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Comdex Bans Laptops
News In an effort to improve security after the 11 September terrorist attacks, the organisers of next week's Comdex trade show have banned the most ubiquitous of technology tools: laptop computers. In addition, the organisers advise visitors to "please...
[November 6, 2001, 11:42]
London 2012 Embraces Web 2.0 Technology
News The London 2012 Olympic Games organisers are exploring energy-saving green IT initiatives and embracing Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking for the event. Organisers have also set out to make London 2012 the most environmentally friendly...
[August 2, 2007, 9:18]
BlackBerry Aims At Consumer Market
News Research In Motion is extending its BlackBerry wireless organisers, popular with corporations, to UK consumers for the first time through a deal with T-Mobile. Under the agreement, announced on Wednesday, T-Mobile will sell BlackBerry organisers...
[March 5, 2003, 10:19]
Net Falls Short Of Olympic Gold
News As the torch heads closer to Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, organisers and broadcasters once again fear they will be burned by the Net. Olympic organisers say they are warming to Net initiatives.
[May 29, 2001, 9:34]
Sydney 2000: Let The Games Begin
News How does the technology work with the organisers and athletes and why has the Internet has effectively been banned from broadcasting live from the Games? Tue, 12 Sep 2000 Organisers of the Sydney Olympics fought to prove the official Games Web site...
[September 12, 2000, 16:21]
Comdex 2001: Where Are All The People?
News Comdex is attracting the smallest crowd in a decade, according to the show's organisers, who estimated that about 125,000 people showed up this week for the IT industry's biggest annual trade show. Show organisers had expected a turnout of about...
[November 14, 2001, 9:44]
E3: Smaller Is Better?
News Geek fests are getting smaller, and organisers say that may be a good thing. When the conference was started 11 years ago, organisers thought it would be an ideal format for getting game makers as much attention as their Hollywood brethren.
[August 2, 2006, 10:20]
Germans Rank Berners-Lee Alongside Einstein
News Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee was hailed on Thursday as one of the world's greatest scientists by the organisers of Germany's national Quadriga awards. The organisers said that British-born Berners-Lee and German-born theoretical physicist...
[August 19, 2005, 11:45]
Computex In Taipei Delayed By Sars
News The Taiwan show's organisers -- the China External Trade Development Board and the Taipei Computer Association -- decided on Wednesday to move the event to the second half of the year. This decision comes after a detailed review of all factors...
[April 30, 2003, 9:32]
Decryptathon Rallies 75,000 PCs
News The first French initiative to harness shared computing power for scientific research has been a roaring success, according to its organisers, and a second event is to be organised next year. More than 180,000 PC owners signed up to take part, and...
[May 20, 2002, 17:02]
Nuggets: Palm Gets Connected With TDK
News The lack of PC card slots on Palm connected organisers mean that if you want to hook it up with a mobile to send email and access the Web you have to clip on an external, often bulky, battery-powered attachment.
[May 25, 1999, 11:15]
Smartphones Eat Into Handheld Market
News The market for mobile phones is increasingly encroaching on the market for handheld organisers, leading to a second straight year of decline in organiser shipments, according to a report from research firm IDC.
[August 19, 2003, 11:10]
Jam Echelon Day A 'rousing' Success, Says Organiser
News An international day of protest designed to jam the US-led communications spy system Echelon was a "rousing" success according to its organisers, who claim that the cyber-demonstration helped to raise public awareness about the surveillance system.
[October 24, 2001, 17:15]
EBay Denies Any Blame For Glastonbury Fiasco
News Online auction company eBay has denied any responsibility for the changes to the ticket sales procedure for this year's Glastonbury festival, which organisers have admitted contributed to the poor performance of the event's online ticket sales...
[April 2, 2004, 14:55]
Xbox Linux Group Seeks Microsoft Seal Of Approval
News In an open letter sent to Microsoft, the organisers of the Xbox Linux Project requested that the software giant "sign" its Xbox version of the open-source operating sytem. British programmer Andy Green, one of the organisers of the Xbox Linux...
[February 20, 2003, 11:30]
Home Office Wins Internet Villain Award
News Or it would have, but sadly, noted the organisers, nobody from the Home Office turned up to collect the award. Only the UK government could win the Internet Villain award at ISPCON Europe 2002 because the the "evil axis" of UK government agencies...
[February 14, 2002, 13:12]
Exam System Slammed In Email Cheat Row
News The email cheating row in which 117 undergraduates on Edinburgh University's Computer Science course were accused of cheating in their exams hotted up Tuesday, with the Edinburgh Student Union Association (ESUA) blaming course organisers for the...
[August 25, 1999, 11:12]
Palm WAP Browser Hits The Net
News AU-System has adapted the Ericsson WAP browser to run on Palm IIIx and Palm V series organisers. Declan Lonergan, director of wireless services at Strategy Analytics, believes that the large installed base of the Palm organisers could mean that WAP...
[January 6, 2000, 10:53]
E-voting Gets Technology Thumbs-up
News The organisers of the pilot project -- which let constituents vote online, by phone, by post or by using an electronic terminal at a polling station -- said they were delighted by the public response.
[May 3, 2002, 18:04]
Visor Review: 'Embracing And Extending' The Palm
News Brought to you by the same people who thought up the 3Com PalmPilot, the Handspring Visor, introduced today, is a new PDA that looks similar to the Palm organisers and runs the same operating system and applications.
[September 15, 1999, 16:03]
