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'Vote Virus' Poses As Plea For Peace
News Security experts on Monday warned of a new file-deleting virus masquerading as a program that allows people to vote on whether the United States should go to war. The "Vote Virus" is spreading via email to users of Microsoft's Outlook email program...
[September 25, 2001, 8:55]
Vote-swapping Site Aims To Defeat Tories
News A vote-swapping site which encourages people to vote tactically in order to prevent the Conservatives winning the forth-coming general election has been launched this week. Users wishing to vote tactically are registered on the site -- www...
[April 19, 2001, 8:04]
BSI To Give OOXML Vote Results
Blog The British Standards Institute is today to give the result of its vote regarding whether the UK will approve fast track ISO certification for Microsoft's Office Open XML specification. The BSI is due to send me a press release within an hour...
[September 3, 2007, 12:35]
Protests Derail Software Patents Vote
News The vote, originally planned for Monday, will now take place at a plenary session starting on 22 September. A June vote on the proposal was put back amid criticism by MEPs that the legislation would institute a US-style patent regime that would be...
[September 1, 2003, 15:55]
.Net Vote Rigging Illustrates Importance Of Web Services
News ZDNet UK logs reveal rather obvious vote rigging, and prove that it originated from within Microsoft: The one that wins the prize made 228 attempts to vote. Several of the voters evidently followed a link contained in an email, the subject line of...
[January 9, 2002, 15:31]
Microsoft Loses Key Vote For Open XML
News Microsoft has failed by one vote to get the backing necessary for Office Open XML to become an alternative to OpenDocument Format as a standard of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards.
[August 13, 2007, 15:46]
Patent Intervention Gives Poland The Popular Vote
News The directive was due to be adopted, without discussion or a vote, during an Agriculture and Fisheries meeting on 21 December. A Web site set up to thank Poland for its last-minute intervention, which prevented the EU Council from ratifying the...
[December 30, 2004, 14:55]
IBM Netfinity Servers And Linux Solution Gets Vote Of Confidence From Mexico's IFE
White Papers Election managers from Mexicos 335 voting districts manually counted the ballots and sent the vote tallies to election headquarters in Mexico City by e-mail. Not surprisingly, this process was slow by the latest election standards, e-mails got...
[November 27, 2003, 23:00]
EU Delays Vote On 'Euro-DMCA'
News This week's European Parliament vote on a proposed law aimed at cracking down on piracy has been delayed until November, amid criticism that its implementation would criminalise many innocuous activities and harm European competition.
[September 11, 2003, 17:20]
HP Exec Hits Back At Vote Critics
News In that message, Fiorina expressed concern that two key shareholders were turning against the deal just two days before HP shareholders were scheduled to vote. The voicemail could figure prominently in a lawsuit brought by merger opponent Walter...
[April 12, 2002, 11:44]
Denmark Changes OOXML Vote To 'yes'
News According to a Friday statement on the website of Danish Standards (the Danish equivalent of the British Standards Institution, or BSI), the country's previous vote of "disapproval with comments" on the original draft of the OOXML standard has now...
[March 28, 2008, 14:47]
Musicians Lobby EU Over Copyright Vote
News Members of the European Parliament are about to vote on the EU Copyright Directive, which is designed to extend protection to the Internet and digital television. The vote will take place only a day after song-swapping site Napster failed to...
[February 13, 2001, 16:35]
Crackers Suspected Of Rigging Big Brother Vote
News The Big Brother Web team suspect crackers may have unleashed a mailbomb on the voting section of the site, in order to rig the vote for unpopular housemate Paul. Holt suspects that pranksters may have designed a mailbomb to automatically update the...
[July 3, 2001, 17:07]
Psion Wins Symbian Sale Vote
News The result of Friday's vote doesn't mean that Nokia will definitely buy Psion's 31 percent stake in Symbian. Ahead of the vote, some private investors accused institutional stockholders of apathy and ignorance, claiming they weren't examining Psion...
[March 12, 2004, 16:10]
Liquid Audio Awaits Vote Results
News Liquid Audio said it plans to announce next week the results of a closely watched shareholder vote on Thursday that could decide the future of the online music company. A Liquid Audio representative said the company does not plan to release a...
[September 27, 2002, 12:13]
Australian Apathy Results In OOXML 'abstain' Vote
News Standards Australia has returned an "abstain" vote on the proposal to adopt the Office Open XML format standard as an international standard. If a clearer position becomes evident in Australia over the next six months, Standards Australia would be...
[September 3, 2007, 9:18]
EU Vote 'widens Loopholes' In Software Patent Directive
News A key vote on the directive on the software patent directive has not only left loopholes in the legislation intact but may have even widened them, say campaigners Amendments to the EU's directive on the patentability of computer-implemented...
[June 21, 2005, 13:25]
Lobbyists Seek To 'Click The Vote'
News Dubbed "Click The Vote," an allusion to the successful Rock the Vote efforts focused at the MTV generation, the group hopes to make digital copyright and computing matters an issue in the 2004 election campaigns.
[December 3, 2003, 15:15]
Ukuug Quit BSI Committee Themselves Prior To OOXML Vote
Talkback I seems that the ukuug quit the relevant BSI committee a few months before the OOXML vote. What was the BSI vote on ISO/IEC DIS 29500 following the BRM meeting in February 2008? BSI British Standards exercised its right to vote BASED ON THE...
[May 2, 2008, 14:18]
Shareholder Anger Ahead Of Symbian Vote
News They are accusing institutional stockholders -- such as pension funds and tracker funds -- of apathy and ignorance ahead of Friday's vote on the proposed sale of Psion's stake in Symbian. Once these are ticked off, they automatically vote with...
[March 12, 2004, 10:45]
