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Internet users 'at risk' from poor Web sites
News Many Web sites are putting surfers at risk by providing information that is inaccurate and misleading, research published on Monday claimed. Consumers International -- which is made up of over 250 consumer organisations including the UK's Consumer...
[November 4, 2002, 16:12]
Resellers: Cisco not tackling counterfeit products
News Cisco is not taking enough action to stamp out the sale of counterfeit products on internet auction sites, according to networking-product resellers. Cisco declined to comment about the availability of counterfeit goods on internet auction sites.
[July 7, 2008, 17:18]
Is eBay the future of Web politics?
News Business Web sites that foster an aura of community trust may hold the key to the future of online politics. They want business sites and political sites to adhere to our shared values of being fair with one another and treating each other with...
[December 13, 2004, 10:45]
Internet Explorer Key
Downloads Content Advisor does a great job preventing your children from viewing Internet sites that you consider to be harmful, offensive or inappropriate. However, losing a supervisor password could both prevent yourself from controlling the Advisor and...
[January 5, 2001, 0:49]
IOC bans online Olympic coverage for next ten years
News The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Monday that Internet sites are banned from showing streamed audio or video content of the Olympic Games for the next ten years. Until Web sites can guarantee to restrict access to people within...
[December 5, 2000, 15:00]
British women give online porn the thumbs up
News More than a quarter of the entire UK home Internet population visited pornography Web sites in June, with a quarter of the surfers being women. Adult Web sites were visited by 3.8 million British surfers throughout June, according to research...
[August 13, 2001, 8:30]
Internet operations unfazed after attack warning
News The FBI warned US Web sites and Internet service providers to be on guard for possible denial-of-service attacks on Tuesday, but any damage appeared to have been averted as of Wednesday morning. The warning, issued Monday night by the bureau's...
[August 7, 2002, 7:41]
Time to plan your Web services
News 2003 will be the "Year of the Web services," as major Internet sites start to expose data as Web services, software developers shore up Web services tools, and standards committees turn up the heat. For example, many technical sites now include a...
[August 8, 2002, 14:05]
Protect your domain names!
News One of our recent clients asked us to review their existing Internet sites and make sure that they were in a position to avoid problems like hijacked URLs or loss of service caused by a failed service pvovider.
[July 18, 2002, 10:48]
International lawsuit treaty raises sovereignty fears
News Discussions will begin anew next month at The Hague on an international treaty that could make US Web sites and Internet service providers more vulnerable to lawsuits from around the world. The result could be that the Internet is reduced to the...
[May 29, 2001, 17:02]
Apple in court over leaks
News California law shields journalists "connected with or employed by" newspapers, magazines, periodical publications and wire services from divulging their sources -- but it doesn't explicitly mention Internet sites.
[February 15, 2005, 8:10]
Top sites limited by lack of languages
News Less than five percent of the world's top Internet sites are able to respond to email messages in languages other than English, according to a new study by IDC and the online translation company Worldlingo.
[October 3, 2001, 12:51]
Deceptive URLs and 'virtual' porn banned
News The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ban pornographic Internet sites with misleading addresses and computer-generated child pornography. These Web sites use legitimate-sounding domain names to lure children to sites...
[March 28, 2003, 12:14]
Age verification scanner launched
News Future PCs may bar children from Internet sites by using an ultrasound device to gauge their age from a hand bone. The companies envision the technology as a way to limit access to chat rooms and Web sites.
[February 11, 2005, 9:10]
News Burst: Danes find another IE bug
News The "Look Ma, No Dots" bug allows users to get around the higher security levels in Internet Explorer for Internet sites - as opposed to intranet sites - by a simple calculation based on the site's IP address.
[October 21, 1998, 16:40]
Welsh hacker pleads guilty to credit card crime
News A Welsh computer hacker at the centre of a multi-million pound FBI fraud investigation has pleaded guilty to breaking into Internet sites for money, just days before going on trial. Gray admitted using two stolen credit card numbers to create Web...
[March 30, 2001, 14:32]
O2 launches i-mode in UK
News The service, which allows users to access a range of Internet sites and services that have been tailored to work with mobile phones, will be available from 1 October. On the security side, O2 said that users "can be safe in the knowledge that i...
[September 26, 2005, 17:20]
Hot links, cool trends on the Web
News Japanese anime character Dragonball is the hottest Internet trend for the second year in a row, and Natalie Portman has unseated Angelina Jolie among popular celebrities on the Web, according to data from top Internet search sites.
[December 27, 2002, 9:26]
Web sites fail to protect privacy
News Consumers International, which represents 263 consumer organisations, says that hardly any Internet sites which collect personal data allow those users to decide whether they want their information passed on to a third party.
[January 25, 2001, 16:12]
A Year Ago: 72 per cent of US business Web users go to porn sites
News And if your company is a lot like others, your boss also found out that the hottest Web surfing was found at pornographic Internet sites. Your boss may know exactly what kind of Web sites you visited today.
[June 26, 1998, 6:26]
