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ASA cautions Orange over 'unlimited' claims
News In an adjudication published on Wednesday, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that Orange had been wrong to publish a magazine advertisement for its home broadband service in which it offered "unlimited UK and international calls to...
[June 13, 2007, 12:46]
ASA calls McAfee ad "misleading"
News The ASA has asked McAfee to make changes to the ad which suggested that founder Alan Solomon no longer played an important role in the company. One line asked: "If Dr Solomon has the number one anti-virus software .then why did he sell his practice?
[May 14, 1997, 16:51]
ASA rules against Internet directory
News The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) on Wednesday criticised GC Logic Ltd, a London-based company, for sending a mailing that misleadingly implied that companies owed money for having their details listed on the Internet.
[September 9, 2004, 17:20]
Norsk Hydro ASA Secures Systems Access to 50,000 Users
White Papers Norsk Hydro ASA is Norway's second largest company, with operations including energy oil, gas, and aluminum production. Norsk Hydro ASA wanted to ensure consistency between central and local registers.
[December 22, 2006, 0:00]
Freeserve ads 'misleading', says ASA
News The ASA claimed the offer is "misleading" -- some might say untruthful -- in that surfers were being disconnected after two hours online or ten minutes of inactivity, making a mockery of the "as long as you like" claim.
[September 11, 2002, 10:34]
Remote VPN Client Load Balancing on ASA 5500 Configuration Example
White Papers Load balancing is the ability to have Cisco VPN Clients shared across multiple Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) units without user intervention. For example, if the Cisco ASA that services the public IP address fails, another ASA in the cluster...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
dbExpress driver for Sybase ASA (Win32)
Downloads dbExpress driver for Sybase ASA is based on the Embedded SQL database interface, provide direct access to Sybase ASA and allows avoiding Borland Database Engine (BDE), ODBC, ADO, SQL Links and Sybase Open Client.
[October 6, 2006, 1:51]
The Cisco ASA 5500 as a Superior Firewall Solution
White Papers The Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance provides leading-edge firewall capabilities and expands to support other security services. Firewalls provide the first line of defense in any organization's network security infrastructure.
[March 2, 2009, 19:16]
Bulldog given ASA reprimand
News Bulldog's ads - which promised 8Mbps broadband for £9.75 per month "fixed for as long as you are with us" - drew complaints from BT and a member of the public, the ASA said. The ASA upheld the first complaints, saying the advertising had been...
[March 31, 2006, 17:15]
Hafslund ASA Improves Customer Management With a Single Source of Data
White Papers Hafslund wanted to centralize critical customer data spread across six different systems and integrate customer interaction, which was specific to each company and product. The challenge was to provide customer service center staff with a complete...
[July 1, 2008, 1:01]
Using SNMP With the Security Appliances PIX/ASA
White Papers One can monitor system events on the PIX using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). This paper describes how to use SNMP with the PIX, which includes; Commands to run SNMP through the PIX or to the PIX; Sample PIX output; Management...
[February 22, 2007, 0:00]
Wanadoo rebuked over 8Mbps broadband claims
News The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld a complaint against UK ISP Wanadoo over its promotions for its 8Mbps broadband service. In an adjudication published on Wednesday, the ASA ruled that Wanadoo had misled customers by not making it...
[February 8, 2006, 17:05]
AOL taken to task over ad claim
News AOL has fallen foul of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over advertising claims it made about its one-megabit broadband service. The ASA said in its adjudication that the ad "exaggerated the likelihood of users achieving the maximum 1Mb...
[June 3, 2004, 14:45]
Firefox: The alternative history
News March 2000: Asa Dotzler wins an award "for his great work organizing Bug Day, maintaining browser general bugs, and helping novice bug reporters become experienced Bugzilla users," according to mozillaZine.
[July 19, 2005, 13:30]
Advertising Standards Authority investigates breathe ad
News Following last week's decision to boot 500 customers from the breathe.net service, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received complaints from customers who were told they were "using the service too much".
[August 1, 2000, 10:08]
O2 reprimanded for 'best network' claims
News O2 has found itself on the wrong end of an adjudication from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after Vodafone filed a complaint. The ASA also concluded that being the best network depended on more factors than call success, including...
[November 10, 2005, 8:15]
Google keeping the wolf from Firefox' door
Talkback This was all largely debunked by asa a while ago http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007658.html
[March 9, 2005, 2:36]
BT flight offer complaints upheld by watchdog
News BT suffered a stinging rebuke from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) on Wednesday for the poor running of its free flights promotion for new broadband customers. The ASA upheld 11 separate complaints about the offer, after establishing that...
[January 13, 2005, 7:55]
Pension Insurance Provider Reduces Time-to-Market With Scalable Solution
White Papers Vital Forsikring ASA, part of DnB NOR ASA, is Norway's largest privately owned provider of pension and life insurance. Soon-to-be-implemented pension laws in Norway are expected to increase the number of new pension insurance subscribers.
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Advertising body slaps ntl
News Free ISP ntl is to be investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following nearly 50 complaints about adverts for its free service, ntlworld. According to the ASA ntl is now being formally investigated.
[June 30, 2000, 11:22]
