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Russia overtakes China as king of malware producers

News United Kingdom - 5.34 per cent United States - 9.98 per cent Russia has passed China to become the largest generator of spyware and other malicious code, according to a report set to be released tomorrow.

Tags: malware, russia, china, united states

[21 Feb 2008]

Government reveals snooping figures

News He wrote: "It has played a key role in numerous operations including, for example, the prevention of murders, tackling large-scale drug importations, evasion of Excise duty, people smuggling, gathering intelligence both within the United Kingdom...

Tags: snooping, comms, phone-tap, person

[30 Jan 2008]

e-Borders to cost £1bn over next decade

News Brown told parliament: "The way forward is electronic screening of all passengers as they check in and out of our country at ports and airports - so that terrorist suspects can be identified and stopped before they board planes, trains and boats...

Tags: home office, terrorism, immigration, e-borders

[02 Aug 2007]

Online pirates face Redmond legal blitz

News The actions include 15 lawsuits in the US, 10 in Germany, 10 in the Netherlands, and five each in France and the United Kingdom, it said. Microsoft is planning to file more than 50 lawsuits worldwide against online merchants who allegedly peddle...

Tags: pirates, ebay, piracy, microsoft

[31 Oct 2006]

CMA amendment "pure idiocy", says peer

News Part (b) has been strongly criticised by security experts from the United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association (UKerna), the body responsible for the Janet educational network. A proposed UK law has been heavily criticised by a...

Tags: cma

[26 May 2006]

Enisa breaks free of Brussels red tape

News Enisa, based in Heraklion, Greece, had been the subject of legal wranglings between the European Court of Justice and the United Kingdom, which placed a legal challenge relating to the establishment of the Agency in 2004 on the basis of Article 95...

Tags: enisa

[03 May 2006]

UK firms named tech pioneers

News The United Kingdom boasted eight winners in total, including a hydrogen-powered motorbike manufacturer and a stem cell medical research firm. Four UK IT companies have been named 'worldwide pioneers of technology' for their contribution to the...

Tags: mobile

[05 Dec 2005]

Bush agrees web control pact with UN

News The US and allies such as the United Kingdom unreasonably "insist on being world policemen on the management of the internet," and that must change, Mugabe said. The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit in Tunis, Tunisia...

Tags: control of the net, control, un

[16 Nov 2005]

Dell profits dip

News Dell spent $50m on severance packages and $25m to consolidate office space after using performance-based attrition to eliminate about 1,000 employees in Asia, Texas and the United Kingdom, Rollins said.

Tags: dell

[11 Nov 2005]

All US passports to be RFID chipped

News Other nations, including the United Kingdom and Germany, have announced similar plans. But the Bush administration chose to go ahead with embedding 64KB chips in future passports, citing a desire to abide by "globally interoperable" standards...

Tags: rfid, passports

[26 Oct 2005]

Government details ID card tech needs

News It added that in line with the "emerging delivery model" for ID cards, potential procurements may also include the current business activities of the United Kingdom Passport Service and build upon existing systems and processes.

Tags: identity cards, biometrics, id cards

[12 Aug 2005]

Courtois for Microsoft International president

Courtois for Microsoft International president

News In his new role, Courtois will have overall responsibility for Microsoft operations in Japan, China, the Asia Pacific region, Latin America in addition to France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the rest of theEMEA region, said Microsoft.

Tags: neil holloway, jean-philippe courtois, microsoft

[20 Jun 2005]

Ask Jeeves goes to Spain

News Other international markets so far tapped by Ask Jeeves are the United Kingdom and Japan. Web search provider Ask Jeeves is testing a Spanish version of its search site. The Spanish service, dubbed Ask Jeeves Espana, is currently available in test...

Tags: ask jeeves

[08 Apr 2005]

BT offers Ofcom a deal

BT offers Ofcom a deal

News Ben Verwaayen, chief executive of BT, said: "The United Kingdom has the opportunity to create the most exciting and innovative telecoms market in the world. BT has offered to make widespread changes to the way it operates its network and sells...

Tags: break-up, bt, ofcom, regulation

[04 Feb 2005]

Panix domain gets nicked

News A Panix.com representative said ownership of the domain had been moved sometime on Friday evening to a company in Australia, the domain name server (DNS) records had been moved to the United Kingdom, and that the company's mail had been redirected...

[17 Jan 2005]

HP to launch iPod Photo

News Trials have been conducted in the United Kingdom, Finland and Singapore. Hewlett-Packard is getting deeper into show business. Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Friday morning, HP chief executive Carly Fiorina offered a...

[10 Jan 2005]

AOL splits in four

AOL splits in four

News And AOL Europe will oversee the company's operations in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The company overall has 13,000 employees throughout the United States. America Online will reorganise itself into four business units to try to better...

Tags: america online, aol

[10 Nov 2004]

US Secret Service rounds up ID thieves

News US law enforcement agents - cooperating with officials from the United Kingdom, Canada, Bulgaria, Belarus, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine and the Netherlands - have arrested 28 suspects since Tuesday night and stressed that the investigation continues.

[29 Oct 2004]

Google grabs AOL Europe from Overture

Google grabs AOL Europe from Overture

News Under the deal, announced on Tuesday, AOL subscribers in the United Kingdom, France and Germany will receive targeted advertising from Google related to their search request. In May 2002, Google managed to wrest a deal away from Overture for AOL's...

Tags: yahoo!, overture, aol, google

[20 Oct 2004]

Domain names skyrocket - just don't mention the dot-com boom

Domain names skyrocket - just don't mention the dot-com boom

News The most popular are .de for Germany and .uk for the United Kingdom. Domain name registration hit an all-time high of 64.5 million at the end of the second quarter, VeriSign has said. The figure represents a seven per cent increase over the end of...

[15 Sep 2004]

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