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Wanadoo admits broadband unbundling problems
News Broadband provider Wanadoo admitted that it was suffering service problems on Thursday, after one user launched a Web site dedicated to Wanadoo customer complaints. The France Telecom-owned company admitted to ZDNet UK that its customers had...
[April 6, 2006, 15:20]
UK bank strikes a hard bargain for Sun's Linux
News Sun Microsystems has admitted that an unnamed UK bank has driven a hard bargain in return for deploying its Java Desktop Systems (JDS) product. It recently secured a deal with the Chinese government that could see hundreds of millions of PCs...
[April 20, 2004, 13:40]
Dell 2.0 to focus on customer satisfaction
News Computer manufacturer Dell is to focus on customer satisfaction, which it admitted on Wednesday it "had not done perfectly in the past". Rollins admitted that the company needs to "broaden customer relationships by listening and evaluating more".
[September 13, 2006, 13:05]
Slammer worm claims victim Down Under
News Macquarie Telecom has admitted that a variant of the Slammer worm was responsible for a serious disruption to its co-location customers last week. At the time, Macquarie admitted that the problem was caused by an avalanche of malicious traffic.
[January 17, 2005, 8:50]
Microsoft: Linux debate needs to be 'more rational'
News Microsoft has dismissed high-profile European government defections to Linux, such as the city of Munich, but admitted Europe will be a key battleground in the ongoing Windows versus Linux war. Dumont also admitted that more customers are using...
[June 30, 2004, 15:50]
MI5 laptop containing top secret data stolen
News An MI5 agent has admitted losing a laptop notebook containing sensitive government information at Paddington train station earlier this month. A spokeswoman from the Home Office said that while the government does not perceive the crime as a threat...
[March 24, 2000, 8:56]
Hilton hacker sent down
News A Massachusetts teen who admitted to accessing T-Mobile USA's internal systems and posting data from Paris Hilton's mobile phone on the Web will serve 11 months in a juvenile facility. In addition to the T-Mobile incident and making bomb threats at...
[September 15, 2005, 9:25]
AV firms slam 'irresponsible' virus writer
News Marcos Velasco, who is based in Rio de Janeiro, has admitted writing the Lasco virus, which is one of the first potentially serious viruses to target the Symbian operating system. In a recent interview with Finnish magazine ITviikko, which has been...
[January 25, 2005, 8:50]
HMRC loses thousands of pensioners' details
News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs has admitted losing the personal details of over 6,500 people claiming pensions. In November, HMRC admitted to losing the details, including bank account information, of 25 million people claiming and receiving child...
[December 18, 2007, 17:02]
Home Office admits to database breaches
News The Home Office has admitted that the security of its ID and passport service database has been compromised several times, but denied that remote hackers were responsible. However, the IPS admitted that the security breaches had still occurred...
[August 31, 2006, 9:40]
Hacking goldmine as BT publishes remote dial-up numbers
News BT has admitted that it published the private remote access numbers of a number of British companies on its Web site -- a move that could expose the firms affected to hacking attacks. However, the company has admitted that it inadvertently included...
[March 25, 2002, 18:00]
Microsoft defends security track record
News Microsoft has admitted it does not expect to ever release completely secure, flawless code, but denied that its software was any less secure than any other complex code. Trustworthy computing is a goal that Bill has set for the company to improve...
[July 3, 2003, 13:13]
Bank group stumped by rising IT power consumption
News Banking group Citi is on the verge of completing a major sustainable-datacentre project, but has admitted that the power requirements of its IT equipment are continuing to rise by 12.5 percent per year.
[April 11, 2008, 15:07]
MoD loses 28 laptops this year
News The Ministry of Defence has admitted to losing 28 laptops since the beginning of the year. The Ministry of Defence also admitted to losing 20 flash drives and 4 PCs in the same period. In January Des Browne, the secretary of state for defence...
[May 15, 2009, 16:48]
ID cards 'were oversold'
News The UK government has admitted that it exaggerated the benefits of ID cards by claiming they would be a panacea for identity theft, benefit fraud and terrorism. McNulty refused to apologise for overselling the benefits of ID cards but admitted they...
[August 4, 2005, 14:50]
Piracy Bites: FAST admits it is powerless
News The UK's best known anti-piracy organisation, FAST, has admitted to ZDNet that it is powerless to prevent mass software piracy through file sharing applications such as Napster and its most recent clone, Wrapster.
[March 23, 2000, 14:11]
DWP downplays security breach
Blog The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that some of its staff have been forwarding passwords with password protected material. DWP kind of admitted that security procedures had been breached in an email statement they sent to me:
[May 12, 2008, 15:36]
Microsoft censors Chinese blogger
News Microsoft has admitted removing the blog of an outspoken Chinese journalist from its MSN Spaces site, citing its policy of adhering to local national laws. Scoble comments referred to reports in June last year when Microsoft admitted to censoring...
[January 4, 2006, 13:30]
UK fails to prosecute any spammers
News More than two years after the UK enacted the first laws outlawing spam, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has admitted that it has still taken no action against any spammers. Last August, the ICO acknowledged that spam was a menace but...
[February 9, 2006, 14:40]
Government falls victim to Y2K -- it thinks
News The government admitted to ZDNet UK News Tuesday that it has been the victim of the millennium bug -- although it is still confused about how to recognise exactly what a millennium bug is. Later the same spokesman admitted it might be a Y2K issue.
[January 19, 2000, 6:18]
