Microsoft wants Web designers to use content tagging
News ICRA then generate a FrontPage-friendly Meta tag code that allows ICRA Plus to recognise a Web site's content and automatically blocks sites according to user preferences. Microsoft is urging Web designers to take more responsibility for content...
[August 18, 2004, 15:20]
Kill the clipboard review
Reviews But because the clipboard pops up whenever you use the copy or cut commands twice in a row, it often blocks your document while you're trying to work. I can't get rid of the clipboard… I constantly cut and paste among Office applications, including...
[July 8, 2002, 10:04]
SP2's firewall is not good enough
Talkback Neil Roy's unsubstantiated comment threw into doubt for me whether SP2's firewall blocks outgoing traffic or not, even though David Berlind is quite clear that it doesn't. ZoneAlarm has what you would call 'cloak mode' .
[December 10, 2004, 6:28]
Three-stage Bagle variants alarm experts
News It also blocks Microsoft's update site, windowsupdate.microsoft.com, said Thomas. The latest variants of the Bagle worm have alarmed antivirus vendors because of the multi-stage process they use to attack PCs.
[June 2, 2005, 12:10]
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet review
Reviews Unfortunately, when you reverse the cover, it blocks access to the stylus silo -- a silly and annoying design flaw. Design The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet bears more than a passing resemblance to a handheld, except that it's designed with a landscape...
[January 19, 2006, 12:25]
Microsoft takes spam fight to source
News MSN already blocks 2.4 billion pieces of spam each day to its Hotmail users, according to Microsoft. Microsoft is bringing its anti-spam fight to the Asia-Pacific. As part of its current global campaign against unsolicited commercial email, or spam...
[June 20, 2003, 15:37]
Big Blue extends Deep into business arena
News The SP is a scaleable system made up of building blocks called nodes, which can function alone or work with hundreds of other nodes. The new supercomputer is an example of IBM's effort to commercialise Deep Computing, which is the capacity to tie...
[February 2, 1999, 16:14]
Email for the Mac faithful
News KidSafe, an Internet filtering tool, gives kids access to 55,000 approved sites and blocks out everything else. Among the revelations at Wednesday's keynote address by Apple's now-permanent CEO, Steve Jobs, were a number of tidbits about the...
[January 6, 2000, 14:37]
IBM shakes foundations of chemistry
News Our building blocks are much larger than those in classical chemistry. IBM has found a way to get thousands of molecules to assemble themselves into designer crystals, a technique that, along with others, could change how people look at chemistry.
[June 26, 2003, 9:37]
EMC's V-Max builds up to petabytes of virtual storage
News When asked if the building blocks could be spread out across different locations, Bob Wambach, senior director of high-end storage at EMC, said the clusters have the same limitations as normal clusters.
[April 14, 2009, 14:26]
A tour of the highlights at TechFest 2009
News That prevents the so-called 'fat-finger problem', in which the finger being used for input blocks the display. With its annual TechFest, Microsoft gives its researchers the opportunity to show off what they have cooking in the lab to employees in...
[February 25, 2009, 11:49]
Storage sales set to beat economic gloom
News He added that external storage systems are key building blocks for storage area networks and network attached storage, and are also being used for "rack-mount installations. Despite economic pressures that have led to spending constraints, revenues...
[October 29, 2001, 9:36]
Microsoft's Great Plains buy changes competitive landscape
News While Microsoft sells server software, its current products are largely limited to the infrastructure building blocks, which it now calls its .Net Enterprise Servers, upon which third-party applications are designed to run.
[December 22, 2000, 11:10]
Nanotubes break semiconducting record
News It is an important step forward in efforts to develop nanotubes into the building blocks of a new generation of smaller, more powerful electronics. Semiconducting carbon nanotubes are significantly better at conducting electricity at room...
[December 19, 2003, 9:05]
Comdex 2001: IBM takes high road with Summit chipset
News The resulting servers will be modular in design, featuring four processor blocks that can be strung together to create servers with as many as 16 total processors. IBM is using this week's Comdex Fall 2001 trade show to display its new family of...
[November 13, 2001, 14:47]
Irate football fans launched DoS attacks
News The firm "simply put in blocks at the perimeter through the service provider" in order to filter the spam, Andrews said. Legal firm Allen & Overy fought off a number of DoS attacks earlier this year when it was negotiating Malcolm Glazer's takeover...
[September 21, 2005, 16:50]
Adobe sues site over Photoshop piece
News The AppleInsider story included several images of menus and screens from Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3 and large blocks of text taken verbatim or nearly verbatim from Adobe's Detailed Feature Guide, according to the lawsuit.
[June 15, 2000, 10:01]
Microsoft buys into banner adverts
News LinkExchange also sells low-cost advertising blocks on big sites such as Yahoo, and services such as automatic e-mail mailing lists targeted at small businesses. Microsoft followed the lead of Excite and Yahoo when this week it announced the...
[November 6, 1998, 15:00]
Comdex 2001: IBM shows off Enterprise X servers
News The resulting servers will be modular in design, featuring four processor blocks that can be strung together to create servers with as many as 16 total processors. IBM is using this week's Comdex Fall 2001 trade show to display its new family of...
[November 14, 2001, 9:51]
Live Meeting schedules subscriptions
News In addition, a "monthly minutes" programme allows business to buy Live Meeting time in blocks of minutes that are good for one month, similar to a pay-as-you-go cell phone plan. Microsoft is set to announce new subscription and licensing plans on...
[August 11, 2004, 9:15]



