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F-Secure Answers .bank Criticisms
News Security company F-Secure has answered criticisms of its suggestion that a .bank top-level domain (TLD) be created to improve the protection of online financial services. Criticisms included that the domain would do nothing against DNS cache...
[May 21, 2007, 12:41]
NHS IT Report Was Watered Down
News This version contained several criticisms of the project. But in the final version, some criticisms had been removed and replaced with less controversial statements. A key report into the NHS's massive IT upgrade programme was watered down by the...
[August 21, 2006, 12:55]
DOI Discussion Paper: From One To Many
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to elicit comments, criticisms, and constructive dialogue. Further versions may be posted to the DOI web site at and may include changes of policy or proposed direction in light of comments and criticisms received.
[January 20, 2004, 3:28]
Sun Exec Rallies Behind GPLv3
News Using his company's blog, Simon Phipps said that existing work towards GPLv3 had been "extraordinary and effective" and he said he is "frankly amazed by the criticisms". He added, "I am frankly amazed by the criticisms that have [been] levelled at...
[December 5, 2006, 16:46]
Tablet PCs To Catch On Slowly, Says Gartner
News But any hopes Curtois might have had of banging the drum for tablet PCs were halted by Gartner's Peter Sondergaard, who was resolute in reminding the audience of Gartner's criticisms of the tablet form factor -- eventually forcing Curtois to...
[November 6, 2002, 9:03]
Learn From Young Guns' Mistakes - And Successes
News Getting defensive about your own accomplishments, goals, and motives is a natural human instinct that you've got to contain as you initially respond to such criticisms. Don't be mean, but don't be overly gentle in your criticisms of mistakes, either.
[June 13, 2002, 16:28]
User Adoption Of CRM Software: A Deft Touch And The Six Principles For Success
White Papers The latest entrants to this market have taken the criticisms of the past to heart and they now offer sales teams and their management an exceptional tool to perform all of the tasks associated with selling.
[July 25, 2006, 3:16]
HP Drives Compatibility With DVD+RW
News Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday two new DVD+RW drives that aim to address one of the major criticisms of the DVD rewritable and recordable formats: compatibility. DVD+RW is one of several formats competing to be the standard for rewritable and...
[March 12, 2002, 9:08]
NHS Stalls Electronic Record System Rollout
News The NHS has pledged to halt the further rollout of its electronic patient record system while it takes stock of criticisms in a report. A report evaluating the trial rollout of the Summary Care Record (SCR) system highlighted concerns that the...
[May 15, 2008, 10:00]
Password Masking In The Java Programming Language
White Papers One of the ongoing criticisms of the Java command line text-based input/output APIs is the lack of support for command line input password masking. With AWT/Swing, this is not a problem as methods are provided to mask passwords easily.
[October 6, 2006, 1:00]
Synthetic Biology: The Technoscience Of Artificial Life
White Papers This paper uses the theory of technoscience to shed light on the current criticisms against the emerging science of Artificial Life. We see that the science of Artificial Life is criticized for the synthetic nature of its research and its over...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Designing A More Agile UML 2.0
White Papers One of the harshest criticisms of UML 1.x is that it is too large and complex to implement and use. How can the UML 2.0 language designers add powerful new features without making the already overweight language obese?
[February 11, 2005, 2:00]
Trading Places: If Microsoft Ran Ikea...
Talkback If you mean it is correct in its criticisms of Microsoft, then fair enough. "For the most part is right on. About what exactly? But what has Ikea got to do with anything? Does the writer of this article honeslty think that the software business and...
[May 3, 2004, 17:06]
Checking Reality Again: The Case For Full Disclosure, Mr. Lincoln
White Papers This rebuttal shows in detail that the attacks and criticisms that Novell made in its "reality check" are unfounded. We wish that Novell had dealt directly with us before putting out such an embarrassingly biased and inaccurate response to our file...
[October 20, 2003, 3:02]
Firefox? Bah Humbug, I Say
Talkback I know very little about web-development, so the technical aspects of this article and its criticisms elude me. It's about time! That being said, I downloaded FireFox because I thought it showed progress.
[November 21, 2004, 18:48]
3G: Another Technology Cycle
White Papers Several criticisms in particular are being levelled at 3G - that it requires a heavy investment, that the technology is unproven, that the benefits are hard to identify. There is a great deal of scepticism about the prospects for third-generation...
[October 4, 2003, 5:54]
A Simple Iterative Power Control Scheme For Successive Interference Cancellation
White Papers One of the major criticisms of the technique is that it requires a specific distribution of unequal received powers from the mobile units. Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) is a technique, which has the potential to increase the capacity...
[October 11, 2005, 3:00]
The SAFE Act Will Not Make Us Safer
White Papers The USA PATRIOT Act, a law passed with overwhelming support in Congress immediately following the September 11 terrorist attacks, has been the subject of many recent attacks and criticisms. Opponents argue that various provisions of the Patriot Act...
[February 8, 2005, 2:00]
The SAFE Act Will Not Make Us Safe
White Papers The USA PATRIOT Act, a law passed with overwhelming support in Congress immediately following the September 11 terrorist attacks, has been the subject of many recent attacks and criticisms. Opponents argue that various provisions of the Patriot Act...
[January 25, 2005, 2:00]
Worth Upgrading To 3G IPhone?
Blog The main criticisms were: When the iPhone was launched many people were stunned by the revolutionary interface and slick styling. However, the technical specification was not quite as cutting edge as many had hoped.
[June 9, 2008, 9:19]
