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Palm Pre defect poll prompts 'sell' recommendation
Blog An analyst has recommended investors sell their Palm shares, after he read a poll on a Palm fan website that suggested very high return rates for the smartphones. The poll, which took place on the PreCentral.net website, saw 40 percent of...
[July 21, 2009, 14:39]
PGP encryption defect uncovered
News Researchers claim to have detected a flaw in a popular email encryption technology that could allow hackers to read protected messages. The flaw occurs in software that uses Pretty Good Privacy, a tool for scrambling email.
[August 12, 2002, 16:12]
Ultra Low-Cost Defect Protection for Microprocessor Pipelines
White Papers The sustained push toward smaller and smaller technology sizes has reached a point where device reliability has moved to the forefront of concerns for next-generation designs. Silicon failure mechanisms, such as transistor wearout and manufacturing...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Security defect 'worse than Melissa'?
News American university researchers have discovered a flaw in Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine that could destroy a computer upon receipt of an email. Although Microsoft has issued a fix, the flaw is a potentially serious security threat for millions...
[August 27, 1999, 16:30]
Product has a known defect, steer way clear of it
Member Review I had my keyboard for over a year. I have not been using it alot, that is why I was suprise when my J,K, and L keys stopped working. I thought that it would need a firmware update. After looking around on the net for a while I learn that there are...
[September 13, 2006, 11:38]
yKAP Issue and Bug Tracking Software
Downloads yKAP uses XML to deliver a Web based bug and defect tracking, issue management, and messaging product.yKAP features include support for unlimited projects, test environments, attachments, exporting data into PDF, RTF, XLS, HTML, and text formats...
[July 4, 2006, 12:43]
Egg admits to flaw in security measures
News The defect, which arose from software actually designed to improve security, meant that people could still access a user's account even after they thought they had signed off. The defect only affected Netscape 4.6 browsers, and could only be worked...
[December 10, 1999, 16:45]
ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance
News The international standards body ISO has offered to help maintain the ODF document standard alongside its work on the rival Microsoft-originated OOXML specification, saying its creator Oasis is not dealing with defect reports quickly enough.
[October 7, 2008, 8:34]
Expert undermines hacking suspect's defence
Talkback Did the examiners: mount the original disk on a *hardware* disk duplicating device, with read-only capability temporarily disable all error correction on the original disk prior to taking a duplicate image TO A ZERO-MEDIA-DEFECT DUPLICATE of the...
[October 11, 2003, 2:41]
AMX Corporation Chooses Soffront to Improve Processes and Quality Control
White Papers In order to retain their high product standard as well as maintain critical customer satisfaction, AMX needed to implement a defect tracking system, which would enable them to identify defects in their software and track their correction.
[July 11, 2006, 0:00]
PC bugs: Is the bill coming due?
News Although that defect was discovered 13 years ago and was corrected a few years later by the original manufacturers of the defective chips, it somehow lived on in Toshiba PCs -- and, the plaintiffs' lawyers say, in those of other PC makers as well.
[January 4, 2000, 15:43]
Nokia accused of selling faulty phones
News It contained allegations that some of Nokia's most popular mobile phones including the 32xx, 51xx, 61xx, 82xx and 88xx series carried a common design defect. Counsel representing La claim the alleged defect caused the phones' displays to fade or...
[May 6, 2003, 14:13]
Breakthrough promises hotter, tougher, faster chips
News Researchers led by Daisuke Nakamura of Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc.of Aichi, Japan, have described a way to build up very low defect wafers of silicon carbide (SiC), an essential step in mass-producing electronic devices from the compound.
[August 26, 2004, 16:30]
Open-source code contains 'as many flaws' as proprietary
News The comparable defect rate indicates that open-source software starts out as raw as proprietary software, but Reasoning said ultimately open-source software has the potential to exceed proprietary software.
[July 1, 2003, 11:12]
Open source coders' speed astounds Coverity
News My impression is that the open source community is producing software defect patches at an extremely fast rate," Ben Chelf, the chief technology officer at Coverity, said in the statement. More than 200 developers registered for access to the...
[April 5, 2006, 9:45]
Gloria: 'Angel of the Internet'
News Nine-month-old Ya-nang, born with a congenital heart defect, was dying and Chinese doctors had given up on the baby. Weichand knew all too well about this health problem since her own son was born with a similar heart defect and was treated...
[March 31, 2000, 9:31]
Linux kernel 'getting buggier'
News If he is able to confirm the increasing defect rate, he may temporarily halt the kernel development process to spend time resolving bugs. A little action item I've given myself is to confirm that this increasing defect rate is really happening.
[May 5, 2006, 16:35]
Coverity reveals common open-source code flaws
News The most common type of code defect, accounting for 28 percent of all the defects found, was the NULL pointer dereference, as the use of pointers in C/C++ is error-prone, according to Coverity. The second most common type of code defect are...
[May 20, 2008, 17:35]
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk this week, Brown, who reported similar problems between Microsoft Office 2007 documents and the OOXML standard, said the standardised version of ODF, known as ISO/IEC 26300:2006, "has a defect which prevents any document...
[May 2, 2008, 15:47]
Ten Commandments of egoless programming
News These extra eyes could catch nascent bugs much earlier in the development cycle than traditional testing could, resulting in shorter project completion times and lower defect counts in live systems. Likewise, the open-source community development...
[June 6, 2002, 16:33]
