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Freecycle Diaries: Serendipity at last
Comment In the final instalment of the Freecycle Diaries, Natasha Lomas clears a ragbag assortment of items from her flat - and pairs up a giant accountant with a giant calculator. In a last-ditch effort to clear what has rapidly become 'the Freecycle... [08 May 2007]
Leader: Is justice really being meted out to spammers?
Leader Take the two Nigerian men jailed for a total of 37 years for their part in a fraud, started over email, which resulted in the closure of a Brazilian bank after one employee fell for the email scam and lost the bank $240m. [21 Nov 2005]
Leader: The beginning of the end for 419 scams?
Leader Indeed, the initiative between Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Redmond has already resulted in the closure of three ISPs used by 419 scammers. There can't be an internet user out there who hasn't been contacted by Lady Mariam... [14 Oct 2005]
Leader: Stop self-policing
Leader But such tactics would have cost a lot more than a blanket closure. One of China's leading portals, NetEase, announced today it has shut its MP3 search facility, fearing it could be blamed for the illegal music files that such a search turns up... [17 Aug 2005]
Leader: Phone spammers - at least they get 'done'
Leader The 16 companies who have suffered service closure and up to £100,000 fines from ICSTIS paid to send the messages. UK premium rate phone regulator ICSTIS has announced a major crackdown on operators fleecing consumers with automated spam messages... [04 Apr 2005]
Leader: Closure at the end of the calendar year?
Leader Normally as we approach Christmas and the end of the year, the pace eases up in the tech community, certainly in Europe and North America. But this year it feels like there has been plenty happening as December trundles on, much of it neatly... [23 Dec 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.12.04
Round-Up It may be in the dim and distant past but perhaps you were on your way home from a late night, you'd had a few and you decided it was time to either seek 'closure' or reconciliation. "I know it's late but I really need to talk. [03 Dec 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Why certifying IT workers won't help
Comment The Millennium Footbridge across the Thames was a huge embarrassment to the engineering firms involved, as it swayed its way to closure. People are always talking about creating more requirements for software enginneers. [26 Apr 2004]
Leader: Should the UK music industry take the legal high ground?
Leader Originally the labels turned on Napster and Kazaa but successes, after the closure of Napster, were few and far between. In business you have to make unpopular decisions, that's a given, but nobody has actively courted negative press with the same... [14 Jan 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Holistic security
Comment The wholesale closure of industries driven out of a country or region by cost reduction now sees an exposure that includes an inability for a nation to feed itself and provide its own clothing, energy, fuel oil and the majority of the technology... [26 Nov 2003]
M&S: could this be the great web rescue?
Comment It failed to connect with its core customers and its closure programme for European branches had nasty knock-on effects on its reputation. Marks and Spencer is so much more than a household name, it's a UK institution. [01 Nov 2001]
Model Management: Why not ask the staff?
Comment Worried business leaders point to Renault's experiences in Belgium a few years ago, when the proposed closure of the Vilvoorde plant led to mass unrest and industrial action. A minor management earthquake rumbled through the European Union last... [26 Jun 2001]
Model Management: Vive l'exception francaise!
Comment The company has announced the closure of the Calais plant where the popular Lu biscuits are made. As many as 14,000 people marched through the town recently to protest against the planned closure and the 570 redundancies this would entail. [01 May 2001]
How to make money from B2B e-marketplaces
Comment Losses arising from the closure of the two sites are expected to total about $410m. Even as Chemdex announced its forthcoming closure last month, the exchange boasted 140 enterprise accounts and 30,000 registered individual scientists. [10 Jan 2001]
John Lamb's Year: 2001 - surfing in space
Comment Not only will Bill Gates be hoping for closure in the long running anti-trust case against Microsoft, but he also plans to roll out a follow on to Windows 2000 called Whistler. Those who have read Clarke's book will recall that aliens land on earth... [18 Dec 2000]
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