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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Gates Takes A Side-swipe At Apple, Linux Security
Talkback April Fool's day is still a few months away! The implication that windows is a better OS because hackers can continuously molest it and other OS's are inferior because they are tougher to hack doesn't fly.
[January 28, 2004, 13:14]
'Honest Thief' Waves Pirate Flag
News Editor's note: While the facts reported in this story are correct, including the Dutch legal loophole potentially allowing legal file-trading, Pieter Plass has now said that his statements were an April Fool's hoax designed to drum up publicity.
[February 24, 2003, 5:53]
Enigma Thief Will Be Found, Says Bletchley Director
News Stolen on April Fool's Day in 2000, the machine -- known as an Abwehr -- is among only two such devices in the world and is valued at around £100,000. I know the officers involved and in a weird way it's like the Ronnie Biggs case where there were...
[August 11, 2003, 13:35]
US Hit By 57 Million Phishing Attacks In One Year
News Phishing is an Internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking emails that attempt to fool them into disclosing online passwords, user names and other personal information. Victims are usually persuaded to click on a link in an...
[May 5, 2004, 17:45]
Generation I: Tuned In, Logged On, Cashed Up, Part II
News Analysts warn that companies can't fool Generation i. Bolt officials wouldn't comment, citing the company's quiet period. Snowball, which counts New Line Cinema's new-media unit as an investor, is planning an IPO with Goldman Sachs as the lead...
[February 21, 2000, 10:34]
