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China goes on spam offensive
News Last July China signed-up for the London Action Plan on spam. The initiative will officially be launched on 30 March, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in London told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com.
[February 23, 2006, 10:20]
China joins anti-spam alliance
News However, at a ceremony attended by British ambassador Christopher Hum and US federal trade commissioner Jon Leibowitz, China announced it will join international enforcement efforts against spam by adopting the London Action Plan on Spam...
[July 5, 2005, 9:15]
Blair stomps on millennium bug
News At a London meeting, the Prime Minister outlined his plans to mobilise an army of 20,000 bug busters - young people, older unemployed, or even retired people, who will receive government training to deal with the Millenium bug.
[March 30, 1998, 16:47]
A Year Ago: Blair stomps on millennium bug
News At a London meeting, the Prime Minister outlined his plans to mobilise an army of 20,000 bug busters -- young people, older unemployed, or even retired people, who will receive government training to deal with the Millenium bug.
[March 29, 1999, 7:48]
UK ISPs join fight against spammers
News LINX, which claims to be the world's largest group of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), has joined the London Action Plan (LAP) network - a joint scheme between government agencies and companies in 21 countries to achieve better anti-spam laws.
[March 14, 2005, 11:40]
International experts launch anti-cybercrime plan
News An international group of security experts has launched an action plan against cyberthreats. The roadmap, launched on Wednesday at Infosecurity 2009 in London, was formulated by security specialists from organisations including the US Department of...
[April 29, 2009, 17:21]
ID cards 'may still fail'
News The London School of Economics (LSE) Identity Project has been a leading critic of the ID card project but the team said it welcomes the shift in the government's position. Dr Edgar A Whitley, the LSE team's research co-ordinator, said the new...
[December 21, 2006, 7:31]
Parliamentary tech boss backs calls for gov't IT loans
News The group, composed of IT manager association Socitm, environmental charity Global Action Plan and IT suppliers Logicalis and CA, called for the fund in its report A Shared Vision for Smarter Services, which was launched last week.
[June 30, 2009, 8:31]
2001: Email misdemeanours
News A matter of days later, a London law firm was reprimanded for circulating a hoax email announcing the murder of a company secretary. In September, one of the oldest law firms in London was accused of circulating a racist and sexist email about a...
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
Businesses urged to devise digital-forensics plans
News Unless the organisation has developed a detailed planned response to typical risk scenarios, much potential evidence will never be collected or will become worthless as a result of contamination," wrote Sommer, a visiting professor for the London...
[December 3, 2008, 16:29]
Home Office finalises ID management plans
News We will bring forward a clear plan in the coming weeks," Joan Ryan, Home Office parliamentary undersecretary of state, speaking at the Biometrics 2006 show in London. We're three-quarters of the way through, and we're near to giving specifications...
[October 19, 2006, 15:35]
Gov't U-turns on compulsory ID cards for pilots
News As a result, a pilot scheme to issue workers with compulsory cards, which was planned for two airports, Manchester and London City, will not take place. The government has taken the decision to make identity cards voluntary for airside workers...
[June 30, 2009, 17:44]
Lacey's Paper Round
News This was the year Europe rounded the e-commerce corner".many retailers realized that traditional US strategies wouldn't work in London or Paris, and came back to the market with locally tailored sites that struck a chord with Euorpean shoppers".It...
[December 14, 1998, 10:24]
China joins spam talks
News The DTI's Sahel told silicon.com: "In the past, China has not been present at events such as this for a variety of reasons but they have now signed up to the London action plan and our endgame now becomes to work closely with China as well as...
[February 23, 2005, 8:55]
Symantec error gets vicars in a twist
News Green and CHP staff contacted Symantec in London, Dublin and the US, trying to get them to action the complaint quickly, and asking for escalation at each point. Vicars use the software to choose services, plan Bible readings and create booklets.
[August 3, 2006, 14:35]
Spam fight goes global
News The organisations involved in the initiative are APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation), the European Union's CNSA (contact network of spam-enforcement authorities), ITU (International Telecommunication Union), the London Action Plan, OECD...
[November 1, 2006, 11:44]
Library trial puts Wi-Fi hot spots on the books
News The DTI has put its plan to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots to libraries across the UK into action. Speaking at the Mobile Enterprise conference in London's Earls Court on Wednesday, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said a trial is now running at 10...
[June 16, 2004, 13:25]
Europe debates data sharing
News The ministerial meeting, organised by the UK which now holds the EU presidency, will discuss home secretary Charles Clarke's ten point action plan in response to the terror attacks on London. European justice and home affairs ministers are...
[July 13, 2005, 15:50]
Nato: Cyber-terrorism danger equal to missile attack
News Nations need to focus on improving their ability to quickly recover and get systems back online, an area in which nearly all countries were currently "weak", Anil told delegates at the e-Crime Congress 2008 in London.
[March 10, 2008, 8:06]
Strike fears over BT outsourcing plan
News BT may be hit by industrial action over a plan to shift directory enquiries jobs to India. At a conference in London recently the president of Nasscom, India's National Association of Software and Service Companies, told delegates that "business...
[February 19, 2003, 15:45]
