Posts in ‘Web Content Filtering’

Debate heats up on Australian Web Filtering plans

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The BBC World News ran an interview with SC Magazine’s Dan Raywood discussing US opposition to the Australian web filter.

This is an extremely controversial area and one that’s likely to provoke a huge amount of debate.

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Real-Time Web Content Categorisation for OEM Partners Now Available

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Three years after launching our third-generation Web Filter which is now delivering outstanding content filtering and web security for over 2.5 million users around the world, we are now making the technology available under license.
At the heart of our content filtering appliance is Tru-View Technology (TVT), a real-time content analysis and categorisation engine that accurately [...]

Bloxx Celebrates Third Successive Deloitte Fast 500 EMEA Award

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We were delighted to feature once again in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA which was announced on Tuesday evening in London. The company was listed at 175 in the ranking of the fastest growing public and private technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and green technology companies from 26 countries in EMEA, based on entrants’ [...]

Bloxx Survey Highlights Impact and Risks of Social Networking for UK Businesses

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There’s been quite a bit of coverage over the recent months about Social Networking in the workplace. It’s been a few years since this particular issue saw this much coverage. Maybe it’s the current economic situation that’s driving organisations to be more concerned about staff productivity or it could just be sheer coincidence.

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Australian Firm, Grace Removals, Selects Bloxx Content Filtering

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Grace Removals is one of Australia and New Zealand’s oldest removal companies and they recently chose Bloxx Web filtering to filter and monitor its users across 40 sites. Howard Malyon, IT Manager at Grace, wanted a new web filter that could filter effectively and flexibly, was easy to manage and would allow him to easily [...]

Web Filtering Catches Man, now Fired, Looking at Gun Websites

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CBS News has reported a story about an employee who was dismissed for looking at gun parts websites on a company computer. The dismissed employee had raised a lawsuit against the company alleging that the gun-web-site issue was simply an excuse to fire him because of his medical condition and absence from work.

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Facebook Finally Makes Money and Theo has a Rant about Facebook in the Workplace

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After five years and with over 300 million users signed up, Facebook has at last reached break even point. The company has seen a tripling of users in the last 12 months, has recently launched a revamped search engine and is soon to launch an online payment system. Analysts are predicting income to rise by [...]

UK Local Authority Bans Facebook - Is There a Better Way?

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The BBC has reported that Portsmouth City Council has banned staff from accessing a number of web sites including facebook, Bebo, Twitter and eBay. The council had previously banned YouTube.

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New Academic Year, New Anonymous Proxy Issues

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As the new academic year gets underway, ICT managers will be steeling themselves for the ongoing battle of trying to prevent students using anonymous proxies to get unfiltered access to the entire web.
Bloxx has just issued a press release that again highlights the dangers and risks of anonymous proxies in education.

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Schoharie School District (NY) Using Bloxx Web Content Filtering

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Bloxx announced yesteday that Schoharie Central School District in New York use its Web content filtering appliance to monitor and protect its staff and students.

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