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OS X hacking challenge called off
News The contest was in response to an earlier challenge, which Schroeder said was too easy. On Wednesday, information emerged that the contest had drawn the scrutiny of the university's chief information officer, Annie Stunden.
[March 9, 2006, 8:35]
Make Cisco $1bn and win a job
News The contest was announced on Wednesday at the opening of the company's Globalization Center East in Bangalore, India. Cisco may invest up to $10m (£4.8m) in the new unit, and is also offering those who get through to the later rounds of the contest...
[October 31, 2007, 11:24]
Programming geeks fight to the finish
News The occasion for this creative exercise is the Fifth ICFP Programming Contest, a 72-hour battle announced on Friday and ending Monday at noon. Entrants, vying for a $1,000 (£640) cash top prize, may use any programming language they wish, but...
[September 2, 2002, 7:53]
Digital sleuthing uncovers hacking costs
News Dittrich also hoped that the contest would open the eyes of corporate execs who -- all too often -- want a quick fix. The contest was made more interesting by the fact that the attack was a real one, captured by one of the several "honeypots...
[March 22, 2001, 13:46]
Robotic cars to race from LA to Vegas
News Cabe, leader of Team Loghiq, is one of a number of engineers, researchers and robot aficionados who have signed up for the Darpa Grand Challenge, a contest designed to generate ideas that ideally will lead to the development of self-driving combat...
[July 28, 2003, 13:11]
Yahoo gateway blamed for lost customers
News In a suit filed in US District Court, Web Street is suing Yahoo, claiming the portal company mismanaged an online investing contest sponsored by Web Street. Yahoo claimed Web Street never fully paid for its contest sponsorship.
[November 6, 1998, 9:16]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
Talkback The order of confidentiality just granted by the court allows SCO to designate material it submits as CONFIDENTIAL, but allows IBM to contest it - which will require SCO to prove exactly why it should be considered so by legal standards.
[December 16, 2003, 15:58]
Windows XP Intel Mac installation method confirmed
News However, narf's method had to prove replicable before the contest was officially ended. On Thursday, though, the contest ended, and a winner was declared. Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly," reads a short message on the contest's Web...
[March 17, 2006, 8:30]
EMC wins Data Domain storage acquisition battle
Blog NetApp started the contest for DataDomain on May 20th, with an initial bid of $1.5 billion. The contest has just finished, with NetApp bowing out yesterday after EMC made a bid of $2.1 billion on Monday.
[July 9, 2009, 10:53]
Pawns
Downloads tutorial puzzles to get you started 15 puzzles levels, ranging from easy to brain-bending Simple mouse-based controls 3 alternating music tracks This is a OMG (Original Mac Games) 2005 contest winner (2nd Place).
[August 23, 2009, 22:49]
ALICE talks her way to victory in AI challenge
News ALICE got the highest score at this year's contest, held at the Science Museum in London on Saturday, although the silver and gold medals remain unawarded. When that happens the contest will end, but in the 11 years since it started no software has...
[October 16, 2001, 14:38]
Germans launch $5,000 CeBIT hacker challenge
News Oliver Winzenried, chief executive of Wibu-Systems said the hacking contest will demonstrate the strength of Wibu's technology. This is the first time that CeBIT has hosted such an event and the contest will start at high noon today in Hall 23.
[March 22, 2001, 10:39]
Return of the chess-playing supercomputer
News The six-game contest between Adams and Hydra will run from June 21 to June 27. Kasparov defeated Deep Blue in their first contest, in 1996. Nearly ten years after the first epic clash between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue, man is again going head-to...
[May 24, 2005, 18:25]
Golden Tee Golf Mobile Edge
Downloads You can also connect to the Golden Tee coin-op world and check your stats, see contest history and even locate a coin-op machine in your area - all at the click of a button! Players can retrieve their stats from coin-op play, get contest history...
[August 27, 2009, 8:00]
The Search for the Nigerian MobileKing
Blog The contest will focus on m-Banking, m-Commerce, e-govt, infotainment and Mobile marketing within the technology ranges of 2g to G.Educational institution, Mobile Vas content providers, content aggregates, application developers, and non...
[March 8, 2009, 15:03]
Sky high price fear for German 3G auction confirmed
News He favours the "beauty contest" system where spectrum is allocated to operators. Norway has also decided to favour the beauty contest system when it distributes its 3G licences. As the German auction for third generation mobile spectrum tops £22bn...
[August 15, 2000, 12:28]
Combating binary bandits: Honeynet's Reverse Challenge
News The contest is open to the entire world and it appears extremely popular, in the 13 hours since the binary has been released, it has already been downloaded over 1,100 times. When we did the Forensic Challenge last year, no one had ever done...
[May 10, 2002, 10:14]
Avecho tempts fate with £10,000 hacking challenge
News Elliott said he would like to see a media firm judging the contest, but no one had come forward to judge the competition. The firm had offered $100,000 to anyone who could break its Web server, but instead hackers decided to break the registration...
[September 27, 2004, 13:10]
Google and Amazon tussle for talent
News The contest also comes five months after Google and Amazon entered a search pact that has Google powering Amazon's Web and commercial search results for at least two years. It recently established Code Jam 2003, a programming contest in which the...
[September 29, 2003, 10:35]
CA's Ingres sell-off met with scepticism
News CA released Ingres under an open source licence in November 2004 and launched a contest with $1m (£600,000) in prizes to encourage developers to write software for the database. It announced the winners of the contest in May this year, although it...
[November 9, 2005, 9:10]
