VoIP Vs Evil Roaming Costs
Blog In the wake of 3's abolition of roaming charges, the CEO of internet telephony provider Coms (nope, me neither) has issued a rather triumphalistic statement about how it's all the result of operators "feeling the squeeze" from VoIP.
[January 22, 2007, 16:49]
Treasury Looks To Replace HCI
News The chancellor initially said the abolition of the HCI will recoup the Treasury about £150m by 2009. The Treasury could replace the Home Computing Initiative - a scheme to give employees access to cheap computers - after a number of business groups...
[April 3, 2006, 17:30]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback One does apologise, smithy, I did mean abolition and not prohibition -- Languages, hey.
[January 31, 2004, 11:22]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback Gates is precisely correct: communism operates by the abolition of property rights. Brent Roberts is wrong. Communism operates by the state control of property rights. It explicitly does NOT abolish property rights.
[January 10, 2005, 14:02]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback Gates is precisely correct: communism operates by the abolition of property rights. It failed (and will always fail) becuase of this. Abolishing IP rights does for the intellectual world what communist Russia did to the physcial world (I will...
[January 10, 2005, 9:09]
China Battles Rejection Of Wireless Encryption Algorithm
Talkback Now we need the abolition of voting computers and all will be well. Seems to be a winning day for democracy today.
[May 30, 2006, 18:47]
Red Hat: Software Patents Slow Innovation
News But he stopped short of calling for their abolition, as have some of his colleagues in the free and open-source software movement. Software patents are slowing innovation, Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik said on Tuesday.
[May 23, 2007, 9:53]
Exclusive: Oftel Boss Predicts The Death Of The Watchdog
News Speaking exclusively and candidly to ZDNet News David Edmonds confesses he is leading the vanguard for the abolition of the watchdog in its current form and claims to be extremely excited at the idea of its replacement -- coined OfCom.
[November 27, 2000, 15:42]
Surf 's Down During Internet Boycott
News CUT is also calling for the abolition of minimum call charges so that metered calls are charged solely by the time spent connected. CUT, which co-ordinated the 24-hour strike across eight European countries, is campaigning for flat-rate monthly...
[February 2, 1999, 16:35]
ID Card Scrutiny Under Threat
News Brian Iddon, MP for Bolton South East and a member of the House of Commons Science and Technology select committee, said on Thursday that proper oversight of scientific and technological issues could be threatened by the abolition of both the...
[July 12, 2007, 16:01]
BBC Slipped Up Over Outsourcing Savings
Talkback Seems to me BECTU could've taken a more direct approach to protecting the interests of its members in this case than quibbling over the exact amount of cost savings: IANAL but I'd guess the 1807 Anti-Slave Trade Act, the 1833 Slavery Abolition...
[July 12, 2006, 13:53]
Cable & Wireless Cuts Go Deeper
News A nail in the coffin of its plans to compete worldwide is the abolition of the company's Global and Regional teams. Cable & Wireless is to sack 1,500 staff, take a £6.5bn hit on its accounts and has joined the long line of companies beating a...
[June 5, 2003, 9:57]
IBM Global Services Slims Down To Grow Again
News The essential abolition of headquarters is intended to provide two main operating advantages. As has been widely rumoured in the business press for months, IBM EMEA will no longer have a Paris headquarters.
[July 4, 2005, 13:00]
HP Blames Euro Laws For Drawn-out Job Cuts
News The biggest single shake-up was the abolition of the Customer Solutions Group which is to be merged into the three main business units. HP announced on Tuesday that it will cut 14,500 jobs over the next 18 months.
[July 19, 2005, 16:15]
Gates: Restricting IP Rights Is Tantamount To Communism
Talkback I believe he is defending IP rights, not advocating the abolition of open source. Ricardo - I'm using version 1.1.1. Ironically, I just decided to use it to write this (so I could spell check before I post) and it just crashed on me again.
[January 10, 2005, 22:06]
Intellectual Property Under Fire At The WCIT 2002
News There is a middle position, and in no way am I arguing, or have I ever argued for the abolition of copyright," Lessig said. A series of apparently unrelated comments at the World Congress on IT (WCIT) 2002 signal an increased questioning about the...
[March 1, 2002, 9:34]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
News Intellect, the high-tech industry association, was also upset by the abolition of the Home Computing Initiative. The government is withdrawing financial subsidies that have encouraged the take-up of home computers by UK employees.
[March 22, 2006, 17:05]
Tax Change Threatens UK Tech Entrepreneurs
News Technology professionals have reacted angrily to tax changes announced this week by chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling. The changes, announced on Tuesday, will penalise people who start technology companies, by abolishing so-called "taper...
[October 12, 2007, 15:13]
Anonymous Email Could Be Abolished
News The ability to communicate anonymously online is being abused by criminals, including paedophiles, and should be abolished according to a European Parliament committee. The Committee for Citizen's Freedoms Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, will...
[April 10, 2000, 14:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Looking for car-friendly transport policy, abolition of student loans and free kittens". Monday 15/8/2005 I am mystified by economics. Take eBay, which may be boosting the UK economy by a hidden £5 billion.
[August 19, 2005, 18:45]
