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MSN Toolbar review
Reviews MSN Toolbar had a very rough time in our on-the-Web search test, scoring dead last in the breadth department (behind Yahoo, AltaVista, Google, Ask Jeeves, A9 and HotBot, in that order). Installing MSN Toolbar was easy in our tests; it took less...
[January 7, 2005, 14:25]
A Year Ago: Escrow time line draws fire from think-tank
News The government's decision to drop key escrow -- which would give law enforcement agencies access to data sent over the Internet -- leaves the e-commerce bill "a dead limb of an old policy which should be chopped off," according to Caspar Bowden...
[March 8, 2000, 6:02]
Escrow time line draws fire from think-tank
News The government's decision to drop key escrow -- which would give law enforcement agencies access to data sent over the Internet -- leaves the e-commerce bill "a dead limb of an old policy which should be chopped off," according to Caspar Bowden...
[March 8, 1999, 17:31]
Escrow time line draws fire from think-tank
News The government's decision last week to drop key escrow -- which would give law enforcement agencies access to data sent over the Internet -- leaves the e-commerce bill as a "dead limb of an old policy which should be chopped off," according to...
[March 8, 1999, 11:22]
Time Computers back in business
Talkback Time Talk, Time Xtra, Tiny.com, Tiny Plasma's, the new call centre and the list could go on and on. T will make a success of this new business will to be to get rid of the middle management dead wood that was there before and employ of team of...
[January 24, 2006, 20:06]
Free tool automates attacks on Gmail, Facebook
News While the dangers of using a public network are already well-known, Beale said his tool takes exploitation to a new level of "brain-dead easy" simplicity and scalability. The Middler allows an attacker with no web-application hacking experience to...
[October 7, 2008, 14:42]
PC survival time 'down to 20 minutes'
News The time that an unpatched PC can survive connected to the Internet has dropped to an average of 20 minutes, down from 40 minutes in 2003. According to the latest data from the Internet Storm Center at the US-based SANS Institute, which provides...
[August 17, 2004, 17:35]
New Unix worm could be the next Code Red
News A new Internet worm designed to attack a common flaw in Unix systems has been confirmed dead, but security experts are warning that the self-propagating worm could be the next Code Red. Antivirus companies are concerned that crackers will have...
[September 10, 2001, 16:58]
DEF CON: Fear and fascination in Las Vegas
News We hope they can get it right this time," said one member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, a media-oriented hacker group that released a program that has the potential to control remote Windows 9x computers.
[August 4, 1998, 14:09]
SAP loses key exec Agassi
News Some with influence over the chief executive selection process had said the extension would have provided Agassi with the time needed to lay out his big technology plans. Up until the past eight months, Agassi had been in a dead heat with Apotheker...
[March 29, 2007, 8:28]
German police sue eDonkey 'criminals'
Talkback In the end, when even the most absurd lines have been crossed and finally voters will take notice and act accoordingly, those same big hot shots sitting in their ivory towers will lean back and wonder: if only they would have informed us in full...
[May 24, 2006, 19:29]
Software patent directive rejected
Talkback Because the commercial lobbiests will believe that as long as they are funded for this topic it'll just be a matter of time before they'll reach the objectives they've been hired to fulfill (and they'll be looking for inroads to accomplish that).
[July 6, 2005, 22:50]
Microsoft's biggest threat: Linux
Blog Comment Your last two points may be linux-specific, since Shuttleworth and others are definitely selling Linux as an alternative and I can't think of anyone who is able to do the same thing with Unix, but Unix is not dead, thank heaven.
[February 19, 2009, 15:09]
Images: Google Earth 5.0 travels the oceans
News It also lets them travel back in time to see earlier versions of the service's aerial and satellite photography. Google Earth also highlights areas of the ocean that are not capable of supporting life such as this dead zone off the coast of Florida.
[February 3, 2009, 16:51]
Govt web-monitoring plans on hold
Blog Comment local governments are even more incumbent than parliament, and as for local constabulary's they struggle to work together at the best of times, each one of them operates in its own little by gone age, I'm not bloody surprised Doctor Who has a time...
[November 18, 2009, 22:32]
Don't buy it if you actually want to be able to use it.
Talkback This really has to be the most unreliable machine I have had to manage for quite some time. The machine even eats its battery when turned off, apparently due to a wake on LAN feature on the motherboard, and they can't turn it off, you leave the...
[July 23, 2007, 12:49]
Bulldog users bite back over poor service
Talkback Bulldog is not worthy of any more of my time, nor would I suggest yours. As a businessman I spend quite a lot of time trying to progress difficult situations through a sea of bureaucracy, Nothing however has been anything like as unrewarding as...
[August 13, 2005, 11:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Lots more gadgets to keep me company this time, so watch the site for the odd review between reports of fab new chippery and Intel's antics. It's still a bit early in my life for contemporaries to go dropping dead on me, let alone someone whose...
[February 13, 2004, 16:50]
Xmas home PC market looks nasty
News The Christmas market is dead now. Smith declined to put hard numbers on his comments but said that sales hadn't grown over last year's equivalent time space. Vendors contacted by ZDNN unanimously admitted that sales were disappointing although...
[December 4, 1997, 17:23]
Tiny free offer nosedives
News A spokesman from rival company Time Computers is at a loss as to why Tiny's offer nose-dived. European PC retail analyst with Context Research, Christophe Galtier, says that despite Tiny's failure the "free PC" phenomenon is not dead and suggests...
[August 20, 1999, 14:34]
