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BT demands money back after ISP gaffe
News It is somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 people who have been affected," said a BT spokesman, who declined to put a price on the gaffe. BT is determined to recoup money lost as the result of a computer error which gave thousands of customers free...
[October 23, 2000, 14:10]
Treasury suffers email gaffe
Talkback For crying out loud! The e-mail contains a visual illusion, and the instruction is: "If you cannot decipher anything, then try pulling the corner of your eyes as if you were Chinese. It works! Anybody who thinks these simple instructions are...
[January 26, 2006, 11:32]
Plantronics headset to blame for Neil Armstrong's moon gaffe?
Blog A closer read of the press release for Plantronics new rugged Bluetooth headset throws up an interesting choice on the part of the company's marketing department. The release claims that Neil Armstong's first words on the moon were carried using a...
[February 14, 2008, 10:37]
US legislator in topless girl pic gaffe
Blog Oops! An Ohio state legislator has apparently managed to show a US high school class a picture of a semi-naked woman during a lecture on how a bill becomes law. According to CBS News, "[The legislator] was giving an American government lesson [on...
[October 4, 2007, 17:33]
Barclays in second security gaffe this week
News Troubled online bank Barclays admitted to another security blunder Wednesday that again led to Internet accounts being compromised. The "clerical error" was uncovered Tuesday, just days after a technical fault with the bank's overhauled online...
[August 2, 2000, 10:08]
Security gaffe gores Bull's servers
News A security flaw at Bull on Thursday briefly allowed anyone access to the IT company's servers, offering up confidential information on both the company and its high-profile customers. Those customers include France Telecom, UK bank Barclays, the...
[September 1, 2000, 7:39]
Treasury suffers email gaffe
News The curse of the email blunder has struck once again, leaving red faces at the Treasury. According to reports on Wednesday, a junior clerical officer at the Treasury attempted to send his friends an email with the subject line "Advantage of being...
[January 25, 2006, 16:45]
James Bond in online banking gaffe
News Swiss banking information belonging to ex-James Bond star Roger Moore was accidentally published on the Internet, Credit Suisse bank has confirmed. Payments to Roger Moore and other actors and musicians for royalties were inadvertently exposed on a...
[November 10, 2000, 9:33]
Home Office commits gaffe over entrapment
News A controversial case which used entrapment procedures to catch a paedophile operating on the Internet has been used by the Home Office to defend the fact that under UK law entrapment procedures are outlawed.
[February 6, 2001, 14:05]
Rival browsers benefit from MSN gaffe
News Microsoft's blockage of competing Web browsers from MSN.com has been good news for some plucky rivals: they are experiencing record traffic and downloads, and a leading Internet authority is heaping scorn on the software giant.
[November 1, 2001, 13:17]
BT chief mauled over Web access gaffe
News Those who cannot afford Internet access should go to schools in the evening to get online according to BT's CEO Peter Bonfield. His remarks, reportedly made Monday at the GartnerGroup symposium in Cannes, come amid mounting pressure for BT to...
[November 3, 1999, 11:02]
AOL blunder sparks calls for new laws
News AOL's recent privacy gaffe that exposed users' search histories may breathe new life into a proposal to slap strict rules on what data Internet companies may collect. Representative Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said on Wednesday that AOL's...
[August 10, 2006, 9:30]
How Microsoft's browser lock-out backfired
News Rival browsers benefit from MSN gaffe Thurs 1 November: Opera and Netscape are reaping the benefits as consumers turn away from Internet Explorer after Microsoft's lock-out fiasco Microsoft belatedly opens access to MSN
[November 1, 2001, 16:05]
Leader: Goodbye desktop, hello mobile
News Despite joining TV's pundits in gaffe-land by noting the certainty of an Alan Shearer goal before the England-Romania debacle, I'm still not through with tipping winners. This time, it's a long-range shot: mobile devices will very shortly be more...
[July 1, 1998, 16:07]
Email can bring down your company warns Disney boss
News Walt Disney chairman Michael Eisner warns of the dangers of email in a speech to US graduates -- and admits his own email gaffe. Eisner is reported as saying that abuse of email could bring down companies or even countries.
[May 15, 2000, 15:20]
My nine biggest blunders as an IT pro
News We've all had at least one or two embarrassing moments on the job, whether they involved inadvertently wreaking havoc on a system, making a social gaffe, or mishandling a project. IT pro Becky Roberts decided to come clean and share her worst...
[July 18, 2006, 13:00]
Amazon hit by pricing error
News Some customers looking for a good deal on an LCD TV at Amazon.com this week are now staring at a blank wall, in the latest high-profile e-commerce gaffe. Due to apparent pricing error, the company has cancelled all orders for a Samsung LNR409D 40...
[October 7, 2005, 10:35]
HP calls spying scandal a 'wake-up call'
News The gaffe's silver lining is that a host of "tighter processes and controls" are now in place, said Jonathan Hoak, the company's chief ethics and compliance officer, at a luncheon meeting in Washington, DC with a small group of journalists.
[March 2, 2007, 9:52]
Argos in the clear over 49p TV e-commerce error
News The error has been blamed on a computer glitch, and echoes a similar gaffe six years ago when Argos offered Sony Nicam TVs for £2.99 each, instead of £300. Legal experts have confirmed that Argos has the right to refuse to honour thousands of...
[September 2, 2005, 17:40]
EFF lifts curtain on new act of Sony DRM farce
News The issue affects a different set of CDs than the ones involved in the DRM gaffe that led Sony to recall 4.7 million CDs last month, and which has triggered several lawsuits against the record label. Sony BMG and the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
[December 7, 2005, 8:10]
