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Lastminute Voted 'worst' UK Travel Site
News Lastminute.com has received the dubious honour of being voted "worst" UK travel site, in a poll of 6,000 readers of the Daily Telegraph. Expedia.co.uk, a Microsoft operation, was the readers' favourite.
[October 17, 2000, 16:07]
Worst Web Sites In The World - Awards
News Texas' Web site, featuring a single muddy graphic and some text, was derided as offering the worst possible image of the Lone Star State. Quaker's winning tactic was simple: its site could be straight out of the dark ages of 1992, with a single...
[May 5, 1999, 9:20]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback A partner site has to always stay under a fear that any day DELL would change its parameters and they would not be able to achieve that. DELL always keeps itself in a win-win situation if they get the job done its well -n-good otherwise remove the...
[April 24, 2006, 0:42]
Top Firms Fail The Internet Challenge
News A third of Britain's top firms are failing to operate a satisfactory Web site, according to a study published this week. Interactive Bureau rated each Web site using a range of criteria. This included whether home pages included "must have...
[January 9, 2004, 16:30]
Tech Companies Swing The Jobs Axe
News Among smaller job losses, Waterstone's on Thursday announced that it would turn over the operations of its e-commerce site to Amazon.co.uk, affecting 50 jobs, which the company hopes to move to other parts of the company.
[July 27, 2001, 11:26]
Junk Email: No Relief In Sight For The Spammed
News Vbug, a Microsoft developer support company, which has been running for 10 years and has had a Web site for the past seven years, last month received around 720,000 emails messages, 99.84 percent of which were spam.
[May 24, 2004, 15:45]
Worst Coverage Of This Story On ZDNet
Talkback Are they an advertiser on your site by any chance? This topic has been covered by quite a few technology news sites and from what I've read yours is the absolute worst coverage. You make no effort to talk to the complainant and devote only a...
[September 14, 2007, 15:19]
Why Web Site Logos Are Phony Security
White Papers Probably the worst possible kind of Internet security we have today is the secure site logo'. This white paper explains why. It’s actually very hard to get traders anywhere to sign up to a scheme that has rules that limit their ability to sell to...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
COM And .Net Interoperability
Talkback It would be nice to access your site without that CiscoSystem popup sitting in the middle of your articles. The worst thing is that the damn thing doesn't have a method for closing. What is that? And WHY?
[January 24, 2005, 14:34]
Rapid Remote Disaster Recovery, With Rapid ROI
White Papers Today most companies understand that the only way to ensure data protection and business continuity in the face of the worst sorts of disasters - floods, tornados, earthquakes, terror attacks, massive power outages - is to establish a remote...
[October 12, 2007, 8:54]
Top 10 Security Vulnerabilities In .NET Configuration Files
White Papers These days, the biggest threat to an organization's network security comes from its public Web site. Unlike internal-only network services such as databases - which can be sealed off from the outside via firewalls - a public Web site is generally...
[July 2, 2007, 1:00]
Ajax Roadmap: How To Transform Your Website Without Starting From Scratch
White Papers But this paper will show how one can use Ajax to improve the bottom line and delight the customers without rebuilding the site from scratch. Ajax can seem like an overused Web 2.0 buzzword at best and an expensive, difficult-to-implement technology...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
CmPublish Broadcast Case Study
White Papers Benedek implemented Clickability's full suite of outsourced site hosting, content management, newsletter, interactivity and measurement services. At worst, the system was not accessible at all. Benedek Broadcasting owns 21 network affiliated...
[November 18, 2004, 2:00]
Judges Reveal Best (and Worst) Politicians' Websites
News The pictured site, that of West Suffolk Conservative Richard Spring, offers constituents a range of podcasts, blogs and a newswire service. Of those who do have a site, many simply were not good enough, argued the judges, basing the awards on three...
[November 9, 2007, 10:00]
Dealing With The Worst-case Scenario
News The vast majority of organisations will not be able to afford or manage DR data centres that lie far enough away from the primary facility to be helpful in this type of disaster, meaning that your DR systems will be impacted by the same event that...
[November 28, 2005, 10:50]
Does Publishing Virus Source Codes Help Security?
News Publishing the source codes of viruses and other exploits increases security by helping companies to prepare for the worst, according to the editor of one such site. French Web site K-otik is infamous for posting source codes that could be used to...
[April 1, 2004, 17:45]
Government Websites Under Fire
News The site belonging to Hewitt, the secretary of state for trade and industry, came bottom of B2W's overall benchmark index, which takes into account additional factors such as download speeds. But the average UK corporate site had 573 errors when...
[November 22, 2002, 15:13]
Browsers Beware: New Holes In IE And Flash
News It seems that when a Flash animation fires up as you visit a site, it continues even after you leave the site. This can allow any site with such a certificate to hijack information intended for any other secure site.
[August 27, 2002, 12:24]
Odeon Reels Out Accessibility Excuses
News Catriona Campbell, founder and chairman of The Usability Company described the Odeon site as "one of the worst sites for accessibility I have ever seen by a British company". The Odeon cinema chain has been accused of breaching the Disability...
[September 23, 2004, 13:00]
ID Cards Fuel Leap In Consultancy Costs
News Davis told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com: "The Home Office has had its worst period in its 200-year history, stumbling from crisis to crisis. Home Office spending on consultants shot up from £7.6m in 1997/98 to £147m in 2006/07, a period...
[April 14, 2008, 8:42]
