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Last week's mini-Y2K: What went wrong?
Talkback This was a major problem for many of our clients with ecommerce sites, secure corporate servers, or online trading platforms. A more serious problem was averted for them, as we were constantly monitoring their sites with our intelleigent remote...
[January 14, 2004, 11:54]
Next-to-last GPL 3 draft due this week
News A "last-call" draft is due 60 days after the third discussion draft, and the final GPL 3 will arrive 30 days after that, Smith said. A new phase of wrangling over the future of the dominant open source licence, the General Public License (GPL), is...
[March 27, 2007, 9:14]
Member Review Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Anyway, that’s last week. Last week’s diary was swallowed up by Dell, who distracted me by two days in Monaco showing off the products due over the next few months. This week -- in fact, today -- is supposed to be Lenovo’s special time.
[June 10, 2005, 18:55]
How to get consumers to swallow electronic tags
News Last week's Enterprise Wireless Technology show in London heard a proponent of radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags explain some of the techniques that retailers should use to overcome customer opposition to this new technology, which some...
[October 18, 2004, 12:15]
Can small businesses rely on VoIP?
News Caukin said last week's outage was regrettable, and she added that the company has always encouraged customers to have backup communications. Hampton, who runs what is essentially a one-woman web-development company, said she was glad she had her...
[August 24, 2007, 9:40]
How to steal 2,500 credit cards, Part 1
News Last week, MSNBC was able to view nearly 2,500 credit card numbers stored by seven small e-commerce Web sites within a few minutes, using elementary instructions provided by a source. Last week, MSNBC was able to view nearly 2,500 credit card...
[January 17, 2000, 9:19]
Legal battles boost Napster to number one
News Napster.com unseated RealPlayer.com as the busiest entertainment site last week in some surveys, while its potential shutdown helped other MP3-file-sharing sites reach record traffic levels, as well. Before last week, Real Network's RealPlayer was...
[August 1, 2000, 9:01]
Pulling together UK ID card privacy threads
Blog Reading a paper by the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) last week on privacy guards in EU ID card schemes raised some interesting questions for me. An answer perhaps came from the Home Office, which told me last week that I...
[February 9, 2009, 16:40]
Images: The evolution of Windows 7
News In a presentation at last week's Mix 09 event in Las Vegas, Microsoft designer Stephan Hoefnagels traced the evolution of the company's new Windows 7 operating system. he asked during his speech at the Mix 09 conference last week.
[March 26, 2009, 15:42]
Apple makes a play for gamers
News Still a minority player in the gaming world, Apple Computer marshaled its forces to make a splash at last week's Game Developers Conference, and third-party developers seemed eager to join the team. Most can be revised in a week.
[March 14, 2000, 9:41]
Attacks silence privacy concerns
News Last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon marked a significant turning point in the debate over computer and Internet privacy, giving new weight to calls for broader government surveillance powers.
[September 18, 2001, 9:16]
Allchin: Microsoft sticking to its guns
News If Microsoft's enthusiasm for bundling new technologies into Windows XP was dampened last week by the US Court of Appeals, the company isn't showing any signs of it. XP will include Passport and Rendezvous, which are meta-Internet services," said...
[August 7, 2001, 9:05]
Indymedia server seizure 'may have breached RIPA'
News The government has denied any UK law enforcement involvement in the seizure of servers belonging to alternative media network Indymedia last week -- adding to the confusion about who did. Around 20 Indymedia Web sites were taken down when two of...
[October 22, 2004, 9:57]
Netscape: A decade of survival
News The Netscape browser turned 10 years old last week as a shadow of its former self, but the lights haven't gone out yet on one of the most storied brands in Web history. Netscape celebrates a decade on the Web last week amid signs of an...
[October 22, 2004, 12:35]
Time collapse support site forced offline
News A Web site set up last week to act as a forum for ex-employees of Time and Tiny Computers and as an unofficial help desk for customers of the company closed down in mysterious circumstances on Monday afternoon.
[August 1, 2005, 17:50]
Charity sees big loophole in ethical IT code
News The ethical code of conduct launched last week by IT firms including IBM, HP and Dell appears to contain a major loophole that will allow unscrupulous suppliers to wriggle out of its constraints, according to the charity originally highlighted the...
[October 25, 2004, 14:45]
Linux kernel flaw allows DoS attack
News Linux distributor Novell SuSE released a security advisory with a severity rating of nine out of 10 last week warning of a flaw in Linux kernel 2.6. Version 2.6.8 of the kernel contains a fix for this bug, as does the latest version, 2.6.9, which...
[October 25, 2004, 17:40]
Sony appoints safety manager after battery scare
News Following the massive battery recalls announced by Apple and Dell last week, Sony has handed a senior executive responsibility for ensuring product safety in the future. Makoto Kogure, formerly head of Sony's television business, was appointed...
[September 4, 2006, 17:40]
Lawyers divided over Amazon iPaq case
News Disgruntled customers who last week attempted to buy cheap iPaqs from Amazon.co.uk might be able to demand their rights in court. Law firm Beale and Company last week advised shoppers to take their case to court, as contract law may work in their...
[March 25, 2003, 13:18]
