Retail Internet Fraud Is Rife: Survey
News Internet credit card fraud as high as 40 percent is crippling British retailers' online efforts, according to one of the UK's biggest ever retail surveys, released Thursday. The study found that nine out of ten fraudulent transactions go...
[September 14, 2000, 7:49]
Big Brother Live
News Give Wendy McAuliffe your opinions. Friday night the nation will be tuning into the first live broadcast of Big Brother, but will the servers be able to cope with interest in the Web site? The site has been receiving 21,878,333 hits and around two...
[July 28, 2000, 17:02]
Big Brother Files: Monday
News Give Wendy McAuliffe your opinions. Innocent chickens are forced into the corrupt world of gambling with Ladbrokes offering odds of one to four that one of them will be supper before the first eviction, or live to star in Chicken Run 2!
[July 24, 2000, 17:00]
Big Brother Files: Friday
News Give Wendy McAuliffe your opinions. Melanie seems set to scoop the £70,000 prize money as the punters' favourite with Ladbrokes putting her odds at 4 to 1. Ex-nun Anna slips to joint second position alongside Liverpudlian Craig but "the odds are...
[July 21, 2000, 11:54]
Big Brother Files: Thursday
News Give Wendy McAuliffe your opinions. "Scary Spice" Melanie now shares poll position with "Sister" Anna. The UK's biggest bookie Ladbrokes confirms that since Channel 4's Big Brother news flash Wednesday, the smart money is on Mel, but her odds have...
[July 20, 2000, 17:07]
Wonderland Club Paedophiles To Be Sentenced
News ZDNet's Wendy McAuliffe will be reporting from Kingston Crown Court later today. Seven men convicted for their part in the child pornography ring known as the "Wonderland Club" will be sentenced Monday at Kingston Crown Court, Surrey.
[February 12, 2001, 6:06]
New Powers Put Privacy Laws To The Test
News Will Knight and Wendy McAuliffe contributed to this report. Privacy advocates said that upcoming moves to broaden the government's electronic surveillance powers will put a strain on existing consumer-protection legislation such as the Data...
[June 12, 2002, 16:58]
Hopes Raised For Internet Grooming Ban
News Wendy McAuliffe, Safety and Privacy Officer at Habbo Ltd -- which operates Habbo Hotel, an graphical chat and gaming Web site for teenagers -- urged the government to make the introduction of legislation against Internet grooming a top priority.
[November 13, 2002, 13:23]
User Anger Over 1&1 Disruption
News Wendy McAuliffe, a director of Liberate Media, a public relations firm, said: "Our business relies heavily on email correspondence, and to have a drastically reduced email service for an entire week is totally unacceptable.
[January 19, 2007, 13:52]
Sydney 2000: Let The Games Begin
News Wendy McAuliffe investigates why the Net has effectively been banned from the Olympic games How does the technology work with the organisers and athletes and why has the Internet has effectively been banned from broadcasting live from the Games?
[September 12, 2000, 16:21]
Sydney 2000: The Day They Banned The Net Down Under
News Video streaming of Olympic events is forbidden on the Internet this year. The International Olympic committee (IOC) managing the event has sold £1.45bn of exclusive broadcasting rights to twenty world-wide customers; but the Games' Web presence...
[September 12, 2000, 15:11]
Exclusive: Yahoo! Will Act Against Paedophiles
News In an exclusive interview with ZDNet News UK Tuesday morning, Martina King, UK managing director of Yahoo! confirmed that the organisation is about to employ a Yahoo! inspector" charged with the responsibility of ensuring that Yahoo!
[November 21, 2000, 15:46]
Bank's Smartcard Trial For Business Only
News Lloyds TSB's smartcard banking trial, which will enable much greater security for Internet transactions than is possible for conventional Internet banking, will initially be for businesses only, the bank said today.
[February 23, 2001, 13:14]
Can You Expect Human Rights Online?
News The Human Rights Act is expected to bring new legal standards for citizens in Britain, but human rights experts fear that its impact may not be felt in cyberspace. The British government's controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act...
[October 5, 2000, 15:09]
ZDNet UK Staff Abseil From Former World Trade Centre
News Tourists visiting the Tower of London had a new spectacle to look at today as staff of ZDNet UK abseiled from International House (the former World Trade Centre) in aid of Computercamp. Leading from the front, ZDNet UK's chief exec, Shobhan Gajjar...
[July 6, 2000, 12:05]
DNA Testing Site Not Aware Of UK Law
News Wendy Barley, UK consumer services representative for DNAnow.com admitted that she was not aware of the legal guidelines surrounding consent to paternity testing within Britain. DNA Solutions responded to accusations Friday that the UK launch of...
[September 4, 2000, 8:33]
