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MPs Turn To Web For Votes
News Richard Allan, Barbara Follett and Sir George Young each have a Web page that constituents can use to contact them by email, and even read details of their recent activities. Richard Allan, Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam, agreed that...
[October 30, 2001, 13:06]
Virgin.net Calls Police Over Security Breach
News Millionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson set up Virgin.net as the online division of the Virgin empire at the beginning on 1999, on the crest of the "free-Internet" wave started by Freeserve. At its home page Virgin.net has posted a list of...
[January 11, 2000, 12:05]
Virgin Trades Gadgets For Your Privacy
News Virgin Entertainment and Virgin Music are divisions of Virgin Group, run by British entrepreneur Richard Branson. Customers, of course, can visit any Web page they like on the Internet. But when they log on, they will find themselves directed to...
[April 10, 2000, 14:07]
Intuit Scrambles To Plug Quicken Leaks
News The "data spillage" problem, discovered by Richard M Smith, an Internet security consultant, appears to be widespread, and isn't limited to personal finance sites. The problem was traced to a so-called GET procedure, a programming method for...
[March 2, 2000, 14:29]
Google's Cache Causes Copyright Concern
News In one high-profile example, security and privacy expert Richard Smith copied Web pages detailing the backgrounds of Dr. At the heart of Google's caching dilemma lies a thorny legal problem involving a core Web technology: When is it acceptable to...
[July 10, 2003, 8:54]
Privacy Snafu Enrages EBay Customers
News While some people will want to receive information about eBay deals, the company's decision "stretches credibility," according to Richard Smith, chief technology officer of the Privacy Foundation in Denver, Colorado.
[January 10, 2001, 9:39]
Google Acts To Cover Up Phishing Hole
News Last week, security consultant Richard Smith found clues that could point to a coming instant chat client from the search giant. According to a report posted to the Bugtraq Security Focus list on Wednesday, Google's new Desktop Search tool did not...
[October 21, 2004, 9:20]
New IE May Burst Pop-up Bubble
News If Microsoft does it right," said Richard Smith, a security and privacy expert, "I think we will see a big drop in the use of pop-ups. Ads that open a browser window in front of or behind an open Web page -- known as pop-ups and pop-unders...
[November 25, 2003, 14:35]
No Easy Way To Exterminate 'Web Bugs'
News The benefits of the feature outweigh the tracking risks," said Richard Smith, chief technology officer for the Privacy Foundation in Denver. For example, all images could be kept on a separate server, and as a user loaded a page, that server would...
[September 1, 2000, 8:37]
IE Flaw Puts Credit Card Info At Risk
News Privacy and security expert Richard Smith verified the IE security flaw by writing a tiny bit of JavaScript to hijack information contained in a cookie. This URL could be hosted on a Web page or contained in an HTML email.
[November 12, 2001, 9:42]
Analysis: The Microsoft Anticlimax
News On Saturday, court-appointed mediator Judge Richard Posner said in a prepared statement that his "quest has proved fruitless. Officials viewed Jackson's 43-page conclusion as just another skirmish in a long-running battle that began when the...
[April 4, 2000, 10:15]
Pop-ups Bounce Back
News Relatively quickly (IE) will displace all other pop-up blockers, then people will try to figure out how to get around that," said Richard Smith, a privacy and security expert. Pop-ups appear over a Web page, while pop-unders appear behind one, but...
[June 7, 2004, 11:30]
New Flare-up In Battle Over E-books
News Held a stone's throw away from the corporate headquarters of a number of Manhattan's top old-media publishers, e-Book World opened with a keynote address by Richard Sarnoff, president of Random House New Media and corporate development.
[November 7, 2000, 9:48]
Worms Sing An Ode To Security
News What we're looking at here is the fact that you can have mobile code now inside of a music file," said Richard Smith, a security consultant. Inserting URLs into your digital media files and embedding the Windows Media Player ActiveX control in a...
[February 27, 2002, 14:13]
Malware: Do You Know Your Enemy?
News Cookies are so common," said Richard Smith, a privacy and security consultant. Programs used to hijack a person's home page, deliver pornographic pop-ups or re-jig search results can simply be called "sleazeware", Smith said.
[February 4, 2005, 11:30]
Google Sponsors Robotic Race To The Moon
News In 2004, Paul Allen-backed SpaceShipOne won the prize, and the craft has become the model for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space-tourism company. Page, who is a trustee of the X Prize Foundation, said that he and Google co-founder Brin were...
[September 14, 2007, 15:12]
Can Amazon's Kindle Become A Bestseller?
News asked Richard Shim, an analyst with IDC. Because of this, the screens reflect light in the same way as a book page. There's no backlight and, most of the time, the reader sees the page while the power is off.
[November 21, 2007, 14:50]
DTI Announces Cyber Post Office Scheme
News Tory spokesperson Richard Page strongly objected to the government's announcement and called for Byers to "do the decent thing" and resign. Page criticised the DTI for "presiding over the meltdown of our sub-post offices in this country," on the...
[December 2, 2000, 6:15]
Let The Microsoft Peace Talks Begin
News Judge Richard Posner convenes representatives of Microsoft 19 states and the Justice Department on Tuesday to determine the chances of mediating an agreement in the company's landmark antitrust trial.
[November 30, 1999, 15:53]
'Spider-Man' Allowed To Alter Times Square
News In a three-page ruling issued last week, judge Richard Owen questioned claims that altering the billboards in the movies violated trademarks and amounted to trespassing. Upholding the rights of filmmakers to superimpose digital images on real-life...
[August 6, 2002, 8:36]
