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US Government 'lobbied EC' Over Microsoft Fine
News Kroes said the US embassy in Brussels had asked her to be "nicer" to Microsoft ahead of her decision to fine the software giant €280m in July. The US Embassy had not responded to requests for comment at the time of writing.
[September 26, 2006, 13:30]
Embassy Cracker May Be Playing Government's Game
News Top British computer security experts have warned that those responsible for cracking and defacing the US embassy Web site in China on Wednesday may be playing into the hands of the US government. I would be inclined to think that normal hackers...
[September 10, 1999, 16:41]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Calls to and from around a hundred people were sent to 14 pay as you go handsets - these people included the prime minister, the top level of the defence and public order ministries, some foreign ministry phones, one former minister now in...
[February 10, 2006, 16:50]
London Council Ditches Linux Plans
Talkback The six-day trip was sponsored by the American Embassy in London and I was accompanied by councillors Christine Bowden and Tony McAlmont, along with council officers Chris Wood, Martin Lewis and Ian Tompkins.
[January 13, 2004, 13:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog No, you can fill in some of the forms online, but the embassy has to send me a payment slip. Much faffing later, and I'm at the embassy at 8 a.m.together with a hundred other people standing outside in the light September rain under the amused gaze...
[September 12, 2003, 17:00]
'Free Dmitri' Protests Gathers Little London Support
News Protests demanding the release of the Russian programmer Dmitri Sklyarov are scheduled to take place this week outside the American Embassy in London, but organisers of the event are expecting a poor turnout.
[July 31, 2001, 13:53]
US Immigration System: Bordering On The Ridiculous
Blog This proved the right advice, as there were no further problems: a friend who also lost thers and did the Right Thing by telling the US immigration people has been put through the mill, having to get solicitors to write notarised latters...
[February 26, 2007, 11:43]
US Blocks Overseas ISPs From Voting Site
News In the meantime, overseas voters can contact their embassy or consulate, use the FVAP toll-free number or contact their local election official or secretary of state via telephone or the internet for more information on obtaining an absentee...
[September 21, 2004, 17:25]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Well much like the US embassy rep, you seem not to understand the diff b/w OSS and Free software. Smithy : "Doesn't oppose the dev of Open Source Software.etc" This was cleared up by Nunez -http://www.opensource.org/docs/peru_and_ms.php.
[January 31, 2004, 10:04]
NASA Hacker To Hear Fate Next Month
News On Wednesday, the prosecution produced an unsigned note from the US Embassy, which they claimed was a guarantee that McKinnon would not be tried under Military Order Number One, which allows suspected terrorists to be tried under military law.
[April 12, 2006, 18:05]
London Protesters Slam US Copyright Laws
News Protesters gathered outside the US Embassy in London this afternoon to call for the immediate release of Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer who was arrested by the FBI for creating software that circumvented the copyright protection mechanism...
[August 3, 2001, 17:14]
Search For ILOVEYOU Author Hits Deadend
News Philippines-based Internet provider Access Net has turned over all information regarding the owner of an email account contained in the ILOVEYOU worm to a joint task force of Philippines law enforcement officers and US embassy officials, a company...
[May 5, 2000, 13:07]
British ISPs Admonished Over Cybercrime
News Speaking at the Computer and Internet Crime Conference in London, Special Agent Ed Gibson, who is the assistant legal attaché to the US Embassy, expressed concerns that national boundaries are still too much of an obstacle to law enforcement.
[January 25, 2005, 15:50]
NASA Hacker To Speak At Security Show
News The prosecution produced an unsigned note from the US Embassy, which they claimed was a guarantee that McKinnon would not be tried under Military Order Number One. The NASA hacker is currently fighting extradition to the US in what has been a...
[April 13, 2006, 18:05]
Hollywood Net Horror Gets Sequel
News The two countries broke off diplomatic relations after Iranian students overran the US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November, 1979, and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. But as services crop up in countries that do not recognise US copyrights, anti...
[June 6, 2002, 11:32]
China Goes On Spam Offensive
News The initiative will officially be launched on 30 March, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in London told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com. According to Spamhaus, China is the world's second worst offender in terms of spam, though it is still...
[February 23, 2006, 10:20]
German Linux Migration Not A Taxing Decision
News Some German ministries are also using open source software, including the Federal Finance Office at the German Ministry of Finance, which has shifted its back-office operations to two large mainframe computers running Linux, and the German...
[June 9, 2006, 11:50]
Online Booksellers Defend Right To Sell Banned Books
News It is illegal to posses certain publications in Germany but it is not illegal to send something if it is not illegal in the country of origin," explained a representative from the German embassy in London.
[August 10, 1999, 13:51]
A Year Ago: Online Booksellers Defend Right To Sell Banned Books
News It is illegal to posses certain publications in Germany but it is not illegal to send something if it is not illegal in the country of origin," explained a representative from the German embassy in London.
[August 11, 2000, 7:07]
Explaining The Estonian Cyberattacks
News The move incited rioting by ethnic Russians and the blockading of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow. In 2002 at the Salt Lake City Games, Ohno won the gold medal in the 1,500-metre speed-skating race after South Korean Kim Dong-Sung was disqualified...
[May 30, 2007, 15:34]
