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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Asus to ship 60 percent of Eee PCs with Windows XP
News According to Shih, Asus is sticking with its target of shipping five million units this year, compared with the 300,000 units sold last year. Asus has said that around 60 percent of its Eee PCs shipped this year will come with Windows XP pre...
[March 13, 2008, 11:02]
IT fails to staunch DWP fraud losses
News About £2.5bn was lost to fraud and error in benefit payments over the last year, according to the National Audit Office. Publishing the report, DWP Resource Accounts 2006-07, NAO head Sir John Bourn said on Wednesday: "Once again I have had to...
[July 26, 2007, 12:12]
Is the sun still shining at Sun?
Blog Right about the time I was thinking about heading out to Sun’s JavaOne event this time last year, I don’t think I could have predicted where the company would be sat now even at a stretch. Last JavaOne we heard plenty about Sun’s open source...
[April 24, 2009, 8:36]
Mac cruise to merge glaciers with G4s
News There are surely worries about the economy," said Bauman, who noted he expects about 75 people for this year's Java Jam to Jamaica, compared with 105 last year. After a year and a half of running cruises for computer programmers, Neil Bauman...
[August 28, 2001, 8:53]
'Pimpshiz' speaks - with pride
News The law appears to have caught up with "Pimpshiz", the hacker allegedly responsible for defacing some 200 Web sites last year with pro-Napster graffiti. On Friday, police investigating the Web site break-ins confirmed they had searched the Pleasant...
[January 15, 2001, 8:44]
AMD execs rake in rewards of profitable 2000
News Advanced Micro Devices experienced its first profitable year since 1995 last year, and the compensation its executives received reflects the change. Leading executives at AMD saw their salaries balloon last year due to bonus awards, according to...
[April 5, 2001, 13:31]
SHA-1: Your questions answered
News Last year was a bad year for the Secure Hashing Algorithm. In addition, there were two other major results reported last year on hash functions at the Crypto 2004 conference. Last year, researchers found holes in various techniques used to create...
[March 3, 2005, 8:50]
US Report: IBM expected to announce poor quarter today
News IBM tipped its hand long ago that earnings will fall short of last year's levels, warning analysts during a conference call in January. IBM last saw a year-over-year drop in profits in the second quarter of 1996.
[April 20, 1998, 9:43]
