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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]
April launches fuel tech industry
News Other tech companies chose 1 April to announce altogether more useful-sounding products. Likewise, the alco-phone is likely to be confined to the marketing department's wish-list for now, and the TRS-80 Web hosting service will not be available...
[April 1, 2003, 14:09]
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]
dOc DVD Reviews April 2002
Downloads Read capsule versions of our April 2002 DVD reviews offline or get help choosing your rentals and purchases right in the store. Each document is compatible with Palm document (.pdb) format and can be read with the free Palm Reader and other...
[April 27, 2002, 8:00]
Apple's Pippin due April in UK
News Katz Media Ltd.a subsidiary of the Norwegian holding company Katz Media, is to manufacture the Pippin in Ireland and will sell the product in the UK, France and Scandinavia from April. Dews expects availability of around 50 titles in time for the...
[February 3, 1997, 13:16]
A Year Ago: Intel to launch low-cost 'Covington' in April
News Intel will release its bargain basement version of the Pentium II in April amid suggestions that it is just an interim product for the sub-$1,000 PC market. Codenamed Covington, the processor will be given a new brand name and utilise the P6...
[February 18, 1999, 6:22]
Broadband prices to halve by 1 April
News The cost of BT's wholesale home user broadband package, which is offered by around 200 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the UK, will drop to £14.75 +VAT per month on 1 April. Broadband prices will fall to £30 per month or lower after BT...
[February 26, 2002, 8:49]
Chinwag Live: PR Unspun - 24th April 2007
White Papers The fourth Chinwag Live event on 24th April looked at how the PR industry is adapting now that social media is heading for mainstream adoption, with panellists from Edelman, Burson-Marsteller, Crayon LLC and Market Sentinel.
[May 19, 2007, 1:00]
Historic ICL name to go in April
News The British IT industry will wave goodbye to ICL on 2 April, when the Fujitsu subsidiary changes its name to Fujitsu Services. Announcing the details of the name change, the company also took the opportunity to present a gloomy forecast, with no...
[February 6, 2002, 15:23]
Palm's sales slump in April
News Palm chief financial officer Judy Bruner said Wednesday that the latest numbers from PC Data show that the company's sales at US stores in April were down about 20 percent from those in January. It's been fairly weak and getting a bit weaker from...
[May 3, 2001, 9:24]
Foolish stories aren't just for April
Leader The origins of April Fool’s day are obscure. 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 on became the...
[April 1, 2005, 14:20]
Microsoft Office Specialist Success Story: April McDuffie
White Papers When the Business Office Technology Department at East Central Technical College (ECTC) began requiring instructors to become Office Specialist certified, April McDuffie - a business office technology instructor with several years of experience...
[September 8, 2006, 0:00]
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]
Microsoft PocketPC by April
News Microsoft is preparing an April launch of, and a new suite of applications for, its PocketPC. The software maker hopes that consumers will find PocketPC's user interface and application software, codenamed Rapier, an easier to use successor to its...
[February 24, 2000, 15:38]
Windows XP SP3 out by end of April
News The third and final service pack for Windows XP could be available by the end of April, according to a leaked Microsoft schedule. The alleged schedule for the release of XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) — obtained by the Neowin website — shows that...
[April 16, 2008, 12:17]
Rambus trial delayed until April
News A US district judge has delayed Rambus' trial against Infineon until April to permit further discovery in the case. On Friday, judge Robert Payne ordered that the trial between the two memory companies be rescheduled for 10 April, so that chip...
[March 19, 2001, 9:30]
Phishing sites double in April
News April saw a doubling in the number of unique phishing sites, according to a report by industry association the Anti-Phishing Working Group. The number of unique sites detected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) rose to 55,643 in April 2007...
[May 24, 2007, 16:13]
1GHz PCs from Dell in April
News Dell announced late Friday it will ship Special Edition Dell Dimension running on a 1GHz Intel Pentium III in early April. Mesh and Evesham.com are planning early-April launches for their own machines.
[March 17, 2000, 16:16]
Phishing Attacks in and Around April Through September 2006
White Papers This paper describes phishing trends from April 2006 through September 2006 inclusive. The aim is to perform the kind of careful analysis done in the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, but with a focus on phishing.
[December 16, 2006, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: Information About Microsoft April Security Bulletins (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast provides a brief overview of the technical details of the April security bulletins. The intent of this webcast is to address the viewers' concerns. Therefore, most of the webcast is devoted to attendees asking questions about the...
[April 14, 2007, 1:01]
