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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 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]
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 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]
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]
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]
Linux takes to the sky
News Korean Air said last week that it has moved its flight crew scheduling and daily revenue accounting systems to Linux running on an IBM mainframe at its Seoul headquarters. Microsoft Senior Vice President Craig Mundie, who will deliver a keynote at...
[July 24, 2001, 12:28]
Microsoft vs McAfee turns nasty
News Relations between Microsoft and the large security vendors deteriorated late last week, when the software giant accused McAfee of making misleading claims over its Vista operating system. Despite pledges, press conference and speeches by Microsoft...
[October 23, 2006, 12:20]
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]
Momentum trading cuts both ways
News After a month of solid tech gains, investors last week learned momentum trading cuts both ways. Here's a look at some of last week's big momentum losers A 4-for-1 stock split and a lofty price target fueled shares up until the last day of 1999.
[January 10, 2000, 11:44]
A Year Ago Today: RAM prices rise 20 per cent in four days
News RAM prices have finally rebounded sharply over the last week but industry insiders say buyers shouldn't be in a mad rush to stockpile SIMMs. Some OEMs who buy from memory brokers say that prices for 16Mb and 32Mb memory chips have risen as much as...
[October 1, 1997, 11:35]
Five years ago: Grove details new Intel DIB architecture
News Intel finally went public on the radical new architecture required by the Pentium II processor last week. In a speech to IT managers at Compaq's "Innovate" conference last week, Grove said DIB will accelerate the speed the processor exchanges data...
[April 12, 2002, 7:01]
French campaigners win concession in mobile privacy row
News A decree passed in France last week means phone users can now sign up free to a special 'red list' in order to keep all their details out of a directory of all landline and mobile numbers. The French industry minister published a decree last week...
[August 12, 2003, 16:00]
Bugs interrupt Office-Palm link
News Technical glitches have prompted Microsoft to stop offering for download a free program it introduced last week that allows Palm handhelds to synchronise with the Macintosh version of Office. In addition to announcing the Palm synchronisation...
[July 24, 2002, 7:55]
Microsoft tries to block speedy appeal
News The Justice Department and 18 states last week asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to forgo the normal waiting period before returning the case to a lower court. The government in its legal brief last week said that...
[July 23, 2001, 10:53]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Sorry for the lack of a diary last week - flu, don'tcha know. Which means I couldn't relay the happy story of one night in Dublin, where I ended up at 4am having one last little drinkypoos for the road (the plane left at 6, and I really didn't want...
[April 4, 1998, 7:00]
UK government rejects key-escrow resurrection
News The Home Office has confirmed that it will not try to resurrect the key escrow debate in light of last week's terrorist attacks on America, but will continue with the enforcement of current encryption laws later this year.
[September 20, 2001, 12:55]
