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Councils approach deadline for claiming e-govt funds
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has written to councils about plans for the next round of e-government funding. Councils have until 14 June, 2004, to claim a share of £350,000 for implementing e-government over the next year, according to a...
[June 7, 2004, 11:35]
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]
Bouncing Cheques
Talkback I can't vouch for the person claiming this but somebody claiming to be an ex-director of V21 is saying that the reason some cheques issued by Biscit bounced was because HSBC shut-off Biscit's overdraft over issues of guarantees from the old V21...
[March 2, 2007, 8:57]
We need to redefine I.T. skills
Talkback There are as many reports claiming an existance of a shortage in skills as there are those claiming that I.T.graduates can’t find jobs. The problem is an industry that’s moving too fast for its own good; students graduate from university only to...
[February 13, 2008, 18:14]
IE rivals squabble over browser award
News A Mozilla Foundation employee has hit out at Opera Software for claiming it won a best browser award, saying this award was actually won by the open source browser Firefox. Opera Software sent out a press release last week claiming that it had been...
[June 10, 2005, 17:40]
Evaluating 'the Linux factor'
News Back in September last year, I wrote a column claiming that Microsoft was not really afraid of Linux. But as of late I'm wavering yet again, primarily because Microsoft is claiming just a bit too loudly as part of its Department of Justice...
[February 5, 1999, 7:12]
Government to investigate mobile phone safety
News The government is preparing to investigate whether mobile phones are as safe as the industry has been claiming. Some litigation is already underway in the US against mobile phone manufacturers, with at least one phone user claiming that he...
[January 25, 2002, 13:26]
Ballmer: Innovation key to Microsoft success
Talkback As far as I remember Bill Gates made a fool of himself (in the USA) claiming that they have innovated "this and that". However, when you keep on claiming the same thing there will always be people who believe you.
[April 27, 2006, 20:38]
FSF keeps pushing for Microsoft server protocols
News The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has applied to intervene in a case Microsoft filed against the European Commission in August, claiming that the software giant is trying to protect a technology with little intrinsic value.
[November 25, 2005, 12:25]
Microsoft staff defend blog censorship
News A senior Microsoft manager has defended the decision to remove the blog of a Chinese journalist from the company's MSN Spaces site, claiming that content which breaks national laws must be taken down.
[January 5, 2006, 16:45]
Spam-maker sues SpamArrest
News Hormel foods, the US maker of canned spam, is mounting a legal challenge against anti-spam company SpamArrest's use of the word spam -- claiming trademark infringement. We are not claiming the right to use the generic term spam alone but we will...
[July 3, 2003, 14:54]
Australians hit by online bank fraud
News The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has revealed that some customers have been tricked into revealing their online banking client numbers and passwords after receiving a spam mail claiming to be from the bank.
[March 18, 2003, 10:46]
CA and F-Secure squabble over mobile threats
News CA released a statement on Monday claiming F-Secure has created a market for its mobile anti-malware service through a sustained campaign of hype. F-Secure signed a deal with Orange last week to provide security for the mobile operator's smart...
[July 24, 2006, 15:35]
No return to IT's ice age
Leader A consortium of film companies, record labels and music publishers are claiming that peer-to-peer software makers are responsible for copyright infringements by their users. The entertainment industry is claiming vast damage has been done to the...
[March 29, 2005, 13:35]
Contract arguments reanimate SCO dispute
News The software company also accused SCO with slander of title for claiming ownership of the Unix copyrights in the countersuit, filed on Friday in US district court in Utah. SCO made its public statements claiming ownership of the Unix copyrights...
[August 1, 2005, 9:30]
Pop-under ads may pop up in wallets
News Some ad industry executives are quick to point out that claiming rights to the invention may be a tall order, given the history of experimentation in online advertising. ExitExchange, an ad-technology provider that is claiming rights to the...
[June 5, 2002, 10:58]
Intel countersues Transmeta
News The battle started in October 2006 when Transmeta first launched a suit against Intel claiming that Intel violated 10 of its patents. Now, according to an Associated Press report on Thursday, Intel is denying Transmeta's claims and lodged a...
[January 11, 2007, 14:26]
Open source: KDE hits back at GNOME
News When the Gnome Foundation was announced, the KDE Project issued a statement claiming the existence of the new group would have no effect on the popularity of the KDE open-source desktop. But it seems the powers behind KDE (K Desktop Environment...
[September 11, 2000, 8:22]
Rambus in EC antitrust probe
News The Commission's preliminary antitrust view of Rambus, sent in a Statement of Objections on 30 July, is that Rambus has "infringed EC Treaty rules on abuse of a dominant position by claiming unreasonable royalties for the use of certain patents...
[August 23, 2007, 15:31]
UK man arrested in phishing probe
News According to Sophos, the man allegedly sent fraudulent emails claiming to be from Smile online bank and hoped that recipients would be fooled into disclosing their online passwords using a bogus Web site.
[February 7, 2005, 14:10]
