Previous
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]
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]
Union asks Mandelson to stop Ericsson closure
News The UK's largest union, Unite, has called on business secretary Lord Mandelson to intervene to stop the closure of Ericsson's Coventry research and development facility. The closure of the Ansty Park facility, a recently opened site that houses...
[November 19, 2009, 15:04]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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 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 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]
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]
IT Consultancy With High-Tech Pitch Reaches 80 Percent Closure Rate, Doubles Revenue
White Papers ComTec Computer Systems, located just outside Cleveland, Ohio, provides IT installations and support for area businesses. ComTec's IT staff struggled to configure and maintain their Linux and Apache servers.
[September 13, 2006, 0:00]
Spam volume rises despite hosting-company closure
News Spammers knocked offline two weeks ago when their hosting company, McColo Corp, was shut down are finally coming back online, security researchers said on Wednesday. McColo, based in San Jose, California, was believed to be responsible for up to 75...
[November 27, 2008, 11:08]
Northwood defies closure rumours with added range
News Northwood Laboratories has dismissed industry claims that it is struggling to achieve sufficient sales by launching a leading edge range of PCs and saying it is still on target for sales of 3,000 PCs a month, by the end of the year.
[July 9, 1997, 14:41]
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]
