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News Burst: Nerds Strive To Find World's Slowest NT Box
News The contest, initiated by nerdperfect.com , self-confessed news channel for high-tech slackers, began in earnest today, with clear guidelines for slowness posted on the group's homepage. Timing can be recorded for rebooting any NT system .
[October 29, 1999, 9:34]
News Burst: How Hotmail Security Works
News ZDNet UK News looks into the possible technical issues lurking behind this biggest confidence-shaker to date for Hotmail's admirably loyal user base. But why in Gates' name was the privacy of 40-50 million user accounts ever in jeopardy?
[August 31, 1999, 10:02]
News Burst: New BBC Funding Wins EC Approval
News News 24 is the BBC's 24-hour cable news channel. BskyB had made a complaint to the EC that financing the new channel through the license fee constituted illegal state aid. The Commission found that although the funds were to be considered state aid...
[September 30, 1999, 10:28]
News Corp Rules Out Fighting Microsoft For Yahoo
News Rupert Murdoch said on Monday that News Corp would not get into a fight with Microsoft over Yahoo, confirming what most industry and Wall Street observers suspected. Murdoch's company has been in talks with Yahoo over a transaction to combine News...
[March 11, 2008, 7:18]
News Focus: BTopenworld In The Dock
News RECENT NEWS: See the Broadband News Section for the latest on cable modems, ADSL, satellite and other high-speed access technologies. See the ADSL News Section for the latest ADSL headlines. BTopenworld throttles P2P applications
[October 8, 2001, 12:56]
News Burst: Hotmail Breach - Inside Job?
News The British hacker-turned-security consultant, who asked for anonymity, told ZDNet UK News this morning that the nature of the script -- that is, the accuracy of its parameters -- could indicate that an insider, or at least someone with an...
[August 31, 1999, 9:53]
News Burst: Orange WAP Services Are Here...
News The services, including news, sports, listings, travel and entertainment are ready to go live as soon as the first WAP enabled phones hit the market in October. It also announced its own WAP enabled phone, due by the end of October for around £150.
[September 23, 1999, 16:40]
News Corp. Readies New-media Push
News Richmond, who was president of Fox Interactive, will hold the same title at News Corp. Murdoch, son of News Corp.head Rupert Murdoch, was promoted to executive vice president of News Corp. Richmond strongly refuted criticism that Fox and News Corp...
[September 30, 1999, 10:18]
News On The Net Gets A (virtually) Human Face
News Leading news agency PA News, is giving its online service a facelift in the form of a virtual newsreader, it was announced Monday. Ananova, a green haired virtual babe, will deliver personalised realtime news via the Web and handheld devices...
[January 17, 2000, 15:02]
News Roundup: Xbox Is Unveiled
News With Bill Gates in Japan for the Tokyo Games Show, rumours and news about Xbox have been flying over the past week. Gamespot UK has a channel devoted to the latest Xbox news, reviews and previews. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet...
[March 30, 2001, 11:46]
News Corp Seeks Investor In Satellite Operation
News If there's any truth to the speculation that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp wants to join forces with an Internet or high-tech company, then AOL Time Warner may not yet have a monopoly on the new media market.
[March 1, 2000, 13:36]
News Corp Cleared To Purchase Intermix
News Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has been given the green light by US antitrust authorities to go ahead with its acquisition of Intermix Media. The Federal Trade Commission on Monday said it would not raise any objection to News Corporation's...
[August 23, 2005, 16:10]
News Roundup: Sacking Shadow Haunts IT Workers
News Bad news in the mobile phone sector, combined with a US economic slowdown, has meant many of the UK's high-tech workers have been facing redundancy. NEWS: Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum.
[April 3, 2001, 9:49]
News Burst: BBC Hits Back At Criticism Over Web Plans
News The BBC denied Wednesday that its planned international news site will be paid for with licence fee money. It is anticipated both will contain the same news content. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum.
[January 31, 2001, 12:25]
News Burst: Netimperative.com Bites The Dust
News British Internet news service netimperative.com has gone into liquidation following an emergency board meeting Monday. A statement from the company blames its collapse on ill-judged attempts to expand.
[May 22, 2000, 10:47]
News Burst: Microsoft Teams Up On UK Auction Network
News A group of companies including Microsoft, Excite@Home, Virgin and News International have linked up with FairMarket to launch an online auction network in the UK. Those companies will list the network's auctions on their portal sites.
[June 6, 2000, 11:41]
News Burst: Outlook Express Has Bug
News Microsoft has been informed and ZDNet News will bring you the full story later today.
[June 16, 1998, 10:35]
News Burst: Oftel Asked To Block BT Net Plan
News Following last week's announcement by BT that it preparing to launch a direct Internet service, ZDNet News has learned that the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) is preparing a written complaint to oppose the plan.
[June 15, 1998, 15:24]
News Focus: 64-bit Processors Power Up Chip Forum
News LATEST NEWS See the Hardware News Section for full coverage. ARM to unveil 64-bit Jaguar chip for handhelds Tuesday 16th October Jaguar will borrow features from high-end servers so manufacturers can squeeze them into handheld devices - but it won...
[October 16, 2001, 13:14]
News That Comes To You
White Papers Instead of the hunt and peck of Web surfing, you can download or buy a small program that turns your computer into a voracious media hub, letting you snag headlines and news updates as if you were commanding the anchor desk at CNN.
[February 15, 2005, 23:00]
