villain
RSS villain5 years ago... MP calls for UK Net minister
News Last week he was even nominated for the Internet Villain of the year gong at the Internet Service Providers Association Awards for "lowering the level of informed debate on the internet generally and spam in particular,"... [25 Feb 2004]
Jump to C#
White Paper So I'm penning this piece in the hope that my experience might help Java programmers to learn Java's new cousin.or villain according to some view points! When I started learning C# half the time I was trying to find Java... [25 Feb 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.02.04
Round-Up The Villain Award was a three-horse race between VeriSign "for their presumption that they own the internet", the RIAA for its mismanaged file-sharing crackdown and Derek Wyatt MP "for lowering the level of informed... [20 Feb 2004]
Internet Hero and Villain honoured with gongs
News Domain name and security company VeriSign walked away with the Internet Villain Award. Steve Linford, the inspirational anti-spam campaigner and silicon.com Agenda Setter, has won the Internet Hero Award at an ISPA... [20 Feb 2004]
BT wireless trials offer rural broadband hope
News BT is testing a wireless broadband service that if launched commercially could help to bring high-speed internet access to 100 per cent of the UK population. The telco announced on Tuesday that the technology will be trialled at four... [17 Dec 2003]
Digital music: Where the 'good guys' are the villains of the peace
Comment The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was cast as the villain and it will never shake off that image. Napster was breaking the law. MP3.com was breaking the law. Kazaa is breaking the law. [10 Jul 2003]
Lib Dem MP nets 'Hero' award
News Other nominees for the Internet Hero award were last year's winner Elizabeth France, the former information commissioner, Secretary of State David Blunkett's son Hugh, APIG, and Home Office official Simon Watkin, who ended up collecting... [21 Feb 2003]
ISPA awards: Home Office 'Hero' turns 'Villain'
News A Home Office official who was in the running for the coveted award of Internet Hero at last night's ISPA awards ended up walking away with the Internet Villain gong. An official from the Home Office, which is regularly... [21 Feb 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Who’ll do the dirty work?
Comment For a long while Railtrack was the villain of the piece. Narrowing your focus and outsourcing what you're not best at can only go so far, Martin Brampton argues this week. After all, shouldn't we always want to... [10 Feb 2003]
Jail time for virus writers: Yes or No?
Comment A number of other reader comments we've received suggest the real villain of the piece is none other than Microsoft. News that a 22-year-old Welshman has been sentenced to two years in prison for creating and... [24 Jan 2003]
Is Anne Robinson the internet's biggest villain?
News There are five nominees in the 'hero' and 'villain' categories. Villain Award The UK Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has drawn up the shortlists for its annual naming and shaming of the... [23 Dec 2002]
Kat Slater and the man from Microsoft
Comment Our villain was in fact a hero who'd caught the eye of our celeb. It's Christmas, which can only mean two things: over-full shops (go online, it's more fun) and tacky decoration-strewn high streets. Take Reading, for... [29 Nov 2002]
High-tech VIPs and the silicon.com curse
Comment From the hero of the AirTouch and Mannesmann deals to villain in two years? But we must. As at least one other publication has noted, a place in our 'power 50' list has turned into a poisoned chalice (see... [04 Sep 2002]
Home Office scoops "internet villain" gong
News The Home Office picked up the dreaded Internet Villain 'prize' at last night's Internet Service Providers Association Awards for its implementation of the controversial RIP Act. The judges said the Home Office had... [14 Feb 2002]
Intel is the bond villain as telco shares fall
News Shares in Hong Kong telco Pacific Century Cyberworks (PCCW) fell this morning after Intel acquired a 1.4 per cent stake in the company with the purchase of $100m of exchangeable bonds. PCCW shares, listed in Hong Kong, were down 3.45 per... [14 Jan 2002]
