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News If they are accepted, the Home Office will then draw up a Green Paper to seek out a legislative opportunity. The Law Commission has published a list of recommendations designed to create legislation to cope with modern... [28 Apr 1999]
AOL and France Telecom get green light to sell Web names
News America Online (AOL) and France Telecom are to start selling top level Web addresses. The two companies are the first commercial bodies to manage Web sites ending in .com, .edu and .net. Until now, Internet domain names were the sole... [22 Apr 1999]
Reflex Magnetics gets green light for encryption export
News Company-wide data encryption became more widely available yesterday when London based security vendor, Reflex Magnetics was granted an export licence. The UK government will allow the company to ship its Data Vault 128bit security... [14 Apr 1999]
Sun faces Java challenge from open source developers
News Anthony Green, Java engineering manager at Cygnus, said the test suite gives developers who use Java clones like Chai a means of testing their products to see if they behave like fully licensed Java products. [14 Apr 1999]
AT&T/BT mega-merger gets EC green light
News In a statement, the EC said it gave the green light "after certain co-ordination issues between BT and AT&T in the UK had been resolved through undertakings submitted by AT&T". The European Commission (EC) has... [31 Mar 1999]
AOL - Netscape merger gets green light
News America Online (AOL) has been given the go-ahead to buy Netscape. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced late Friday night that the deal does not infringe on US anti-trust laws. A strategic alliance between AOL and Sun Microsystems... [15 Mar 1999]
Ericsson unveils macho mobile
News The model will be available in the third quarter of this year, in orange and green. Ericsson has launched a new water, dust and shock-resistant mobile phone. Designed for use in tough environments, the R250 PRO is sealed... [23 Feb 1999]
Enba boasts heavyweight backing for Net start-up
News We are a green field development. Enba claims to be Europe's largest ever venture capital-backed Internet start-up - with over £10m in the bank. The firm will act as a parent company for what it hopes will be a raft of... [21 Feb 1999]
Business needs come first say Silicon.com delegates
News One attendee, Simon Howson-Green, who develops content for digital TV, said: "As BSkyB becomes a retailer and Tesco becomes a publisher, I think the IT director should have experience with content. Silicon.com's IT on... [11 Feb 1999]
BT applauds telecoms relaxation
News The UK government has given BT a provisional green light if it decides to turn Cellnet into a wholly-owned subsidiary. BT welcomed the move, but denied that it plans to take the government up on the offer by buying... [01 Feb 1999]
UK government backs Norwich Project
News The grant forms part of Private Finance Initiative funding for the project, but Norwich won't get the green light until is secures further funds from industry. The UK government has awarded Norwich City Council £9m to... [13 Jan 1999]
Logica lands Czech mobile deal
News It is an example of a relatively green-field site leapfrogging to technology that is cutting edge in the West," he said. Logica has won a contract worth almost $5m to upgrade the billing systems of Czech GSM operator,... [07 Jan 1999]
Clinton signs Internet copyright protection act
News She added that there is a European green paper in the works on the issue. President Clinton yesterday dealt a blow to Internet piracy by signing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act into law. The Act aims to protect... [29 Oct 1998]
BBC awards £600m licence contract to Envision
News We don't have the green light to use the Net yet, but this is a seven year contract, and we're making provision for the future. The BBC has awarded a contract for the collection of licence fees to Envision - a consortium... [27 Oct 1998]
Equant launches global voice and data service
News According to Brunswick: "Equant might say it has had a lot of good experience, but Qwest and others are building their own green field networks, and that gives them a lot of advantages. Equant, the global data and voice... [09 Oct 1998]
