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There's no credit crunch in Second Life
Insight newsmaker Businesses are moving beyond using the virtual world to attract eyeballs and instead major on collaboration, says Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon.
Tags: Business applications, Digital media, Web 2.0, Web sites, Linden Lab, British Telecommunications, Training, Business, movie, Apple iPod
Winning war won't secure peace for open source
Insight perspective Opposition to free software may have evaporated, but that does not make behavioral change inevitable, says U.K. open source advocate.
Tags: Open source, Business applications, Operating systems, Conference, Open-source Software, health service, Europe, Global Warming, Voice, British Broadcasting Corp.
EU committee gives 'file-sharing' law go-ahead
News The Telecoms Package, which still needs to pass a September vote, could have its wording tightened to avoid being used for a copyright crackdown, experts suggest.
Tags: Copyright, Regulations, Law, Amendment, European Parliament, Telecommunications, child pornography, File-sharing, British Broadcasting Corp., professor
A click farm in the Philippines?
Blogs Like most people I know, I had no idea what a click farm was. So when someone from the BBC sent an e-mail to me a few da...
How technology has ruined relationships
Blogs Years back, I had a discussion with some friends about what defines adultery. If one fantasizes or thinks about committi...
European IT chief backs Net neutrality
News In a speech made to a global forum on Internet governance, the EC's Viviane Reding says the Net neutrality debate is a 'political question to be answered by the people'.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Security, Net Neutrality, Internet economy, British Broadcasting Corp., network, European Commission, online piracy, Internet
ICANN adopts new Web site naming rules
News The Internet organization loosens its rules to allow companies, cities, and others to use just about any suffix they want for a Web address.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Security, Domain Name, Suffix, ICANN, London, British Broadcasting Corp., Paris, New York City
Chinese govt to Web firms: No porn allowed
News China has intensified its campaign against sexually-explicit Internet material by instructing companies, including Google, to curb the availability of pornography.
Tags: Politics, Web sites, Search, Pornography, Security, Google Inc., image search, British Broadcasting Corp., blogging, China
BBC hires Yahoo exec as CTO
News Linwood will be responsible for delivering the BBC's technology strategy, this includes maintenance of the technical infrastructure behind all BBC output and also overseeing the corporation's IT requirements.
Tags: Web sites, Network infrastructure, IT training, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Social Media, Steve Ranger, social networking, VP, CTO
BBC buys, uses botnet to show dangers to PCs
News Legal expert says BBC botnet may have broken the law with its spam test, even though the infected computers were not used for harm.
Tags: PC security, Video, computer, e-mail, MSN Hotmail, British Broadcasting Corp., network, Google Gmail, e-Mail Account, PC
Privacy group targets Google Street View UK
News The driver's-eye view of British roadways and sidewalks causes "clear embarrassment and damage" to residents, Privacy International tells the U.K. government.
Tags: Privacy, Google Inc., Privacy, Britain, CEO, Privacy International, British Broadcasting Corp., Eric Schmidt, U.K., Microsoft Office
Symantec investigating customer credit card data theft
News BBC News films call center worker selling its reporters credit card numbers of Symantec customers in undercover investigation.
Tags: Security, Norton Co., New Hampshire, New Delhi, credit card information, Symantec Corp., British Broadcasting Corp., Wall Street Journal, credit card, call-center
US govt takes DDoS attacks in its stride
News Department of Homeland Security reports series of distributed denial-of-service attacks on U.S. government networks since July 4.
Tags: Federal Government, Network security, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Attack, FTC, distributed denial of service, U.S. Government, CERT, British Broadcasting Corp., network
SpinVox hits back at data-protection criticism
News Voice-to-text conversion firm says it uses overseas call centers for transcription, saying human intervention is used only to help its automated systems learn.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Network security, Security, Philippines, Training, British Broadcasting Corp., Microsoft Office, data protection, call-center, quality control
Phishing attack hits thousands of Hotmail accounts
News Several thousand user account credentials have been posted on a public Web site as a result of a phishing attack.
Tags: E-mail clients, E-mail servers, Spam and phishing, PC security, Data security, Phishing, E-mail Account, Microsoft Corp., software, Pastebin.com
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