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Sites spotlight reports of copy-protected CDs
News A handful of Web sites are popping up to report sightings of copy-protected CDs, and already it's clear that there is far more confusion than solid information. The sites, located in the United States and United Kingdom, are part of a swelling...
[November 13, 2001, 13:06]
Sites aim to get around ad blockers
News MediaBeam's announcement highlights fears among publishers of a consumer backlash against the moneymaking efforts that many sites see as necessary for survival amid a downturn in the advertising market.
[October 11, 2001, 9:05]
These Web sites know who you are
News In a little-known trick -- technically called "domain-name identification" -- Web sites can secretly see where visitors are coming from the moment they click on. New Internet firms have surreptitiously watched which investors visit their sites, and...
[October 13, 1999, 17:05]
Personalising Web sites 'wastes money'
News Instead of implementing personalisation strategies, the report suggests, companies should concentrate on the basics, such as making their sites easy to search and navigate. Stymieing personalisation campaigns is consumers' deep-seated suspicion of...
[October 14, 2003, 8:30]
Major U.K. Publisher Expands Editions and Web Sites, Expects $350,000 in New Revenues
White Papers The resulting solution enabled Northcliffe to cut costs-per-seat by 70 percent; increase the number of local editions; and double the number of regional Web sites, while expanding their content, speeding their timeliness, and increasing...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Web attackers knock out Microsoft sites
News Network attackers overwhelmed Microsoft's connection to the Internet on Thursday, causing traffic to the company's major Web sites to slow to a crawl. During the morning of 25 January, Microsoft was the target of a denial-of-service attack against...
[January 26, 2001, 8:18]
Web sites fail to protect privacy
News The vast majority of European and US Web sites are failing to protect users' privacy, according to a UK-based consumer interest group Thursday. Consumers International, which represents 263 consumer organisations, says that hardly any Internet...
[January 25, 2001, 16:12]
Facebook provides free tool for translating sites
News Facebook has released free technology that will let web developers automatically translate their sites into a variety of languages, as long as those sites use Facebook Connect. Giving an example of the tool's potential, Lee wrote that "country...
[September 30, 2009, 13:23]
A Year Ago: 72 per cent of US business Web users go to porn sites
News Your boss may know exactly what kind of Web sites you visited today. And if your company is a lot like others, your boss also found out that the hottest Web surfing was found at pornographic Internet sites.
[June 26, 1998, 6:26]
UK regulator clamps down on porn sites
News The promotional material repeatedly referred to sexual acts involving children, while the dialler software used to access the companies' Web sites at premium rate charges of £1.50 per minute downloaded automatically without users' knowledge and...
[October 23, 2002, 10:44]
Microsoft's Web sites go down
News Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that a number of its online sites are currently unavailable and have been down for a number of hours. Sohn said it was unclear how long the sites would remain offline.
[January 24, 2001, 14:38]
E-commerce sites making moves offline
News And with Christmas around the corner it is likely consumers will see a big push -- both online and offline -- by e-commerce sites looking to grow their share of the festive cash. A spokesman for Continental Research believes that while online has...
[November 24, 2004, 11:20]
US Report: "HateFilter" tackles racist sites
News All three sites, and dozens of others like them, are blocked by the "HateFilter" online content filter developed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in collaboration with CyberPatrol maker The Learning Co.
[November 12, 1998, 14:29]
Cybersquatting OK for 'freedom of speech' sites
News He believes that the trend will increasingly be to allow these sites to exist, pointing to a case decided last month. There is a certain inevitability" that more and more of the sites will be allowed, according to Wilbers.
[December 6, 2007, 9:46]
MSDN Webcast: Building Mobile Web Sites With ASP.NET 2.0 (Level 300)
White Papers Developing Web sites that work with mobile devices has become easier with Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, because all server controls are enabled for mobility. However, to achieve the best presentation on small-screen browsers, you must design your pages...
[December 21, 2005, 23:00]
Google excludes controversial sites
News Google, the world's most popular search engine, has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings. Absent from Google's French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to...
[October 24, 2002, 7:56]
German state warns ISPs over Nazi sites
News The federal state government of Nordrhein-Westfalen has urged ISPs in the German state to dump all sites with Nazi content or pay a 500 deutschmark fine (about £157). Attorneys don't think that's enough.
[September 1, 2000, 10:01]
Feds hijack illicit sites
News Federal police have adopted a novel crime-fighting tactic: seizing control of domain names for Web sites that allegedly violate the law. Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Monday that the domain names for several Web sites allegedly set up to...
[February 27, 2003, 11:18]
Trend Micro sites hacked in global web attack
News Trend Micro discovered that its UK and Japanese sites were compromised on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the security vendor. The sites had malicious iFrames injected into their "virus encyclopaedia" pages, according to a Trend Micro...
[March 14, 2008, 14:29]
Windows '97: Software puts Web sites on CD-ROMs
News The product is available now at £999 for the development tool as well as a per-disk royalty for distribution of sites on CD-ROM. "Web CD's key features are its speed of multimedia delivery, its localisation potential and its portability," according...
[February 26, 1997, 18:50]
