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Conservative Network Coding
White Papers Motivated by practical networking scenarios, this paper introduces a notion of restricted communication called conservative networking. However, each node is conservative in that all information it receives can only be a function of the sources it...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Is Your IT Spending Too Conservative?
White Papers Most corporations have frozen IT spending for 2002 - no big secret there. While this isn't necessarily bad, as it has allowed many IT departments to finish deploying software bought in the boom years, it will make meeting objectives for major cost...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Year Ago: Tory MP Says Don't Blame Hackers
News A senior Conservative MP believes hackers may not be responsible for hacking into the Tory party's bank account, despite reports in the national press. A spokeswoman says, "A complaint from the Conservative party has been received and is being...
[November 24, 2000, 5:01]
Tories Attack Whitehall IT
News The Conservative Party has issued figures claiming the government has overspent by £2bn on IT upgrades over the past two years. Davis, who is contending for the party's leadership, was the senior conservative member behind the figures, which were...
[June 8, 2005, 16:15]
Tories Liable To Compensate ID Scheme Vendors
News A Conservative government would have to compensate suppliers of the National Identity Scheme for lost profits as well as costs if it cancelled the project. To guarantee these payments knowing that a future Conservative government has already said...
[May 29, 2008, 8:48]
ZiLOG And The Embedded Internet - A White Paper
White Papers Of all the semiconductor industries, the Embedded Systems marketplace is the most conservative. Engineering decisions in this market are usually conservative, leaning towards established, low-risk solutions.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Tory Rage Over Ofcom Stitch-up
News The Conservative party has condemned rumours that former culture secretary Chris Smith is set to become the first chairman of the new communications regulator Ofcom. This is supposed to be an independent body -- the legislative process is still in...
[August 21, 2001, 9:26]
Tablet PC Shipments Fizzle Out
News The nascent tablet PC market is underperforming even the most conservative expectations, according to a report published late on Tuesday, with shipments in the second quarter of this year 23 percent lower than in the first quarter even though more...
[July 30, 2003, 12:45]
Pro-patent Lobby In Sticky Situation Over Ice-cream Offer
Talkback If one is not conservative with ones password, then one is truly not a conservative at all.
[June 6, 2005, 23:57]
Shadow Chancellor Slams Government Over Open Source
News Speaking on Thursday at a conference organised by the Royal Society for the Arts, he said: "In recent months, Conservative MPs have put down parliamentary questions that reveal most central government departments make use of no open-source...
[March 8, 2007, 12:28]
Tory MP Says Don't Blame Hackers
News A senior Conservative MP believes hackers may not be responsible for hacking into the Tory party's bank account, despite reports in the national press. A spokeswoman says, "A complaint from the Conservative party has been received and is being...
[November 24, 1999, 13:19]
Conservatives Press For Open-source Push
News David Cameron has declared that a Conservative government would favour a greater use of open-source software. In a speech to the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts on 3 April, the leader of the Conservative Party called for...
[April 7, 2008, 11:00]
Election 2001: Tory Manifesto Embraces Freedom Of The Net
News The Conservative party is proposing a laissez-faire approach towards regulating the Internet space, in contradiction with Labour's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which gives police and other authorities the power to...
[May 22, 2001, 12:46]
News Burst: Tories Call For National Ban On Mobile Masts
News The Conservative Party has called for all the UK's local authorities to ban the installation of mobile phone masts on council land. In a letter sent to Conservative group leaders, shadow environment secretary Archie Norman urged that planning...
[January 31, 2001, 10:33]
Cameron Urges Brown To Rethink ID Cards
News The Conservative Party leader has warned of the dangers to data security posed by the national ID cards scheme. David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, called on the prime minister, Gordon Brown, to rethink his plans for the National...
[November 23, 2007, 13:26]
Tory Party Promises To Abolish IR35
News While IT consultants try to work out how the recent high court ruling on IR35 affects them, the Conservative Party has vowed to abolish the controversial tax if it wins the coming General Election. Now, in its manifesto, the Conservative party has...
[May 11, 2001, 16:43]
Think Tank Urges Microsoft Breakup
News The Progress and Freedom Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, is suggesting a new way to slice and dice Microsoft. The recommendation is unusual because organisations and lawmakers on the conservative side of the political spectrum...
[January 28, 2000, 8:50]
Politician Slams Broadband Uncertainty
News A senior Conservative MP has criticised BT's policy of suspending ADSL rollout until it sees evidence of sufficient demand for broadband in rural areas, and demanded that the government provides more financial assistance to the telecommunications...
[January 18, 2002, 16:47]
E-voting Flawed In London Election, Say Campaigners
News The mayoral elections were won by Conservative candidate Boris Johnson. Former systems engineer and Conservative London-wide Assembly member Andrew Boff, who was a member of the panel hearing evidence on the election, expressed concern that the e...
[July 18, 2008, 16:24]
German Parties Unite Against Software Patents
News The Conservative party (CDU/CSU), which is the main opposition party to the Socialist SPD government, on Tuesday introduced a motion which seeks to tone-down proposed pro-patent EU legislation. In addition, the remaining two parties -- the Social...
[October 21, 2004, 15:20]
