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WorldCom Chief Apologises In Washington
News In his first public appearance since WorldCom became embroiled in a $3.85bn (£2.6bn) accounting scandal, Sidgmore acknowledged there has been an "outpouring of outrage and anger" directed at his firm and promised to do whatever was necessary to...
[July 3, 2002, 7:42]
BCS: Gov't Data Breaches Have Eroded Public Trust
News Within our membership there's quite a lot of anger over what has happened," said Evans. David Evans, the BCS's government relations manager, told ZDNet.co.uk that BCS members within both the public and private sectors had also been alarmed.
[April 30, 2008, 12:11]
MPs Unhappy Over ADSL Dominance
News A product called Datastream allows rival telcos to connect their networks with BT's "last mile" copper links to homes and offices, but there has been considerable anger from those telcos, who say BT is charging too much for this service.
[February 10, 2004, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Dealing with French telcos is an exercise in anger management for even the most adept, and the promised broadband connectivity somehow failed to arrive. The importance of such security was brought home when one hack was surprised to hear the...
[October 10, 2003, 15:10]
MP3.com: Sorry, No Free Royalties
News The move triggered some anger among musicians on the site, who had come to see it as place largely free of the pressures of the traditional music industry. Tens of thousands of artists had been enrolled in the program, with only a small percentage...
[March 19, 2001, 8:45]
Intel Bemoans Poor UK Science Education
News However, Graylish's comments may anger some academics as Intel recently decided to close its Cambridge lab, the only university-affiliated site it had in the country. Graylish said the decision had been made with "great regret" but claimed that...
[November 30, 2006, 15:09]
Looking For Vital Signs In Microsoft Live
Leader And now he's off, trailing a more-in-pity-than-in-anger blog entry saying that nothing was happening; the Microsoft Live strategy was in "heavy change, reorganization, pullback, and general paralysis".
[August 10, 2006, 13:35]
Siggraph Audience Takes Sony To Task On DRM
News Many expressed anger over Sony's use of "rootkit" anticopying software as a means of protecting copyright. Symantec had been using it before Sony BMG, and there was not this outcry," said Singer. Singer shared an anecdote of how he, too, had been...
[August 2, 2006, 10:10]
Apple Preparing New Upgrade Fees
News Apple this week will announce a plan to charge for upgrades to some of the company's highly acclaimed "digital hub" software, a move that could anger customers accustomed to receiving free updates. During last summer's Macworld in New York, Jobs...
[January 6, 2003, 7:34]
Morpheus Seeks New Role In Music Biz
News The mystery sent ripples of confusion and anger through the Morpheus audience, which numbered in the tens of millions. The company pointed to this as proof that the file-trading technology had "substantial non-infringing uses", which could have...
[March 14, 2002, 9:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The hall full of journalists erupted in applause as they peered up at the screens -- meanwhile, back in London and around the planet, bemusement gave way to laughter and then some anger -- the cameras in Darnstadt remained fixed on the clapping...
[January 21, 2005, 15:45]
Intel Delays Next-generation Notebook Chip
News Apart from its potential to anger customers, the delay might not be too serious for Intel, because it already has a new version of the chip in hand, said Dean McCarron, an analyst at Mercury Research.
[January 15, 2004, 7:50]
Dell Customers Get Snappy At Pricing Error
News Dell buyers who thought they were getting a $1600 Canon camera lens for the knock-down price of $196 are turning to online forums to vent their anger, as Dell blames the deal on a typo. Dell's terms and conditions state that the company "is not...
[December 13, 2004, 17:15]
Apple Revs Mac OS Server Update
News Perhaps the most visible reaction was on the Stepwise Web site, long a nexus for WebObjects and Next developers; the broadside "Head for the Ramparts", published in early 2000, expressed the collective anger at what was seen as these developers...
[January 19, 2001, 10:55]
E-commerce Minister 'neglecting IT For Energy'
News These include turmoil in the Post Office, predictions that the UK will soon run short of energy supplies, and fears that this summer's shock power cut in London could recur -- on top of growing rural anger about broadband blackspots and the...
[October 28, 2003, 16:20]
Anger As Eric Raymond Drops Red Hat
News A key figure in the open source community has transferred his allegiance from Red Hat to Ubuntu this week, sparking a storm of anger. The blunders have been legion on both technical and political levels.
[February 26, 2007, 9:13]
Malaysia Backs Down On Software Price Controls
News The moves have been greeted with scepticism and anger by those in the software and recording industries. Malaysian authorities had been planning to place software and recording discs under the same price controls that govern essential products such...
[September 3, 2003, 10:54]
BT Apologises For Poor ADSL Rollout
News Whether BT's apology will be enough to pacify irate customers remains unclear, but there is no doubt about the level of anger among users. Given an installation date before the line had been tested, blinded with science about "nanofarad capacitance...
[November 22, 2000, 15:21]
ZDNet News Survey: BT Plan Gets Thumbs Down
News Today's Internet announcement by BT has been met with anger and suspicion by the majority of people ZDNet News has interviewed. In the U.S.a similar situation occurred and the telco had to ensure that other ISPs has access to the same billing...
[June 10, 1998, 18:06]
Cruel Truth Surfaces In The OOXML War
Leader There is little as revealing as complaints made in anger. And what the hell have you been doing all these months," Ericson thought, "except taking people by surprise, stalking them, giving them no chance?
[January 30, 2008, 17:03]
