Tag: slams

Security

Auditor-General slams Vic Govt data security flaws

By Ben Grubb | Nov 26, 2009 | Comment Now

No CIO + no security policy = huge risks.

Strategy

Icahn slams Yang as 'James Bond villain'

By Clement James | Jun 6, 2008 | Comment Now

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has hit out at Yahoo chief Jerry Yang after it emerged that the company had turned down a US$40 per share offer from Microsoft in January 2007..

Telco/ISP

Terria slams Telstra’s “scary” structural separation

Jun 4, 2008 | Comment Now

Telco consortium Terria has spoken out against Telstra’s opposition to structural separation of the Government-funded $4.7 billion national broadband network, branding the ...

Security

Security expert slams PCI auditing

By Clement James | Apr 7, 2008 | Comment Now

A recent security breach at US supermarket chain Hannaford Bros was almost certainly the work of hackers exploiting a single code flaw on internal systems, experts say..

Hardware

Negroponte slams Intel over OLPC

By Iain Thomson | Jan 9, 2008 | Comment Now

Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, has slammed Intel for its conduct..

Software

Father of web 2.0 slams Google OpenSocial

By Tom Sanders | Nov 8, 2007 | Comment Now

Tim O'Reilly, the father of the term 'web 2.0', has denounced Google's OpenSocial as "boring" and a "full blown disappointment"..

Hardware

Expert slams IT recycling as 'rubbish'

By Iain Thomson | Oct 12, 2007 | Comment Now

The recycling of electronic equipment is "stupid" and should be a last-ditch solution before dumping in landfill, an environmental expert said today.

Telco/ISP

Analyst slams UK iPhone strategy

Sep 20, 2007 | Comment Now

Analysts have described Apple's iPhone strategy in the UK with carrier O2 as "inadequate " and likely to "frustrate a lot of users".

Telco/ISP

ASA slams Clarins over anti-pollution spray

Aug 21, 2007 | Comment Now

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has slammed cosmetics company Clarins for claiming that its new Expertise 3P (Poly Pollution Protection) spray could protect ...

Software

Japanese coalition slams YouTube

By Matt Chapman | Aug 6, 2007 | Comment Now

Youtube is not doing enough to stop the illegal sharing of copyrighted video clips and should "reset the service", according to a coalition of Japanese music, film and ...

Security

Security expert slams spyware snooping

By Matt Chapman | Jul 20, 2007 | Comment Now

The use of government spyware to monitor criminals' online activity could do "more harm than good" and will not be tolerated by the industry, a security said.

Security

Google slams EU data protection bodies

By Matt Chapman | Jul 9, 2007 | Comment Now

Data protection and data retention two different things, claims search giant.