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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]
Net War Expected Over East Timor
News The leader of the East Timor resistance movement, Jose Ramos Horta, on Wednesday publicly warned that an army of hackers will target Indonesia's infrastructure should the Indonesian government next week rejects East Timor's vote for independence.
[August 19, 1999, 9:45]
EU Directive 'could Spark Patent War'
News In a letter to the European Parliament commenting on the amendments, sent before the vote, a representative of the US government singled out three articles of the directive as particularly "problematic".
[October 3, 2003, 13:20]
Ultrawideband Standards War Brewing, Says Intel
News A vote with a 75 percent majority was required to move onto the next stage in the standardisation process, but the MBOA only achieved 58 percent. We don’t want to see a standards war, but it's conceivable that it will happen".
[November 13, 2003, 10:45]
Encryption Export Picture Remains Unclear
News Two bills on encryption policy are still pending and could come up for a vote within weeks. SAFE (the Security and Freedom through Encryption bill) cleared the House Committee on International Relations last month and could face a vote in the full...
[August 27, 1997, 10:04]
US Congress Votes For Net Neutrality
News AT&T said after the vote that it was disappointed but hoped that the turf war between the two committees could be resolved. By a 20-13 vote on Thursday that partially followed party lines, the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives...
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
HP: Layoffs For Some, Bonuses For Others
News Walter Hewlett, son of William Hewlett and an HP board member, has said he will solicit votes opposing the deal should HP put the matter to a shareholder vote. HP will be looking for shareholders to send in white cards, indicating a vote of...
[January 15, 2002, 14:27]
Walter Hewlett: HP Is Not A One-stop Shop
News With the final vote on the proposed merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq a week away, dissident HP director Walter Hewlett argued on Tuesday that HP's plan to become a one-stop shop for corporate customers would instead derail the company.
[March 13, 2002, 14:41]
ID Card Bill Savaged By The Lords, Again
News The Identity Cards Bill currently only needs a further vote by MPs to make the cards compulsory. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Phillips of Sudbury said in a statement after the vote: "This is a great victory for civil liberties.
[January 24, 2006, 17:00]
US Senate Rejects Extra Funds For ID Cards
News By a 50-44 vote mostly along party lines, the chamber set aside a Republican-backed amendment to a homeland security spending bill that would have spread $300m (£148m) across the states to help them implement the so-called Real ID Act.
[July 30, 2007, 13:05]
Tech Heroes In Line For 'Greatest Briton' Award
News Over 30,000 people took part in the poll, and the overall winner will be chosen by the public in a further vote later this year. Alan Turing was both an unlikely hero of the Second World War and a vital player in the birth of computing.
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
Campaigners Celebrate Patent Directive Defeat
News Pollock claims to have only slept two hours the night before the vote, which followed three months of voluntary campaigning taking up between 20 and 30 hours of his time each week. It would have been nice for Parliament to vote for a version which...
[July 7, 2005, 16:45]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback you were killing minorities and in the middle of a civil war, slavery was rampant, and women weren't even allowed to vote! to all the american or uk citizens out there bagging india, i'll say onlu this.chill guys!
[July 12, 2006, 8:15]
Re: Pride
Talkback Well folks, if you indeed respected them, think about how they would feel now, that the horror they suffered has been made trivial for the sake of a headline and a vote or two. On the subject of the need for the next generation to understand just...
[May 19, 2008, 11:22]
News Burst: European Parliament Votes For Faster Unbundling
News The vote was hailed as an "historic decision" by the European Commission, which has been waging war on European incumbents since March when it first presented its proposals for local loop unbundling. European Parliament votes in favour Thursday of...
[October 26, 2000, 14:53]
Unbundling Made Law But BT Is Making No Promises
News The vote was hailed as an "historic decision" by the European Commission which has been waging war on European incumbents since March when it first presented its proposals for local loop unbundling. The European Parliament votes in favour Thursday...
[October 27, 2000, 7:05]
Online Voting Could Be Answer To Electorate Apathy
News As voter apathy casts a shadow over Thursday's general election, a survey from cable firm ntl has found that over 50 percent of office staff would be more likely to participate if they could vote on the Internet.
[June 6, 2001, 16:18]
Sony Announces Blu-ray PC Drive
News To the degree this is perceived by consumers as a format war, everyone's going to vote by leaving their wallet in their pocket," said Sony announces first Blu-ray drive An external PC drive capable of reading the next-gen DVDs will be on the market...
[January 5, 2006, 10:20]
Standards Expert Defends OOXML Fast-track Bid
News Notwithstanding the outcome of the final ISO vote on OOXML, expected at the end of March, van den Beld said the battle between the Microsoft standard and ODF will continue. The commercial war will go on, independent of standards," he said.
[March 25, 2008, 11:51]
PeopleSoft Sets Date For Shareholder Showdown
News PeopleSoft and Oracle will either finally announce that they've reached an agreement, or PeopleSoft will pre-empt the proxy vote by putting forth either a 'white knight' acquirer or a viable recapitalisation plan," the research firm said on...
[December 13, 2004, 8:45]
