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UK Computer Museum faces closure
News The Museum of Computing faces closure after the landlords of its premises in Swindon announced that they were moving out. Even though the museum is facing closure, Holt is optimistic for the future. The Museum has less than a year to find suitable...
[April 1, 2008, 13:12]
Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sites
News The closure of the Pirate Bay this summer led to a temporary 300 percent increase in the number of file-sharing websites, as users created sites to replace the Swedish BitTorrent tracker, according to security company McAfee.
[November 3, 2009, 14:35]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback IM A REGULAR USER OF CHATROOMS AND AM FULLY AWARE OF THE RISKS BUT I SERIOUSLY SEE LITTLE POINT IN THERE CLOSURE AS THIS WILL ENCOURAGE PEADOFILES TO LOOK IN LESSER CONTROLLED CHAT ROOMS, I BELIEVE THE ANSWER IS IN BETTER MONITORING AND SECURITY...
[September 24, 2003, 18:31]
Phrack's closure worries security industry
News Notorious hacker magazine Phrack is to close its doors after almost 20 years serving the darker side of the Internet and communications community. Yet surprising to many will be the fact the antivirus and security industries are actually coming...
[July 12, 2005, 9:35]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback Three cheers for msn taking the action to close their chatrooms.Generally speaking, they are a load of claptrap.Given the amount of chatrooms,it all evolves around one subject sex! Unfortunately, a good internet communication was given a bad name...
[September 28, 2003, 12:08]
Solaris software portal faces closure
Talkback Dennis Clark is a masterful self-publicist. While blastwave is a valuable asset to the Solaris Open Source community, it is by no means the only independent package repository for Solaris. In fact, the BSD ports system, pkgsrc, has a far more...
[September 9, 2005, 13:07]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback If you've never used a chat room how can you say that they are worthless? I have used a room on msn for more then a year,it is a music room,where the chat is about music ,bands etc,not sex and pick ups!
[September 25, 2003, 14:22]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback I agree with Microsoft for once. Chatrooms are a nothing more than a waste of internet bandwidth. I've been using the internet for years and have never needed to use them.
[September 24, 2003, 18:28]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback Surely safety online starts at home.With parents making sure they are fully aware of what their children are doing while online and making sure that they know how to stay safe,not giving out personal details etc.Don't blame chatrooms for a lack of...
[September 25, 2003, 14:28]
RealNames blames Microsoft for closure
News RealNames, the company that championed the idea of finding information on the Internet by navigation rather than by searching, will close on Monday, according to former chief executive Keith Teare, who said he was terminated on Friday along with...
[May 13, 2002, 12:34]
UK firms face closure for software 'theft'
News Companies abusing the terms of their licences or using illegally copied software now face the threat of closure, as the police, working with copyright owners and enforcement agencies, receive new powers under radical changes to the 1988 Copyright...
[November 19, 2002, 15:15]
Financial watchdog threatens Y2K laggards with closure
News Speaking today at Action 2000's National Infrastructure Forum, managing director of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Michael Foot warned that the time for tough decisions was approaching if customers' interests were to be protected.
[July 12, 1999, 14:14]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
News By appearing to take the "moral high ground" and closing its chat rooms in the UK, MSN is acting irresponsibly and endangering children rather than helping them, according to Lycos. Alex Kovach, managing director of Lycos UK -- which runs a fully...
[September 24, 2003, 17:55]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback I have used MSN's chatrooms for about 5 years. I quickly found user created chatrooms as a place to have some wonderful conversations with people from all over the world. If MSN worried about "children" seeing things they shouldn't see, then why...
[September 26, 2003, 1:43]
Scientologists force closure of ISP's Internet connection
News The apparent campaign by the Church of Scientology to stamp out criticism on the Internet resulted in the ISP that hosts a Web site targeted by the Church for its critical standpoint having its upstream connection cut off.
[March 22, 2002, 12:50]
Solaris software portal faces closure
News Lack of funding may force free software portal Blastwave, one of the only sources for pre-packaged Solaris software, to close its doors. Since 2002, the portal has been bundling publicly available software in an easy-to-use format for download by...
[September 9, 2005, 10:05]
CRM firm closure demonstrates market difficulty
News Xchange, a publicly traded software company specialising in customer relationship management, laid off all but one employee and shuttered its doors last week, indicating further consolidation in the stagnating market for CRM applications.
[February 21, 2003, 12:50]
Citelum Cuts Its Period-End Closure Times by 66% to Meet Shareholder Requirements
White Papers Now a subsidiary of Dalkia, Citelum is a French-based company that supplies, operates and maintains public lighting, particularly in urban areas. Citelum wanted to give head office a better overall view of the group's business and improve...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
There was much noise about the closure of tripod, sites.google, geocities
Blog Yes, they have left the stage. It would happen anyway, sooner or later. That’s because of their nonoptimality that leads to high maintenance cost. And cost price is directly proportional to the expected financial return from a service, and...
[May 6, 2009, 16:03]
Excite UK has 30 days to avoid closure
News Internet portal Excite UK is likely to close at the end of this year unless it can find a buyer, following the slump in online advertising spending. Excite UK is jointly owned by BTopenworld and Excite@home, which recently filed for bankruptcy.
[November 13, 2001, 15:46]
