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White Paper ICONY or "I connect you" is one of Germany's largest online dating networks. ICONY provides its members and business partners with dating related data and functionality. Each year... [21 Jan 2009]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News Those entering online dating forums risk having more than their hearts stolen. A program that can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal information from its unsuspecting... [10 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up Match.com - an online dating site, rather than a website selling Swan Vestas - tried to break the world record for the most people snogging simultaneously. Among the concerns raised by official... [29 Jun 2007]
National Library of Scotland to digitise archive
News The NLS - established in 1925 - holds copies of every publication in the UK dating from the middle ages, right up to the latest novels. Many of these are original printed volumes dating from 1455. The... [16 May 2007]
Co-op Bank extends mortgage tech deal
News The multi-million pound contract builds on an existing relationship dating back to the beginning of the decade.silicon.com Financial Services Under the deal, TE continues to provide 24-hour support for the bank's... [27 Apr 2007]
William Hill fights back against the hackers
News Part of William Hill's plan for gaining competitive advantage in this increasingly rapidly-changing and fast-moving industry is to overhaul its ageing IT systems, and the company has just embarked on a three year project to replace... [04 Oct 2006]
Bertelsmann eyes a 'MySpace' for silver surfers
News Rupert Murdoch's News Corp last year earmarked $1.5bn for acquisitions in this field and recently bought teenage internet hotspot MySpace.com, an online music and dating community with about 60 million... [04 Apr 2006]
Google to settle click fraud suit with $90m?
News Wong wrote: "This agreement covers all advertisers who claim to have been charged but not reimbursed for invalid clicks dating from 2002 when we launched our 'cost per click' advertising programme through the date the... [09 Mar 2006]
Spam appeal gets Supreme Court knock-back
News The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from an online dating service that claimed it had the right to send unsolicited emails to thousands of University of Texas email accounts. In... [11 Jan 2006]
The Yearly Round-Up: 22.12.05
Round-Up Among the most notable were tactics allegedly employed by dating site Match.com, which stands accused of setting up customers with fake dates in an attempt to discourage them from unsubscribing from the company's service... [22 Dec 2005]
Skype sets off IM love-in free-for-all
News Friis suggested that Skype's IM features could be incorporated into software-based media players for personal computers, websites for dating, blogging or "eBay kinds of auctions". Online gamers involved... [24 Aug 2005]
Texas singles spammer was wrong, court rules
News An online dating service does not have the right to blast unsolicited email at thousands of University of Texas email addresses, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said... [04 Aug 2005]
UK births, marriages, deaths records to move to India
News The database will be created by digitising paper records and centralising existing disparate indexes and systems for the UK population dating back to 1837. A spokeswoman from the ONS said putting the records... [23 Jun 2005]
Cybercriminals nabbed by the police
News Officers from New Scotland Yard's Computer Crime Unit arrested the man believed to be responsible for hacking into dating website loveandfriends.com. The piece of spyware was able to steal keystrokes, enabling the... [08 Apr 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.02.05
Round-Up Clive emailed us in this most romantic of weeks to report: "When I started dating my girlfriend, I sent a text message to my friend Richard which read 'Richard, me and Sandra are now officially shagging! [18 Feb 2005]
