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April Fool's Day story clarification
News The story was one of many such jokes published by various members of UK media, where the April Fool's Day practice is widespread and something of a journalist's tradition. It has been brought to our attention that a small number of readers may not...
[April 6, 2000, 10:16]
April Fool: Timing's right for a virus
News Basically, some Windows-based programs become confused when Daylight Savings Time kicks off on 1 April, creating an accidental April Fool's joke. It's a quirky bug. On Sunday 8 April, the problem corrects itself.
[March 30, 2001, 13:41]
Microsoft confirms April Fool's bug
News A bug reported by a Massachusetts programmer will cause some Windows applications to behave as though it were one hour earlier than the correct time shown on the operating system's clock. It's unusual, because it's so pervasive," said Richard Smith...
[January 13, 1999, 11:05]
Parallels boss sees no joke in April Fool's
News Beloussov was the victim of an April Fool's Day joke, but as jokes go it was not a very good one, according to Parallels. When ZDNet.co.uk contacted Beloussov on April Fool's he made it clear that Parallels was not up for sale.
[April 2, 2008, 16:20]
Downadup heading for April Fool's mayhem
News It also is programmed to begin connecting to 50,000 different domains on 1 April to receive updated copies or other malware, as opposed to connecting to 250 domains a day as previous versions are doing, Ben Greenbaum, senior research manager for...
[March 16, 2009, 8:06]
Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
News Microsoft's MSN has launched the Gates Open Directory, otherwise known as GOD, which seeks to simplify copyright on the Web by purchasing all copyrighted material. These and other more believable spoofs were among the stories making their way...
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
Foolish stories aren't just for April
Leader The origins of April Fool’s day are obscure. More fool us. Some say it was the move from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in the sixteenth century, when the beginning of the year changed from 1 April to 1 January - those who were slow to cotton...
[April 1, 2005, 14:20]
The Week in Review: Fooling the tech industry
News April Fool's Day fell on this week, a very confusing time for many IT journalists -- particularly the type who specialise in linking to apparently important stories on other Web sites. Unfortunately for Microsoft, this report came out just around...
[April 4, 2003, 16:52]
OOXML result will come Wednesday
Blog However, it would be fair to assume that ISO already knows the answer - it's not that many votes that need counting, after all - so, assuming Reuters is correct, there are two possible reasons why tomorrow (Tuesday) won't be the announcement day...
[March 31, 2008, 20:26]
Conficker worm fails to wreak predicted havoc
News April Fool's does certainly seem to have been a joke on us," wrote Stewart. The Conficker worm variant expected to mobilise on 1 April activated as expected, but did not upload any new malware, according to security companies.
[April 2, 2009, 17:02]
BackHack
Downloads It's April Fool's Day all year 'round with the BackHack system extension! Better yet, sneak it onto someone else's and watch the wacky hijinks ensue! Once installed and activated, it harmlessly reverses nearly all of the...
[December 15, 2000, 6:00]
Encrypted bots could be the next threat
Talkback Please tell me this article is an early/late April Fool's joke. I mean really - let's be somewhat grounded here. However, most of the manual and even auto-rooter compromises I've been looking at for the past few years are doing this - whether it's...
[November 15, 2005, 17:29]
T-Mobile trademarks colour, issues legal threats
Blog File this one under "I-wish-it-was-an-April-Fool's-joke-but-it-isn't". Engadget, the mobile blog, has received a nasty letter from T-Mobile's lawyers demanding that it stop using the colour magenta. Because T-Mobile pwns magenta.
[April 2, 2008, 10:45]
Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers
Talkback I think that RedHat's opinion that "LINUX is not mature enough for the desktop" and the unofficial blessing of Windows to temporarily replace it can only serve as an April Fool's day heading. I am really dissappointed by Red Hat's illusionary...
[November 5, 2003, 19:32]
Symbiot launches DDoS counter-strike tool
Talkback Given the article was posted on 10 March, it is unlikely to be an April Fool. Attacking the "Apparently From" is, as previous commenters have noted, useless as they are just unlucky to be on someone's contact list who has a virus (in my case, two...
[April 2, 2004, 7:12]
Email worm graduates to IM
News The Chod.B worm, which was first discovered on April Fool's day, spreads via email purportedly from Microsoft, or security vendors Symantec and Trend Micro. In fact, security firm Websense has warned that hackers are increasingly using instant...
[April 4, 2005, 9:45]
Google ups the ante with Gmail enhancements
News Google first broke the email mould on April 1, 2004, with an announcement so bizarre that many assumed it was an April Fool's Day joke. Gmail's 1GB of free storage at the time was widely thought to exceed the lifetime needs of most email users...
[April 1, 2005, 8:55]
Open season for phishing as attacks soar
News Phishing is an Internet scam where official-looking emails attempt to fool users into disclosing online passwords, user names and other personal information. Jevans said that in April his organisation discovered a new attack that is able to modify...
[May 25, 2004, 13:45]
Windows XP SP2 nightmares review
Reviews Worse, like every major Windows upgrade -- and don't let the name fool you, SP2 is major -- it breaks some applications. Anyone who owns a PC can't do without Windows (let's be honest, how many of us will actually spend the time to decipher Linux?
[October 29, 2004, 17:39]
BlackBerry App World
Blog It doesn’t look like this was an April fool, either, as the app was still listed as a top download on 2nd April. This listing will change over time, so you get so see at a glance what’s new or what’s hot.
[April 2, 2009, 14:00]
