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Firefox Plans Mass Marketing Drive
News As the videos are likely to be posted in many languages, Mozilla will use international volunteers to filter the videos. Corporation, told ZDNet UK on Monday that there is a "strong likelihood" that Firefox 1.5, the next major version of the open...
[November 22, 2005, 14:40]
Wikipedia Under Fire
News When Wikipedia articles are first published, they show up on a special page, and volunteers — so-called new-page patrollers — monitor entries in their area of interest. First, in a 29 November op-ed piece in USA Today, a former administrative...
[December 5, 2005, 17:05]
Plug Pulled On Anti-spam Project
News The Open Relay Database (ORDB) was set up by volunteers five years ago, shortly after the dot-com boom ended. But the ORDB has recently stopped growing, and its volunteers' interest waned. November saw two surges that averaged 85 billion messages a...
[December 22, 2006, 10:14]
Gateway And Palm Beach County: Improving Election Day Processes
White Papers The office deployed 600 Gateway notebook computers to precinct volunteers, enabling them to field about 90 percent of voters’ questions on the spot, freeing up county phone representatives, reducing voter frustration, and increasing the overall...
[March 23, 2005, 23:00]
Government To Investigate Mobile Phone Safety
News A total of 15 research programmes, which will involve human volunteers, were announced on Friday. In November 2000, British scientist Dr Gerard Hyland accused the mobile industry of using the conclusion of the Stewart Inquiry to hide the dangers...
[January 25, 2002, 13:26]
Planet Project Takes A Global Snapshot
News To make sure the Planet Project is not just limited to Internet users, 500 volunteers have been sent to remote corners of the globe equipped with laptops, handheld computers, modems, and portable satellite up-links.
[November 17, 2000, 14:37]
Wikipedia Rival Takes To The Web
News The content, which has more than 1,100 articles as of this publication, includes imported Wikipedia articles that Citizendium volunteers and editors are in the process of "cleaning up" and outfitting with templates that track an article's status.
[March 27, 2007, 15:00]
Beijing Starts Olympics 2008 IT Testing
News An IT team of around 3,500 people, which includes 2,500 volunteers, will be responsible for 10,000 PCs, 1,000 servers, a Games information system and an information diffusion system across seven cities.
[August 2, 2007, 9:55]
Firefox Achieves 100 Million Downloads
News Thousands of volunteers help spread the word about the browser, participate in free support forums and discussion lists, and scour its code for flaws. Mozilla has seen steady adoption of its browser since its release last November.
[October 20, 2005, 9:45]
AOL Lays Off Netscape Staff
News A broad group of independent volunteers and staffers at other companies are expected to continue working on the open-source browser effort, however. AOL's purchase of Netscape, when announced in November 1998, was valued at about $4.2bn.
[July 16, 2003, 7:57]
Denial Of Service Attacks Loom In GM Food Protest
News The message also states that the group is looking to recruit volunteers to host the tools needed for the attacks. In a protest against the World Trade Organisation in November, the group used Javascript to enable visitors on its own Web site to...
[March 16, 2000, 16:27]
A Year Ago: Denial Of Service Attacks Loom In GM Food Protest
News The message also states that the group is looking to recruit volunteers to host the tools needed for the attacks. In a protest against the World Trade Organisation in November, the group used Javascript to enable visitors on its own Web site to...
[March 16, 2001, 6:03]
Web Channels Cash To Disaster Zone
News It had volunteers helping at the site by 10.30am, while IT staff had set up a special Web appeal by the end of Tuesday. It has had online appeals for the last three years, but a new central appeals system was put in last November.
[September 13, 2001, 17:36]
Mozilla Launches Bug-spotting Competition
News Markham called the 200,000-bug milestone an indication of Mozilla's success in attracting volunteers. The entry deadline is 14 November, at noon PST (8pm GMT). In a tech industry equivalent to guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar, the...
[November 6, 2002, 13:52]
Jeeves Asking Mozilla For Support
News Key Mozilla volunteers now also work for Google, and the browser showcases Google search in its interface. The foundation has seen more than 24 million downloads since the browser's full debut in November, and in recent weeks Yahoo has agreed to...
[February 15, 2005, 11:45]
GSM Health Risks Won't Be Known For A Decade
News A second scientist, Professor Lawrie Challis, told the conference that more human volunteers were needed if scientists were to accurately assess the risks of exposure to mobile phone emissions. Dr Gerard Hyland wrote an article for The Lancet last...
[June 8, 2001, 13:11]
Mozilla Plans Thank You Surprise As Firefox Growth Continues
News That fundraising and marketing scheme inspired so many contributions that Mozilla volunteers ran into technical difficulties squeezing all their names onto a single ad. Now, with the unsolicited help of an Adobe Illustrator engineer, the group has...
[December 15, 2004, 7:35]
Eclipse Steps Out Of IBM's Shadow
News Hardly a grassroots collaborative effort willing to take code donations from volunteers around the world, Eclipse is directed by vendors. IBM founded the Eclipse consortium in November 2001 with $40m in seed money and a substantial donation in code.
[March 1, 2005, 10:20]
Broadband Campaigners: The Job's Not Finished
News Although only a small group made up of volunteers, ABC has been an important voice in the UK broadband scene over the past few years. The End Game for Broadband Britain" is being held on 22 November, at CityPoint, London.
[November 10, 2005, 16:00]
Online Presidential Ads A Certainty
News Besides online advertising, Gould said the best presidential campaigns will use their Web sites for fund raising, as well as making it their primary communications tool to reach out to supporters, volunteers, campaign members and the media.
[February 8, 1999, 11:29]
