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Most spam generated by botnets, says expert
News More than 70 percent of spam is being sent from zombie networks. And according to anti-spam experts, Florida-based spammers are booking air time on Russian owned botnets to send their junk mail. Each group of spammers has a botnet," said Steve...
[September 22, 2004, 18:10]
US Report: Synthespians have 'A Bug's Life'
News The evolution of "synthespians" -- computer-generated film characters -- has come a long way even in the three years since Pixar Animation Studios released its first full-length computer-animated film "Toy Story.
[November 26, 1998, 9:35]
Nokia targets Web 2.0
News Nokia is getting ready to embrace Web 2.0 — but how far the user-generated content revolution will affect the Finnish phone company is yet to be determined. But Nokia is also throwing its hat into the ring with media publishing, having today...
[October 4, 2006, 8:50]
Laughing from Sunday mornings all the way to the bank
News Hollywood loves computer-generated animation, and everyone from Main Street to Wall Street is returning the love. Since then, the animation unit has made four films using computer-generated animation.
[November 1, 2004, 11:19]
NHS faces challenge to cut carbon emissions
News ICT procurement for the health service in England produces carbon dioxide equivalent to that generated by 27,000 of its patients. ICT procurement makes up just 1.7 percent of the English NHS's total emissions of the main gas responsible for climate...
[May 30, 2008, 8:10]
Researcher: Debian cryptography may be flawed
News A security researcher has warned that cryptographic keys generated in the last year and a half using Debian OpenSSL may be invalid. In the case of SSL keys, all generated certificates will be need to recreated and sent off to the certificate...
[May 16, 2008, 10:34]
IBM earnings beat Wall Street expectations
News The company generated net income of $4.4bn (£3.2bn), or $3.28 a share, for the quarter, up 12 percent over the same period a year ago. During the quarter, the Americas generated revenue of $11.5bn, up two percent over last year when adjusting for...
[January 21, 2009, 7:48]
Cabinet Office heads government 'green' IT drive
News Government departments have been asked to take 18 steps to reduce the carbon emissions generated by ICT. ICT is responsible for up to 20 percent of carbon emissions generated by government offices — around 460,000 tonnes a year.
[July 17, 2008, 13:09]
Warning issued over fake FBI emails
News The FBI is warning the public about malicious emails designed to appear as if they were generated by the American law enforcement agency. Spoofing, or the practice of sending unsolicited email meant to appear as if it were generated by a reliable...
[February 24, 2005, 11:30]
A Year Ago: Phantom Menace: Brit actors - what about the technology?
News The Phantom Menace may feature an almost entirely British cast, but its computer-generated actors and crew are very much all-American. The copious computer-generated effects used in the Phantom Menace may be impressive, but they owe more to a big...
[July 10, 2000, 7:03]
Deceptive URLs and 'virtual' porn banned
News The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ban pornographic Internet sites with misleading addresses and computer-generated child pornography. Last year, the US Supreme Court slapped down Congress' first law banning nude...
[March 28, 2003, 12:14]
GPS device maps are mostly outdated
News User-generated data may be the answer to the GPS navigation industry's problem of outdated maps on user devices. The power of user-generated data There are some map players that do not agree with the notion of harnessing user-generated data.
[September 3, 2009, 11:39]
Phantom Menace: British actors - what about the technology?
News The Phantom Menace may feature an almost entirely British cast, but its computer-generated actors and crew are very much all-American. The copious computer-generated effects used in the Phantom Menace may be impressive, but they owe more to a big...
[July 9, 1999, 16:36]
Adult links mar children's search engine
News The creator of a child-oriented search Web site has pulled advertising material generated externally and removed search functions that provide lists of highly inappropriate words. Rose said that since his discussions with ZDNet Australia, he had...
[April 14, 2004, 11:30]
Indian IT outsourcing market continues to boom
News The top 20 Indian IT services companies generated $5.77bn from exports in 2003/2004, a year-on-year increase of 31 percent, according to a report published by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) and the Indian...
[July 15, 2004, 13:00]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization, according to tests run by a document standards specialist.
[April 21, 2008, 8:55]
HP backs African recycling research
News HP is funding a project to investigate how electronic waste generated by African companies, as well as material from Western businesses that is dumped illegally, can be disposed of in a safer and more environmentally friendly way.
[September 18, 2007, 17:36]
Search tool scans blogs for business
News Moreover Technologies, which provides aggregated business information for clients such as the UK government and Microsoft, has launched a search tool aimed at allowing corporations to tap into the consumer data generated by the anarchic world of...
[September 18, 2003, 17:20]
Boo.com is resurrected
News Boo.com, which was originally an online fashion retailer when it fell into liquidation in 2000, has been relaunched as a social networking and travel booking site, using user-generated content to help travellers decide which hotels to book.
[May 2, 2007, 16:09]
Sun rises above revenue, earnings expectations
News The company generated $3.22bn in revenue during its fiscal second quarter, down 11 percent over the comparable period last year but up 7.7 percent sequentially. But excluding special charges and other items, Sun generated a net profit of 15 cents a...
[January 28, 2009, 7:50]
