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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. On Sunday 8 April, the problem corrects itself. A two-year-old bug in Microsoft software will finally...
[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 The fact that April 1, 2001, falls on a Sunday confused an algorithm within the file, which leads to a one-week delay in beginning daylight savings time. A bug reported by a Massachusetts programmer will cause some Windows applications to behave as...
[January 13, 1999, 11:05]
Net Laughs At Itself On April Fool's
News These and other more believable spoofs were among the stories making their way around the Web on Monday, April 1. To make his April Fools' joke as believable as possible, Kaplan tweaked the Web address of the fake story so that it looked like it...
[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]
Microsoft Lauds IE As 'the Most Secure Browser'
Talkback HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA april fool ? too soon ms!
[February 20, 2004, 23:46]
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]
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]
Encrypted Bots Could Be The Next Threat
Talkback Please tell me this article is an early/late April Fool's joke. Is this a joke? I mean really - let's be somewhat grounded here. Worms that act in a "retarded" but mass effort haven't _commonly_ used encryption for the past 5 years or so (some of...
[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. As a sys admin and consultant, I am grateful to RedHat...
[November 5, 2003, 19:32]
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]
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. The quantity and quality of phishing attacks grew at an alarming rate in April, according...
[May 25, 2004, 13:45]
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. Google plans to offer a bottomless cup of storage with its Gmail Web-based email service, dramatically raising...
[April 1, 2005, 8:55]
Bogus Report Boosts Internet Stock
News As the Internet and message boards become more routine, people are being a little bit more cautious," said Marthe laRosiliere, associate general counsel of The Motley Fool, an online investing site. With the dateline, "PETAH TIKVA, Israel, and...
[April 8, 1999, 9:09]
Gates Takes A Side-swipe At Apple, Linux Security
Talkback April Fool's day is still a few months away! You posted this article too early. How long can Gates continue to get away with bald faced lies like "Windows is well tested", "virus attacks are good for Windows because it helps us make our well tested...
[January 28, 2004, 13:14]
