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Think tank urges Microsoft breakup
News The Progress and Freedom Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, is suggesting a new way to slice and dice Microsoft. PFF, which calls itself a "free market think tank," has been an advocate of more-aggressive deregulation in the telco...
[January 28, 2000, 8:50]
Think-tank brands Jam Echelon Day 'pointless'
News The UK's most prominent Internet think-tank, The foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), has branded a plan to overload an international email monitoring system as "pointless". Some people seem to think that this is going to reveal the...
[October 12, 1999, 13:50]
A Year Ago: Think-tank brands Jam Echelon Day 'pointless'
News The UK's most prominent Internet think-tank, The foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), has branded a plan to overload an international email monitoring system as "pointless". Some people seem to think that this is going to reveal the...
[October 12, 2000, 7:06]
IT think tank opens doors to supporters
News IT think tank the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is launching an effort to draw more support from the IT community. Let the editors know what you think in the Mailroom. Individuals and corporates are being encouraged to sign up...
[March 27, 2002, 11:54]
Open-source geeks are modern heroes, says think tank
News The UK think tank will publish a report on Tuesday that will underline the importance of "Pro-Ams" -- amateurs who pursue a hobby or pastime, in many cases an all-consuming passion, to a professional standard.
[November 29, 2004, 14:40]
Tory think tank proposes new data model
News A Conservative think tank has proposed an alternative model for managing personal data used in public services. It's ours: Why we, not government, must own our data, published by the Centre for Policy Studies and written by Liam Maxwell, says...
[June 29, 2009, 12:48]
E-Government think tank launched
News A think tank dedicated to e-government issues has had its first meeting The e-Government Integration and Systems Evaluation (e-GISE) Network, is aiming to identify the challenges associated with e-government, with an initial focus on local...
[August 4, 2005, 14:40]
Think tank urges 'm-government'
News Local authorities should embrace mobile technologies in delivering services, according to a report from the New Local Government Network (NLGN) think tank launched on Wednesday. Cutting the Wire" argues that councils face the choice of directing...
[February 8, 2006, 15:00]
Think-tank calls for national policing agency
News Existing national police organisations and their IT systems should be transferred to a new body, according to a report. The National Policing Agency would be created by merging the National Policing Improvement Agency and those parts of the...
[November 26, 2009, 15:46]
News Burst: Jam echelon day "pointless" - think tank
News The "Jam Echelon protest", scheduled to take place on October 22, is designed to bring down a US email monitoring system called "Echelon". Full story to follow
[October 12, 1999, 12:14]
Think tank urges co-ordinated cybercrime response
News The government needs to provide a centrally co-ordinated response to cyberthreats, according to international-affairs thinktank Chatham House. Speaking at an Institute of Public Policy Research event in London on Monday, Paul Cornish, head of the...
[April 28, 2009, 13:08]
Europe heading down DMCA route, warns think tank
News Far-reaching European copyright legislation making its way into UK law is likely to tighten the grip of large companies on consumers, according to a British IT policy think tank, because of the way it is being implemented across the European Union.
[September 16, 2003, 15:45]
Open-source geeks are modern heroes, says think tank
Talkback There is a growing social software development which is making community software AND installing it in developing countires - check out http://www.barnraiser.org/
[November 29, 2004, 21:11]
Open-source geeks are modern heroes, says think tank
Talkback While the comparison is nice I think it's misleading. The most an open source developer is likely to lose is time. Our lifeboatmen and women risk life and limb in terrible weather. The comparison understates the huge gift these people and other...
[November 30, 2004, 14:09]
Open-source geeks are modern heroes, says think tank
Talkback Quite true. Rescue service personnel are in a league of their own, and are without question, providing the ultimate service to their fellow man.i.e.risking their own life). However, I know of (many) cases where 911 services in North America, for...
[December 1, 2004, 14:46]
Zimmerman joins UK think tank
News I think our own government in the US found it harder to hang on to the crypto export controls after we made progress in the French and British domestic policies. Let the editors know what you think in the Mailroom.
[September 16, 2002, 10:31]
Net heavyweights launch Net think tank
News Jim Barksdale, Vint Cerf and other Internet heavyweights Tuesday announced plans to create an institute to study the Internet and society. Backers of the new Internet Policy Institute include America Online, AT&T, The Morino Institute, MCI WorldCom...
[November 10, 1999, 11:42]
A Year Ago: Escrow time line draws fire from think-tank
News The government's decision to drop key escrow -- which would give law enforcement agencies access to data sent over the Internet -- leaves the e-commerce bill "a dead limb of an old policy which should be chopped off," according to Caspar Bowden...
[March 8, 2000, 6:02]
Escrow time line draws fire from think-tank
News The government's decision last week to drop key escrow -- which would give law enforcement agencies access to data sent over the Internet -- leaves the e-commerce bill as a "dead limb of an old policy which should be chopped off," according to...
[March 8, 1999, 11:22]
Euro-parliamentarians create e-policy think tank
News More than 50 members of the European Parliament will launch a non-partisan policy network, the European Internet Foundation, in Brussels on Tuesday. The EIF said in a press release Sunday that it intends to "help mobilise strong political...
[February 21, 2000, 9:16]
