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Comment For those of you that haven't seen Die Hard 4.0 - warning, spoilers ahead - the arch-villain turns out to be a computer programmer. So having a geek super-villain means Hollywood reckons a large proportion of the cinema-going public are now jealous...
[18 Jul 2007]
Leader The IT industry has long struggled to present a positive image to the rest of business - and now it risks being branded an eco-villain too. Research from analyst house Gartner has found the world's IT industry churns out as much carbon dioxide as...
[30 Apr 2007]
Comment It's slightly strange to have all these amenities in this private world outside Hyderabad - the zoo in particular seems more in keeping with the lair of a Bond villain than a tech services company. Wednesday 7 February - Hyderabad
[06 Mar 2007]
News The Ispa event also saw European commissioner Viviane Reding awarded the title of internet villain of the year. The human rights group Amnesty International has called on ISPs to do more to protect free speech online.
[20 Feb 2007]
News The Internet Service Providers Association (Ispa) has named and shamed the internet hero and villain of the year - the most eagerly anticipated gongs at its annual awards bash. The internet villain of the year was awarded to commissioner Vivianne...
[16 Feb 2007]
News Despite leading the charge to reduce extortionate mobile roaming charges, European commissioner Viviane Reding has been nominated as an internet villain for "foisting the most arcane set of rules yet seen for prior registration of dot-eu domains...
[05 Jan 2007]
Photo Not a shark in the pool of a Bond villain but rather a dolphin in Siegfried and Roy's Secret Garden at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas.copyright: Google Where else to start but above the GooglePlex in Mountain View, California.copyright: Google
[06 Nov 2006]
Round-Up Personally the Round-Up isn't (too) ashamed to admit that if it had Gates' money it would be living the life of an eccentric Bond villain on a personal island staffed entirely by a militia of beautiful women.
[23 Jun 2006]
News Anti-terror moves that would force ISPs to retain data for longer in Europe got the thumbs down last night, as the UK was crowned internet villain of the year. Judges at the Internet Service Provider Awards said the UK's presidency of the European...
[24 Feb 2006]
News The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has named and shamed the candidates for its internet hero and villain awards. In the firing line for the villain's gong are Russia, for failing to crack down on cyber crime, the UK presidency of the...
[13 Dec 2005]
News All five have been shortlisted for the prize of Internet Villain, which will be awarded by the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) next year. ISPA, though, believes her "uninformed comments on the internet industry" mean she could soon...
[23 Dec 2004]
News Napster's owner Roxio is to sell its consumer software division for $80m in order to focus wholly on its digital music business. The company plans to officially change its name to Napster, taking the brand of the one time file-swapping...
[10 Aug 2004]
News The Internet Service Providers Association even shortlisted him for 'internet villain of the year' last year, so unwelcome was his bungled interference on the issue of spam prevention. 02.07.99: Labour MP Derek Wyatt is calling on the UK government...
[02 Jul 2004]
News VeriSign is cementing its reputation as an internet villain according to several small domain-name sellers, who are taking the company, as well as regulator Icann, to court over the issue of waiting. The US registrars have apparently been doing a...
[02 Mar 2004]
News A focus of VeriSign's brief, which lists 43 pages of grievances, is the controversial and currently suspended Site Finder service, which redirected expired or nonexistent dot-com and dot-net domains to the company's website - a tactic which last...
[27 Feb 2004]
News Last week he was even nominated for the Internet Villain of the year gong at the Internet Service Providers Association Awards for "lowering the level of informed debate on the internet generally and spam in particular," in the words of the judges.
[25 Feb 2004]
whitepaper So I'm penning this piece in the hope that my experience might help Java programmers to learn Java's new cousin.or villain according to some view points! When I started learning C# half the time I was trying to find Java equivalents so that I can...
[24 Feb 2004]
Round-Up The Villain Award was a three-horse race between VeriSign "for their presumption that they own the internet", the RIAA for its mismanaged file-sharing crackdown and Derek Wyatt MP "for lowering the level of informed debate on the internet...
[20 Feb 2004]
News Domain name and security company VeriSign walked away with the Internet Villain Award. Steve Linford, the inspirational anti-spam campaigner and silicon.com Agenda Setter, has won the Internet Hero Award at an ISPA ceremony in London on Thursday...
[20 Feb 2004]
News BT is testing a wireless broadband service that if launched commercially could help to bring high-speed internet access to 100 per cent of the UK population. The telco announced on Tuesday that the technology will be trialled at four rural...
[17 Dec 2003]
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