Interpol Orders Immediate Cybercrime Action
News As well as the Council of Europe and the G8 nations, the United Nations, the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have all carried out investigations into measures needed to tackle global computer crime.
[October 11, 2000, 15:02]
XML 5: What's The Story With OASIS? The XML Champion Examined.
News Based in London, this is a major step forward in supporting UK XML users, and also gives the consortium a higher-profile when battling for interoperability issues this side of the pond. On September 15th, OASIS joined forces with the United Nations...
[November 10, 1999, 11:03]
Joke Email Gets London Bus Employees Sacked
News Londoners affected by the tube strike will not be pleased to hear that employees of bus company London United are to strike today in protest against the sacking of two colleagues for a joke email. The email came to light after being posted on a...
[March 29, 2001, 11:43]
CorasWorks Case Study: BAA Indianapolis LLC
White Papers BAA Indianapolis LLC (BAAI) is a subsidiary of BAA plc, the private company which owns and operates seven airports in the United Kingdom including London's Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports. BAAI's Information Architect began to look for a...
[July 26, 2005, 0:00]
Celartem Case Study: TEQUILA\London
White Papers Going into its 12th year of business, TEQUILA\London is one of the United Kingdom's top five full-service marketing agencies. Along with fonts, TEQUILA/London had workflow issues managing its increasing bank of digital images.
[December 20, 2005, 23:00]
SMEs Get London 2012 'dating Agency'
News The London 2012 Business Network was launched at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium to an audience of more than 600 business people. A website which could help small IT companies bid for contracts for London's Olympic Games has gone live.
[January 21, 2008, 8:50]
Bocada Case Study: Virgin Atlantic Airlines
White Papers Virgin Atlantic Airways is the second largest airline in the United Kingdom, with services to over 22 destinations - including its London hub, nine U.S.cities, and destinations as diverse as Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Lagos and Barbados.
[July 9, 2007, 0:00]
Westminster City Council To Save GBP35 Million (US$65.4 Million)
White Papers One of London's largest city councils, Westminster City Council governs more than 220,000 residents and 47,000 businesses that collectively generate 2.2% of the United Kingdom's GDP. Westminster is set to transform service delivery while saving an...
[March 7, 2006, 23:00]
Retail: Selfridges
White Papers Selfridges is one of the United Kingdom's leading department stores. This retail icon wanted to accelerate its growth by adding several new stores in Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow to its singular flagship store in London.
[September 20, 2007, 0:00]
UK Sales Rise In Flagging European PC Market
News The number of computers sold at retail stores rose 9 percent in the United Kingdom and 2 percent in France, according to a report released by Context, a London-based firm that tracks the PC market in Europe.
[February 13, 2002, 11:52]
Google Searches For Picture Of Britishness
News Google has launched a competition which invites schoolchildren to create an image which represents what it's like to live in the United Kingdom for display on the company's famously sparse UK homepage.
[April 11, 2006, 10:00]
NetAid Concert Delivers 2.38M Streams
News Cisco Systems, which organised the Webcast along with the United Nations Development Program, said that NetAid.org served 2,385,455 streams to Web visitors Saturday. NetAid is an online initiative between technology companies, members of the...
[October 12, 1999, 9:02]
NetAid Fights Against Poverty
News Created by Cisco Systems and the United Nations, the site aims to "use the Internet as a medium of social and economic change". Three overlapping NetAid concerts will be held on October 9 at Wembley Stadium in London, Giants Stadium in New York and...
[September 9, 1999, 6:38]
Lord Stern: Downturn Won't Affect Climate Change Efforts
Blog The report, Key Elements of a Global Deal, includes input from HSBC, IdeaCarbon, Cambridge University, Lehman Brothers and consultants McKinsey and suggests a set of proposals to "advance the climate change debate" ahead of the United Nations...
[April 30, 2008, 16:52]
Governments 'play Key Role' In Reducing Digital Divide
News A study released on Wednesday by the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) assesses Internet accessibility around the globe in 2002. Others in the top 10 are Iceland, Korea, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Finland, Taiwan and...
[November 21, 2003, 9:50]
.tm Makes Net Trademark Debut
News Countries outside the U.S.all have national domain names-".uk" for the United Kingdom, ".fr" for France, and the recently activated ".nu" for Niue, a Polynesian island nation. Turkmenistan lacks the resources to provide such a server, so NetNames...
[February 4, 1998, 9:20]
London Markets Rise
News London's FTSE 100 blue-chip index ended Wednesday trading on a high note as drugs, telecoms and banking stocks turned in a solid pre-Easter performance to cement their recovery from Monday's six-month lows.
[April 19, 2000, 17:05]
Sellers Sue EBay Over Double-billing
Talkback Like all you people I have my own story and part of it is here: http://auctions-united.com/forum/viewtopic.php? London The owner of the site I have posted on has started a forum for anyone interested in a class action law suit against ebay here...
[August 6, 2006, 12:59]
Google Searches For Euro Success
News It also commands a huge audience in Europe, with 80 percent reach in the United Kingdom and 73 percent in Germany, said company spokesman Jim Olson. The Internet search company recently introduced its ad-buying programme, called AdWords Select, in...
[August 30, 2002, 11:53]
How CIOs Can Help Fight Cyberterror
News Although all modern, industrialised economies now rely on computers and computer networks for most, if not all, of their vital human and economic services, the United States remains the driving force of the global technology industry.
[July 24, 2003, 14:44]

