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Canadian Citizen Profile Criticised
News According to reports, Canada's Privacy Commissioner, Bruce Phillips, has criticised a national database held by his country's Human Resources department, as "tantamount to a citizen profile". The reports suggest the database maintains a dossier on...
[May 17, 2000, 12:50]
Apple Criticised For Dumping Tibetan Leader
News Apple has been criticised in world newspapers for replacing the Dalai Lama with Amelia Earhart in its advertisements run in Asia because, it said, the Tibetan spiritual leader was not "easily recognised" in the region.
[April 14, 1998, 14:55]
Government Criticised For Post-election IT Shambles
News Services for defeated MPs were also criticised. MPs entering the House of Commons after the last general election were often unable to work due to poor provision of IT, according to a parliamentary report issued on 9 January, 2005.
[January 10, 2006, 11:15]
Government Consultancy Spend Criticised
News The National Audit Office (NAO) has criticised the UK government's approach to employing consultancies to assist with work such as IT projects. Both projects have been criticised, but the NAO reported that "key programmes.would have made less...
[December 18, 2006, 13:13]
Customs Criticised For £100m Spend
News The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised HM Customs & Excise for spending millions on its e-government programme without being confident of the benefits for either itself or for UK businesses.
[June 22, 2004, 11:25]
E-government Plans Criticised
News Government plans to go digital were criticised from within its own ranks on Monday for being fragmented and under-resourced. But while the government offers images of a profitable, high-tech future, reports from its own accounts department have...
[March 28, 2000, 10:17]
Microsoft Criticised For IP Address Configuration Patent
News An organisation that campaigns for the reform of the patent system criticised Microsoft on Wednesday for filing a patent with a claimed similarity to the address auto-configuration mechanism of IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol.
[March 23, 2005, 15:20]
Oracle Criticised Over Patching
Talkback By putting this infoarmion out in the public domain, Litchfield appears to be aggressively working to put business and governemnt organizations aroudn the world at significant risk. Though Mr. Litchifeld may have concerns with Oracle, I find it...
[January 27, 2006, 7:20]
Aussie Mod-chip Veto Criticised
Talkback I believe that those region coding on video games or DVDs is not a copyright issue but venders' sales strategy. This Australian court ruling is a bad mistake.
[August 1, 2003, 16:48]
Congressman Criticised For GSM Quote
News The congressman's comments have been criticised on the Web and by many within the industry, for two main reasons. The GSM community has responded to a southern California congressman who has called for the adoption of CDMA mobile technology in post...
[March 31, 2003, 10:09]
Apple Criticised For Persistent Trojan Flaw
Talkback So Apple should be like Microsoft and wait? Wait for a third party to issue a patch becuase theirs might be better? Not releasing a patch the at least lessens the threat while working on a better fix?
[March 9, 2006, 15:27]
Apple Criticised For Persistent Trojan Flaw
Talkback Apple did their part. Now it's up to the users. There is the ability to have custom icons on files. I don't want this ability taken away. There is the ability to have a different file type and not rely on a three letter extension that may or may...
[March 8, 2006, 14:52]
Apple Criticised For Persistent Trojan Flaw
Talkback For a more balanced opinion go here http://test.doit.wisc.edu/
[March 8, 2006, 9:33]
Apple Criticised For Persistent Trojan Flaw
Talkback Hmm, I suspect the 'Concerned Apple Fans' are actually 'Paid Microsoft Employees' trying to make OSX look bad.
[March 7, 2006, 13:19]
Microsoft Criticised For Open XML Petition
Talkback M$ is not really interested in anything open. Their only interest lies in making sure that you are forced to use M$ products, at whatever price. There is no guarantee that 30 years from now you will be able to view old documents with their current...
[April 9, 2007, 14:43]
Microsoft Criticised For IP Address Configuration Patent
Talkback I can see now how software patents will help the EU to become an IT industry (and market) by the end of 2010 that the rest of the world should take example from. Not!
[March 23, 2005, 20:21]
Microsoft Criticised For IP Address Configuration Patent
Talkback This predates IPv6! The scheme in question was designed in the 1980s for the OSI Network Layer, and was in DECnet Phase V. Before that, DECnet Phase IV created Ethernet addresses out of network addresses -- the scheme in reverse.
[March 24, 2005, 23:03]
Microsoft Criticised For IP Address Configuration Patent
Talkback The given link to "www.freepatentsonline.com" only says "an IP address". There is no distinction mentioned between an IPv4 address and an IPv6 address. Therefore I believe the concern is justified.
[March 24, 2005, 12:01]
Microsoft Criticised For IP Address Configuration Patent
Talkback Whats wrong with this. Read the actual patent claim (again) and come back with why this shouldn“t be allowed. It is just one implementation of assigning/making an IP-adress and testing it. There is no relevance to standard etc.
[March 24, 2005, 11:59]
Microsoft Criticised For IP Address Configuration Patent
Talkback Another reason to not adopt software patents in the EU.
[March 24, 2005, 7:42]
