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Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News Last month telecoms regulator Ofcom announced a voluntary code of practice for ISPs for speed, with guidelines including providing customers with an accurate estimate of the maximum speed their line is likely to achieve, and offering to move them... [14 Jul 2008]
Broadband speed: ISPs accept 'code of practice'
News ISPs signing up agree to provide customers with an accurate estimate of the maximum speed the line can support at the point of sale; resolve technical issues to improve speed and offer customers the choice of moving onto a lower speed package when... [05 Jun 2008]
Brits get more data security savvy
News Deputy information commissioner, David Smith, said as more personal information is gathered, the risk of information being inaccurate, out-of date or ending up in the wrong hands is increasing. Brits are becoming much savvier with their personal... [19 Mar 2008]
ID cards chief defends u-turn
News But UK businesses remain critical, with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) fearing that companies could be liable if they provide inaccurate information to the National Identity Register and expressing unease over the security of the data... [10 Mar 2008]
Carphone Warehouse in data protection breach
News The companies were found to be in "serious" breach of the Data Protection Act by the ICO following a catalogue of errors that included passing inaccurate names, addresses and debts to credit reference and collection agencies, opening customer... [16 Jan 2008]
Arctic survey put on ice until 2009
News Predictions for ice-free summers at the North Pole have been wildly inaccurate, according to Hadow's lead scientific partner, professor Wieslaw Maslowski. The Vanco Arctic Survey expedition to measure the thickness of the ice cap at the North Pole... [11 Jan 2008]
Wikia Search goes live but results are "pretty bad"
News Wikia Search has so far been criticised for returning poor and inaccurate results but Wales has not rushed to its defence - calling the search results available at the moment "pretty bad". An alpha version of the Wikia search engine has been... [08 Jan 2008]
Gordon Brown orders data security spot checks
News The government has hit back saying these claims are inaccurate. The government has agreed to data security spot checks across all departments by the Information Commissioner following the loss of 25 million records of child benefit recipients by HM... [22 Nov 2007]
Doubts over £13.3bn government efficiency savings
News While some of the £13.3bn efficiency gains are robust - such as the Home Office reducing the cost of asylum accommodation - the PAC report raises question marks over almost £10bn due to an inability by government departments to demonstrate their... [11 Oct 2007]
Dirty data holding businesses back
News Flawed data includes information that is inaccurate, incomplete or duplicated, creating significant and unnecessary costs for companies, it said. Dirty data will cost businesses money and time over the next two years with more than 25 per cent of... [02 Mar 2007]
'Extreme Big Brother fears to become a reality'
News Mistakes can also easily be made with serious consequences - false matches and other cases of mistaken identity, inaccurate facts or inferences, suspicions taken as reality, and breaches of security. UK citizens will be tracked by RFID tags... [01 Nov 2006]
Vista security war of words escalates
News Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of Microsoft's security technology unit, said: "It's unfortunate that McAfee's lawyers are making these kinds of inaccurate and inflammatory statements. Relations between Microsoft and the large security vendors... [23 Oct 2006]
$100 laptop field-trials on the horizon
News In an email sent to silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK, Negroponte said reports that trials of the machine would initially be limited to Thailand were inaccurate. Reports that trials of the $100 laptop project will kick off in Thailand alone have... [22 Aug 2006]
'Data sharing could aid crackdown on crime'
News Trust and confidence will be lost if information is inaccurate or out of date, if there are mistakes of identification, if information is not kept securely or if reasonable expectations of privacy are not met. [18 Jul 2006]
Give us open access to Whois data, says US gov't
News He did note the importance of an accurate Whois database, saying, "the FTC has advocated that stakeholders work to improve the accuracy of such information, because inaccurate data has posed significant obstacles in FTC investigations". [28 Jun 2006]
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