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UK Sets Up DVD Piracy Task Force
News The taskforce will be chaired by UK Film Council director Nigel Green and will include representatives from the actors' union Equity; the Department of Culture, Media and Sport; and assorted industry types including producers, distributors and...
[August 19, 2003, 11:20]
EU Taskforce 'not Representing' Small Businesses
News The Professional Contractors Group, a UK body that represents the interests of 12,000 UK freelancers, said it objected to the composition of the Task-Force because self-employed workers are not represented.
[July 5, 2006, 15:00]
Alan Cox Hails 64-bit Linux
News A recent draft protocol from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), for example, has been criticised for stigmatising those who report security holes before the software vendor has had a chance to create a patch, and Cox tends to agree with...
[March 6, 2002, 9:53]
Tiers Of Technology For A Green Planet
Blog According to task force member Sun Microsystems, “Climate change is both a threat and a real opportunity for organisations, no matter what their size, to contribute an active role in the environment and UK plc has a massive role to play in this...
[December 6, 2007, 21:20]
ICANN Ponders New Top Level Domains
News ICANN commissioned a task force to look into the problem, but did not follow its recommendations. In addition to adding three new domains, the report proposed initiating an evaluation of the most recent name expansion in line with an internal task...
[November 13, 2002, 8:06]
Police Will Not Pursue Ransom Hackers
News No other police force appears to be investigating the incident either. However, the national force is concentrating on 'organised' crime, and so if the crime looks like a one-off, committed by an individual, then even if they might be able to track...
[June 2, 2006, 12:50]
Microsoft's International Man A Mystery No More
News You served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Digital Divide Initiative Task Force and are a member of the South African International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development.
[June 21, 2005, 16:40]
Crime 'more Serious Online Than Off'
News In October, Europol formed the High Tech Crime Center, a task force with a mission to coordinate cross-border cybercrime investigations in Europe. Hegel said the force is understaffed and under-resourced, but said he hoped it will begin to make a...
[December 9, 2002, 9:07]
ICANN Urged To Scrutinise Domain Claims
News The standards body for Internet domain names should ratchet up efforts to ensure the accuracy of domain-name owner data and eliminate bulk marketing that uses domain-name information, according to recommendations of an Internet task force.
[December 6, 2002, 11:13]
America Debates Data Retention
News Flint Waters, head of the Wyoming's Internet Crimes Against Children task force, also is pressing for federal data retention laws. Sergeant Frank Kardasz, head of Arizona's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, surveyed his colleagues in...
[April 18, 2006, 18:00]
Nimda Worm Attacks The Web
News Wed 19 Sept: FBI creates task force to investigate attack by 'Nimda', which hits both servers and PCs running Microsoft software Wed 19 Sept: FBI creates task force to investigate attack by 'Nimda', which hits both servers and PCs running Microsoft...
[September 19, 2001, 14:47]
UK Leads Europe In Chip Design
News Industry analysts say that such companies, and particularly chip intellectual property (IP) firms, are a growing force in the microchip industry. IC design firms first became a force in the industry in the early 1980s, with fabless companies...
[August 6, 2002, 15:09]
UK Tech Week: Roche Says Size Doesn't Matter In Digital Age
News All the initiatives that we've taken our skills task force, university for industry, very much working with business in partnership. Roche was speaking at UK Technolgy Week on Tuesday, before jetting off to the OECD conference on electronic...
[October 8, 1998, 12:21]
PGP Pioneer Pushes VoIP Encryption
News In addition, the ZRTP protocol has been submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force for review. The FBI has drafted legislation — first disclosed by ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com, in July — that would force makers of networking gear to...
[August 15, 2006, 16:25]
Help Sought As Campaigners Push The Rural Agenda
News Although the government has provided £30m for regional development agencies (RDAs) to work with broadband and funds both the Broadband Stakeholder Group and the Broadband Task Force, there is no similar financial support available for private...
[May 16, 2003, 15:05]
LineOne's Future On The Line
News Flat rate subscriptions will force ISPs -- most of which today outsource their networks -- to take on additional network and billing infrastructure. But this task could prove difficult or impossible with the current lack of investment from public...
[November 27, 2000, 15:59]
Viviane Reding Nominated For Internet Villain Award
News Annie Mullins, Vodafone: "For her work with the Home Office Task Force on Protection of Children on the Internet and the European Union's Safer Internet Programme" On the shortlist for the 2007 Villain award, Reding is joined by e360 insight, an...
[January 4, 2007, 15:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To get the full force of this, it's best to be thoroughly off-message in as public a way as possible: BBC 1 fulfils that brief admirably. I try and get across that the basic idea of a home server is fine, but making an XP-based PC do the task isn't...
[October 3, 2003, 13:45]
Echelon: Sigint Under The Spotlight
News US intelligence specialist Dr Jeff Richelson, of the National Security Archive, Washington DC, used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a series of modern, official US Navy and Air Force documents which confirmed the continued existence...
[June 30, 2000, 9:35]
AOL: Microsoft Is 'confusing And Deceiving People'
News We voluntarily opened up our proprietary message service for free, yet the client they put out doesn't support the client they proposed to the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force. ZDNet UK News has contacted Microsoft UK and requested a senior...
[July 29, 1999, 10:36]
