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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]
A typo in the article, and an explanation of the Indian vote.
Talkback This is certainly what has been going on in other countries with blatent ballot stuffing by Microsoft partners who Microsoft has asked to join the voting committees with promises of preferable treatment or payment if they vote for OOXML quote)
[September 3, 2007, 16:13]
US Report: High Tech aliens see vote go to Senate
News The House had scheduled a vote on another bill regarding these workers, but the White House had threatened to veto it. The House is now expected to withdraw its bill, and schedule a vote on the compromise sometime this week.
[September 25, 1998, 6:54]
ID card bill set for Lords vote
News The government's controversial Identity Cards Bill has this week made another small step towards completing its passage through parliament and is now set for a crucial vote in the House of Lords in January.
[December 22, 2005, 10:45]
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]
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]
EU lawmakers vote to introduce net neutrality
News The vote marks the first time that internet access has been recognised in European law as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of expression. The net-neutrality aspects of the Telecoms Package were included in the heavily contested amendment...
[May 6, 2009, 17:10]
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]
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]
Brief: HP vote 'neither free nor fair'
News Hewlett-Packard's efforts to sway the vote of Deutsche Bank in favour of the Compaq acquisition were tantamount to vote-buying, lawyers for Walter Hewlett argued in legal papers made public Monday. The stockholder vote on the merger was neither...
[April 30, 2002, 11:51]
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]
ICANN to vote on internationalised domain names
News The organisation that manages the world's most important web address extensions what goes after the dot in a URL is to hold a vote on Thursday that could see an entire new generation of URLs made possible.
[June 23, 2008, 17:44]
.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]
Critics delay vote on EU intellectual property law
News The draft directive on the enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights was set for a vote in the European Parliament on 11 September, but was delayed until early November, then until this week. It is now scheduled for a vote on 27 November.
[November 19, 2003, 16:30]
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]
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]
Obama CTO site lets users vote on tech priorities
News Using an application from UserVoice, Seattle-based programmers have launched a website, Obama CTO, which allow citizens to list and vote on what should be the top technology priorities for the new administration.
[November 13, 2008, 14:33]
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]
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]
