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TalkTalk says bye-bye to Phorm agreement after Tiscali buy
News On Monday the share price fell 43 per cent after BT announced that it had put its plans to implement Phorm's Webwise behavioural advertising service on hold. Internet service provider TalkTalk will not use behavioural... [09 Jul 2009]
Virgin Media, TalkTalk 'unaffected' by BT's Phorm
News Following BT's announcement on Monday that it has put any plans to implement Phorm's Webwise technology on hold, TalkTalk told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK that BT's decision would not affect its evaluation or plans. [07 Jul 2009]
BT shelves Phorm rollout plans
News BT's decision to put Webwise on hold was not connected to customer concerns about the privacy of such a service, a spokesperson for the company told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK. In a statement issued on Monday, the... [06 Jul 2009]
Webwise re-Phormed with 'discovery engine'
News Branded 'Webwise Discover', and aimed at web publishers and ISPs, the technology uses deep packet inspection (DPI) to build up a whitelist profile of the web-surfing habits of users, to serve them content based on their... [03 Jun 2009]
Amazon says no to Phorm tracking
News Its technology is currently being trialled under the name Webwise by BT, with the users' consent. In a statement on Wednesday, Amazon said: "We have contacted Webwise requesting that we opt-out for all... [15 Apr 2009]
'Phorm's questions will be answered': EC
News Both Phorm and BT have said that Phorm's technology is legal, while BT took legal advice before trialling the technology, which it has branded 'Webwise'. Legal questions around Phorm are set to be answered, and the... [09 Mar 2009]
Round three for BT's Phorm trials
News Phorm's technology, which BT will use under the brand of 'Webwise', has attracted protests from peers, politicians, technologists and think tanks, who have expressed concerns over legal and privacy issues. [29 Sep 2008]
Security experts criticise Phorm
News A browser request is first sent via a switch to a machine on the ISP network, which then redirects the user to the Phorm Webwise server to have an anonymised cookie attached to it, allowing Phorm to serve targeted ads to... [18 Apr 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News Phorm - whose Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) technologies were used by BT in a trial on its customers - says the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is wrong to say the use of Phorm's technologies... [11 Apr 2008]
BBC campaign to offer free Net lessons
News Thousands of UK organisations are teaming up to take part in the BBC's six-week WebWise campaign, in which members of the public take crash courses in how to use the Net. The programmes, 'WebWise... [22 Mar 1999]
