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Rogue router stumps San Francisco officials
News San Francisco officials are trying to find a device on the city's computer network that was allegedly left there by an IT worker who was jailed for refusing to divulge passwords to the city network, the IDG News Service reported on Thursday.
[September 12, 2008, 10:06]
Massachusetts officials clash over move to OpenDocument
News Massachusetts state officials have criticised a decision to adopt OpenDocument as a standard, casting doubt over a closely watched initiative. Marc Pacheco, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Post Audit and
[November 2, 2005, 9:25]
Darling blames officials for data loss
News Darling confirmed that two discs containing details on about 25 million people had been lost in the post after officials had failed to follow the proper procedures for data handling. Officials sent a second pair of discs that were delivered to the...
[November 21, 2007, 7:16]
Net unprepared for cyberterrorism - US officials
Talkback First, there has never been a case of cyberterrorism. Second, no one is the private sector, intelligence community or law enforcement arena can even agree upon a definition of "cyberterrorism," let alone terrorism (even the UN cannot agree).
[December 8, 2003, 14:21]
Massachusetts officials clash over move to OpenDocument
Talkback It might save the cost of the MS Office licence, but what about the cost of retraining staff, redeveloping any systems that interact with MSO, convertng (and verifying) documents from MSO to whatever it is replaced with?
[November 2, 2005, 11:52]
Massachusetts officials clash over move to OpenDocument
Talkback Isn't it true that MS 12 will only work with VISTA? What will the cost be to upgrade? Does MS 12 support ALL of the older versions of office? MS has alread bragged they support OD, to a degree. If true, then where is the learning curve, the high...
[November 2, 2005, 13:05]
Massachusetts officials clash over move to OpenDocument
Talkback I see this has brought out the usual collection of M$ Corp Klingons ERRRrrrr what re training all they are doing is ensuring that documenys saved are saved in an format that is NOT OWNED by some underhanded scheeming conman and his followers...
[November 2, 2005, 16:51]
Blaming junior officials not good enough
Talkback The problem is not simply that "instructions and procedures" were not followed; how did a junior official have access to the entire database, let alone clearance to download it all and burn it onto disk?
[November 21, 2007, 9:15]
Massachusetts officials clash over move to OpenDocument
Talkback Some (political) friends of Microsoft have been brought out in the open and already facts and figures are swept off the table leaving only room for FUD, emotions, fingerpointing, war of words and hearsay.
[November 2, 2005, 21:10]
Net unprepared for cyberterrorism - US officials
Talkback the Net is unprepared for a 14 year old script kiddie, let alone an organized gang.is this what U.S.tax dollars are being spent on? Bush is an idiot - the next election cant come quick enough
[December 4, 2003, 10:34]
Massachusetts officials clash over move to OpenDocument
Talkback The cost of dumping MSO? What a joker. Think of the money saved by dumping it though. I'll agree, I'd rather stay with MSO that Star or the likes, but in a large workplace as such, the savings will be enormus.
[November 2, 2005, 10:08]
Massachusetts officials clash over move to OpenDocument
Talkback Wouldn't MS-Office12 require a similiar learning curve, as well as a state-wide adoption of Windows Vista along with its accompanying hardware-upgrade? What about the cost of verifying that all exisiting Word documents can still be read by MS...
[November 2, 2005, 12:24]
ID cards could replace passports, say gov't officials
News Speaking on Friday at the Home Office, Identity and Passport Service (IPS) officials said that, in theory, the biometric ID cards could also be used for identification purposes when travelling beyond the EU, if the UK can reach agreements with...
[November 24, 2008, 7:39]
Indian officials accuse China of cyber attacks
Blog China is actively engaged in mapping India's computer networks, according to the Times of India. China is mounting "almost daily" attacks against Indian Government computer systems, including scanning networks for possible vulnerabilties to exploit...
[May 6, 2008, 12:38]
US officials order e-ticketing restrictions
News Federal authorities have implemented new regulations for electronic airline tickets as part of tighter security at US airports, effectively taking away much of the convenience of online travel. Commercial airlines will no longer allow passengers...
[September 14, 2001, 9:43]
Poorly timed software upgrade paralyses Nasdaq
News Traders were unable to buy or sell stocks for 17 crucial minutes Tuesday after Nasdaq officials attempted a software upgrade on the fly in the last half hour of trading. Nasdaq officials were able to restore its systems in time to keep them open...
[November 17, 1999, 11:00]
Expect more stock option cases, warn Feds
News Expect to see more legal action in the coming months against executives suspected of stock option mischief, federal officials told US senators on Wednesday. At a hearing here convened by the Senate Finance Committee, top officials from the...
[September 7, 2006, 9:55]
Intel pins its hopes on DSP
News At next week's announcement, Intel officials will likely claim that the DSP is the final hardware building block in the company's "Personal Internet Client Architecture". Next week, top officials from Intel and Analog Devices are expected to...
[November 29, 2000, 9:15]
FBI agent: I am Big Brother
News Law enforcement officials and privacy advocates faced off in a panel discussion Wednesday over the issue of the tradeoffs between security and privacy at the 10th annual Computer, Freedom and Privacy 2000 Conference in Toronto, Canada.
[April 6, 2000, 9:37]
Microsoft brews up a Java-like language
News Company officials have said the language has no relationship to the Java competitor, code-named Cool, that Microsoft was developing a year ago. But at the XML DevCon 2000 conference in New York, Microsoft officials said the new language will have...
[June 27, 2000, 8:34]
