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UK Web traffic drops as England triumph
News UK Internet traffic plunged by 6 percent last Friday afternoon as football-loving Internet users downed keyboards and reached for the remote control, and in many cases the bottle opener as well. During the early afternoon last Wednesday and...
[June 10, 2002, 13:19]
Microsoft's site goes down
News A denial-of-service attack rendered Microsoft's corporate Web site inaccessible for more than an hour on Friday afternoon, amid heightened fears that a major Internet attack could be on the horizon. No worm code had been reported by Friday afternoon.
[August 4, 2003, 8:50]
Macromedia Flash has critical vulnerability
News Macromedia confirmed the existence of the flaw, which it classified as critical, on Friday afternoon. Kristensen added that he was surprised that Macromedia had issued the patch on Friday afternoon, as many potential victims might have been...
[November 7, 2005, 16:10]
Klez worm variant infests UK
News From Wednesday afternoon the number of copies rose sharply, and gathered pace on Friday. The firm said it stopped several thousand copies on Friday, for a total of more than 46,000 copies by Friday afternoon, nearly 1 in every 77 emails.
[April 19, 2002, 16:23]
Microsoft judge approves settlement
News The court's decision is a major victory for consumers and businesses, who can immediately take advantage of the final judgment's provisions," Ashcroft said in a statement released on Friday afternoon.
[November 2, 2002, 7:44]
Klez virus passes confidential info
News Since Wednesday afternoon the number of copies rose sharply, gathering pace on Friday. The firm said it stopped several thousand copies on Friday, for a total of more than 46,000 copies by Friday afternoon -- or nearly one in every 77 emails.
[April 22, 2002, 10:16]
Epidemic virus infects corporate e-mail
News He added that twenty large companies had been infected by late afternoon, including one that saw 60,000 users affected. At Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), the company suspended all incoming and outgoing Internet mail Friday.
[March 27, 1999, 9:18]
A Year Ago: Epidemic virus infects corporate email
News He added that 20 large companies had been infected by late afternoon, including one that saw 60,000 users affected. McAfee added the virus to its database Friday. Computer security experts said the virus wreaked havoc with corporate email as it...
[March 27, 2000, 7:12]
A Year Ago: Epidemic virus infects corporate e-mail
News Computer security experts said the virus wreaked havoc with corporate e-mail as it sped across the Internet on Friday. At Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), the company suspended all incoming and outgoing Internet mail Friday.
[March 28, 2000, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The embargo will just be until Friday, when we'll have had the chance to tell people in the US. It's an afternoon bash at the Tate Modern, and while little is more attractive than milling around in a great place with loads of chums whiling away a...
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
FBI unplugs candidate copycat site
News The McCain campaign was investigating Knell's site Friday afternoon as MSNBC began asking questions about it. Knell said he received a call Friday afternoon from the FBI and was advised that his service provider was being told to shut down the site.
[February 21, 2000, 9:34]
Aramiska satellite broadband collapses
Talkback we didn't receive any notification at all - no email - nothing, apart from no internet connection from Friday afternoon. We run 2 internet businesses from home and live in rural Wales where it is impossible to get ADSL broadband - to say we're...
[January 31, 2006, 10:27]
Breaking news vs blogs
Talkback We do try to lead the pack generally, but in this case the news broke early on Friday afternoon, when we were busy in meetings. Friday ended, the weekend arrived and first thing on Monday the story went up.
[July 17, 2007, 11:15]
Bad tradesmen!
Talkback Back in my more junior days as desktop support I foun that Some end users like to blame the hardware for 'Their work Vanishing' or 'the machine hung' and 'I lost all my work' .had quite a few of them.normally on a friday afternoon or when...
[October 27, 2007, 19:09]
Time Computers denies tales of woe
Talkback I worked for Granville Technology at head office upto 3.30 this afternoon, when we were told we were redundant and by the way there was no money to pay us on Friday. There were rumours but I've been there a while and we've had them before and sales...
[July 27, 2005, 22:31]
Yahoo not supporting Firefox after all
News Yahoo said on Friday afternoon that a statement from the company’s Australian office on Tuesday, which claimed that all future products would be compatible with both the Firefox and Internet Explorer (IE) browsers, was inaccurate.
[March 18, 2005, 8:30]
Nasa turns to open-source problem-tracking tool
News When the Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on Friday afternoon, the astronauts onboard and the technicians on the ground at mission control had at their disposal new software that could streamline the process of problem reporting and analysis.
[November 18, 2008, 16:59]
AltaVista job cuts won't hit UK
News Details of the positions to be axed were announced at the US headquarters Friday afternoon. Struggling Web portal AltaVista will announce lay offs Friday in an effort to revitalise the company. The layoffs will mark the second round of staff cuts...
[September 15, 2000, 12:36]
Site taken offline after Microsoft complaint
News Neowin was shut down late on Thursday and came back online on Friday afternoon. Neowin and IPS did not have the chance to remove the said content before the provider deleted [access to] the contents of the server without contacting Neowin or IPS...
[March 10, 2003, 10:28]
FBI shuts down fake boarding pass site
News They first visited him Friday afternoon with a request to take the site down, but when he got online, he found that the site had already been removed, he wrote. I have not flown, or even attempted to enter the airport with one of these fake...
[October 31, 2006, 10:47]
