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Microsoft accuses UK companies of software piracy
News Microsoft has commenced legal proceedings against the directors of two Basingstoke-based companies -- Pacific Computers and Taran Microsystems -- for allegedly infringing its copyright and the Microsoft trademark.
[August 22, 2001, 15:44]
Union Pacific Railroad: Using GPS in the Field to Streamline Track Inspection and Maintenance
White Papers The Union Pacific Railroad is the largest railroad in the United States. The Union Pacific Engineering Systems Group deployed a system for railroad tie inspection to be used by the "System Tie Spotters.
[December 17, 2004, 23:00]
Unix will reign over Windows for years
News Speaking at IDC's Directions 2003 seminar held in Singapore on Thursday, Arora said that the bulk of Asia-Pacific server spending will go to Unix systems, seen as the only platform of choice for mission-critical server computers.
[April 28, 2003, 11:57]
LinuxWorld: A chance to shine
News Pacific HiTech plans to unveil its TurboLinux Server and Enterprise Server, as well as its Turbo Linux Server Cluster, which, in effect, will let a string of multiple Intel-based computers act as a larger workstation.
[March 1, 1999, 9:08]
Linux set for Asian growth
News In a survey of IT managers in 12 countries in Asia-Pacific (except Japan), Linux is installed on a tiny 6 percent of servers, computers that organisations that use to run databases or hold data. Whether Linux can sustain its spurt depends on a...
[March 5, 2003, 9:59]
Australian government gears up for zombie battle
News The five ISPs signed up for the trial are Telstra BigPond, OptusNet, Westnet, Pacific Internet and West Australian Networks. Dennis Muscat, managing director of Melbourne-based Pacific Internet, said that customers usually have no idea their...
[November 7, 2005, 9:30]
Emerging markets to drive PC growth
News By 2010, mature markets in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific will have added 150 million new PCs, while emerging markets will have added 566 million new computers, the market researcher has predicted.
[December 15, 2004, 8:15]
Security experts lift lid on Chinese hack attacks
News At 2223 Pacific Standard Time, the Titan Rain hackers exploited vulnerabilities at the US Army Information Systems Engineering Command at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Governments will pay anything for control of other governments' computers.
[November 23, 2005, 16:05]
"New" HP set to rule in Asia
News The merged entity of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq is set to be Asia Pacific's leading hardware vendor, Gartner Dataquest said today. Dataquest's Bertram said that one shouldn't assume that HP would be managing the Asia Pacific business.
[September 4, 2001, 12:46]
Squashing the next worm
News PT when worm-infected computers from the Asia-Pacific region start flooding Microsoft's Windows Update site. A source familiar with the changes said that the new addresses are on a network isolated from other Microsoft computers, so if the network...
[August 15, 2003, 12:25]
Teen hacks 27 ISPs, gains root access
News The facts in the case came three days after Pacific Bell Internet Services notified an unknown number of customers that their passwords had been compromised and that they have until January 14 to change them.
[January 11, 2000, 17:15]
Chip market grows in Europe
News The chip sector continued a slow recovery in July, largely helped by growth in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, according to new figures. Asia-Pacific grew 2.3 percent to $4.26bn while the US saw more modest gains, rising 0.5 percent to $2.6bn.
[September 3, 2002, 16:00]
SGI has powerful Linux system in pipeline
News Testers include the US Naval Research Laboratory, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Queensland in Australia and the Johannes Kepler University in Austria. SGI is known for making specialised computers for complicated...
[August 7, 2003, 11:40]
Phished Facebook accounts pass along malware
News The malware website was offline by late morning Pacific time and any messages on Facebook containing the link had been removed, he said. Adware is software that automatically displays or plays ads on a computer once it has been installed and can be...
[May 8, 2009, 17:24]
Flawed code limited Zotob's impact
News Allan Bell, marketing director for McAfee Asia-Pacific, said the versions that caused systems to crash — which McAfee has called IRCbot.worm! Chris Andrew, vice president of product management at PatchLink, said that coding errors caused a few...
[August 19, 2005, 10:15]
Bugbear rise knocks out Klez
News The worm began infecting computers on Sunday, originating in the Asia-Pacific region, according to MessageLabs. The software problem was patched by Microsoft almost 18 months ago, but some users apparently have not updated their computers.
[October 3, 2002, 16:05]
Password-stealing Trojan cut off at source
News However, this ploy was foiled as the site which was meant to harvest the stolen information was quickly shut down, said Tim Hartman, Symantec Asia-Pacific's senior technical director. Once installed, the Trojan logs the keystrokes and passwords of...
[July 7, 2004, 9:10]
Sony Clie gets USB upgrade
News It makes sense for Sony (to do this) because of the breadth of devices they have and their close relationship with Philips," said Bryan Ma, research manager for personal systems at IDC Asia-Pacific. Sony handheld computers will soon be able to...
[January 30, 2003, 10:01]
Intel: Hyper-threading to speed desktops
News Despite the recent slowdown in the Asia-Pacific region, the area will still likely drive Intel's sales. Until this quarter, we've had seven consecutive record quarters in Asia-Pacific," Otellini said.
[September 10, 2002, 7:34]
Report: US air-traffic control systems hacked
News Then, taking advantage of interconnected networks, hackers later stole an administrator's password in Oklahoma, installed "malicious codes" with the stolen password and compromised the FAA domain controller in the Western Pacific Region, giving...
[May 8, 2009, 8:53]
