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Child Porn Cases On The Rise In Ireland
News An incident of child pornography on the Internet is reported in Ireland every day, on average, according to new figures released by the Internet Advisory Board. It is clear that no single party, whether at national or international level, can...
[February 6, 2002, 15:27]
Microsoft Stands To Gain From Icahn-Yahoo Pact
News In announcing its support for Icahn's initial proxy slate to run against Yahoo's current board earlier this month, Microsoft said it was no longer willing to negotiate a deal with the internet search pioneer's current board.
[July 22, 2008, 8:27]
Harvard To Steward Popular Blog Tool
News Jon Udell, a member of the Berkman Centre's newly established advisory board for the specification, said he hopes the board can spread the word about RSS. On a Web site set up to announce the change, the advisory board said its first step would be...
[July 21, 2003, 15:46]
ICANN Derails Latest .xxx Plan
News The board does not believe these public-policy concerns can be credibly resolved with the mechanisms proposed by the applicant. Nonetheless, this time, the board was again somewhat divided on the issue.
[April 2, 2007, 11:47]
Eye2Eye: E-envoy On A Wired Britain
News One was to set up a consultation process which closes in just over a week's time and the other was the setting up of the technical advisory board which would be composed partly of people from the industry to make sure that the way these...
[February 12, 2001, 12:08]
Point To Point Protocol
White Papers It is a recommended standard of the Internet Advisory Board (IAB) and is represented by a number of RFCs (Request for Comments) produced by the Point-to-Point Protocol Working Group. PPP was first proposed as a standard in 1990 to replace an older...
[January 29, 2004, 23:00]
Microsoft Exposes Serious IE Vulnerability
News Explorer, but a patch is still on the drawing board. Redmond has released Microsoft Security Advisory 911302, which reveals that the company is investigating reports of a serious vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
[November 29, 2005, 16:45]
Shareholders Lay Into Yahoo Boss
News While they blasted him during a question-and-answer session, shareholders followed the recommendations of the board in rejecting proposals calling for Yahoo to link executive pay with the company's financial performance; oppose internet censorship...
[June 13, 2007, 10:53]
Internet Watchdog Chief Quits
News My replacement will be coming in at the start of a new era -- the shift of emphasis is reflected in the new policy decisions of the board, which is more focused on the protection of children on the Internet.
[January 7, 2002, 16:53]
IWF Defers Newsgroup Policy Decision
News The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) failed to reach a consensus of opinion on whether Internet service providers (ISPs) should have their self-regulatory approach towards dealing with unlawful newsgroups revoked, when a board member deliberately...
[April 27, 2001, 16:05]
Net Heavyweights Launch Net Think Tank
News Other board members include Jenkins; Dyson; Vint Cerf, senior vice president of Internet Architecture of MCI WorldCom; Mario Morino, chairman of the Morino Institute; Erich Bloch, president of the Washington Advisory Group LLC; Toni Cook Bush...
[November 10, 1999, 11:42]
Internet Regulator Considers Anti-paedophile Powers
News A drawn-out board meeting on Thursday discussed whether the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) should take greater responsibility for illegal content on the Internet, by considering stronger action to address paedophile activity in Usenet newsgroups.
[November 21, 2001, 6:31]
DTI Asks For Help On ICANN Reform
News Although the agenda was posted about a week before the meeting," wrote Auerbach, "the actual items being proposed were not made visible to me (and presumably not to the other board members) until between 30 and 12 hours prior to the meeting.
[May 17, 2002, 17:09]
VeriSign Slapped Again Over Redirection
News The Internet registry and services company had argued that competitors that are part of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) succeeded in stymieing VeriSign's plans for its Site Finder service by providing advice to the...
[August 27, 2004, 8:25]
MPEG-4 On Road To Rights Management
News Finally, it has formed a content advisory board, which will direct the specification for digital rights management, one of the biggest hurdles to clear before content owners freely embrace the emerging standard.
[January 29, 2003, 7:46]
Email Interception Law Faces More Delays
News The technical advisory board, which is supposed to help iron out the technical issues surrounding the interception of all emails and Web traffic in the UK, has not yet been formed. After sustained pressure the government early last year agreed to...
[March 1, 2002, 14:48]
ICANN Under Investigation
News The registrars bitterly opposed the idea -- called the Wait-Listing Service -- but were rebuffed by the ICANN board. One of ICANN's own board members sued the group for access to its records, which led to a state judge last year ordering ICANN to...
[June 20, 2003, 9:50]
Resignation Rush Threatens Internet Watchdog
News The former chair of the British Internet watchdog has resigned from the Board and from the Funding Council, a matter of days after the chief executive announced that he will not renew his five-year contract.
[January 8, 2002, 13:50]
Networks Boost Security Against Attacks
News RedSiren chief security officer Daine Gary is a member of the FBI's InfraGard advisory board, which issued the terrorist alert. Security service provider RedSiren Technologies spent the days after the terrorist assaults advising clients to take...
[September 17, 2001, 10:39]
Government Approves BBC Digital Curriculum
News These conditions include obligations on the BBC to "innovate continually" and make use of its archive of existing content, and to work closely with the Department of Education and Science's online content advisory board.
[January 9, 2003, 12:49]
