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RSS myths in newsRoad-charging protest crashes PM's website
News But Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander has accused the people behind the protest of spreading myths about the plans. The Downing Street website crashed this week under the strain of anti-road-charging protestors rushing to sign an online petition. [13 Feb 2007]
Cost and complexity fears hold back grid computing
News But Peter Critchley, strategy director at Morse, which commissioned the survey, said grid computing is being held back by confusion and myths surrounding the technology. Fewer than one in 10 businesses is planning to adopt grid computing because of... [31 May 2006]
Kaspersky boss explodes security myths
News Russian antivirus guru Eugene Kaspersky has hit out at some of the myths which cloud what he sees as the real issues facing the IT security industry. Speaking to silicon.com in Moscow, the eponymous head of Kaspersky Labs said companies' own... [23 Jan 2006]
Google Video Store goes live online
News Diving into the video selections unearthed tantalising titles including Birth Control: Myths & Methods, Spanish Version, Bobbito's Basics to Boogie and ChinaPortal Presents: Xu Genbao and the Future of Chinese Soccer Part 1. [11 Jan 2006]
BT slams "bigots" who abuse Indian call centre staff
News BT has dismissed some of the "myths" around offshore outsourcing and claims some customers who complain about language difficulties with Indian call centres are just "bigots". BT's chief procurement officer Meryl Bushell, speaking today at the... [05 Oct 2005]
Gartner: Don't believe the tech security myths
News A Gartner analyst has sought to debunk the most common security myths affecting the technology industry. Research director Amrit Williams identified so-called threats to IP telephony, wireless technologies, the internet and business conduct and... [25 Jul 2005]
Trial aims to explode open source 'risk myths'
News This should explode some of the myths about the risks of open source. Birmingham City Council has started a giant trial of open source software on desktops and servers, intended to determine whether open source really delivers benefits. [17 May 2005]
'Web creator' Al Gore receives 'lifetime achievement'
News The organisers of the Webby Awards claim the lifetime achievement honour is intended to set "the record straight on one of recent history's most persistent political myths". Former US vice president Al Gore is to receive a lifetime achievement... [09 May 2005]
ID cards: "This is not a Big Brother database"
News Speaking at a press briefing today, Home Office minister Des Browne MP attempted to dismiss the "myths" created by opponents of the ID card scheme and said "this is not a Big Brother database". The government has again hit out at critics of its... [01 Dec 2004]
Norwegian city government switches to open source
News For its part, the software giant has been keen to rubbish the alleged discounts on offer through a series of events aimed at dispelling what it called "the myths" surrounding Linux. In a move that echoes an earlier high-profile migration by the... [15 Jun 2004]
Linux supporters waging a "jihad", says Microsoft exec
News Nick McGrath, Microsoft's head of platform strategy, described the campaign as "a reality check we're bringing out", aiming to tackle the "myths" surrounding Linux. One of the myths that's getting Microsoft's goat is the term 'free'. [11 Jun 2004]
Plaxo: "The conspiracy theories around us are almost comical."
News For its part, Plaxo asserts that it has taken precautions to avoid conflicts and is now trying to undo the "urban myths" that surround it, said Rikk Carey, vice president of engineering. Plaxo's information networking application attempts to take... [24 May 2004]
UK spooks use web to tackle terror threat against businesses
News Of more interest to most people will be the section of the site aimed at dispelling "myths" about the UK's secret service. UK secret intelligence agency MI5 has overhauled its online presence with a website aimed at helping businesses counter the... [30 Apr 2004]
Public sector warned of open source myths
News Government at all levels is stampeding towards open source software but should not be blinded by popular myths, say analysts. And how the public sector uses open source will probably determine its future, according to a report from Ovum. [14 Apr 2004]
Peter Cochrane's top 10 IT myths
News As part of silicon.com's IT Myths coverage we asked Peter Cochrane to give us his top 10 tall tales. This is what he said: Asymmetric broadband is what we need - wrong - the world ain't asymmetric Clock speed and hardware are keeping up with... [01 Aug 2003]
