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Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers

News The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) was quick to react, saying the European Parliament's recommendations on file-sharing were "badly drafted [and] rushed through". People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing...

Tags: eu, isps, file sharing

[14 Apr 2008]

'CopNav' to track Met's police officers

News In news reports the Metropolitan Police Federation - the body representing the rank and file officers in the force - has raised concerns about the privacy implications of the scheme. But the Met's spokesman said the force is consulting with the...

Tags: tag, london, police

[11 Apr 2008]

Businesses may be forced to pay for e-crime police

Businesses may be forced to pay for e-crime police

News The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the British Retail Consortium (BRC), the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), blue chip UK Plc IT user group the Corporate IT Forum (Tif) and tech industry body Intellect are all backing silicon.com's...

Tags: e-crime, cyber crime, dedicated, campaign

[17 Mar 2008]

UK Plc calls for national police e-crime force

News The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the British Retail Consortium (BRC), the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), blue chip user group the Corporate IT Forum (Tif) and tech industry trade body Intellect are all backing the campaign for a...

Tags: e-crime, police, cyber crime, crime

[14 Mar 2008]

Tech to cut red tape and leave police to police

News A Police Federation of England and Wales spokesman said: "We are in favour in principle of the tech aspects of the review if measures such as using PDAs can be shown to reduce the bureaucracy. Virtual courts, handheld police computers and joined up...

Tags: police, courts, tech, record

[08 Feb 2008]

Music piracy fight - ISPs must do more

News The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is proposing that ISPs should be obliged to disconnect users who are found to be infringing music copyright. The music industry is calling for governments and internet services...

Tags: music, government, piracy, isps

[25 Jan 2008]

HSBC rolls out free convenience store ATMs

News High street bank HSBC has struck a deal with the Federation of National Retail Newsagents (FNRN) to roll out an unspecified number of free ATMs in convenience stores across the UK, in collaboration with hardware provider VocaLink.

Tags: hsbc, newsagent, atm, cash

[22 Jan 2008]

$12bn tech spend for UK SMEs in 2007

News Peter Scargill, IT chairman for the UK's Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) , agreed SMEs face increasing pressure from rising technology costs. Rising technology costs saw SMEs in the UK spending $12bn on IT last year.

Tags: sme, business, retail, it spend

[14 Jan 2008]

PM backs flexible working for UK parents

News John Wright, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the government must recognise the reality is employees need to be at work to enable their company to make money, pay their wages and grow to employ others.

Tags: gordon brown, flexible working, wfh, request

[08 Nov 2007]

States back European tech institute

News If approved by the European Parliament later this year, the structure of the EIT will be that of a federation of so-called "knowledge and innovation communities" (KICs), which are partnerships between academic institutions, businesses and other...

Tags: eit

[27 Jun 2007]

YouTube copyright battle hots up

News The Federation Francaise de Tennis and Ligue de Football Professionnel, as well as New York-based Cherry Lane Music Publishing, have joined a class-action lawsuit that accuses YouTube and parent company Google of copyright violations, according to...

Tags: copyright, youtube

[06 Jun 2007]

ID management in the security spotlight

News According to Kellet, the particular problems associated with identity management are provisioning and deprovisioning of user identities, access control, and identity federation. Identity management remains a problem for both private and public...

Tags: identity management, two-factor authentication, federated identity, id management

[30 Apr 2007]

Yahoo! China sued by record labels

News The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) claims Yahoo! A music industry body is launching a series of lawsuits against Yahoo! China over alleged music piracy. China is infringing member companies' rights by making...

Tags: music, music download, ifpi, yahoo

[07 Mar 2007]

Microsoft, Novell talk up technicalities

News Specifically, the companies intend to rely on three protocols - WS-Management, WS-Federation and WS-Security - to bridge their administration tools and network directories. Microsoft and Novell have fleshed out the technical aspects of their...

Tags: microsoft, server virtualisation, virtualisation, novell

[13 Feb 2007]

Open source ID projects cosy up to Microsoft

News Backers of Higgins and Bandit plan to demonstrate an early version of an application at the RSA Conference in San Francisco which shows open source identity services that are interoperable with Microsoft's Windows CardSpace and can enable Liberty...

Tags: microsoft, open source, id

[29 Jan 2007]

Consumer groups wage war on Apple DRM

News The four parties - UFC-Que Choisir of France, the Federation of German Consumers Groups and the ombudsmen from Finland and Norway, which have all previously started legal action against Apple in their respective countries - are now uniting to...

Tags: drm, apple

[24 Jan 2007]

Liberty Alliance plugs open source drive

News The industry organisation has created the "OpenLiberty Project" to provide tools and information for developing applications that use the Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services standards. The Liberty Alliance has announced an effort to spur...

Tags: id management, open source, liberty alliance

[23 Jan 2007]

CIO Jury: 'Cynical' licence audits under fire

News However, software audits, such as those carried out by the Federation Against Software Theft, are actually very helpful in overall software management and asset tracking. Corporate IT users have accused technology suppliers of cynically using...

Tags: cio jury

[12 Jan 2007]

Mobile music to kill the MP3 player?

News A spokesman from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) told silicon.com mobile music sales have been growing rapidly, particularly in Asia, but there's still a large, untapped market for accessing music on mobiles.

Tags: mp3s, mobile music, mobile, notes

[08 Jan 2007]

HP leak probe scandal claims more scalps

News The funds, which collectively own more than 30 million HP shares, include the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Pension Funds; the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds; the New York State Common Retirement Fund...

Tags: leak probe, leak, hp

[27 Sep 2006]

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