Estonia's CTO Speaks Out On Cyberattacks
News Tammet said that the escalation of events during the attack had been hard to predict, and reaction times had to be short. It was a political campaign induced by the Russians; a political campaign designed to destroy our security and destroy our...
[October 24, 2007, 11:47]
The Human Dynamics Of Homeland Security
White Papers As the apparatus of homeland security moves beyond the sudden reaction to terrorism and becomes a permanent feature of the U.S.political and governmental landscape, the mechanisms and propositions of homeland security present a robust array of...
[January 15, 2005, 23:00]
ISPs Caught Up In Internet Babies Furore
News It is a kneejerk political reaction to understandable concern about this case," he says. ISPs have become the latest victims of the Internet adoption row, with the government telling providers they must get rid of illegal adoption adverts.
[January 22, 2001, 14:51]
Would We Prefer To Save The World, Or Sell It For A Reasonable Margin?
Talkback Look at how our career values and cultures have evolved over recent decades and we see a continued future of social and political dynamics, promoting fashionability and superficial short term benefits (as reflected in the reaction to polling day...
[March 3, 2007, 10:15]
Local Authorities Keen On Open Source
News There's a drive to move away from some of the big suppliers because of a knee-jerk reaction against American capitalism," he said. But he said it is likely to return because there is a political drive behind open source by some in the public sector.
[May 10, 2005, 15:50]
E-commerce Strategy Could Damage UK Economy - Report
News Industry reaction to the report was harsh. Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for Policy Research, describes the report as "a relentless castigation of squandered opportunities, loss of political control, and unaccountable policy failures in...
[May 19, 1999, 12:42]
UPDATE: Oil Price Fears Hit Tech Stocks
News Share prices took a hammering Thursday, in reaction to increased tension in the Middle East, shortly after profit warnings from major high-tech companies. Markets fear that oil supplies could be disrupted by the worsening political situation in the...
[October 13, 2000, 10:18]
How To Kill Wireless, Russian Style
Blog His instinctive reaction to any liberalisation of access was "No. The report suggests that the bloke in charge of Ofcomski is out of his depth and thoroughly unqualified to make this sort of regulatory decision -- not hard to believe, given the...
[April 16, 2008, 16:04]
No Chinese Walls On The Internet
Leader That's the instinctive reaction. That lies behind the continual failure of DRM, of legal and political efforts to curtail open source, of walled gardens and national barriers alike. Fifteen years ago, digital activist John Gilmore said: "The net...
[October 11, 2007, 16:21]
10,000 Volunteers To Trial ID Cards
News Among the elements under review will be the effectiveness and use of the biometric element, the cost, and public reaction. The on-again, off-again passage of the ID card scheme has been fraught with political tension, and it's predicted that David...
[December 5, 2003, 14:35]
AOL Shares Hit By SEC Concerns
News Immediately following its earnings announcement on Wednesday, AOL Time Warner said that the SEC would be looking into its accounting practices in reaction to a critical newspaper report last week. In the current environment where rules can shift...
[July 26, 2002, 10:31]
Eye2Eye: Larry Augustin Pt II
News I think we're pretty pleased with the reaction and the interest. Do you find it slightly strange the way that programmers have become not just celebrities, but political figures? We do a lot of ISV program.
[June 8, 2000, 7:03]
Lord Stern: Downturn Won't Affect Climate Change Efforts
Blog The right reaction is not to abandon markets but fix the problems," he said. Stern's speech at software conference came on the same day that he published a set of proposals for a global deal on climate change at the London School of Economics and...
[April 30, 2008, 16:52]
Record Labels Put The Brakes On CD Copy Locks
News But reaction has come in more areas than simple sales, at least in the United States. In the United States, "it's actually a really big political and legislative issue," Haussler said. Fearful of consumer backlash, major record labels in the United...
[September 3, 2002, 13:28]
Political Correctness Puts Disk Drives In A Spin
Talkback This seems to me to be the knee jerk reaction of one individual and the subsequent overreaction of the county of Los Angeles. Slavery has been common throughout history, dating back to the ancient Egyptians and beyond, there's evidence of it being...
[November 28, 2003, 9:35]
Online Music Body Favours MP3
News Diamond Multimedia's spokesman Neil McGuinness, said the recent Sony/Microsoft pact may have provoked this "political" reaction from the SDMI. According to UK trade mag Music Week, the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) is on the verge on...
[May 13, 1999, 15:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The only civilized reaction to this type of thing is a patient shrug. And when we have solved every racial, political and economic problem, we will still be stuck with that one. Monday 7/3/2005 It's not exactly IT, but Boeing chief executive Harry...
[March 11, 2005, 17:10]
Europe's 'DMCA On Steroids' Gets Go-ahead
News When the proposal was first introduced in January, it drew a "dismayed" reaction from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and other copyright-holder lobbyists, which called for the measures to be beefed up.
[November 27, 2003, 16:35]
Outsourcing Backlash Will Fade - Gartner
News India-based IT companies and US multinationals are concerned about the political backlash arising from the export of jobs from the US to India, even as the trend grows year by year. The backlash against India caused by outsourcing will fade away in...
[July 23, 2003, 7:56]
