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Tuesday 20 February 2001

Thus says: 'We'll block child porn'

Thus, the owner of Demon Internet, has broken ranks with the rest of the UK ISP industry by stating it will remove all paedophilic material from its servers, taking responsibilty itself for tracking down the illegal content.

The Director's Cut: Navigating the email minefield

How did we ever cope without email? How did people cope without their daily fix of words, communication and information?

IT chiefs won't pay 3G premiums

European companies aren't willing to pay for 3G access because of the costs. A report released today by the Gartner Group revealed that only 24 per cent of chief information officers are prepared to pay a premium for high-speed web access through mobile phones.

Autonomy shares spin with contract wins

Autonomy's share price jumped today on news of US contract wins and Deutsche Bank's decision to upgrade its earnings forecasts.

Kodak puts wireless in the picture with killer app

Kodak has unveiled a colour PDA demonstration of its picture sharing service, PhotoNet Online.

iMode users get secure m-commerce

NTT DoCoMo has signed up Baltimore technologies to provide digital software for its latest range of mobile phones.

Firms bridge the Atlantic in testing alliance

Two pioneers of software testing in the US and UK have teamed up to drive forward joint European operations.

Analysing the analysts: Should we trust them?

There are lies, damn lies and statistics. It's a famous quotation and one sure to wrap up conference presentations with a chuckle. But is the issue of analyst accuracy all too often overlooked? Analyst quoting reporter Ben King investigates...

Copper load of this: Cisco claims cure for bandwidth woes

Cisco Systems is claiming to have come up with an answer for organisations which want to deploy high bandwidth multimedia applications without replacing their copper infrastructure.

TUC hots up case for call centre legal action

The TUC will decide at the end of next week if it will take legal action as a result of calls made to its hotline on call centre abuses.

Credit card fraud plans labelled 'incomplete'

The European Commission has been criticised for omitting a critical element from its credit card fraud Action Plan.

Text messaging explosion triggers Oftel investigation

The explosion of text messaging could lead Oftel to extending its price controls on mobile phone charges.

Hostlogic: There's never a good time to go bust

It had to happen. An application service provider (ASP) has died and left its customers in the lurch.

Two days left for debt laden Lucent

Lucent Technologies has again found itself embroiled in controversy over its dubious financial fortunes as it races to find the $4.5bn needed to drive through its radical restructuring plans.

WRQ to help Siebel, SAP and Baan users

Host integration software developer WRQ is set to release a set of products that will allow users of Siebel, Baan and SAP to rapidly move to ebusiness models.

NEC health warning over dodgy chips

Japanese electronics giant NEC has joined the growing ranks of high-tech firms issuing profit warnings, announcing it will fall 24 per cent short of previous estimates.

BT 'too slow and too old' for global challenge

As the BT-sponsored Global Challenge fleet sails into its 'Executive Leg' in Australasia, BT chiefs at home moved into day two of another grim week.

Video interest sparks Forbidden share leap

Forbidden Technologies' shares jumped 51 per cent today as it demonstrated its new video technology.

Interliant losses soar

ASP Interliant has reported a $151.2m year-end loss for fiscal 2000 - 200 per cent up on the losses for the previous year.

Nortel faces shareholder lawsuit

Nortel Networks is facing the wrath of shareholders who claim they were misled by the Canadian fibre optic network company.

VeriSign angers privacy groups with data sale

Domain name registrar VeriSign has confirmed that it is selling customer data onto marketeers, but denies any breach of privacy.

United offers flight deal of a lifetime

United Airlines is to honour transatlantic flight tickets sold on its website for as little as $25.

Polaris leads Indian software West

Indian software developer Polaris has expanded into Europe with a $1m stake in German company Sidoun.

EDS scraps ecommerce consultancy plans

EDS is expected to abandon plans to integrate its Kearney Interactive and E.solutions subsidiaries to create a single French ecommerce consultancy.

'Stamp out cybersquatting': summit gets off on wrong foot

Domain name registrars from 66 countries are meeting today in what is hailed as the first serious international attempt to stamp out cybersquatting on country code domains.

Microsoft's Stinger rings in the new and the bell tolls for Lastorders

Microsoft has entered the race to establish a dominant operating system for the next generation of mobile phones with the launch of its Stinger system.

Model Management: Microsoft's conventional wisdom

Microsoft is changing. There can be no doubt that focusing on an operating system and applications is no longer enough, even for this most successful of companies. But how is this reflected in its key personnel? The team at business management portal Ftdynamo.com explain...


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