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Linux Gives Voluntary Sector A Boost
News A Bulgarian voluntary organisation is using its experience in moving non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from proprietary operating systems to Linux to try and help UK voluntary organisations do the same.
[September 15, 2004, 16:20]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback They have given our voluntary organisation a lot of software for free. I have found Microsoft to be very helpful. This has enabled us to reach a much wider area in the community. This has helped a large percentage of youth to get a feel for the...
[March 3, 2005, 10:41]
VeriSign Tech To Unmask Malware Posing As Software
News The plans are being discussed by the Certification Authority Browser Forum, a voluntary organisation of certification authorities and vendors of internet-browser software, including Microsoft, that helped develop the EV SSL certificate system.
[November 14, 2008, 9:54]
FFII: Site Complexity Hindered Legal Fix
News The non-profit organisation, which is funded primarily by voluntary contributions, reported an income of €172,000 from January to July 2005. The organisation made an effort to remove these phrases, but due to site complexity, a few remaining...
[August 3, 2005, 16:00]
JBoss And Apache Clash On Shared Code
News ASF's Magnusson responded that it had a responsibility to make the matter public as it is a voluntary organisation. Apache is voluntary community project so we tend to do everything in a public form. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and JBoss...
[November 12, 2004, 16:55]
Encryption U-turn Slammed As Naive And Foolish
News The proposals outlined plans for the controversial Trusted Third Parties policy: a voluntary scheme where third parties would be licenced to provide or facilitate encryption services including keys to encrypted data.
[April 28, 1998, 15:05]
A Year Ago: Encryption U-turn Slammed As Naive And Foolish
News The proposals outlined plans for the controversial Trusted Third Parties policy: a voluntary scheme where third parties would be licenced to provide or facilitate encryption services including keys to encrypted data.
[April 28, 1999, 7:03]
Industry Backs Mozilla's Commercial Move
News We're seeing an evolution of open source projects from pure voluntary efforts with uncertain long term viability to models that make it easier for customers to place strategic bets on open source software," said Goulde.
[August 3, 2005, 17:20]
Shareholders Bring Down Axe On Baltimore
News Baltimore is now likely to go into voluntary liquidation, said chief executive Bijan Khezri, saying that the vote backed up the board's belief that Baltimore "should not continue operating as a subscale software infrastructure vendor in a...
[November 28, 2003, 15:40]
Nanotech Brings Out The Luddites
Talkback Why should we rely on “voluntary standards” of conduct, when things have gone so wrong in the past (lead in petrol, DDT, endocrine disrupting PCBs, CFCs etc)? I wouldn’t necessarily advocate a world government, but a World Environment Organisation...
[August 14, 2003, 17:16]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
News Curran took particular offence to the reasons given by the Foreign Office for the award, which included recognition of Gates' outstanding contribution to enterprise, employment, education and the voluntary sector in the UK.
[January 27, 2004, 14:55]
Bishop: My Plans For SGI
News This was a voluntary, personal decision on Rick's part. He joined SGI's International Sales Division in 1986 and rose through the ranks at the company, eventually taking over control of SGI's global sales organisation, which he ran until 1995.
[August 24, 1999, 8:57]
Copyright Truce Excludes Key Voices
News The industry has tried to implement voluntary standards before, with mixed success. Instead, Rosen stressed "voluntary marketplace solutions" and said that the introduction of the wildly contentious bill "sends an unmistakable signal" to Congress.
[January 15, 2003, 15:45]
Spam Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
Leader We need an industry code of conduct, with voluntary compliance by those who wish to be legitimate. "Spamhaus.org is a fanatical, vigilante organisation that operates in the United States with blatant disregard for US law.
[October 12, 2006, 17:10]
Yahoo Hits Refresh With Exec Shake-up
News Some of the attrition we had was voluntary, and others were decisions we made because we wanted to take the company in a new direction with leadership," said Scott Dietzen in an interview. The new structure leaves chief executive Jerry Yang and...
[June 27, 2008, 9:48]
Lloyds TSB To Offshore IT Jobs
News The bank is also opening up the opportunity for voluntary redundancy to all IT staff. A statement from Lloyds TSB said: "We fully expect to be able to manage the small reduction in permanent staff numbers through voluntary redundancies — and we...
[August 10, 2007, 10:25]
Group Issues Standards For Bigger Web Ads
News The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) said it is issuing voluntary standards for seven new ad units, mostly offering advertisers more real estate to promote their wares on Web sites. The issuance of new standards comes as the IAB is making strides...
[February 26, 2001, 8:17]
EU Backs ISPs Over File-sharing
News In the UK, the Gowers Report made it clear that legislation should be considered if voluntary talks with ISPs failed to produce a commitment to disconnect file-sharers. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling, which relates to a battle between...
[January 30, 2008, 13:55]
Major ISPs To Issue File-sharing Warnings
News Noting the "complex legislative environment already in place here including privacy, e-commerce and copyright laws", the consultation paper sets out the government's preferred course of action: a "voluntary industry agreement that is effective in...
[July 24, 2008, 16:14]
BSkyB Partner Closes UK Operations
News Management of the Australian organisation placed the UK joint venture Beresford Swift Communications (BSC) in voluntary liquidation yesterday, absorbing an estimated £2m in losses.employees were made redundant.
[May 24, 2001, 10:44]
