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Discrimination is not the real issue
Talkback In my experience there tends to be a lot of 'positive discrimination' in favour of women in the IT industry. Now I'm not saying that is a bad thing but maybe discrimination is not the issue. The few women I have worked with in this sector have...
[September 22, 2007, 12:30]
Jackson steps down from Microsoft discrimination case
News US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued an order late on Monday that removed him from overseeing a massive $5bn (£3.5bn) discrimination suit against Microsoft. In late January, Microsoft asked Judge Jackson to change the venue to...
[March 14, 2001, 7:36]
Ex-Sun worker files discrimination suit
News A former Sun Microsystems employee is suing the company, claiming it violated age and race discrimination laws by keeping younger East Indian workers while firing him and other American workers. It's hard to come up with an exact figure for the...
[March 19, 2003, 13:50]
UPDATE: Microsoft to be sued for racial bias
News A $5bn discrimination lawsuit filed against Microsoft will be amended Wednesday to include six more plaintiffs, according to attorneys handling the action for the plaintiffs. Willie Gary, senior partner with Gary, Williams, Parenti, Finney, Lewis...
[January 3, 2001, 9:45]
Women's employment rights are strengthened
News Women who have experienced sex discrimination at work, will from 12 October have an increased chance of compensation when new legislation comes into effect. In cases where women have either received less pay than male colleagues, or where they...
[October 10, 2001, 18:17]
Former exec sues Google over 'youthful' culture
News A former Google executive has filed an age discrimination suit against the Internet search engine, claiming that he was fired because he did not fit its youthful corporate culture. In a statement released on Friday, Reid's attorneys assert that...
[July 27, 2004, 12:00]
IT departments warned over ageism
News Changes to discrimination laws and a skills shortage will force employers to tackle the problem of ageism in IT, according to a leading industry recruitment body. New laws on age discrimination come into force in 2006 and the Association of...
[February 23, 2005, 10:05]
UK Web sites face new accessibility rules
News A Code of Practice addressing discrimination against people with disabilities in the UK has removed some of the uncertainty surrounding Web site accessibility, but it does not go far enough, say lawyers, and the issue is now likely to be settled...
[February 27, 2002, 17:22]
IT staff given retirement wake-up call
News And to compound the problem for older workers, age discrimination continues to be widespread in the IT industry, according to research by the Chartered Management Institute and the Chartered Institute of
[October 24, 2005, 14:20]
Australian site told to remove racial content
News Commissioner Kathleen McEvoy found that the Adelaide Institute had breached section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act by publishing material on the site, the consequences of which were 'vilificatory, bullying, insulting and offensive' to the...
[October 10, 2000, 9:14]
Irish controversy dogs America Online
News Those closures inadvertently landed the world's largest online service in the midst of the turbulent debate over Irish independence -- and left some AOL users and Irish nationalists crying discrimination.
[January 8, 1999, 9:44]
Nuts and Bolts of Network Neutrality
White Papers One of the reasons the network neutrality debate is so murky is that relatively few people understand the mechanics of network discrimination. In reasoning about net neutrality it helps to understand the technical motivations for discrimination...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
IT companies 'discriminate towards women'
News During a discussion on how to increase diversity in the IT industry, none of the female executives on an all-female panel spoke about sexism or discrimination in the workplace. One female IT professional asked the panel of women from Microsoft...
[September 14, 2005, 12:05]
Duopoly 'would mean price rises' - economist
News The merged firm will have pricing authority or pricing discrimination they wouldn't have independently," Elzinga said. Elzinga noted that even in the current market, SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft already engage in pricing discrimination, as evidenced...
[June 21, 2004, 9:15]
Amazon.com implicated in CD-import row
Talkback The heading is also quite amusing, "Music lovers are the victims of Discrimination". If you love music, don't want to be the victim of discrimination, and want to pay a fair price for it, I'd say move out of Britain away from the reach of the BPI.
[January 22, 2004, 13:54]
Adopting biometrics? Then keep your hands dirty
Talkback It is in this area that Identix has the patented moisture discrimination technology. You can expect this moisture discrimination technology along with "liveness" technology to migrate to the computer "IT" and physical access biometric markets when...
[September 21, 2004, 17:45]
Ageism rife in IT industry
News A spokesman for the Employers Forum on Age says that discrimination may not always be obvious. The majority of respondents said they were unaware of the program and also thought the government should be doing more to prevent age discrimination.
[October 17, 2000, 11:57]
UK regulators 'relaxed' on net neutrality
News Opponents of net neutrality argue that some kind of discrimination is necessary if the internet is going to survive the next stages of its evolution, and a competitive marketplace should ensure that customers get what they want.
[March 20, 2007, 16:42]
Why are women in IT an endangered species?
Talkback Just as long as there's no discrimination involved. There is nothing "positive" about discrimination). You're both talking garbage. The first post despite its denials is undoubtedly racist and sexist.
[February 10, 2005, 11:23]
Verizon scorns net neutrality fight
News Net neutrality, the concept that all internet sites should be treated equally by broadband providers without any kind of discrimination, has become a hot political topic in Washington, DC this year. Gigi Sohn, president of the Public Knowledge...
[May 5, 2006, 11:40]
