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Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback I'd have thought that with the multitude of high-profile viruses that are in circulation (Windoze, of course) this would make Linux perfect for the home desktop - as most home users don't have the know-how (and, in all honesty, the common sense...
[November 5, 2003, 9:03]
Red Hat broadens desktop push
News The coming version 8 of Red Hat's software, expected to be announced next week, will have an easier interface to make the software appeal more to home and school users, Szulik said. We will introduce Linux to a user population that we have...
[September 19, 2002, 8:08]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback And they cooly write about it but when we talk about home user then we are talking about housewives, novice users, non-IT people. Linux is still not very popular among home users ( NON IT users). Redhat is not talking about LINUX experts or IT...
[November 5, 2003, 19:00]
Has your PC been hijacked?
News Security experts warn that network intruders -- once only a boogey man for large corporations and government agencies -- are becoming an increasing threat to home users, especially those wired to the Internet via new broadband connections.
[February 17, 2000, 9:21]
SETI cracks down on cheating alien-hunters
News SETI@home director David Anderson announced SETI@home would do its best to investigate users returning suspiciously high amounts of work and delete their accounts if it uncovered solid evidence of cheating.
[November 4, 2002, 14:09]
Bulldog broadband gets more teeth with voice
News Several different tariffs are available -- aimed at both business and home users. Bulldog's Pro@ctive range (which costs up to £67 per month + VAT) is designed for small office and home office users who need a 4Mbps connection.
[September 13, 2004, 18:00]
A Year Ago: Nortel to offer Net access through power lines
News A pair of UK companies today attempted to change the face of Internet access, revealing new technology that uses electric power lines to provide over 1Mbit/sec data access for home users. Telecommunications giant Northern Telecom (Nortel) and voice...
[October 6, 1998, 6:37]
Big Brother Web site pulls in crowds
News This means the site attracted 4.3 percent of all home Internet users. Handbag.com was the most popular women's site and attracted 1.4 percent of all UK home Internet users. The Big Brother Web site has been tipped to be one of the Internet...
[June 15, 2001, 10:27]
Broadband drops below £20 a month barrier
News Internet users will be able to sign up for a home broadband connection for a monthly cost of only £19.99 from next week. Interested users can still register for the service at V21's Web site. Starting on 1 August, V21 -- a UK ISP -- will start...
[July 26, 2002, 12:55]
BT denies routers still vulnerable to months-old hack
News The hackers, who call their organisation GNUCitizen, posted a blog on Monday that claimed users of BT's Home Hub routers could be conned into making premium-rate VoIP calls, due to the continued existence of a security hole in the router's firmware.
[January 22, 2008, 12:23]
BT unruffled by ntl's faster broadband promise
News Like BT, ntl has previously offered its home users a 512kbps broadband product, but the cable firm believes this faster product will help it compete, following BT's recent price cuts. BT could offer a faster service to home users on its existing...
[March 5, 2002, 13:40]
Security flaw hits SETI@home
News SETI@home software has been installed on more than 4.4 million registered users' desktops and has between 500,000 and 600,000 active users, according to the SETI@home Web site. Wever and SETI@home both recommend that users download the latest...
[April 7, 2003, 7:52]
Sisters are doing it for themselves
News Last October of the 7.8 million home Internet users in the UK, women made up 39 percent. Figures for June show that the number of home Internet users has risen to 10.6 million with women now accounting for 42.5 percent.
[August 10, 2000, 16:08]
Microsoft: Vista Stunk, but we PROMISE not to do it again with Win7
Blog Comment Corporate users are probably even worse that home users with change. A lot of home users still struggle to use a PC in its most basic functions, moving to Linux would complicate this further as there are just too many differences for the lay-man to...
[September 21, 2009, 10:01]
Industry says ISPs must adapt or die
News Obviously heavy users will benefit but I'm not sure @Home will want heavy users because, in large numbers, they'll slow the service down. Having said that, the @Home proposition does look attractive and I think it will certainly have an effect in...
[May 29, 1998, 16:15]
Net users look at their homes differently - research
News Other snippets include: per cent of Net users who responded tot the Web questions own their own home, compared to 41 per cent of the UK population.per cent of Net users consider their property a home rather than an investment, against 77 per cent...
[September 15, 1997, 11:35]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback I make a decent amount of money installing and configuring Windows for home users and I certainly don't see that changing anytime soon. The "problem" is that most home users don't want to know how the OS works.they just want it to work when they...
[November 12, 2003, 9:19]
Microsoft declares a 'war on hostile code'
News The newest version of Windows is due out in this fall, and will come in several flavours: one for home users, another for business users and a later version able to run on 64-bit processors. If successful, the strategy will allow users to have the...
[April 11, 2001, 12:22]
Broadband killer apps will be created at home
News Speaking at the Last Mile Europe conference last week, Ziya urged home Internet users to tell operators to "deliver broadband to me, because only I can create compelling services using it". With PCs, it was the end users who created the...
[December 10, 2001, 14:10]
Lenovo - nope, no Linux here
Blog The story, as now reported in Computerworld is that the company pulled the plug on a US trial selling Linux-equipped laptops to home users through its web site. A flack called Ray Gorman bleats that the company really does like Linux or something...
[September 12, 2008, 13:16]
