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Firefox Donations Hit $250,000
News The Mozilla Foundation announced on Saturday that it had raised $250,000 during the 10 days of its fundraising campaign, securing donations from 10,000 individuals. The money will be used to promote the final version of Firefox 1.0 some time after...
[November 1, 2004, 10:09]
Paypal Hacks: Accept Donations
White Papers PayPal has long understood the value of making donations quick and easy. The Internet has long been a tool for bringing together like-minded activists in a common cause. After Howard Dean's campaign for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination...
[October 17, 2007, 0:00]
Amazon, Yahoo! Take Red Cross Donations
News Web sites including Amazon.com and Yahoo.com are allowing people to make donations to the American Red Cross through their Web sites. The payments to Amazon -- not to exceed $50 each -- are using the "Amazon Honor System," which the online retailer...
[September 12, 2001, 17:07]
Open Source Java Project Wants Code Donations
News Apache Harmony, a project which plans to create an open source implementation of Java, has called on the Java business community to donate software. Geir Magnusson, a board member at Apache Software Foundation, said developing open source...
[July 5, 2005, 15:00]
Tech Community Rally Around Katrina's Victims
News The tech community is rallying around victims of Hurricane Katrina, offering technical assistance, aiding the homeless and gathering relief donations. The American Red Cross said it has raised $21m, with nearly $15m of that coming from individual...
[September 1, 2005, 16:35]
Coding Error Thwarts Paralympic Phishing Scam
News A new phishing email aimed at diverting donations to the Australian Paralympic Team has emerged -- complete with a coding error which means that the cold-hearted scam is unlikely to work. The email, which falsely claims to be from Westpac, is a...
[June 1, 2004, 12:50]
Firefox Plans Mass Marketing Drive
Talkback I think Mozilla / Spreadfirefox should have a new donations drive linked to this competition. They should have the donations go towards making a high quality commercial out of the winner video, or using all the best ideas together, and then airing...
[November 23, 2005, 17:50]
Man Arrested For Tsunami Email Scam
News A man has been released on bail after being charged with stealing donations for tsunami relief. In the emails, Schmieder is said to have requested that donations be sent to a PayPal account. Twenty-four-year-old Matthew Schmieder, who is accused of...
[January 18, 2005, 12:25]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback All this talk of Bill Goatses charitable donations from apparent proffesionals? Doesn't uas have a similar 'write off taxs against charitable donations rule to GB? How much does it earn? How big must it's tax bill be?
[March 5, 2005, 0:53]
Microsoft Gives Away $25m
Talkback As most of the donations are in forms of software that the company produces itself can they really be called donations? If it was say a car company giving away its own cars it would be different, but the actual cost to Microsoft of giving away...
[January 16, 2004, 15:10]
British Charities Missing The Online Buck
News A leading Internet fundraising consultant believes the lack of an official Web site to handle donations for the rescue operation in Turkey is symptomatic of UK charities' slow adoption of the Internet.
[August 20, 1999, 11:30]
A Year Ago: British Charities Missing The Online Buck
News A leading Internet fundraising consultant believes the lack of an official Web site to handle donations for the rescue operation in Turkey is symptomatic of UK charities' slow adoption of the Internet.
[August 21, 2000, 7:00]
Tech Missionaries Spread The Net
News The San Francisco-based company, founded by a former Microsoft executive and funded largely by donations from technology workers and venture capitalists, developed its "Computer Room" project with cash from Microsoft, Global Catalyst Foundation...
[May 23, 2002, 7:32]
Tsunami 'hacker' Conviction Worries Experts
News He admitted attempted to access the Web site, which was collecting donations for victims of last year's tsunami. In evidence it was shown that he had attempted to access the tsunami donations site on two occasions and the site's security systems...
[October 7, 2005, 15:40]
Democrat Site Exposed Donor Info
News Anyone with a Web browser could have looked through files on the party's Web site, including digital forms that had been used to make donations to the party. While most of the donations were from last year, there were records for donations made as...
[April 9, 2001, 11:06]
Online Crooks Exploit WTC Disaster
News Another widespread email solicited donations for the Red Cross, but the link led to a Web site unconnected with the popular, nonprofit relief organisation. The group provided a list of reputable organisations that were taking donations--including...
[September 14, 2001, 9:34]
Microsoft's Lobbying Budget 'outstripped Enron's'
News Judge Kollar-Kotelly heard that total donations to political donations from Microsoft and its employees to political parties, candidates and PACs in the 2000 election cycle amounted to more than $6.1m.
[February 12, 2002, 12:06]
E-Terrorism: An Online War?
News Email based circulars asking for donations are by no means peculiar to Islamic splinter groups. What is peculiar about the email circulated by the Al-Shiite Youth movement of Nigeria, was the solemn promise that all donations would contribute to...
[November 29, 2002, 9:44]
OpenBSD Founder Makes Funding Plea
News Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of OpenBSD, confirmed the loss figures to ZDNet UK and said the project currently has an income of around $100,000 (£60,000), half of which comes from donations, with the other half coming from product...
[March 23, 2006, 10:10]
Web Channels Cash To Disaster Zone
News Thanks to donated banner ads on major commerce sites, and links through from such established Web charity sites as www.thehungersite.com and www.mercycorps.com, the level of online donations is the highest it has ever been, according to Karl...
[September 13, 2001, 17:36]
