "It will provide everyone in the UK...
[May 25, 1999, 14:49]
Closing Of Zdnet Account.
Forum Otherwise, send me (community.manager@zdnet.co.uk) or the customer support folks (uk.customersupport@zdnet.co.uk) an email and we'll delete you from the system. Hi there: The easiest way to close your account is not to use it.
[August 7, 2007, 14:34]
BT: No Danger Of Mass Internet Outage In UK
News The UK is unlikely ever to suffer the kind of internet service disruption recently experienced in the Middle East and India on Wednesday, according to BT. The telecoms company said that an incident of the same scale was unlikely to affect the UK...
[January 31, 2008, 16:18]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog I have, and you'll find out about it when it goes live at 0900 UK time. The rest of the day is more briefings, from which I mostly excuse myself due to a slight allergy to the house dust in the Digital Home in favour of various technical talks, but...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Should More Web Sites Be Able To Integrate With My Diary?
Blog When I want to know what time re-runs of Ray Mears’ Extreme Bushcraft are showing on the ‘Dave’ channel I tend to use tvguide.co.uk - and one of the features of I’ve increasingly started to notice is the option to get more info on the programme...
[January 18, 2008, 14:33]
