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Petrol Crisis: OPEC Web site defaced
News The international price of petrol has resulted in British protests that have left three quarters of the UK's petrol stations dry. The cracker struck out late Tuesday, forcing OPEC to remove the site Wednesday morning.
[September 13, 2000, 9:01]
Petrol for sale at Internet auction site
News Britain's worsening petrol crisis resulted in petrol being auctioned to the highest bidder on an Internet auction site Wednesday. Blockades at refineries in the UK -- in protest of international oil prices -- have caused a nation-wide petrol...
[September 13, 2000, 14:27]
Spyglass sets up in UK, wants Web-able petrol pumps, copiers
News Now it plans a return through licensing deals which will put its software at the heart of all sorts of products, from network computers (NCs) to petrol pumps. It's not just mobile devices, it's TVs, photocopiers, even petrol pumps.
[January 14, 1997, 14:32]
Waitrose Internet shopping crippled by petrol crisis
News Unlike its retail stores, whose deliveries rely on a central reserve of fuel, Web order carriers are dependent on local petrol supplies. The UK's fuel crisis has forced upmarket supermarket Waitrose to suspend its Internet shopping service.
[September 15, 2000, 7:56]
Five years ago: Spyglass wants Web-able petrol pumps, copiers
News Now it plans a return through licensing deals which will put its software at the heart of all sorts of products, from network computers (NCs) to petrol pumps. It's not just mobile devices, it's TVs, photocopiers, even petrol pumps.
[January 14, 2002, 6:01]
AA snaps up popular petrol site
News Motoring organisation the AA has snapped up petrol tips site Petrolbusters.com, just as a second fuel crisis is looming on the horizon, according to reports. Petrolbusters enables users to compare petrol prices across the country and check on fuel...
[November 2, 2000, 14:17]
Herbless the hacker supports petrol protest
News The ongoing petrol crisis sparked a politically minded cracker to deface more than one hundred corporate Web sites Thursday, posting messages in support of protesters against high fuel prices. The latest attack comes just a few days after the OPEC...
[September 15, 2000, 10:11]
Herbless the hacker supports petrol protest
Talkback Increase in crude prices should be absorbed by matching reduction in already excessive taxation
[June 3, 2004, 8:31]
Microsoft admits targeting Wine users
Talkback I pull into a station for petrol and the attendant comes over to me. Now hang on" you say, "I bought this motor from your workshop, just last week, and it must have your fuel to work to its best" "Yes, well, sir, you can buy the petrol, just not...
[February 26, 2005, 12:16]
Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
News A £1m chip and PIN fraud at a Shell petrol station was "an inside job", according to UK payments body Apacs. Shell suspended the use of chip and PIN payments at 600 UK petrol stations over the weekend as a precautionary measure following the theft...
[May 9, 2006, 16:10]
Twitter spambots, LinkedIn’s phony friends & Skype smut
Blog Comment I was only filling out my name and address for my SHELL petrol points card this weekend and got to the email address and date of birth boxes and thought. Shell don't need my birthday to give me petrol points.
[September 1, 2009, 11:57]
Cracker vows to continue defacement campaign
News The prolific cracker successfully defaced over 100 corporate Web sites last week in protest of the government's stance on petrol prices in the UK. I have received over 190 emails of support for the petrol protest and more are coming in hourly...
[September 18, 2000, 13:05]
ID card bill savaged by the Lords, again
Talkback I drive my kids cars (any other vehicle) on my valid insurance and fill them up with petrol. If the system were to work for petrol pumps if would tie us to only driving one car and if it didn't some one else would just OK the buying of the petrol.
[January 25, 2006, 13:47]
Backward Brits will have to wait for 'AOL Anywhere'
News On Wednesday AOL invested $10m (£6.1m) for a 4% stake in Radiant, a US based company that produces the touch screen computer technology currently used in many petrol stations, restaurants and shops. We already have some prototypes in Europe such as...
[August 5, 1999, 12:06]
Debit card breach mystery deepens
News In the statement, Wal-Mart acknowledged that credit cards used by some customers who bought petrol at the company's Sam's Club stations between 21 September, 2005, and October 2, 2005, were compromised.
[February 13, 2006, 8:50]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment In that case unless the power comes from nuclear or alternative sources electric cars produce significantly more carbon at the power plant than a convential petrol engine using petrol at the point of use.
[January 23, 2009, 15:34]
Lampposts to provide location-based services?
News Say you operate a petrol station on the A1. The results of Last Mile's proposition, developed in partnership with QinetiQ, would allow you to communicate instantly, quickly, and very cheaply with motorists who need petrol and are near you.
[March 23, 2005, 16:55]
FuelLog
Downloads The Palm Fuel Log is a program for recording petrol purchases, it then computes a series of statistics relating to fuel consumption for each vehicle. The statistics include fuel cost/mile, miles per gallon, litres per 100km, etc.
[July 3, 2005, 8:00]
Arson attacks hit BT network
News It appears that several man-hole covers were lifted up during the night and wheelie-bins full of ignited petrol poured down them. Two arson attacks have brought down parts of BT's network in and around Manchester.
[October 23, 2002, 14:38]
Remote Surveillance of Vapour Recovery System for Fuel Dispensers
White Papers Malte Products AB has developed a wireless system for remote surveillance of fuel handling information for petrol stations. The system runs the applications for Price signs and Tank Inventory. The new system provides a high flexibility by the means...
[April 24, 2007, 1:00]
