data loss
RSS data lossStrong growth for Didata offset by purchase costs
News But goodwill amortisation from a series of acquisitions meant that the company made a net loss of $151.5m - and executive chairman Jeremy Ord expects the losses to continue for at least three years. Didata provides... [09 Nov 2000]
E-banks told to carry the can for online fraud
News Banks can easily stand the loss of a few hundred or thousand pounds but it would be difficult for the customer. Anthony Riem, a partner at data protection specialist law firm Philippsohn Crawfords... [04 Sep 2000]
Scottish exams fiasco could spark data protection case
News However, lawyers have stressed that this would be difficult because of the need under the terms of the Act to prove financial loss. The Scottish Assembly has launched an investigation into why several thousand Scottish... [22 Aug 2000]
Powergen scandal: lessons to be learned
Comment Let this be a wake-up call to industry - the cost of scandals like these isn't £50 per customer in compensation it's the loss of ecommerce as a whole if consumers simply refuse to participate. In fact, Powergen took... [21 Jul 2000]
BT Cellnet attacks "unreasonable" Oftel
News A one-year investigation by Oftel, released yesterday, concluded associated service providers such as BT Mobile would be making a loss but for the help of their parent company. In a written statement, BT Cellnet added... [04 Jul 2000]
Software glitch leaves UK flights high and dry
News EasyJet - which cancelled all flights on Saturday - estimated its loss at half a million pounds. The flight data processing system went down at 09:30 (BST) on Saturday and remained down for the next... [20 Jun 2000]
Agenda Setters: Oracle comes under fire over incubator scheme
News They need to get the expertise of the market leader, but without loss of control," he said. Meanwhile, Janet Perner, head of data management at IBM, said the scheme is all about self-proclamation. Oracle... [07 Jun 2000]
Operating loss fails to dampen ICL's IPO spirits
News ICL has reported an operating loss for its end of year results but claims it is still on track for IPO later this year. Profit before tax for the year ending 31 March 2000 was £96.1m - up from a loss... [26 May 2000]
Intel recalls one million "faulty" Pentium III chipsets
News A spokesman for Intel, said the faulty chip is a part of the memory processor and could cause PCs to crash resulting in a loss of data. The loss of data will be... [11 May 2000]
Virus Update: European companies are still Love-sick
News The loss of revenue because of a perceived threat was far more than any actual damage caused. One wrote: "I work for a large computer company and I checked with our local support and they don't have a single example of... [11 May 2000]
This time in '99: AT&T breaks privacy guidelines
News He added that the loss to AT&T's reputation was infinite, due to their breach of consumer trust. Under European law, AT&T's mistake would be considered a breach of the data protection principles. [18 Apr 2000]
Hitachi break-up causes 600 redundancies
News Hitachi Data Systems is to split in two in an attempt to become more business-focussed - a move that will result in the loss of 600 jobs. Between them, Hitachi Data Systems and the new... [12 Apr 2000]
'Snooping Bill' slammed by silicon.com viewers
News Nick Rosen, director of research company Online Agency, said he was at a loss as to how such an unpopular Bill could be defeated and added its very existence was a result of political power struggles. [10 Apr 2000]
NAO reveals more MoD IT bungles
News And the loss of public funds through abortive expenditure on IT projects is clearly a cause for concern. But according to the NAO report, by 1997 the so-called Common User Data System still wasn't working. [19 Jan 2000]
SAS Institute releases solution to churn management
News Churn is a business term describing customer loss rate. The company's Enterprise Miner software for data mining is then used to identify customer behaviour patterns. The SAS Institute has this week... [16 Dec 1999]
