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New virus downloads itself from Web pages
News Antivirus companies are reporting a high incidence of a new virus, which they say is spreading fast by using every trick in the book -- including downloading itself from Web pages by exploiting a weakness in Internet Explorer.
[September 18, 2001, 18:28]
Google tests snapshots of Web pages
News Google has been quietly testing a new feature that offers snapshots of Web pages alongside ordinary search results. In addition, Google's test offers only tiny pictures of Web pages, known as thumbnails, which many surfers may find illegible.
[November 1, 2001, 14:11]
Flaw lets malicious Web pages attack Windows
News Second, exploiting such flaws through Web pages requires that the person under attack actually visit the malicious site. A vulnerability in all versions of Windows could allow attackers to use a malicious Web site or HTML email message to trap...
[March 20, 2003, 8:21]
Avatar signs Web pages for the deaf
News Those deaf people who have trouble understanding written English could soon be able to access online information faster and easier, according to software experts at a British university who have created a virtual human that uses sign language to...
[May 6, 2005, 13:35]
Semantic labelling scheme for Web pages
News ICRA's previous labelling standard, PICS, was created that year with the aim of preventing children seeing inappropriate Web content. However, it was only adopted by a minority of Web content providers, and ICRA hopes that the move to RDF will lead...
[July 12, 2005, 16:20]
Windows '98: ZyWeb offers Web pages for all
News Hottest ticket on the show floor on the first day of the Windows '98 show in Olympia in London today was Zyris's ZyWeb service for building and hosting Web sites. The service can be seen in beta form from the firm's Web site tomorrow
[March 10, 1998, 16:04]
Mobile Web pages get their own domain
News Web pages specifically designed for mobile phone users will soon have their own domain - .mobi. There has been scepticism in the industry about whether mobile Web users will actually embrace such a domain, following the slower than expected take-up...
[July 11, 2005, 17:45]
Google acts to cover up phishing hole
News Google on Thursday fixed a security flaw in its Web search service that could have allowed malicious hackers to modify its pages. The warning came only a week after Google released its newest product -- a tool to search the files on a PC alongside...
[October 21, 2004, 9:20]
Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta
News Firefox 3 beta 1 adds to the popular open-source web browser a number of significant features that Mozilla said should improve security, ease of use, rendering of web pages, and the accessibility of previously visited web pages.
[November 20, 2007, 16:10]
Web slump hurts Macromedia earnings
News The company, which primarily makes tools for creating Web pages and applications, reported a net loss of $80.5m, or $1.37 per share, for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2002, which ended March 31. The new products focus on integrating applications...
[April 25, 2002, 11:42]
Vodafone advances website rendering for mobiles
News Vodafone has launched its mobile internet strategy, and claims to have made significant advances in rendering web pages for mobile devices. What we've done is [to] work with some of our suppliers, such as Novarra, to ensure that pages display...
[June 6, 2007, 15:23]
Slashdot joins the ad-free melee
News "News for Nerds" Web site Slashdot.org has joined the dark side, lining up with leagues of other Net publishers to start selling larger, more imposing advertisements and placing a premium on commercial-free pages.
[March 4, 2002, 8:59]
Google to power i-mode wireless searches
News Users of NTT DoCoMo's popular mobile Web service just got their horizons expanded by more than a billion Web pages. The deal will allow NTT DoCoMo's 19 million wireless subscribers to view the wired Web's entire montage of 1.3 billion Web pages...
[February 28, 2001, 10:46]
US authorities to put pinch on site hijackers
News The US' Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is set to announce a sweeping crackdown on the hijacking of legitimate Web pages to redirect Web surfers to porn sites. Landrigan, who found several hundred hijacked Web pages warehoused on the Alta Vista...
[September 16, 1999, 9:39]
Google Sitemaps offer fast track to indexing
News Google launched a free service on Friday that gives Webmasters more control over what Web pages are crawled by the search engine. The new service, known as Google Sitemaps, lets Webmasters tell Google about all of their Web pages, how frequently...
[June 3, 2005, 12:45]
Google introduces Fast Flip news service
News Google on Monday released a service that will let users read web pages of magazines and newspapers as though they were flipping through an old-fashioned paper copy. Fast Flip is being tested in partnership with 36 publishers, including The New York...
[September 15, 2009, 8:38]
Blind surfers win concessions from travel sites
News Priceline.com and Ramada.com have agreed to make their Web pages easier to navigate for the blind and visually impaired as part of a settlement with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The guidelines set standards for designing browsers...
[August 23, 2004, 8:25]
Vendor warns of 'Chinese' website attacks
News Security vendor ScanSafe has warned of a wave of SQL injection attacks that has affected over 7,000 web pages. The attack, which began on Saturday, focused on systems running Microsoft SQL Server and ASP, and quickly infected thousands of web pages...
[May 20, 2008, 16:54]
Hackers say they'll take off New Year's
News Two hacking groups have struck again, defacing several Web pages around the Internet. Hackers in Paradise Will NOT Be Defacing Web Pages From At least Dec 31 to Jan 2! While the Clinton Administration's request seemed aimed primarily at serious...
[December 23, 1999, 10:16]
Macromedia primes FreeHand Studio 7 for 3D Web explosion
News The program allows users to create 2D and 3D graphics for the Web and print and supports ShockWave, which enables users to incorporate vector and bitmap art in Web pages. The package includes the VRML design tool Extreme 3D 2 for creating 3D Web...
[November 5, 1996, 13:46]
