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Microsoft Money Withdrawn In Germany Due To Euro Bug
News Microsoft has withdrawn the German versions of Money 99, Money 99 Plus Update and Money 99 Plus from the German market due to a problem residing in the inaccurate conversion of the euro and linking it to Online-Banking.
[February 1, 1999, 14:05]
RIAA Pulls File-swap Suit Against Pensioner
News The Recording Industry Association of America has withdrawn a file-swapping lawsuit after a possible case of mistaken identity. The trade association confirmed on Wednesday that it had withdrawn its suit against Boston-area senior citizen Sarah...
[September 25, 2003, 10:25]
Major Players Desert Unbundling In Droves
News Broadband Britain stumbled deeper into crisis on Tuesday as Oftel admitted the majority of players have withdrawn from the process to open up BT's network. At the last count nine operators had withdrawn from the process, citing high costs and delays.
[April 10, 2001, 12:08]
Dustup Hits Desktop Linux Conference
News Hewlett-Packard and other participants have withdrawn from a February conference on the use of Linux on desktop computers, casting a shadow on the show's debut. An HP representative confirmed Friday that the company had withdrawn from the conference.
[January 20, 2003, 7:35]
Microsoft Withdraws Windows Mobile Update
News A key Microsoft update which will let smartphone users read Office 2007 documents has been temporarily withdrawn. But, within hours, both the update and Langridge's blog post were withdrawn. Office Mobile 6.1, an update to Microsoft's mobile...
[September 28, 2007, 15:27]
Free SkypeIn For Some Users After 0207 Snafu
News Skype is to compensate some of the users of its SkypeIn service after a swathe of numbers beginning with the London-based prefix 0207 were withdrawn from use. Don McQueen, the chief executive of GCI Telecom — the erstwhile supplier of those...
[November 23, 2007, 15:49]
Downturn Sees DVLA Shelve Biometrics Project
News The department has withdrawn the tender for the development and implementation of a pilot that was intended to develop into a full system. The cancellation notice in the Official Journal of the European Union on Saturday reads: "This project has...
[November 14, 2008, 6:30]
Camera Phones Get The Chop In Saudi Arabia
News The clampdown, which is thought to have seen Nokia's 7650 handset withdrawn from sale, follows complaints from religious figures in the country who claim that men have been using camera phones to snap women in contravention of Saudi law.
[October 1, 2002, 11:55]
Cable & Wireless Drops BT Charge Dispute
News On Monday, Ofcom announced that Cable & Wireless had withdrawn its complaint "in order to explore further commercial negotiations with BT". We have therefore withdrawn our dispute. Cable & Wireless has dropped the complaint it had lodged with Ofcom...
[April 24, 2007, 12:27]
Referee! FriendsReunited Exposes CV Porkies
News The company decided to warn job seekers about the pitfalls of advertising themselves too honestly after a number of candidates had their job offers withdrawn or were forced to quit when comments they published on the FriendsReunited Web site were...
[June 20, 2003, 15:28]
CCIA Sticking To Its Guns
News Although the CCIA has officially withdrawn its complaints, Microsoft didn't ask for the evidence the association has already submitted to the EC to be withdrawn. In a closed door meeting today convened by a European judge to discuss how best to...
[November 25, 2004, 16:20]
BlackBerrys Grounded By Whitehall Data Ban
News The Department of Health, Ministry of Justice, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Ministry of Defence would not reveal how many portable devices were temporarily out of action but the Government Car and Despatch Agency has withdrawn 14 PDAs.
[February 5, 2008, 8:13]
Government Withdraws Surveillance Plan
News Home secretary David Blunkett has withdrawn a controversial addition to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) following a week of criticism from civil liberties groups and MPs of both parties.
[June 18, 2002, 15:33]
Network Associates Pulls McAfee Bid
News Network Associates, citing newly unearthed accounting inaccuracies, has withdrawn its bid for an additional stake in its McAfee.com subsidiary. The security software company said on Thursday that during an amendment of its 1999 tax return it...
[April 25, 2002, 16:33]
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis - Strike Back Map
Downloads NATO have withdrawn from Le Moule and have re-grouped and dug into Lamentin. Soviet mechanised infantry divisions have driven NATO forces out of Morton and have now seized Le Moule. NATO are now prepared for a small counterattack to Strike Back...
[October 8, 2003, 13:14]
Find It Fast: Desktop Search Programs
Talkback I sorely missed Altavista Discovery when it was withdrawn and couldn't find a suitable replacement - until now when the Google Desktop search program came to the rescue. It's blisteringly quick even on my 700Mhz PIII.
[October 20, 2004, 7:54]
Personal Finance Shoot-out
Talkback It is unfortunate that Intuit have withdrawn from the market. I am from a company called Accountz.com, we produce home and business accounting software. We have an accounting package that is suitable as a replacement for Quicken called Personal...
[January 9, 2006, 11:17]
Security Firm U-turns On Banking Breach
News UPDATE: Security firm TrustDefender has this morning withdrawn claims it made last Thursday that seemed to "prove" that the SMS-based two-factor authentication system used by many online banking systems was vulnerable to attack.
[May 4, 2007, 11:13]
Bulldog Users Bite Back Over Poor Service
Talkback Over the last few months, Bulldog have submitted Direct Debits to my bank and withdrawn payments for 4 Bulldog Accounts other than my own. They have taken over £1,200 in this way ! I have been phoning them regularly for over a month to get this...
[August 9, 2006, 8:24]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
News In his budget speech on Wednesday, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that the tax exemptions offered within the Home Computing Initiative would be withdrawn next month. The government is withdrawing financial subsidies that have encouraged the take...
[March 22, 2006, 17:05]
