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World Internet Forum Cancelled
News London's first ever World Internet Forum, scheduled to take place next week, has been cancelled following a lack of interest. It would be both unfair and unsatisfactory to both sponsors and speakers to continue with an audience that is anything...
[November 10, 2000, 15:10]
Internet World: WAP Industry Grapples With Security Concerns
News But even with these issues, security via WAP devices, such as mobile phones and Internet-enabled handheld computers, is "a 100-foot wall with a one-inch hole", according to Scott Goldman, CEO of WAP Forum, an industry consortium.
[May 25, 2000, 9:05]
World Online Leaves Internet Customers In The Lurch
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Telecoms forum. Dutch ISP World Online has withdrawn its fixed line telephony service from consumers, leaving thousands of Internet users with less than a month to find a new telephone service.
[June 29, 2001, 16:31]
Internet Reels After World Trade Centre Crashes
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. Moments after airplanes separately crashed into both towers of the World Trade Center, and then later into the Pentagon, Web sites for the major news outlets were swamped by an overflow...
[September 11, 2001, 15:31]
Internet World: Small But Well-formed
News The Red Herringdiscussed Venture Market Europe, a forum to raise capital for hi-tech entrepreneurs. Internet World UK looked small but pretty well formed on its opening day of three at Kensington's Olympia exhibition space today.
[May 20, 1997, 17:55]
Internet World Exhibits Signs Of Dot-com Deflation
News Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Telecoms forum. The Internet World show in London this week confirmed signs that dot-coms are having to rethink their strategies to survive as the hype deflates.
[June 8, 2001, 15:09]
Internet Creates Haves And Have-nots - Survey
News A survey conducted by MORI on behalf of the World Internet Forum has found the British public concerned about Internet haves and have-nots. Derek Wyatt MP, chairman and founder of the World Internet Forum is not surprised by the findings.
[December 14, 1999, 10:06]
IBM Spearheads Drive To Eradicate World's Slums
News The World Urban Forum (WUF) is holding what it hopes will be the world's largest ever fully interactive global event on the Internet over three days in December to help eradicate the world's slums. Habitat JAM was officially launched in London on...
[November 4, 2005, 17:30]
MPs Diss Government's Online Plans
News The report, commissioned for the World Internet Forum in November and performed by Mori, found only 61 percent of 101 MPs interviewed were confident that the government will meet its deadline for all services to be available online by 2005.
[September 21, 2000, 16:20]
EC: Web 2.0 Means Power And Responsibility
News The move towards Web 2.0 will stir the debate over internet governance and make businesses and individuals more powerful and responsible web users, a top European official has told a key forum in Athens.
[October 31, 2006, 13:14]
Straw Plans Net Paedophile Crackdown
News Announcing the summit last Tuesday during the release of a government-backed Internet Crime Forum Report (ICF), Bassam said: "We wish to set a challenge for the Internet industry to make the UK the safest place for children to access the Internet...
[March 28, 2001, 10:54]
GSM World Forum: Wireless Future Discussed
News The question of how third-generation, or 3G, services will pay for themselves will be foremost at this year's GSM World Forum, starting Monday. The forum is centred on issues related to GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), the wireless...
[February 19, 2001, 9:36]
Surveys Give Conflicting Accounts Of IT In The UK
News A Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) study into ICT has lauded British businesses' use of technology, saying industry is using it more effectively -- while the World Economic Forum's Global Information Report has shown the UK's global ICT...
[December 12, 2003, 13:55]
Internet World Attendees Get Net Policy Vote
News Phil Nelson, show director of Internet World UK 2001, believes the conference is an important forum for discussing the controversial issues sorrounding e-commerce. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum.
[June 5, 2001, 14:39]
Minister Challenges Government On Child Protection
News At the release of the government-backed Internet Crime Forum (ICF) report on Tuesday, the Home Office shifted the responsibility of protecting children online onto the industry, challenging all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to monitor their...
[March 21, 2001, 13:37]
ICANN Still Rules The Internet Roost
News While ICANN will continue its role of approving new top-level domains (TLDs), setting minimum prices for domain names and overseeing a dispute-resolution process for domain names, the agreement also calls for the creation of a UN "Internet...
[November 23, 2005, 12:20]
Coming Soon: Exhibition And Conference Dates
News The Intra-net Forum, The Marriot Hotel, Amsterdam, 0171-915 5103 Toshiba User Forum, Alexandra Palace, London, 01932-828828, fax 01932-845606 Softworld Forum for Local Government, Ramada Hotel, London; Interactive Exhibitions, 0181-5414 865, fax...
[November 11, 1996, 9:26]
UN Proposes Net Governance Changes
News Similarly, Amnesty International has sent a delegation here to the Internet Governance Forum to emphasise the need for protecting free speech. The Internet Governance Forum needs to know that the online community is bothered about free expression...
[October 31, 2006, 11:12]
UK Scientists Complete Grid Foundations
News The results were announced at the fifth Global Grid Forum, taking place this week in Edinburgh, hosted by the National E-Science Centre. Go to the ZDNet news forum. The Grid is a nebulous project being carried out by companies and scientists...
[July 22, 2002, 12:45]
Coming Soon: Exhibitions And Conferences
News IT Futures Forum, Brussels; EMDS International 00-32-2-543 0020, fax 00-32-2-538 6232 Campaign and Marketing Interactive Forum, Business Design Centre, London; Neil Crofts 0171-359 3535 Internet World UK Spring Conference, National Hall and...
[March 10, 1997, 9:14]
