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Google Excludes Controversial Sites
News Google, the world's most popular search engine, has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings. Absent from Google's French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to...
[October 24, 2002, 7:56]
Update For Controversial Network Security Tool
News SAINT is based on Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema's controversial security scanning tool SATAN but is developed and supported by WWDSI. It scans networked machines and reports which services -- e.g.http, ftp, finger and NFS -- are available...
[February 1, 1999, 17:40]
Attorney General Takes Controversial Act On Tour
News Attorney general John Ashcroft has embarked on an unusual nationwide tour to drum up support for the controversial USA Patriot Act. Enacted six weeks after the 11 September, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the law permits police to...
[August 21, 2003, 11:15]
If You Fancy Running A Controversial Website...
Blog Comment - goodbye Netecetera ? who would host with them now ? Ah I guess they worked out there are more quack sites than anti-quack sites and they don't mind taking the dishonest money. Maybe they will do something to redeem themselves.
[March 19, 2008, 6:59]
Google Excludes Controversial Sites
Talkback Excluding hate sites is an excellent idea. However consumer complaint site against corporations should never be excluded.
[November 4, 2003, 1:54]
If You Fancy Running A Controversial Website...
Blog Comment Netcetera are indeed spineless - and they're not alone. It seems that almost any quack, charlatan, snake-oil salesman or Awful Poo Lady can silence critics by waving a writ at their ISPs - and down they come.
[February 22, 2008, 8:20]
Red Hat Defends Controversial Patent Applications
News Linux distributor Red Hat has published a clarification of its policy on software patents, defending itself against criticism of the company's patents policy. Red Hat, which has the biggest market share of any Linux distributor, came under fire...
[May 31, 2002, 16:57]
Oftel Unveils Controversial ADSL Plans
News Oftel has released its official guidelines for unbundling the local loop, but the rules appear to contravene a European Community directive. Oftel itself admits the draft guidelines are "basically sticking to the original plan" for unbundling, with...
[August 1, 2000, 12:25]
Samsung Bets On Controversial Memory Standard
News Samsung has begun shipping engineering samples of 200MHz double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM memory, or DDR400, in spite of doubts over whether the PC infrastructure industry will ever widely adopt the standard.
[March 19, 2002, 17:22]
University Bans Controversial Links
News The University of California at San Diego has ordered a student organisation to delete hyperlinks to an alleged terrorist Web site, citing the recently enacted USA Patriot Act. School administrators have told the group, called the Che Cafe...
[September 26, 2002, 11:56]
If You Fancy Running A Controversial Website...
Blog .you might like to think twice before signing up with Netcetera for hosting purposes. There was an amusingly caustic site called Quackometer, which specialised in spotting and publicising, well, quackery.
[February 19, 2008, 23:28]
US Patent Office To Re-examine 1-Click
News The US Patent Office is to re-examine the validity of Amazon.com's controversial patent for 1-Click online shopping facility after a New Zealand actor claimed that another patent for the same process predates Amazon's.
[May 19, 2006, 13:50]
Europe Succumbs To UK Pressure On Data Retention
News European Council ministers succumbed to pressure from the UK government on Thursday when they approved controversial changes to a data protection and privacy directive. A joint decision is needed between the Telecommunications Council, European...
[December 7, 2001, 15:05]
Witnesses To Testify In Oracle Hearing
News A California state official who stepped down because of his role in a controversial $95m contract with Oracle is scheduled to testify on Tuesday before a legislative committee convened to investigate the contract that critics charge dramatically...
[May 21, 2002, 10:35]
US Copyright Office Wakes Up To Flaws In Anti-hacking Law
News Federal copyright regulators are opening the door for new exceptions to a controversial copyright law that has landed one publisher in court and a Russian programmer in jail. This is only the second time in the controversial law's five-year history...
[October 14, 2002, 10:13]
Licensing Buoys Microsoft Again
News Microsoft blew away analysts' estimates for its first fiscal quarter, once again buoyed in part by a controversial corporate licensing plan. Financial analysts had been watching this quarter more closely than others, particularly as they try to...
[October 18, 2002, 9:08]
Intel Admits PII Serial Confusion
News Chip giant Intel Corp.admitted on Wednesday that its controversial processor serial number had been inadvertently included in one of its lines of mobile Pentium II processors. However, one line failed to disable the controversial feature.
[March 11, 1999, 9:32]
Court Blocks DVD-cracking Suit
News The California Supreme Court handed Hollywood's antipiracy efforts a setback on Monday, ruling that a Texas resident who posted controversial DVD-cracking code online can't be sued in the California. The ruling, released by the court on Monday...
[November 26, 2002, 8:19]
Software Assurance Lacked Confidence From The First
Leader It remains controversial. July 31, 2002: The most controversial piece of Licensing 6 is Software Assurance, through which businesses pay 29 percent annually of the full price for two or three years. In 2002, ZDNet UK reported critical analysis of...
[September 16, 2005, 13:40]
2000 Roundup: Privacy Under Attack
News The government passed one of its most controversial pieces of surveillance legislation ever during 2000 while the FBI revealed its own online snooping tools. The tool was so controversial that the US congress called for a review of its capabilities.
[December 30, 2000, 6:13]
