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Jane Wakefield: Fear And Loathing Of Technology
News This is a particularly revealing statistic, bringing technology up against the old wall of prejudice it always faces; the fear -- immortalised in sci-fi films for the last three decades -- that it threatens our very humanity.
[October 20, 2000, 14:42]
Local Councils Fear E-government Failure
News Many local councils fear that they will fail to achieve the goal of putting all their public services online by 2005, according to a report to be published on Thursday. Research group Datamonitor has found that 36 percent of local authorities fear...
[July 3, 2003, 7:54]
Trouble At The Top With Blair's IT Fear
Leader One is to cower in fear under the desk: Blair is in charge of one of the most advanced economies in the world. Rare flashes of frankness have distinguished the Government's troubled relationship with IT this week.
[February 10, 2005, 12:30]
Antivirus Firms Fear Bagle's Bite
News Computer-security experts fear a new worm -- Bagle-A -- which has begun spreading rapidly across Australian email networks could be a rehearsal for a more concerted attack in coming weeks.eAccording to Daniel Zatz, security director for Computer...
[January 19, 2004, 8:00]
Apple Shows Fear Of Feedback
Talkback Fear of legitimate comments has nothing to do with it. Back when Windows first hit the scene there was a converted effort to bad mouth the Mac in any and all forums. The goal was to make Windows look better.
[November 5, 2004, 14:51]
Fear Users, Says IDC Security Chief
News Businesses must fear the user," he said at IDC's Security Conference in London on Tuesday. Analyst firm IDC has warned IT managers that education of end users in not enough to mitigate potential user threats.
[September 25, 2007, 13:41]
Sky High Price Fear For German 3G Auction Confirmed
News Players were climbing a war of fear, worried about losing out," he says. As the German auction for third generation mobile spectrum tops £22bn, experts debate the wisdom of the auction system. It fills government coffers, but is it the best way...
[August 15, 2000, 12:28]
Beyond Fear
Member Review In Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier argues that successful security requires the continuous assessment of risks and trade-offs.
[October 19, 2004, 16:59]
Privacy Watchdog Fear Of Govt Super DB
Talkback That is my biggest fear privacy wise. Very simply, the privacy expert AND all of us should be much more fearful of the information private companies (insurance, credit, etc) have on us that keep getting stolen week after week because thos companys...
[January 16, 2007, 17:02]
Studies Motivated By Fear Of Magic
Talkback My only fear is that nothing is researched and in a rush to get Draft N finalised an seriously dangerous wi-fi device is manufactured in laptops and we won't discover it until half the population is sterile.
[October 18, 2007, 12:42]
ISPs Fear Greater Net Regulation
News The ISPA's fear is that the TV watershed, which prevents terrestrial broadcasters from transmitting programmes unsuitable for children before 9pm, could be imposed on ISPs. UK ISPs are worried that communications regulator Ofcom may be given powers...
[January 27, 2005, 15:35]
Hacker Fear Scares US Government Agency Offline
News The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suffered another security embarrassment on Thursday when it shut down its Web site because of fear of computer hacker attacks. The decision came just a week after eight major Web sites, including ZDNet...
[February 18, 2000, 11:25]
Fear
Talkback "Fear makes people do strange things", you say, ator1940. Very true. But whether the European Commission is more scared of Microsoft or open source, I could only guess.
[March 6, 2007, 9:37]
IT Pros Fear Offshoring, Executives Don't
News Despite the confidence of these high-fliers, some still fear for their jobs — at least one-fifth of each group believed they could lose their job because of offshoring. Though no job in the enterprise is safe from being offshored nowadays, the top...
[May 17, 2006, 15:35]
Regulators Fear AOL-Time Warner Merger
News Citing sources close to the matter, the Post says that FTC officials fear a lack of viable competition in certain areas controlled by Time Warner will force consumers to accept the new merged company's service.
[September 5, 2000, 9:10]
The Fear That's Eating The Mobile World
Leader Yet that is the model the operators fear most, and it shows in their every aspect. In the movie Soylent Green, the plot revolves around a huge, unpalatable secret — the staple food of the future is ground-up humans.
[February 16, 2007, 14:47]
IT Pros Fear Offshoring, Executives Don't
Talkback I used to think that, I have seen the 'well qualified' and 'expert' offshore staff first hand. They haven't got a clue what to do, it now takes me twice as long to explain to one how to do something than it would take me to do it AND I have to...
[June 16, 2006, 20:59]
IT Pros Fear Offshoring, Executives Don't
Talkback Lets see now, lets pay the IT people (are critical to a business) just an average salary. For a job requiring high degree of business and technical skills lets not pay them a decent salary. Not forgetting the untold number of unpaid overtime that...
[June 20, 2006, 14:26]
Why Google Need Not Fear Microsoft
Talkback Some of this "logic" is deeply flawed. First of all saying that Windows XP is 42% of the installed user base, and then saying HP, Dell etc.have 55% of the market is not the same thing.of yearly sales is much less than 42% of all existing boxes.
[February 10, 2004, 16:37]
Why Google Need Not Fear Microsoft
Talkback Fraud, Extortion, Blackmail, Sabotage, Antitrust The article by Mr Carroll seeks to focus on a very narrow definition of competition. He claims that since Microsoft entered a market dominated by another company, that it was not directly engaged in...
[February 10, 2004, 20:47]
