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Inland Revenue may miss online targets
News The Inland Revenue is likely to fail to achieve its targets for the take-up of its online services, MPs warned on Thursday. According to the committee, the Inland Revenue is unlikely to achieve its target of 50 percent take-up of its online...
[August 29, 2002, 12:05]
Government smashes own online targets
News The government claims Tuesday to have smashed its own targets for the delivery of services via the Internet. McCartney highlighted some of the recent Web initiatives from government including the UK online citizens' portal which went live after...
[January 17, 2001, 10:43]
UK Online targets small-business market
News UK Online, the first ISP in the country to offer next-generation broadband speeds nationally, is boosting its focus on the small-business market. In 2005, UK Online launched an ADSL2+ broadband service which provides downstream speeds of up to 22Mbps.
[May 11, 2007, 18:13]
Amex card targets online security fears
News The first feature aimed at allaying the fears of shoppers entering into online transactions is the American Express Online Wallet. When making an online purchase the user opens the wallet, clicks on a "complete purchase" button and the vendor's...
[September 9, 1999, 15:49]
ZDNet interviews the e-Minister: Part III
News It will review targets for online government service delivery and give its conclusions in July, although we may well make some announcements before then. We are looking at the targets at the moment, they were set a couple of years ago and...
[February 21, 2000, 10:29]
Microsoft probes AntiSpyware Trojan
News The Trojan targets users of UK online banks such as Barclays, Cahoot, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Nationwide, NatWest, and Smile. Microsoft is investigating a piece of malicious code that targets the recently released beta version of its AntiSpyware...
[February 10, 2005, 15:35]
Gov't: Terrorists increasingly exploiting tech
News Terrorists are using the internet for secure communications, mission planning, assessing targets online and to radicalise the next generation," Tom Black, chief executive of Detica, told ZDNet.co.uk. Black said that eventually "threat prints" could...
[July 3, 2008, 14:54]
Intuit releases QuickBooks 2009
News The 2009 release targets businesses that work globally, whether that means shipping vintage Disney toys to eBay buyers in Japan or employing basket weavers in Uganda. For $99, QuickBooks Simple Start Edition targets users with the most basic...
[September 30, 2008, 11:23]
UK 'unlikely' to meet online target for SMEs
News British companies are not in the business of fulfilling aspirational targets set by any government," said Sally Low, e-business policy advisor at the British Chambers of Commerce. The role of government should be one of enabling business in the...
[November 20, 2001, 10:27]
E-government plans are doomed to failure
News Earlier in the year, left-wing thinktank Demos condemned the government's obsession with targets and called on it to make a more radical shift in the way information was used and disseminated in the electronic age.
[June 5, 2001, 10:19]
UK government down the e-league
News It reports that with only a year to go before the 2005 e-government targets, "only a few UK Government websites offer full transactional capabilities". Also, despite modifying the e-government targets in an attempt to address low levels of take up...
[May 6, 2004, 9:40]
Survey condemns government e-plans
News One interviewee, from a technology consultancy firm, worries that the government will pay lip service to its self-imposed targets. They have to give the impression of achieving targets and to a large extent they will.
[February 5, 2001, 6:15]
EU plays catch-up with US at dot com summit
News In advance of the Summit, the EC has set new targets for Internet access in schools. The new targets are contained in a communication on the Impact and Priorities of the eEurope 2002 Initiative. And tomorrow, EC officials will detail plans to get...
[March 22, 2001, 14:04]
Another BitTorrent hub bites the dust
News Wednesday's action was part of an operation dubbed "D-elite," which targets administrators and people who provided content that was distributed through the EliteTorrents.org site. It is these central hubs that have been the targets of movie studio...
[May 26, 2005, 16:40]
Brace yourself for IM spam
News Matt Wexler, online marketing manager for Los Angeles-based ADD, said that although consumers it contacts haven't agreed, or "opted in," to receive promotions, it carefully targets people based on their music tastes.
[February 19, 2001, 7:44]
The Day Ahead: The folly of afterhours trading
News Intuit topped analysts' sales and earnings targets, showed traction for its numerous small business initiatives and turned a profit with its online mortgage business. Portal said it was comfortable with fiscal 2002 sales and earnings targets, but...
[November 22, 2000, 12:05]
Government Websites under fire
News On Tuesday, Hewitt said that the government's deadline to get all its services online by 2005 is no longer the sole objective: reacting to research which showed that only one in 10 citizens had actually logged on to such sites, she promised to add...
[November 22, 2002, 15:13]
Phishing hole 'left open' by banks
News Recently, customers of Citizens Financial Group were the targets of such an attack, Netscape said. Mutton also said banks, the most common targets of phishing threats, have done little to remedy the cross-site scripting problem.
[March 15, 2005, 7:55]
RSA sees looming identity crisis online
News Many of the UK's major banks and many e-commerce sites, such as eBay, have been the targets of such scams. It] showed there was a serious amount of organised criminals moving towards specific targets.
[November 5, 2004, 11:33]
Middle East cyberconflict could spread, says FBI
News The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) warns that the growing catalogue of hacks and counter-hacks targeting Middle Eastern sites may soon spread to targets outside the region. Due to the credible threat of terrorist acts in the...
[October 31, 2000, 13:29]
