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Internet Hero nominee walks off with Villain award
News Ironically, the official, Simon Watkin, had been nominated for the Internet Hero award -- which he failed to win. On collecting the Internet Villain award Watkin, who had been nominated for the opposite honour for his work trying to sort out...
[February 21, 2003, 8:03]
Internet Hero and Villain nominees announced
Blog The EP is nominated for the Hero award for resisting pressure to allow internet users to be thrown off the web for filesharing. Also nominated for the Hero award are: the Featured Artists Coalition, which has argued against the rest of the music...
[June 19, 2009, 16:37]
MP wins Internet Hero award
News Richard Allan, Liberal MP for Sheffield Hallam, won the coveted Internet Hero award on Thursday night at the ISP Association's annual ceremony, the ISPAs. The Internet Hero award is given to people who "deserve a slap on the back for a job well...
[February 21, 2003, 8:36]
Faster than speeding spam - 2004's Internet Hero
News This year's nominees for the ISPA Internet Hero award illustrate the importance that spam, laws and a bit of enthusiasm play in the Internet industry. Among the nominees are Steve Linford of Spamhaus, for work on spam; the Law commission and...
[December 23, 2003, 12:15]
Sony and the EC vie for Internet Villain award
News The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) and Ofcom were nominated for the Hero category by the ten-person ISPA Council, which has listed Sony BMG and the European Commission in the Villain category.
[December 13, 2005, 16:40]
EC wins internet villain award
News The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has named and shamed the internet hero and villain of the year — the most eagerly anticipated gongs at its annual awards bash. The internet hero award meanwhile was scooped by Annie Mullins, content...
[February 19, 2007, 9:43]
HMRC named 'internet villain' of the year
News The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA), which represents internet service providers across the UK, holds an eponymous annual awards ceremony in which it names the "internet hero" and "internet villain" of the year.
[March 17, 2008, 10:36]
Internet 'heroes and villains' vie for ISPA awards
News The Internet Service Providers' Association has published the nomination lists for the "hero and villain" categories at its annual awards. Every year, ISPA praises a "hero" and slams a "villain" at its UK Internet Industry Awards ceremony.
[January 15, 2008, 15:54]
3 goes Android with Spotify-bundled Hero
News The company will bundle the Hero with a Spotify Premium subscription for the duration of the handset's two-year contract, so users can download unlimited tracks from the internet music service.is the first UK mobile operator to offer a Spotify...
[October 19, 2009, 13:03]
E-commerce needs a new hero
Leader For his troubles, Timms received the coveted Internet Hero award at the ISPAs. But if O'Brien wants a crack at the Internet Hero crown, he needs to raise his game and prove himself a worthy successor to Timms.
[February 28, 2005, 11:55]
Internet industry slams villainous data retention
News ISPA also awarded the title of the Internet Hero of the Year to the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG). Other nominees for the Internet Hero award were: The UK government walked off with the title of Internet Villain of the year on...
[February 24, 2006, 11:05]
Viviane Reding nominated for internet villain award
News The Internet Hero shortlist is similarly controversial. Watkin is joined on the Hero shortlist by Stephen Carter, for his three-year stint as chief executive of Ofcom, which ended last summer. This year's 'Hero' nominees:
[January 4, 2007, 15:59]
Internet villain nominees revealed
News But it's not all bad news, as demonstrated by the Internet Hero shortlist. Other individuals shortlisted for Internet Hero include: last year's winner Elizabeth France, for her work on data retention legislation while she was information...
[December 23, 2002, 8:31]
Chris Long's Column: Cut the virtual insanity
News Well -- and here is the bit that will get the viewers -- Our Hero(s) has a PC with a modem and if they can get on line they can save the day. Once this is discovered Our Hero(s) decides to grab a free account off something like, say Hotmail (an...
[February 9, 1999, 9:29]
Verisign wins Internet Villain award
News Meanwhile, as predicted by ZDNet UK, Steve Linford of Spamhaus walked away with the award for Internet Hero. In contrast to Linford's appearance and in what has become something of a tradition at the ISPAs -- broken only last year by 2003 Internet...
[February 20, 2004, 7:30]
Home Office wins Internet Villain award
News If Internet Villain is the nadir of awards then the zenith is Internet Hero, which went to Elizabeth France who, as Information Commissioner, is responsible for ensuring compliance with privacy laws. Elizabeth France, who was present to collect her...
[February 14, 2002, 13:12]
Europe crowned as Internet Villain
News On a happier note, the Internet Hero award went to Stephen Timms MP, for "for his effective work as e-commerce Minister, which will be missed by the Internet industry". Europe, scourge of the right wing, tasted the wrath of the traditionally...
[February 25, 2005, 15:25]
UK government scoops 'Internet Villain' nominations
News The nominations for Internet hero go to Broadband4Britain.com, to the information commissioner Elizabeth France and to Caspar Bowden of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Government departments have monopolised nominations for the...
[January 17, 2002, 16:58]
Ofcom warns on tighter Internet regulation
News In a hint that Ofcom may take action on the issue this year, Hooper said "I hope that next year you'll do us right" -- in a reference to the Internet Hero Award, which was presented later that evening.
[February 20, 2004, 7:40]
With .tv a New Rich Media Star Is Launched on the World Stage
White Papers The company deployed .tv Domain Name with which they have a machine to take any brand from zero to hero in one click. Hollywood.TV wanted to provide 24/7 access for a worldwide audience to view online celebrity-related materials at their own...
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
