Archive - 06 Apr 2000 - Technology News, Blogs, Product Reviews and White Papers

Teen hackers sentenced in Hong Kong

News Three hackers plead guilty to 49 different computer related offences

Hollywood tries to block DVD decoder

News Seven major studios went back to court to stop Eric Corley from posting his program that allows users to copy DVD disks on other sites

BSD sleight of hand

Comment In the trendy, steak-tartare-in-the-piranha-tank frenzy surrounding all things Linux, the merger of two firms -- Berkeley Software Design Inc (BSDI) and Walnut Creek CDROM -- to create a new BSDI...

Startup Spotlight: Yac.com

News Yac simplifies your life with a Freeserve-style revenue model

Firms ask government for more help getting online

News Nearly half of small businesses surveyed were unhappy with government commitment to wiring SMEs

BT's broadband vision explored

News BT in defensive mood as it defends its broadband strategy

Mobile phones cause hacker delight

Comment New mobile phone technology has opened an unusual and potentially devastating hole in computer security systems, according to reports from Finland.

The reverse salient

News Perhaps it's time we added another military metaphor to those already in circulation around the hacker - the reverse salient

Gaugeing the fallout from DoS

News The high profile crack-ins of this year have had a number of positive, or at least reassuring, consequences

DoS: The story behind the story

News It is little understood that the Denial-of-Service attacks do not enable access to confidential data, nor do they jeopardise system integrity. They merely knock a system offline.

Who is that masked man?

News Whilst they are considered outlaws by some, Hackers problem-solving contributes to the technical well-being of commercial ventures like ZDNet, eBay and Yahoo!

Hackers and the evolution of the Web

News Hackers are, in the broadest definition, people with a creative, expert knowledge of computer systems at the technical level.

MP3 -- Waste of time and money!

Comment Look, it's not a row it's a discussion, granted it is passionate discussion, but that is all it is. Essentially these buffoons don't understand that they are talking rubbish! Luckily I'm here to...

Apple releases core of new open source OS

News The first version of the open source operating system core that will be at the heart Apple's new operating system OS X was released in the US Wednesday

Background: Internet 'Darwinism'

News We see hackers as criminal figures. But without them pushing the envelope, we wouldn't have the Internet as we know it today

Micron leads chip-stock revival

News Micron missed estimates three weeks ago, but now it's riding a wave of new investor enthusiasm

Compaq announces low-cost 600MHz desktop

News Latest Celerons roll out in PCs costing around $1000

AMD: No Dell deal

News Dell and AMD haven't kissed and made up quite yet

The Day Ahead: Yahoo! dominates

News The Web is being divided by the market capitalisation haves and have-nots. Yahoo!'s first quarter shows it is definitely in the "have" category

OneTel withdraws from UK mobile licence auction

News Australian-based telecommunications company OneTel has withdrawn from bidding for Britain's new mobile phone licences as the stakes were raised to £3m

breathe offers cheap bundled WAP surfing

News Getting to your phone's bookmark page is vital for the new players in the WAP arena. breathe is counting on getting a head start

Case: AOL in your kitchen

News In his Internet World keynote, AOL's CEO launches newest Netscape browser, announces Gateway deal for devices with customised online service

Analysis: Music will survive

News The threat broadband poses to the music industry as Justin Pearse reports

News Burst: AMD samples next-generation Athlons

News 'Thunderbird will use copper interconnects and an improved cache to outperform Intel offerings

April Fool's Day story clarification

News On April 1st ZDNet UK posted a story titled: "Exclusive: Playstation 3 - AMD 2GHz CPU running Linux". This story was a spoof timed to publish on April Fool's day.

I-Opener no longer a $99 Linux PC

News Netpliance moves to make it impossible to add a hard drive to its Internet appliance -- to some customers' dismay

FBI agent: I am Big Brother

News Pro-privacy groups might consider him 'the enemy,' but Paul George counters: 'There are worse things than having your privacy violated ... like murder.'