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August was hot for IT contractors
News August proved to be a good month for IT contractors with hourly rates reaching a high for the year, and contractors fluent in SAP software proved particularly highly sought after. For the month of August, those in the most commonly requested...
[August 30, 2005, 16:40]
MessageLabs Intelligence Report, August 2006
White Papers Growing phishing attacks and critical vulnerabilities wreaked havoc on messaging security in August 2006. MessageLabs Intelligence August 06 Report brings you the latest trends, statistics and expert commentary on a sophisticated landscape of threats.
[June 19, 2008, 8:54]
2000 Roundup: August is hot for health
News At the start of August, an important precedent was set by an American neurologist, who filed a £530m lawsuit against mobile phone maker Motorola. Also in August, the high profile nature of health on the Internet became apparent.
[January 1, 2001, 6:17]
Asus desktop Eee due in August — with XP
News The machine is likely to go on sale in the UK in August, an Asus spokesperson told ZDNet.co.uk on Friday. On 3 June, however, Microsoft quietly announced that it was extending this strategy to 'nettops', like the Eee Box, which is why the machine...
[June 20, 2008, 13:36]
Chip sales bounce back in August
News Efforts to improve the energy efficiency of consumer products, along with the rise of netbook computers, helped boost global chip sales in August by five percent compared with the previous month, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
[October 5, 2009, 14:17]
BT fibre trial to start in August
News On Thursday BT announced that, from August, "industry" in that area will be offered a fibre-based broadband product. Further details have emerged of BT's upcoming fibre-to-the-home trials in Kent, which could see businesses and residents enjoying...
[January 10, 2008, 14:54]
Tackling Microsoft's August patches: Part 1
News For August's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released a dozen security bulletins, rating nine as critical threats. For that reason, I'm addressing the ones I find most critical, and will discuss the rest of August's security bulletins in a separate feature.
[August 22, 2006, 12:20]
TechNet Webcast: Information About Microsoft August Security Bulletins (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast provides brief overview of the technical details of the August security bulletins. The intent of this webcast is to address people's concerns. Therefore, most of the webcast is devoted to attendees asking questions about the bulletins...
[September 8, 2006, 0:00]
Fujitsu Siemens to sign off joint-venture 24 August
News Fujitsu and Siemens are expected to complete their agreement to merge computer operations on 24 August. Sources close to the venture said that there will be an announcement on 24 August, confirming details.
[August 13, 1999, 12:45]
NPfIT to go local by August
News A top official of the NHS National Programme for IT has said the switch to more local responsibility should be largely complete by August. Richard Jeavons, director of IT service implementation at Connecting for Health (CfH), said a number of key...
[June 15, 2007, 17:25]
AMD's quad-core Barcelona coming in August
News AMD in August will begin selling its quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors, models that answer Intel's current products but soon will face stiffer competition. The first Barcelona models, formally called Quad-Core Opteron, will run at clock...
[July 2, 2007, 8:26]
Spam-seeding viruses dominate August charts
News The number of new viruses released onto the Internet reached a 33-month high during August, but infections were dominated by old-timers that were used primarily to seed networks for spammers. In their virus reports for August, software and Internet...
[September 1, 2004, 16:37]
'Code Red' virus re-infection expected on 1 August
News The malicious Code Red worm, which affected more than 280,000 systems earlier this month, is expected to begin propagating itself again on 1 August, and is likely to re-infect tens of thousands of systems.
[July 27, 2001, 17:30]
Microsoft readies August patches
Talkback But why do these patches still require rebooting? Rebooting isn't such a problem for the seldom used single PC at home perhaps but it ain't no fun in server rooms packed with dozens and dozens of Windows boxes.
[August 7, 2005, 23:35]
August Windows patches arrive
Talkback The website is OK yes just OK ! What about people who could careless about all the Tech Lingo and all they want is to download a patch and go on there merry way? Where is the darn patch for the Zotob Worm?
[August 17, 2005, 5:55]
Tackling Microsoft's August patches: Part 2
News Microsoft released so many critical security bulletins for August's Patch Tuesday that I couldn't address them all immediately. Well, that's definitely a lot of security patches for August. Redmond released a total of 12 security bulletins, rating...
[August 22, 2006, 13:10]
August Windows patches arrive
Talkback The Zotob worm only affects certain Windows 2000 systems, so you should be OK. If you follow the links in the story to Microsoft's advisories, you can find links to all the patches you need across the range of operating systems affected by each of...
[August 17, 2005, 8:52]
Quantex set for August UK landing
News Quantex, rumoured to have a turnover of $1 billion, plans to make a similar impact in the UK where it could boost the share of the overall direct market rather than take share away from Dell, Gateway and Elonex.
[June 2, 1997, 9:41]
Quotes of the Week, August 19-23
News "It's a tad expensive, isn't it? AST's Steve Crawley on Compaq's TFT screen system. He put it in lots of newsgroups, suggesting it was a sexy program, so many users who got the virus were embarrassed and didn't want to own up.
[August 23, 1996, 14:59]
Unreal Tournament 2003 August Noon Map
Downloads This map, winner in its class of the Make Something Unreal Contest, is designed for one-on-one fights.
[February 26, 2004, 1:55]
