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Why All the Noise About Skype?
Blog Comment I thought of another issue today, as well.assuming they do succeed with that very difficult code replacement trick, they then have to manage the transition of their users from the old version to the new.
[August 3, 2009, 20:44]
Intel looks at leap in handheld memory
News Someone else might find the trick to it," he said. Of the three new technologies Intel is researching, OUM is likely the most promising for its combination of low cost and ease of integration with other memory technologies.
[July 12, 2001, 9:40]
AMD to unveil 'Rev F' Opteron chips
News Intel is going to try to push it back down, but AMD is not a one-trick pony that was there and is going to disappear. AMD plans to announce its new "Rev F" generation of Opteron server processors Tuesday, the next volley in a competition with Intel...
[August 15, 2006, 9:05]
Palm's vision of the connected enterprise
News Having missed a trick when Handspring launched its expandable Visor, Palm is catching up with a vengeance. A new PluggedIn Palm program will provide hardware and software developers with a complete set of programs and services to assist the...
[February 1, 2001, 12:55]
Real-time IM security product debuts
News The threats are not only more frequent, but attackers are increasingly morphing their software to circumvent security measures and trick users. The new system analyses instant messages and will block a potential attack before it propagates, said...
[September 7, 2005, 8:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News Rule One of journalism is never upset the people providing the drinks, so I washed down my bile with a swig of beer and sorted him out gracefully -- beware, if you try the same trick on a computer hack at a party when you don't have a major...
[September 7, 1996, 9:00]
Cellery worm plays Tetris as it spreads
News Using games to fool people into activating viruses is an old trick, Cluley added. If your company has a culture of allowing games to be played in the office, your staff may believe this is simply a new game that has been installed -- rather than...
[January 12, 2005, 13:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Rule One of journalism is never upset the people providing the drinks, so I washed down my bile with a swig of beer and sorted him out gracefully -- beware, if you try the same trick on a computer hack at a party when you don't have a major...
[September 7, 1996, 10:00]
Internet fraud booming, says Chamber of Commerce
News A typical online con trick, according to CCS, is a financial or retail firm offering too-good-to-be-true" deals through their Web site. Cybercrime is traditional crime perpetrated through a new and powerful medium," says Pottengal Mukundan...
[January 2, 2001, 12:44]
Google plays tag with tricksters
News And because Google and other search engines tabulate search results in part by a Web page's link popularity with other sites, the trick can boost a site's ranking -- and more importantly, traffic. Google will introduce new technology controls to...
[January 19, 2005, 7:45]
Microsoft's unified communications suite review
Reviews A decade on, Microsoft may pull off a similar trick, this time in the 'unified communications' market. The software giant often takes several attempts to get a new venture right, but usually emerges with a sizeable market share.
[October 16, 2007, 10:34]
Compact Flash Drives and BIOS settings
Blog The trick with Windows XP Embedded is to turn the UDMA off before the new system image goes through its initial configuration boot-up with a newly compiled operating system image. I haven't had time yet to try out the new high speed CF's with any...
[July 20, 2009, 9:10]
Jesse Berst: Shattering chip myths
News The trick is to understand which of today's plethora of chips makes sense for the kind of computing tasks you routinely perform. Most users can't afford to buy a new PC every time Intel or AMD cranks out a faster chip.
[September 17, 1999, 11:04]
xG opens its doors, closes its mouth
Blog I lack the elite skills that can turn such stuff into gold; give me a chunk of sparkly stuff and I can perhaps tell iron pyrites from the real thing, but I'm no good at that trick when the specimen is kept behind a veil.
[August 24, 2009, 21:39]
Kevin Mitnick: The great pretender
News They use the same methods they always have - using a ruse to deceive, influence, or trick people into revealing information that benefits the attackers. ZDNet UK caught up with the ex-cracker, ahead of his keynote speech on the "art of deception...
[June 14, 2006, 11:40]
Is your anti-virus program still working? review
Reviews It's actually an old trick. The product, like its popular home version, features automatic live updates of the latest signature files, yet they were getting hit with several variations of the Bagle virus, plus some other new viruses.
[June 15, 2004, 9:05]
Hacker cracks Apple downloads
News It is a trivial matter, according to Harding, to use any one of several well-known techniques to trick a user into installing a malicious program posing as an update from Apple. The exploit takes advantage of Apple's software updating mechanism in...
[July 8, 2002, 16:27]
Jobs: Final Mac OS X held until 2001
News Having introduced design sense to the realm of PC hardware, Apple is preparing to repeat the trick in software with its next-generation operating system. Jobs said the final version will be "available for pre-install" on new Mac systems starting in...
[May 16, 2000, 9:08]
Microsoft patches two DRM holes
News The actual software that purportedly performed the trick was taken offline after a Japanese magazine wrote about the hack, but Microsoft said the company was able to identify the potential flaw. Microsoft has released repeated security fixes for...
[February 17, 2005, 8:55]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog That's no good for me in this case, as it causes one to install over the other, and I haven't found a way to trick the recovery procedure into installing in any other partition. My brother gave me what should have been a good tip, when he suggested...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
