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Taskforce 2000: Stay at home for a month
News Taskforce 2000 boss Robin Guenier stood by his remarks about travel over the millennium period Wednesday, despite criticism from the travel industry. An Action 2000 spokeswoman agreed Guenier's comments are "scaremongering" and challenged the...
[September 15, 1999, 17:19]
EC launches IT taskforce
News The European Commission has set up a taskforce designed to make Europe's IT industry more competitive. The taskforce will organise a five-month long debate on the barriers holding European tech companies back from world domination and then come up...
[June 8, 2006, 15:20]
Web 2.0 taskforce to make recommendations to gov't
Blog The "Power of Information Taskforce", has produced its report in beta so people who have an interest in technology can make comments. The Power of Information Taskforce beta report recommends that public sector use a service similar to the BBC's...
[February 2, 2009, 15:51]
EU taskforce 'not representing' small businesses
News The overall majority of business is not represented at all in the ICT Taskforce," said Benjamin Henrion, an FFII activist. It is vital that they are fully represented on any taskforce or other body relating to the sector.
[July 5, 2006, 15:00]
FFII slams EC taskforce over software patents
News A software development pressure group has slated a report published this week by the European Commission ICT Taskforce into intellectual property rights, saying it wrongly promotes software patents. The ICT Taskforce was set up by the Commission as...
[November 29, 2006, 13:48]
Government launches e-learning taskforce
News A new government taskforce was launched on Thursday to investigate e-learning opportunities for students over the age of 16. Launching the taskforce, the education and skills secretary Estelle Morris said, "the potential for e-learning is enormous...
[February 1, 2002, 13:08]
Taskforce planned to avert galactic armaggedon
News The British government has revealed plans to create a taskforce dedicated to planning for a galactic catastrophe it was revealed Monday. Should the earth be threatened by imminent destruction from an enormous asteroid or comet the new unit will...
[November 30, 1999, 11:44]
Government launches data-centre taskforce
News The government has set up a public-private taskforce to look at ways to reduce power in data centres across the UK. The new taskforce is "the first of its kind in the world", according to Phil Woolas, local government minister.
[June 11, 2007, 12:23]
EC launches IT taskforce
Talkback If the EU wants a leading role in ICT then the first thing to do is to do something entirely different then what has been done before. For starters, the Microsoft way of things enjoys to much protecting US wise.
[June 8, 2006, 22:36]
EC launches IT taskforce
Talkback The barrier has a name: it's called Microsoft. Move it out of the way and you remove problems to trade and innovation like closed APIs, protocols and data formats.
[June 9, 2006, 10:29]
Virtual taskforce to fight online child abuse
News Police from the UK, Canada, Australia and the US have launched a "one-stop shop" Web site for children to report online paedophilia. Police said that virtualglobaltaskforce.com has been designed to make the Internet safer for children.
[January 27, 2005, 12:35]
EC launches IT taskforce
Talkback Step 2 - invalidate all past and future software patents and their validity in the eu. How can anyone do anything innovative if they are constantly worrying that someone out these two lines in that order before?
[June 9, 2006, 12:12]
Virtual taskforce to fight online child abuse
Talkback This site is a major wheeze. There's a lot of space devoted to PR and a fine sounding 'mission' statement. However, it's notably light on systems to report child porn and child exploitation. This looks like another bogus sham to get voters to think...
[January 29, 2005, 12:26]
Y2K: Avoid travelling for 5 weeks - Taskforce 2000
News Full story to follow
[September 15, 1999, 10:06]
Europe defends tech taskforce
News The European Commission has rejected claims that its ICT Task-Force represents only the interests of big business. The Task-Force on ICT Sector Competitiveness and ICT Uptake, launched last month, aims to identify major obstacles that are holding...
[July 6, 2006, 12:40]
Execs form security taskforce
News Ten top security executives plan to announce a new group on Wednesday that is aimed at helping companies protect their information systems better, CNET News.com has learned. Called the Global Council of CSOs, the group will bring together chief...
[November 12, 2003, 10:10]
Home Office to criminalise chatroom meetings
News The home secretary has accepted recommendations made by the Home Office Internet taskforce to criminalise the online "grooming" of children, making it a criminal offence for an Internet paedophile to meet a child offline with the intention of...
[July 20, 2001, 17:18]
Microsoft controlling Australian Gov't 2.0 funds
News On Wednesday, Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce released a draft contract for those receiving money from its Project Fund, which revealed that any funding contracts will be between successful bidders and Microsoft — not the commonwealth.
[October 1, 2009, 13:33]
Government pledges remote working for all pupils
News Knight said that the government aims to remedy the situation by setting up a home-access taskforce to bring together organisations with the know-how to make it happen. Knight added that it was important that organisations "that know what they are...
[January 10, 2007, 16:54]
SMEs don't invest enough in tech
News Small businesses are failing to invest sufficiently in technology, causing them to lose productivity, according to a European Commission taskforce report. The ICT Taskforce, whose membership includes technology giants such as Microsoft and IBM...
[November 28, 2006, 11:57]
