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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]
'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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Sales increase for US Linux servers
News Sales in the United States of servers running Linux nearly doubled in last year's fourth quarter from a year earlier, according to new statistics from market researcher Gartner Dataquest. Sun Microsystems, which started selling Linux servers just...
[February 12, 2003, 7:56]
Europe claims top PC sales spot
News Although everyone obsessed about China, Europe turned out to be a pretty good market for PC makers last year. European shipments grew 17.1 percent last year while North American shipments grew by 7.5 percent.
[January 19, 2006, 8:30]
Report: Net attacks on businesses down
News Attacks on corporate networks by online vandals fell in the second half of last year, according to report released on Monday. The study also found that the number of severe incidents -- defined as access attempts that threaten to breach a network's...
[February 4, 2003, 8:18]
Online sales more fulfilling this year
News E-tailers are demonstrating that they've learned from last year's mistakes, this year giving shoppers a 92 percent chance of success with their Web orders, according to a new study. The majority of the Web sites surveyed in the 2000 study indicated...
[December 18, 2000, 9:21]
Crashing out at Glastonbury Festival
Talkback Last year I went on my own and still had the best time doing my own sweet thing. I noticed last year that there were lots of people wandering around looking lost clutching designer bags and wearing high heels.
[April 5, 2004, 15:00]
Bulldog keeps billing ex-customer
News Troubled communications provider Bulldog has admitted that it continued to bill an ex-customer who quit the company last year after experiencing a poor quality of service. Other Bulldog users have also claimed to have struggled to contact the...
[January 17, 2006, 10:50]
Sasser's author escapes prison
News A German judge on Friday handed down a suspended sentence of one year and nine months to the teenager who admitted he created last year's Sasser computer worm. Jaschan, a resident of the town of Waffensen, was arrested in May last year after...
[July 11, 2005, 9:25]
Global software piracy on the rise
News The global software piracy rate rose last year for the first time in six years, indicating that the downward trend in piracy rates could be over, according to the latest piracy survey from the Business Software Alliance.
[May 22, 2001, 14:15]
