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AOL Users Hit By Bizarre Hoax
News The message, which seems to be sent by a concerned AOL user, describes a fake "America Online Year 2000 Update" called Y2KFIX.EXE. The fake message allegedly fools users into giving up information on their accounts and credit cards.
[July 28, 1999, 8:32]
US Report: Net Newcomer Zapata In Bizarre Bid For Excite
News Started as an oil business in 1953 by former U.S. President George Bush, Zapata is now a holding company whose largest asset is Omega Protein, an American food processor company. But recently, Zapata has made a new name for itself by snapping up...
[May 22, 1998, 10:13]
Buying Coke With Your Mobile Is Virgin On The Bizarre
News While their boss is squabbling over the National Lottery, the lads and lasses at Virgin have come up with the world's first cellular vending machine. Using "dial and drink" technology (I kid you not), the theory goes that you're more likely to be...
[September 22, 2000, 11:53]
PC Healthcheck Horrors
News A severed finger is just one the seriously bizarre objects that British computer users have inserted into their PCs over the last year or so, according to information from PC World. The computer retailer has revealed the 10 most bizarre things it...
[March 10, 2000, 15:21]
Laptop-shooting Tops Computer Mishaps Poll
News An American who became so frustrated with his laptop that he shot it with a gun before realising there was important data saved on the computer has topped a list of most bizarre computer mishaps. Bizarre methods of destruction regularly pop up in...
[October 13, 2003, 17:05]
Microsoft: DoJ Case All Bluster, No Proof
News Department of Justice attacking the "bizarre assertions" of Bill Gates. The government said the evidence for that proposition was undisputed, "except for bizarre assertions by Mr. Friday was the deadline for each side to submit revisions of the...
[September 13, 1999, 8:59]
You May Say I'm A Dreamer...
Blog In going over it, I slowly realised that most, if not all, of the raw material is actually happening and the way the dream fitted it all together had a bizarre but undeniable logic. Then came more, clips and snippets of my life woven into the same...
[December 8, 2006, 6:40]
Jane Wakefield: Big Brother Is Watching You
News In fact anyone who has ever tuned in to one of those bizarre Webcams that were popular last year, where young girls agreed to let the Internet population into their bedrooms could testify that are very few rules that the Internet hasn't broken.
[August 21, 2000, 7:00]
Liquid Audio Going Down The Drain?
News From beginnings to the bizarre Its story took a turn for the bizarre as its star fell, however. The mute button may be pressed this week on yet another Net music pioneer. Liquid Audio, a well-regarded music technology company whose recent troubles...
[September 25, 2002, 13:54]
The Day Ahead: Behind Juno's Earnings Slip
News Even more bizarre was our checks with the SEC. The truly bizarre part of this tale was how planned the leak was even though it initially appeared like Ardai just happened to mention it. Commentary: Wasn't it interesting how Juno Online's earnings...
[January 26, 2001, 13:49]
Not A Great Fibre Provider
Blog The longer I work in this business, the more bizarre excuses I hear for network downtime. The Capital's More London complex was apparently cut off from the outside world the other week by rats chewing through its fibre.
[August 22, 2007, 17:23]
Rupert Goodwin's Diary
Blog Having grown up in a church family, I'm not unfamiliar with the notion that theocracies breed bizarre rules. Friday 13/7/2001 So it is good to read that on the whole, Islamic clerics consider it unlawful to divorce your wife by text message...
[July 16, 2001, 18:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The latest bizarre cultural excrescence to flow from mobile phones' parasitic attachment to Homo Sapiens is the Old Bill's decision to spam scrotes to death. Monday 4/6/2001 Blip-diddly-blip! U R NICKED M8!
[June 8, 2001, 16:01]
Hackers Send Sendmail A Message
News It was a little bizarre that way," said Allman. Online vandals hacked into the primary download server for Sendmail.org and replaced key software with a Trojan horse, a Sendmail development team member said on Wednesday.
[October 10, 2002, 7:50]
Tuesday - Internet Lamp Day
Blog Matsushita has made one, and it's unutterably bizarre. Tuesday 8/4/2003 Fancy an Internet-enabled lightbulb? It's taken a standard fluorescent tube and built in an Ethernet controller that can turn the light on and off -- it's a common or garden...
[April 11, 2003, 17:02]
Just How Successful Is The MS/Novell Pact?
Blog Comment I find it bizarre that you would expect a global organisation to roll out new software to all users in all countries more-or-less simultaneously. Walmart is a big enough company that its various divisions may have worthwhile business reasons for...
[January 29, 2007, 14:11]
WMF Flaw: Malice Or Incompetence?
News The recent security problem regarding the rendering of WMF images was so bizarre that it has to be an intentional backdoor in the operating system, security researcher Steve Gibson said in a podcast posted Thursday.
[January 16, 2006, 8:20]
HSBC's Bankrupt Security Thinking
Talkback All of this is quite bizarre seeing as HSBC has itself started to ship out one-time password tokens to its business customers this week!
[September 22, 2006, 18:13]
Steorn Demo Fails To Appear - Update
Blog Comment What a bizarre business this is Well, it's all over now. Stumps drawn and Steorn going home, all out for no score.
[July 6, 2007, 12:27]
Sun Launches StarOffice 8
Talkback That (Scott McNeally's promise) was before they realised that for some bizarre reason people wanted to pay for it. Virtually the same software is still available 100% free from OpenOffice.org. The thing which still astonishes me is that the biggest...
[September 28, 2005, 14:23]
