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Internet fraud costs tripled last year
News The FBI's Internet fraud unit said the number of complaints it referred to law enforcement authorities tripled last year, as did the cost of fraud to victims. The bureau's Internet Fraud Complaint Centre (IFCC), which launched in May 2000 and is...
[April 10, 2003, 9:04]
Festive games sales set to beat last year
Talkback Price cuts will shift more consoles but without interest in the games the software sales will be poor next year. This Christmas will probably see the highest sales in this gen, but I predict it will be the peak of the cycle.
[December 4, 2003, 16:24]
Viruses cost businesses $55bn last year
Talkback Why are businesses not allowed to sue the software companies that produce the easily infected virus software? Sure, some viruses (i.e.user downloading and running a .exe virus disguised as a program from internet) are simply the users fault for...
[January 16, 2004, 15:02]
My school's been using a fingerprint scanner since last year to get...
Talkback they are a bit dubious unless you have a very high end one i have brocken laptop biometrics with a jelly baby before.
[January 9, 2007, 9:31]
'Huge jump' in Microsoft flaws since last year
News The past year has seen a massive increase in the number of flaws found in Microsoft software, according to vulnerability-scanning company Qualys. Between 2006 and 2007, there was an almost threefold rise in Microsoft flaws, Qualys said on Wednesday.
[November 29, 2007, 7:12]
Nuggets: Last printer of the year from Epson
News Well hey good lookin' It may have failed to catch your attention, but the end of the millennium is almost upon us. Epson is getting in on the celebrations by releasing the Stylus Photo 750 Millennium Limited Edition printer.
[October 25, 1999, 11:28]
Creative confirms UK launch of MP3 line-up
News Creative Technology's Nomad MP3 player, which failed to arrive in the UK last year because of a trademark dispute, will hit UK shelves by April. The company was due to launch its Nomad branded personal MP3 player in the UK last year but got caught...
[January 13, 2000, 6:06]
Liveblogging from Microsoft's press gig
Blog Last year's equivalent event proved very useful for liveblogging, what with a bunch of announcements like Windows Mobile 6 and, er, DRM. UPDATE 2: Pieter Kanook now, as last year. Word is, Microsoft doesn't have many interesting announcements this...
[February 11, 2008, 13:14]
A Solace for Quantum Computing
Blog Last year, D-Wave Systems, the only commercial start-up in the highly demonstrated a 16 qubit quantum computer. It does expect to manufacture its next step - a claimed 128-qubit quantum computer sometime in the next couple of weeks (see Geordie...
[October 27, 2008, 8:36]
BT lends student software coders a hand
News Given the level of interest and participation in the annual Imagine Cup — more than 65,000 students from 100 countries entered last year — it would be unreasonable to expect a British team to be in the top six every year," said a BT spokesperson.
[January 16, 2007, 16:29]
Where did Microsoft put 10,000 new employees?
News Last year, Microsoft announced that it was going to hire 10,000 new employees to fuel growth — a statement of its intention to keep challenging the competition by cornering the market for bright young graduates, and an admission that, in some...
[August 31, 2006, 16:40]
Veteran software maker sets IPO price
News A 26-year-old software maker is set to hit the Nasdaq on Friday at an opening price of $14, becoming just the third technology company to go public in the last two months. Last year, according to Thomson Financial Securities, 240 of the 374 IPOs...
[December 7, 2001, 15:31]
Law enforcement losing the war on cybercrime
News The nightmare for Ecount, an online gift certificate service, began last year when a hacker broke in to the company's system and stole personal information belonging to its customers. Fraud cost e-tailers $700m in lost merchandise last year, says...
[May 14, 2002, 14:27]
Study: Linux sales down, but not out
News Linux sales lost some ground to Windows last year, but are expected to climb in coming years as distributors of the alternative operating system create new revenue streams. Meanwhile, Windows sales climbed 11 percent to more than $10bn last year...
[August 7, 2002, 8:08]
2000 Roundup: Weird and wonderful
News The last year, as befits the first of a new millennium, has been eventful. Admittedly this was at the end of last year, but Mahir is so bizarre, we deemed him worthy of inclusion. Also in July, and probably the strangest story of the entire year...
[December 30, 2000, 6:14]
Love Bug looms over Valentine's Day
News An antivirus vendor warns that the Love Bug, which caused so much disaster for Internet users in May last year, could cause more heartbreak by coming back to life again this Valentine's Day. We've seen the numbers of viruses detected in emails rise...
[February 7, 2001, 7:54]
Novell reports leap in Linux revenues
News Novell's Linux business grew by 33 percent over the fourth quarter last year, according to the company's latest financial figures. Identity and access management revenues were up 11 percent compared to the same period last year, and systems and...
[December 5, 2008, 16:40]
The future looks bleak for AMD
News Last year, AMD recovered, but at the cost of three losing quarters in a row. But it is not easy, we learned that the hard way last year. This year could be worse. Last quarter, a manufacturing glitch meant fewer of its top-end 400MHz processors...
[February 10, 1999, 13:56]
UK online spending up 50 percent
News UK online shopping revenues increased by 50 percent last year and for the first time, more goods and services will be bought using credit card and debit cards than cash, according to a report published by the Association for Payment Clearing...
[July 8, 2004, 13:35]
Jobs to skip Macworld stage as Apple exits show
News The company announced on Tuesday afternoon that January's Macworld would mark its last year participating at the show, which is run by publishing company IDG. Phil is giving the keynote because this will be Apple's last year at the show," Dowling...
[December 17, 2008, 7:22]
