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World Internet Forum cancelled
News London's first ever World Internet Forum, scheduled to take place next week, has been cancelled following a lack of interest. It would be both unfair and unsatisfactory to both sponsors and speakers to continue with an audience that is anything...
[November 10, 2000, 15:10]
UK Internet Governance Forum launched
News The inaugural UK Internet Governance Forum was held at the Houses of Parliament on Thursday and featured representatives from Nominet, the Specialist Crime Directorate, several MPs and a British ambassador.
[March 6, 2008, 16:19]
US endorses Internet Governance Forum
News The forum is meant to be a central point for global discussions of everything from computer security and online crime to spam and other "misuses of the Internet". Gross also pointed to language in the agreement saying the forum should be "subject...
[November 16, 2005, 13:40]
European IT Forum: Internet is the enemy of profits
News Delegates at this week's IDC European IT Forum in Monte Carlo were told that the Internet was the "enemy of profits" Monday and that the worst dotcom businesses have confused their "HTML with their P and L".
[September 12, 2000, 11:15]
Internet creates haves and have-nots - survey
News A survey conducted by MORI on behalf of the World Internet Forum has found the British public concerned about Internet haves and have-nots. Derek Wyatt MP, chairman and founder of the World Internet Forum is not surprised by the findings.
[December 14, 1999, 10:06]
EC: Web 2.0 means power and responsibility
News The move towards Web 2.0 will stir the debate over internet governance and make businesses and individuals more powerful and responsible web users, a top European official has told a key forum in Athens.
[October 31, 2006, 13:14]
News Burst: MPs' faith in e-government plummets
News The survey, commissioned for the World Internet Forum in November, found only 61 percent of 101 MPs questioned to be confident that the government will meet the deadline to have all of its services online by 2005.
[September 21, 2000, 14:01]
FBI agent reveals details of cybercrime sting
News In September 2008, police in the US began arresting alleged members of DarkMarket, an underground internet forum for buying and selling credit-card data used for identity fraud. He was so successful in his online disguise that he ended up running...
[May 7, 2009, 17:12]
Forum tries to save email from spam-traps
News A group of email marketers on Tuesday set up an Internet forum for people to air grievances about spam filters -- which can swallow legitimate messages along with the targeted commercial come-ons. The Email Service Providers Coalition -- a group...
[February 19, 2003, 14:33]
Warning issued on international domains
News This was the warning given to the Icann public forum yesterday by the Internet Architecture Board's John Klensin on the subject of internationalising domain names. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum.
[March 13, 2001, 10:24]
Internet governance battles to continue
News According to the agreement inked in Tunisia this week, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan will create a new Internet Governance Forum that will meet for the first time in 2006. But because it's not clear which organisation will be in charge of...
[November 18, 2005, 15:50]
Intel releases details of Web Tablet
News Intel has unveiled the first details for its Web Tablet Internet access device, at its Intel Developer Forum in California's San Jose. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Chip Central forum The device "extends the value of powerful PCs by...
[February 27, 2001, 7:02]
CERT casts doubt on security find
News Initial posts to the Web forum painted a potential catastrophe for the Internet, affecting firewalls, network devices, servers and PCs. The network performance issues are described in a series of Web site forum postings recently publicised within...
[January 23, 2004, 9:10]
Australian group to lobby for IPv6
News A new IPv6 forum will be "soft-launched" at next week's IPv6 mini-conference, itself a prelude event to Linux.conf.au 2004 in Adelaide. Chairman of the soon-to-be-launched forum, Michael Biber, who is also the chair of the Australian Academic...
[January 7, 2004, 9:35]
Coronation Street prepares chatroom danger plot
News The Home Office has provided Granada, makers of Coronation Street, with the Internet Crime Forum report, Chatwise, Streetwise published in March, in order to educate them in the issues surrounding online "grooming".
[May 14, 2001, 10:55]
WAP: The Internet is Mobile
White Papers WAP Forum has members representing different sections of wireless and Internet industry like handset vendors, network operators, infrastructure providers, software developers, Internet content developers and service providers.
[November 22, 2003, 5:55]
British Web chat doubles
News A government-backed Internet Crime Forum (ICF) report released on Tuesday found an estimated 4.8 million children to now be online in the UK, of whom over one million are under 14. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum.
[March 23, 2001, 15:15]
Straw plans Net paedophile crackdown
News Announcing the summit last Tuesday during the release of a government-backed Internet Crime Forum Report (ICF), Bassam said: "We wish to set a challenge for the Internet industry to make the UK the safest place for children to access the Internet...
[March 28, 2001, 10:54]
MPs diss government's online plans
News The report, commissioned for the World Internet Forum in November and performed by Mori, found only 61 percent of 101 MPs interviewed were confident that the government will meet its deadline for all services to be available online by 2005.
[September 21, 2000, 16:20]
Government widens net of responsibility for kids
News It will be responsible for implementing recommendations in the government-backed Internet Crime Forum report Chat Wise, Street Wise, released last Tuesday. Home secretary Jack Straw has invited representatives from the Internet industry, child...
[March 29, 2001, 16:18]
