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The A to Z of wireless
News Limiting functionality in this way can be a less controversial option for airlines as voice calls can present a noise nuisance issue. Voice calls can be routed over broadband using VoIP... [11 Aug 2009]
Doctor, doctor my ears are ringing
News The Department of Health guidelines say mobile use should be allowed where devices do not interfere with equipment, the privacy of others or cause a nuisance. Doctors and nurses doing their rounds should not have to... [06 Jan 2009]
Carphone Warehouse slapped over nuisance calls
News The severity of each fine was determined by factors including the steps taken by each company to reduce the rate of silent calls, and the degree of unnecessary inconvenience, annoyance and anxiety to consumers from the... [31 Jan 2007]
UK 101 nuisance hotline to take heat off 999
News The government has today taken the wraps off a 'single non-emergency number' (SNEN) for concerned citizens to report petty crime or nuisance behaviour. According to the government, 10 million calls are... [08 Mar 2006]
One million act to block nuisance calls
News One million households have hung up on nuisance calls by signing up to BT's privacy service. BT also said its Nuisance Calls Bureaux are logging 130,000 complaints per... [19 Aug 2005]
£250,000 fines for internet dialler rogues
News Michael said: "I'm determined to see that consumers are protected against rogue firms abusing the phone network and bringing misery to millions with nuisance calls. The proposed increase is part of the... [29 Jun 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Can banks improve phishing defences?
Comment In fact 31 per cent of users are more confident now than they were in 2002 when phishing was little more than a crude nuisance limited to pretty small circles. Phone calls or text messages out of the... [11 Jan 2005]
Zafi top threat as Netsky nuisance persists
News Carole Theriault, security consultant at Sophos, said: "The Zafi.B worm, which calls for changes to Hungarian legislation, such as the introduction of the death penalty to reduce crime, uses sophisticated social... [01 Jul 2004]
SCO chief suffers another denial of service - on his phone
News While SCO has described the web attack as a "nuisance and nothing more" the company has matched Microsoft in offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the capture and prosecution of the MyDoom authors. [04 Feb 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Not so wonderful spam
Comment Peter Cochrane thinks so, given current levels of nuisance, even though it'd be a drain on technology and time. Spam email and mobile phone text messages and sales calls. Is it time to start spamming the... [12 Jun 2003]
Ovum On: Wireless spam
Comment These companies become spammers when they abuse a consumer's agreement to receive wireless marketing messages and send an inappropriate number of messages, which become a nuisance to the user. In this context,... [17 May 2002]
Blair plagued by mobile phone hoaxers
News They may also be charged with creating a nuisance. Downing Street has now been forced to set up a new number for Ministers and Civil Servants who had been unable to get through while the switchboard dealt with the prank... [26 Feb 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Legislating for security
Comment Most often, the external threat is a nuisance, and sometimes a considerable expense. The evidence brought in support of calls for changes in the law is that very few people are actually being prosecuted... [19 Feb 2002]
SMS scam catches mobile users
News We have advised customers who have been affected like this to refer the cases to the Nuisance Call Bureau. Once connected the call gives a false engaged tone, fooling people into persistently trying to get through, while... [25 Jul 2001]
"Not our problem": Vodafone ducks nuisance call row
News A silicon.com reader has expressed her concern after Vodafone told her it was not in its financial interests to block a string of nuisance calls and text messages she was receiving on her phone. Vodafone... [21 May 2001]
