RSS emailNetscape launches Microsoft-friendly software
News Internet Explorer users who download Netscape Tuneup will be connected to advanced searching, personalised Web pages and free email at Netcenter. Netscape has come up with a strategy to entice more Internet traffic to... [02 Oct 1998]
US moves closer to Net privacy law for kids
News Web sites will not be allowed to ask children under 13 for their names or email addresses without making "reasonable effort" to obtain parental consent beforehand. The US Senate Commerce Committee has approved a bill to... [02 Oct 1998]
BTClick+ goes live
News Previously known as BTClick, the final version of the service bundles Net access with a free email service called talk21, the latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, and limited content from LineOne -... [30 Sep 1998]
US firms sells sub-$200 PCs
News Ernest-Jones explained that a low spec, low cost machine would offer the use of email and Web access - which is most needed in education. The latest addition to the PC market is a recycled sub-$200 PC. [30 Sep 1998]
IBM helps UK doctors take to the Net
News An enterprising group of doctors from Oxfordshire have launched a dedicated Web service which provides UK practitioners with free email and research facilities. Bacon expects to launch the free connection service... [30 Sep 1998]
Netscape fights browser privacy bug
News Netscape is reported to have admitted that the bug could also be sent through a Web-based email. Following Netscape's confirmation of a security bug in its browser software, the company says it will post a fix on its Web... [29 Sep 1998]
Californian governor cracks down on spammers
News The governor of California, Pete Wilson, has signed two 'anti-spamming' bills, designed to give Internet Service Providers the power to create their own laws regarding junk email and to sue spammers who break those laws. [29 Sep 1998]
Cattle line up to join UK government database
News Farmers and slaughterhouses send information via post or email to the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS), located in Workington, which then enters the information into CTS. The UK government's £35m cattle tracing... [28 Sep 1998]
Net security hole leaves credit card numbers exposed
News Badly managed auction software left credit card details, email addresses, phone numbers and even passwords open to abuse. Thousands of Internet users have been exposed to risk after their personal details were left... [25 Sep 1998]
Web developers shamed by sloppy homepages
News Badly designed Web sites incorporated dead hyperlinks, errors, bad graphics and faulty email addresses. An Internet audit has revealed that the homepages of many UK Web developers are badly designed and poorly put together. [24 Sep 1998]
ICL talks up business portal
News He based the figure on the number of email responses generated by the Web site. ICL is predicting that TradeUK - the UK export Web site ICL developed for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - will become UK's... [24 Sep 1998]
Microsoft accused of ignoring Hotmail problems
News Cervantes claims hackers can send an email attachment to Hotmail users which logs them out of the free email service, simulating a time-out. The gang of programmers who discovered a security glitch in... [23 Sep 1998]
UK police and ISPs debate legal access to email
News He also said that even if someone received an email from a criminal, it did not prove that they knew him or her. The link between email addresses and real people is too tenuous to stand up in court," he... [18 Sep 1998]
Xedia unveils Net access package
News The company claims Access Point can deliver business-class queuing technology which makes a distinction between important business traffic and what it calls "economy" traffic - for example, consumer email. [17 Sep 1998]
Judge rejects Microsoft bid to throw out suit
News Federal and state officials are investigating claims that Microsoft and its public relations firm, Waggener Edstrom, destroyed documents and email relating to the case. Microsoft's bid to have its anti-trust case... [16 Sep 1998]
