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ID Cards Chief Dismisses U-turn Claims
News The head of Britain's ID cards project and national identity database has defended the government's revised ID-card plans in the face of allegations of a U-turn, after the project was scaled back. James Hall, director of the Identity and Passport...
[March 11, 2008, 8:02]
Inland Revenue In Online Woe U-turn
News On Tuesday, however, IR made a U-turn and promised that anyone who tried to send returns online would get a 14-day grace period to resubmit. Inland Revenue is relaxing its policy that would have seen a £100 fine for many thousands of people who...
[February 1, 2005, 12:00]
Mystery Surrounds Microsoft's Virtualisation U-turn
News Given all the feedback Microsoft had been getting, and apparently was keen to accommodate, it's not clear what prompted the last minute U-turn. Like the rest of the industry, Parallels was left scratching its head over the about-turn.
[June 21, 2007, 9:45]
Government U-turn On Private Finance For IT
News IT industry trade body Intellect has welcomed the government's u-turn, saying it will lead to more successful public sector IT contracts. The government has scrapped the use of controversial Private Finance Initiative deals for public sector IT...
[July 17, 2003, 15:53]
Demon Does U-turn In Godfrey Case
News In a dramatic U-turn from its position Friday U.K. ISP Demon Internet will not appeal in its defamation case against Laurence Godfrey. The move has left the ISP community with an historic and potentially dangerous legal precedent.
[June 14, 1999, 11:25]
A Year Ago: Encryption U-turn Slammed As Naive And Foolish
News The government's plan for encryption policy, unveiled yesterday, has been condemned as a naive and foolish U-turn reminiscent of a similar Internet security fiasco in the US. By implementing this undeniable U-turn, the government is making a target...
[April 28, 1999, 7:03]
Lotus U-turn On Linux Is Complete
News Messaging and groupware specialist Lotus will complete its U-turn on Linux at Lotusphere Berlin next week, with the formal launch of Notes Domino optimised for the open source OS. Almost exactly a year ago to the day, Lotus CEO Jeff Papows told the...
[October 22, 1999, 12:07]
U Turn Implies That There Was A Stated Direction In The First Place
Talkback which we all know is not the case.
[March 11, 2008, 12:07]
Microsoft To Shed Light On Newham Council's Linux U-turn
Talkback "launch Newham's unique partnership with Microsoft; a partnership which will see Newham and Microsoft working closely together on a range of projects that will directly benefit Newham and the public sector as a whole.
[August 12, 2004, 23:16]
Microsoft U-turn As WMF Patch Released Early
Talkback M$ should be charged with criminal negligence for not issuing patches for ALL of their OS's .I love how this flaw in their code affects all M$ platforms but when taking care of their customers.yes Mr Gates I paid for a version of your OS and now...
[January 5, 2006, 21:11]
UK May Make Last-minute U-turn On OOXML
Talkback Get used to a double standard, because it will happen. M$ is not used to losing, and even doing things underhanded isn't going to lose them any points.
[March 28, 2008, 19:13]
Microsoft U-turn As WMF Patch Released Early
Talkback Spent an evening installing Ubuntu Linux on my laptop a few nights back; best thing I've ever done with it. Why? For free I'm better protected from viruses and malware better than Microsoft's paid customers are.http://www.ubuntu.com/
[January 5, 2006, 21:44]
Microsoft U-turn As WMF Patch Released Early
Talkback Of course MS can release early, Guilfanov already did all the work!
[January 6, 2006, 11:30]
Microsoft U-turn As WMF Patch Released Early
Talkback Bill and MS abandoned me and my "oldies" Windows 2000 and Windows 98 still running on my HP Pavilion 366 MHz and Compaq 500 MHz Deskpro SFF PC. I don't even bother complaining about discontinued support for the two.
[January 9, 2006, 5:30]
Roundup: Creative's U-turn On Portable MP3
News Not that long after it said no to an MP3 player in the UK, Creative did a U-turn and announced that it would grace our shelves with the second iteration of the Nomad. With 6GB of space on your hip, attached to a snazzy set of headphones, who needs...
[January 13, 2000, 15:57]
Microsoft U-turn On Vista Virtualisation
Talkback Easy to see why they would be concerned about security on their own product. MAC and Linux use virtualization on all products and have no security concerns, but when you have a "swiss cheese" OS you need to be concerned about it's lack of security.
[June 21, 2007, 14:13]
Encryption U-turn Slammed As Naive And Foolish
News By implementing this undeniable U-turn, the government is making a target of these Trusted Third Parties (TTPs). It also represents a U-turn on the government's pre-election manifesto which states: "Attempts to control the use of encryption...
[April 28, 1998, 15:05]
Microsoft To Shed Light On Newham Council's Linux U-turn
Talkback Everyone already knows what happened: Newham were going to switch to Linux as far cheaper over long term. Microsoft fearing it could loose its total monopoly over the council/government desktop market gave Newham free software and service at cost.
[August 13, 2004, 12:09]
Yahoo! Makes U-turn On Porn Sales
News Mass-market portal Yahoo! announced its decision to stop selling porn on Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Auctions and Yahoo! Classifieds on Friday, after the relaunch of its adult section was swamped with complaints.
[April 17, 2001, 16:22]
Police U-turn On ISP Server Logs
News The National Crime Squad (NCS) on Thursday denied that it had access to the traffic logs of Demon Internet for Operation Landmark, despite implying on Wednesday that it had "imaged" the servers of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) for 16 days.
[November 29, 2001, 17:53]
