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oh Canada... everybody stand and download our national anthem! In what analysts are calling a "stunning" decision, the Federal Court has ruled against a motion which would have allowed...

· Mar 31, 2004 with -1 comments

Most security issues and virus outbreaks happen because people don't know how to protect themselves or don't bother to do what they know they should. In the latest update to Windows XP, Microsoft is focusing...

· Mar 19, 2004 with -1 comments

BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies Inc. on Thursday said it had developed a utility technology that will let users check their Outlook data on a notebook computer without needing to boot the machine. The Phoenix FirstWare...

· Mar 19, 2004 with -1 comments

Apple has introduced a new accessibility solution for visually impaired users that it will integrate with the next major release of Mac OS X. The company took the wraps off of the new technology today:...

· Mar 17, 2004 with -1 comments

New Chinese regulations aimed at policing the Internet are being condemned by a media rights organisation, which also accuses a US-based Internet management company of colluding with the Government to stifle activism on the web....

· Feb 29, 2004 with -1 comments

A new Web-based game that lets players pretend to catch Osama bin Laden is annoying some America Online Instant Messenger users with its viruslike self-promotion. The new game, called Osama Found, grabs names from a...

· Feb 12, 2004 with -1 comments

Microsoft's controversial software licensing scheme has delivered little value and many users will not renew their agreements when they expire this year, according to Gartner. The analyst estimates that 30 per cent of contracts with...

· Feb 12, 2004 with -1 comments

European firms are being urged to buy a licence for Linux to avoid legal action by SCO which claims the operating system unlawfully includes some of its computer code. Before now SCO...

· Jan 16, 2004 with -1 comments

New PayPal users in the UK will face fresh restrictions from next month, when the company launches its full European service. At the moment, the firm's non-US customer accounts are held with...

Tom Warren · Jan 15, 2004 with 1 comment

Plans by Verizon Wireless to install a beefed-up cellular data network throughout the U.S. captured the attention of several corporate IT managers, who said the promised throughput levels could support applications such as sales force...

· Jan 9, 2004 with -1 comments

Adobe Systems is set to unveil a conversion strategy Monday for customers still using its orphaned PageMaker page design and layout application. It has been more than two years since Adobe last...

· Jan 5, 2004 with -1 comments

Can a few bad apples -- like product quality complaints and potential lawsuits -- spoil the bunch for loyal fans of Apple Computer Inc. ahead of their biggest party of the year? As enthusiasts devoted...

· Jan 1, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

Microsoft has started distributing two online surveys to Linux User Groups and Linux users in general, one asking primarily about home computer use, the other about business use. They apparently don't plan to release the...

· Dec 22, 2003 with -1 comments

The SCO Group plans to announce Monday that it is escalating its campaign to collect license fees from corporations using the Linux operating system, with warning letters to the companies. Supporters of Linux, including IBM...

· Dec 22, 2003 with -1 comments

Blueyonder subscribers were left without access to email and personal Web pages on Tuesday evening, after a fault hit the Telewest network. Telewest suffered a technical glitch on Tuesday that has left customers across Britain...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 26, 2003 with -1 comments

A set of five unpatched scripting vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer creates a mechanism for hackers to compromise targeted PCs. The vulnerabilities, unearthed by Chinese security researcher Liu Die Yu, enable malicious Web sites and viruses...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 26, 2003 with -1 comments

Security experts are warning e-mail users about a virus which tries to fool people into giving away bank details. Mimail.J targets customers of web payment system PayPal, and is the latest "phishing" scam,...

· Nov 21, 2003 with -1 comments

When you weigh just the benefits of mobility, flexibility, and productivity, going wireless is a no-brainer. But factor in roaming issues, spotty coverage on the corporate campus, and security vulnerabilities, and the decision can get...

· Nov 21, 2003 with -1 comments

Thanks to nathanintu for posting this in the BPN. "America Online has quietly flipped a switch in its instant-messaging service that lets users log on concurrently from multiple locations. Like other...

· Nov 21, 2003 with 1 comment

People are fed-up with what is being called "second degree spam", e-mails from companies about products they are not interested in, says a survey. Even if people signed up to be...

Tom Warren · Nov 17, 2003 with -1 comments

A buffer overflow vulnerability in Eudora, the popular email client, creates a mechanism for crackers to compromise targeted PCs. The problem stems from a failure to properly verify the "From:" and "Reply-To:" when users...

· Nov 11, 2003 with -1 comments

Belkin is trying to defuse a potentially embarrassing situation that arose after network administrators learned the company's routers can periodically hijack users' Web connection and display an advertisement for parental control software. Every eight hours,...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 10, 2003 with -1 comments

GROUNDSWELL of revolt -- OK, the beginnings of a groundswell of revolt against Microsoft making its next console adventure non compatible with the Xbox has started on the world wide web. Twenty months ago, the...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 10, 2003 with -1 comments

MICROSOFT'S CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT Bill Gates is repeating the mantra that users are to blame for insecure PCs, in an interview with a Canadian newspaper. This refrain is familiar to the INQUIRER: Gates said more...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 3, 2003 · Hot! with -1 comments

Nero, leaders in Digital Media Technology, will integrate the new Nero Digital MPEG-4 video and audio codec's into Nero Recode, a compelling inclusion in the free PowerPack upgrade for the Nero 6.0 Retail box. ...

· Nov 2, 2003 with -1 comments

On the eve of the iTunes Music Store introduction for Windows-based personal computers, Microsoft's General Manager, Windows Digital Media Division, Dave Fester posted his thoughts on iTunes for Windows. In his comments, Fester concludes that...

· Oct 17, 2003 · Hot! with 2 comments

Hope they don't get any ideas from this at any other unis... "The University of Florida has developed a tool to help extricate the school from the morass of peer-to-peer file trading, and...

· Oct 3, 2003 with -1 comments

Yahoo upgraded its Yahoo Messenger service in June by adding features designed to prevent IM spamming, and gave its users until September 24 to upgrade to this new version. The problem now appears to be...

· Sep 27, 2003 with 2 comments

Downloaders who admit they done wrong could be let off the hook The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is believed to be preparing an amnesty for users of peer-to-peer (P2P) sites, but...

Darren Bolton · Sep 8, 2003 with -1 comments

Unix users will be "major beneficiaries" of Panther, the next major rev of Mac OS X, Apple software product manager Darren Sng said at this week's Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) conference...

· Sep 4, 2003 with -1 comments

Move aims to placate customers surprised by product differentiation. Microsoft Corp. when it releases Office 2003 will give certain Office Standard Edition users the right to order Office Professional Edition applications at no extra cost...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Aug 5, 2003 with -1 comments

Microsoft has fulfilled a long-held request of Mac OS X users by allowing them to access corporate e-mail and calendar information stored on a Microsoft Exchange server. The new feature was...

Tom Warren · Aug 4, 2003 with -1 comments

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has verified that the MSN® network of Internet services now attracts 350 million unique worldwide users per month. This increase in global reach extends the network's hold on the title of world's leading...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jul 28, 2003 with -1 comments

The music industry has won at least 871 federal subpoenas against computer users suspected of illegally sharing music files (search) on the Internet, with roughly 75 new subpoenas being approved each day, U.S. court officials...

· Jul 19, 2003 · Hot! with 3 comments

TiVo on Monday said it agreed to allow subscribers to America Online's Internet system to program their home TiVo television recording service remotely, via a Web site. Users of America Online, a unit...

· Jul 15, 2003 with -1 comments

EarthLink has the same spam problem that an enterprise e-mail system has -- only bigger. Where an large enterprise might have more than 100,000 mailboxes, EarthLink has five million. EarthLink users range...

· Jun 7, 2003 · Hot! with -1 comments

A year after launching its sometimes-controversial alliance with Kazaa, Brilliant Digital Entertainment subsidiary Altnet is kicking off a new, ambitious stage of its peer-to-peer marketing campaign. Later this week, Kazaa parent Sharman Networks and Altnet...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jun 2, 2003 with -1 comments

KASPERSKY LABS said that the StartPage trojan, which exploits a hole in Internet Explorer, sets a particularly dangerous precedent because Microsoft hasn't issued a patch for it yet. The firm said that the trojan infects...

Daniel Fleshbourne · May 22, 2003 with -1 comments

Great April Fools joke, from a company that is a joke! Part of BT's ADSL network was knocked out last night causing disruption to thousands of Net users in the UK. According to...

· Apr 2, 2003 with -1 comments

NVIDIA Corporation, today announced that they have decided to give away thousands of NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX family cards, presumably in an attempt to win market share over ATI. "It's clear that the...

· Apr 2, 2003 · Hot! with -1 comments