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ISPs face data interception deadline
News ISPs across the UK will have to start intercepting and storing electronic communications including emails, faxes and Web surfing data from 1 August, but there still appear to be glaring loopholes in the legislation.
[July 10, 2002, 16:03]
MSBlast infects eight million PCs
News New data from Microsoft suggests that at least eight million Windows computers have been infected by the MSBlast, or Blaster, worm since last August -- many times more than previously thought. The latest data comes from the software giant's ability...
[April 5, 2004, 10:05]
European PC sales sink
News England-based Context said that preliminary retail data show a marked decline in PC sales in August and September, with the third quarter overall down 9.3 percent compared with the same period a year ago.
[October 17, 2001, 11:15]
Surprise! PC prices climb
News All together, average personal-computer selling prices rose in November and December, according to market researcher PC Data After dipping below $800 from August through October, the average price for consumer computers reached a six-month high of...
[January 14, 2000, 6:05]
Study says the Internet is not reducing TV viewership
News In September, the cable channel published a different set of conclusions based on the same data as the AOL-Nielsen report. The conclusions did not refute the AOL-Nielsen's study, just AOL's spin on the data.
[November 12, 1998, 10:31]
'Short' sellers continue to thrive
News The data cover all short-interest positions reported between 16 July 16 and 10 August and settled as of 15 August. Investors are continuing to bet that stocks will tumble, based on data released by the Nasdaq National Market.
[August 29, 2001, 8:10]
E-commerce celebrates double figures
News Many data security battles are still being fought, against such foes as "phishing" and Trojan horse viruses. They said the first item purchased via a Web site protected by commercially available data encryption technology was the CD "Ten Summoner's...
[August 17, 2004, 11:00]
PowerBuilder 6.0 on its way
News Although Sybase declined to detail the Powerbuilder revision, new features are expected to advance the product as a data warehousing engine as well as adding Web and Java-enabling hooks. We've done particularly well with middleware products in...
[July 21, 1998, 10:44]
Internet bugs blight growth
News Several measures of network traffic show an increase, according to a survey by VeriSign that looked at data generated by its Internet operations. VeriSign says it has been collecting the data for the past year.
[October 14, 2003, 9:00]
Iomega and CA team for backup
News Customers today demand easy-to-install, easy-to-maintain, affordable data management solutions," Iomega chief executive Werner Heid said. It will come with Computer Associates' BrightStor ARCserve Backup data-protection software and eTrust...
[July 24, 2003, 10:13]
Cash boost for e-government authentication
News Announcing the funding on 23 August 2005, Jim Fitzpatrick said: "Government Connect can become the catalyst for removing two major barriers to e-enabled government: firstly for citizens a single sign on to government services; and secondly, the...
[August 23, 2005, 17:20]
Microsoft remakes its .NET pitch
News Microsoft also said it will release by August Windows 2000 SP1 and Windows 2000 Data Centre, two products aimed at business users. Officials also showed off Office 10's new formatting options and work views, as well as its Web data-storage capability.
[July 28, 2000, 11:11]
New Windows flaw similar to MSBlast bug
News The first two flaws are buffer overruns, which allow a hacker to take over a computer by swamping it with data. By sending too much data to the RPC process, an attacker can cause the system to grant full access to its resources.
[September 11, 2003, 10:57]
Microsoft puts price on virus writers' heads
News MSBlast, also known as Blaster and Lovsan, spread to as many as 1.2 million computers, according to data from security company Symantec. A variant of the MSBlast worm, MSBlast.D, was intended to protect machines against the original program, but it...
[November 5, 2003, 7:35]
After two years, Netsky-P is still worst virus
News If you use the Internet and don't have proper security measures in place, you are not only endangering your data, you are keeping nasty old timers like Mytob and Netsky worms alive and kicking. But some industry observers question the usefulness of...
[September 4, 2006, 9:20]
US Report: Cable modems outpace ADSL
News ADSL services now debuting, by contrast, can ship data at speeds ranging from 256 kbps to 1.5 megabits per second - or five to 25 times faster than dial-up connections. In one corner: cable companies touting high-speed modems that zip data along...
[August 3, 1998, 9:22]
RIPA demands push up ISP costs
News To ensure filtering to provide isolated traffic data, associated with the relevant account where reasonable; To ensure the interception of all communications and related traffic data authorised by the warrant and their simultaneous transmission to...
[July 9, 2002, 15:41]
X-Box alert! Microsoft got game?
News Microsoft "really sees how popular the consoles really are, so they kind of want to appeal to that market," said Matt Gravett, games analyst with market watcher PC Data. From Universal Plug and Play -- a Microsoft-led initiative designed to link...
[February 28, 2000, 9:50]
NEC gives a 4x for DVD writer
News Specifications ending in "R" mean that data that has been written to a disc can not be erased, and specifications ending in "RW" mean that the data can be erased and re-written. The MultiSpin ND-1100A drive, announced on Tuesday, claims to be the...
[October 2, 2002, 14:09]
Tesco puts broadband in trolley
Talkback Clearly I have been on the phone to BT about this, however they do not deal with the data side of your BT line. Because they will have the same problems I'm having and potentially worse, as under data protection acts etc.the details of the ISP...
[February 1, 2006, 15:25]
