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Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment The technology determines the geographic location and network connection data for each IP address accessing a website. For businesses, this geo-targeting can improve click-through rates and increase revenues from website traffic. [09 Jan 2008]
Downing St responds to silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign
News As part of the campaign silicon.com launched an online petition on the Downing Street website calling for the Prime Minister to improve the reporting of information security breaches in the public and private sectors. [10 Dec 2007]
Rupert Murdoch
AS Profile The Australian-born, Oxford-educated media mogul was slow to come round to the potential of online publishing but was praised last year for buying social networking website MySpace, making up for lost time in the internet arena. [12 Oct 2007]
Stories of the Month - September 2007
News And finally, the controversy around the BBC iPlayer was again in the news this month with the government responding to an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website, signed by more than 16,000 people. [28 Sep 2007]
Customer data breach at UK loans website
News The loans website will not reveal how many customers have been affected or how the breach happened but admitted the names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, loan applications and mortgage details of people applying for loans were passed to... [13 Sep 2007]
Is this the malware mother of all botnets?
News Peter Guttman, a computer sciences security researcher wrote in an email posted on insecure.org's website: "This may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has been controlled not by a government or mega-corporation but by criminals. [12 Sep 2007]
Data breach laws 'make companies serious about security'
Comment If notification would cost more than $250,000 - or if more than 500,000 people are affected - email and/or notices on the organisation's website, as well as notification to major state-wide media, could be used instead of postal notification. [03 Sep 2007]
16,000 back iPlayer petition
News The deadline for the e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website passes today - and then it is up to the government to issue a response. A response to the petition will be made by Downing Street officials or by another relevant government... [20 Aug 2007]
Know your data rights, says watchdog
News The latest data warning from the data protection watchdog follows the launch of silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - which is aiming to persuade the UK government to change the law on data breaches so that companies have a legal requirement to... [08 Aug 2007]
Help plug the data leaks - sign the e-petition
News One way readers can participate in this campaign is by signing an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website. Earlier this month silicon.com launched its Full Disclosure campaign, calling for a rethink of existing government policy on when... [30 Jul 2007]
Massachusetts moots opening door to Microsoft
News The proposed changes were included in a draft proposal posted to the state's Information Technology Division website, as part of a periodic revision to its overall technical architecture, and will be under review until 20 July. [03 Jul 2007]
Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News BA's Coby's achievements include cutting IT costs by almost half, overhauling the BA.com website, introducing online check-in and print-your-own boarding passes and building state-of-the-art systems for the new Terminal 5 building at Heathrow. [07 Jun 2007]
Learn to love the web, councils chiefs told
News The report suggests council decision makers don't understand website usage patterns or the extent to which the public has moved to the internet and mobile technology. Leicester City Council began to focus on online recruitment after discovering... [01 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.06.07
Round-Up The popular video site apparently became website non grata after it hosted footage of Moroccan policemen beating a female activist who was part of a protest against the country's occupation of Western Sahara. [01 Jun 2007]
Google helping Utah with its searchable data
News Some state government documents are hidden behind design elements of the website or, more commonly, in a database that a search engine's crawlers can't access, said JL Needham, manager of public sector content partnerships at Google. [30 Apr 2007]
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