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December inboxes clogged with junk mail
News Spam continues to make computer users lives more stressful - clogging up even more inboxes in December than ever before. According to anti-spam firm Brightmail the amount of spam being sent worldwide is still increasing month-on-month, with...
[January 10, 2003, 14:06]
First Online DVD rental launch in UK, December
News The UK's first online DVD rental service will launch 1 December. London based MovieTrak.com will begin by stocking 500 DVD titles, which will be offered for rental at its site for £2.99 for seven days rental.
[November 5, 1999, 7:32]
PowerChannel's Internet boxes to ship December
News Media group Granada is backing PowerChannel, and the boxes will be distributed through its Box Clever chain of retail stores, starting in December in Manchester. Californian browser maker PlanetWeb has confirmed that its software is behind a scheme...
[November 15, 2000, 6:18]
Latest Linux kernel due in December
News The 2.6 version of the Linux core is expected in December and will be much more stable on arrival than its predecessor, according to the programmer in charge of the software. The current test version, 2.6.0-test10, should be the last, and 2.6.0...
[November 26, 2003, 9:20]
Apple beats Street, eyes big December quarter
News Anderson said all four of Apple's products would be shipping in volume in the December quarter. Anderson said Apple is expecting its December quarter sales to be strong sequentially and year over year.
[July 15, 1999, 8:37]
Cyrix's M2 will sample in December
News The US chip maker said its M2-codenamed CPU is likely to be with PC makers in small numbers in December, leaving the path open to a head-to-head battle with Intel's "Klamath" MMX-enabled Pentium Pro when volumes of each chip appear in mid-1997.
[September 27, 1996, 16:20]
Chrome Mac beta due in December
News Google plans to release a Mac beta of Chrome in early December, according to a posting on a mailing list for the browser on Wednesday. For the full story, see Google plans Chrome Mac beta for December on CNET News.
[November 12, 2009, 8:35]
Windows Vista December CTP review
Reviews December's CTP offers us a preview of a few features we haven't seen yet, such as Windows Defender, BitLocker, single-button on/off and Media Player 11. With the release of Windows Vista (beta 1)'s December CTP, we get another glimpse at what many...
[December 20, 2005, 8:55]
Vista tipped to appear in December '06
Talkback LOL! Another date that will live in infamy?
[September 1, 2005, 17:31]
Vista tipped to appear in December '06
News According to a report by Windows IT Pro, the official date for a full Vista release will be 7 December 2006, with the second beta of the product being released to testers late this year. Microsoft, however, refused to confirm or deny whether the 7...
[September 1, 2005, 9:50]
Windows Vista December CTP
Talkback If Microsoft were to focus more on the operating system instead of the features there would be less bugs, holes, and need for patches. Also, computers would probably run twice as fast without Microsofts "features," many of which I find annoying and...
[December 20, 2005, 12:10]
Vista tipped to appear in December '06
Talkback Will that be Vista final and definite version or Vista version somewhere-between-what-we-can-and-what-we-promised?
[September 1, 2005, 22:38]
Fujitsu workers to strike in December
News Unite's 1,500 members at Fujitsu Services are being called out for a one-day strike on 18 December, the union said in a statement on Friday. On December 18, the union plans to mark the strike with a protest outside Fujitsu's London headquarters.
[December 14, 2009, 12:10]
Microsoft skips December patch
News While several new flaws have been announced by researchers, Microsoft said that it is still investigating the issues and doesn't have a patch prepared for December. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that no security patches would be forthcoming this...
[December 10, 2003, 8:40]
Quotes of the Week, December 8-12
News "Most PC makers want IE because that's what users want. Microsoft can no longer make PC vendors install IE but it's a preliminary ruling at this stage. PC makers are free as they always have been to install another browser.
[December 15, 1997, 12:59]
Quotes of the Week, December 9-13
News "We've been overwhelmed with requests for [NC] pilots," - IBM's David McAughtry on the popularity of the NC. Intel and Microsoft don't have a monopoly on the PC anymore. That lasted 15 years which is terrible.
[December 13, 1996, 9:41]
Quotes of the Week, December 16-20
News "It's a simple, logical commercial decision. It seems that NT on RISC-based systems is not proving to be a popular choice. IBM's Ian Roscow on shutting down its PowerPC Windows NT business through lack of demand.
[December 20, 1996, 10:49]
AMD will sample K6 in December
News The Californian chip maker said the part is expected to match or outperform Intel's much-hyped 'Klamath' MMX-enabled Pentium Pro chip, and will ship in first half of 1997. Richard Baker, regional marketing manager for PC products, also took aim at...
[September 30, 1996, 15:15]
Quotes of the Week, December 2-6
News "In Germany and the UK we expect the [videoconferencing] market to double in units by end of 1997 in the business desktop area. Intel's Steve Roberts on the rise of videoconferencing. What counts is the number of developers.
[December 6, 1996, 11:29]
Firefox 2 support to be cut off
News The Mozilla Foundation is planning to end support for the Firefox 2 browser in mid-December, despite the persistence of significant flaws in the most-recent version of the popular browser. Mozilla confirmed the move on the web page devoted to older...
[November 17, 2008, 16:33]
