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Six million .uk domains sold
News British businesses setting up online are choosing .uk domains in preference to anonymous .com addresses, according to domain registry Nominet, which sold the six-millionth .uk domain this week to a Merseyside builder.
[July 6, 2007, 16:37]
Workers' Details Sold For £2.20
Blog The Consulting Association, which sold over 3000 workers' personal data, is to be prosecuted for breaching the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) revealed The Consulting Association sold personal data, including...
[July 17, 2009, 20:03]
Amex, RBS, Natwest customer details sold on eBay
News Over one million American Express, RBS and Natwest customers' details have been sold on eBay. Graphic Data has confirmed to us that one of their machines appears to have been inappropriately sold on via a third party," RBS said in a statement.
[August 26, 2008, 13:28]
Systems should be sold secure, says Interpol
News Computers should always be sold with security systems pre-installed to cut down on cybercrime, police and security experts said this week. Activities such as phishing and pharming would be drastically reduced if PCs were sold with security software...
[March 30, 2006, 17:15]
Virtual Iron virtually sold perhaps
Blog At the end of February, the first rumours started that the company was about to be sold to Oracle. The rumours are building around the virtualisation company Virtual Iron and if they are not quite at fever pitch, they are somewhere close.
[March 12, 2009, 15:31]
MP3.com assets sold
News Robertson ultimately sold the MP3.com property to Vivendi Universal, which maintained the unsigned artist database but used the company's technology to launch Pressplay, the digital music subscription service co-owned with Sony Music Entertainment.
[November 17, 2003, 9:40]
AOL worker 'sold email addresses to spammers'
Talkback I will be asking my local trading standards to look into this as they are not providing the service they sold me. As an AOL customer, this story worried me. I can live with additional Email but my children have there own accounts.
[June 28, 2004, 20:46]
Biscit customers sold?
Blog The eminently readable ISP Review site has "reliable sources" claiming that Biscit's remaining customer base has been sold on to Breathe Internet - not that Biscit's site mentions this at the moment (well, it has been frozen in time since December...
[March 9, 2007, 11:53]
o2/iphone: £15 tethering should have covered EU-it would have sold
Talkback A £15 tethering option could have been sold as 3GB Data usable across the EU. O2 should have trumped the competition with 'marketing'. Most customers wouldn't have used/needed this except for Summer Holidays, but the perceived benefit could have...
[June 15, 2009, 15:36]
140 million copies of the operating system were sold.
Talkback How many new computers sold were reverted back to XP, upgraded to MAC OS, or Linux? Can these numbers be trusted? These numbers can be adjusted to fit M$ needs, and are not etched in stone. Security wise, a major security firm has found that vista...
[May 28, 2008, 14:39]
Used to be good till they sold out
Member Review Don't believe the hype, Skype used to be great, now since they sold it and the video version came out, it doesn't work. Video is unreliable or doesn't work. People who are online don't appear as though they are, and in my case, when someone calls...
[April 6, 2006, 9:50]
Ziff-Davis Publishing sold for $780m
News On 4 October, 1999, ZD sold its Market Intelligence business for $106m. Ziff-Davis.recently announced that ZD Education and its interest in ZDTV are expected to be sold before the end of the first quarter of 2000 for $172m and $204.8m, respectively.
[December 6, 1999, 14:49]
NHS patient data sold on eBay
News An NHS trust is investigating how one of its hard drives containing confidential information was sold online. The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is trying to find out how one of its computers full of confidential medical information was sold...
[September 17, 2007, 14:18]
'Big Mac' broken up and sold
Talkback What a colossal waste of money! Didn't VT just build that ridiculous SC? Is Barney Fife running the operation over there or what?
[March 23, 2004, 19:42]
'Big Mac' broken up and sold
News Now those same machines are being sold off as surplus goods. As a result, some of the machines that landed Big Mac at No.in the list of Top 500 supercomputers are now being sold by online and catalogue retailer MacMall.
[February 13, 2004, 9:30]
Commodore brand sold
News Tulip Computers, based in the Netherlands, has agreed to sell its Commodore International subsidiary to Yeahronimo Media Ventures in a deal worth just over $32.7m. Yeahronimo said on Wednesday that Tulip Computers will remain active in the...
[December 31, 2004, 10:05]
MP3.com assets sold
Talkback I find it absolutely appalling that two companies with thier assets could not agree to keep the sites going until such time as the new arrangesment are done and then transfer all content that is newly paid for by those artist who choose to...
[November 17, 2003, 21:32]
MP3.com assets sold
Talkback This is the end of an era. For years, MP3.com has been the source for independent artists to share their music free of charge, and a source for fans to find great music from both well-known and independent bands.
[November 18, 2003, 22:05]
Systems should be sold secure, says Interpol
Talkback There is no doubt that there are many who go about totally blinkered to what happens and need automatic protection. We now have Microsoft automatically activating firewalls and no doubt will offer more in Vista.
[March 31, 2006, 15:21]
Skype Apparently Sold - So Much for "Shutdown"
Blog Comment Therein lies another of the major problems with Skype - it is VERY aggressive at trying to find a way through firewalls. They don't care if it subverts corporate security policy, Skype will masquerade as various other services if it deems it...
[September 3, 2009, 7:44]
