emails in news
DoJ lands hammer blow on Microsoft
News But the company's laborious efforts foundered as DoJ lawyer, David Boies, showed Microsoft's third witness, senior VP, James Allchin, one of his own emails which seemed to contradict this line. US Department of Justice... [03 Feb 1999]
Freedom fighters sound alert over ISP data powers
News Civil liberties lobbyists have been angered by private negotiations between the police and ISPs (Internet service providers) over the use of emails as criminal evidence. The document shows that ISPs have the power to... [01 Feb 1999]
Maritz loses memory over Microsoft emails
News The US government's anti-trust case against Microsoft shifted up a gear yesterday with the appearance of a slew of emails backing the Department of Justice's (DoJ) allegations. David Boies, the DoJ's chief prosecutor,... [27 Jan 1999]
Microsoft executive admits Linux is a threat
News The Microsoft executive is likely to face strong cross-examination from the government regarding company emails about the integration of Windows and Internet Explorer. The US Department of Justice's anti-trust case... [25 Jan 1999]
Serbs accuse US government of hacking
News The site shows a map of bases in Europe used by the US National Security Agency, with the sole purpose of intercepting emails, telephone calls and faxes. The Serbian Deputy Information Minister, Miodrag Popovic has... [20 Jan 1999]
Network Solutions buckles under domain name demand
News The same report mentioned that Network Solutions was blaming the problems on a record number of registrations and a plague of fraudulent emails. Network Solutions - the US group responsible for managing the world's... [18 Jan 1999]
Mormon missionaries lose email privileges
News The Mormon Church - formally known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - has banned its members from sending emails and faxes. It has been noted in the past that too much time has been spent sending... [12 Jan 1999]
Prodigy ruling lets ISPs off the hook
News The ISP has spent four years fighting the case brought by a teenager who, as a Boy Scout in 1994, had his name falsely attached to emails and bulletin board postings denouncing his troop leader. Prodigy Communications, a... [05 Jan 1999]
UK Web strike misses the mark
News UK pressure group, the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT), originally gave its backing, and even offered the strikers space on its Web site, but was concerned when emails to the organisers went unanswered. [15 Dec 1998]
Microsoft's decade in court: A brief history
News He repeatedly gives "I don't remember" or "I don't recall" when questioned about a string of belligerent emails aimed at industry competitors, Netscape, Apple, Intel, Sun Microsystems etc. June US Federal Trade... [23 Nov 1998]
World Chambers Network launches e-Club
News While governments and technology vendors are working frantically to find a way of authenticating emails, the e-Club's approach to trust uses the model of a gentleman's club. An exclusive online service has been launched... [20 Nov 1998]
Dictaphones go digital with pocket-sized BiteMate
News Windows compatible software and two-way .wav conversion allows the BiteMate to transfer sound bites into emails, documents, presentations and Web pages. A digital dictaphone with PDA (personal digital assistant)... [16 Nov 1998]
Chain email brings Red Cross aid to hurricane survivors
News A chain of emails working its way around the Internet has resulted in money pouring into the Red Cross' Hurricane Mitch relief project in Central America. Altogether the coordinators of last week's appeal for help did... [15 Nov 1998]
Analysts slam big brands for poor online service
News The findings fly in the face of a recent comment from a BT spokesman who told the Institute of Directors: "Customer emails often get better service than telephone calls. Retail sites came out better than average, as 54... [11 Nov 1998]
One in five corporate servers hijacked by spam-mailers
News According to NTA, a spamming technique known as public relaying allows offenders to re-route emails through an unsuspecting corporation's server. The spam emails are sent in the host's name and the... [10 Nov 1998]