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Bug Hunters Find 'cookie' Hole In IE
News Computer bug-hunters have pointed out a way to snare personal information from a "cookie" file if the victim uses Microsoft Internet Explorer and clicks on a disguised string of JavaScript code. More recently, he has pointed out a series of Web...
[May 12, 2000, 8:39]
PicturExtractor
Downloads Allows to take captures of desktop or pointed objects. The PicturExtractor application is a simple tool designed to help you capture the desktop or pointed objects. You can also extract parts of pictures, zoom in or out and save them as JPG or BMP.
[December 18, 2007, 10:43]
Oracle Expresses Sales Optimism
News Oracle touted its growth in the server applications market on Wednesday and pointed to trends that it believes will further bolster its business. He also pointed to regulatory changes that require businesses to increase the period that they have...
[July 15, 2004, 11:40]
Bristol: Microsoft Aggressive, Not Anti-competitive
News On day two of the trial, Microsoft attorney David Tulchin pointed out that Bristol tried to maintain strict control of its code and planned to "attack and dominate" markets, the same actions it was accusing Microsoft of taking.
[June 7, 1999, 11:25]
Possible Prior Art For Microsoft XML Patent Found
News A ZDNet UK reader pointed out on Thursday that SXP, a library for converting C++ programming objects into XML files, was made available on Sourceforge in February 2000. Microsoft wouldn't say whether it believed the SXP library was an example of...
[June 2, 2005, 18:40]
Solve Windows 2000 DNS Server Problems
Talkback Now, IE is pointed to my server address, trying to bring up the monitor manager it used to be pointed to. I to have the same problem and got the same error, but only after I uninstalled Trend Micro PC-Cillin Internet Security for SMB.
[September 29, 2004, 20:00]
Incompetent CIOs Are Costing And Wasting Billions...
Talkback The point is that many CIOs are incompetent and psychologically dependent on MS junk and propaganda, and I believe that poor, (in fact, incompetent) decisions being made should be pointed out, and the people making them should be called to account.
[April 10, 2008, 3:23]
Swim Through Web Data Or Sink, Warns VRML Guru
News The co-creator of VRML pointed to the exponential growth of documents on the Web since the invention of the first 2D GUI Web browser, NCSA's Mosaic. Not surprisingly, Pesce pointed to VRML, with its '4D' - 3D plus live updating - as the way to...
[July 3, 1997, 14:56]
The Lessons Of The Worm
White Papers The worm pointed out a number of glaring security holes in UNIX networks which would probably have gone unknown, or at least been ignored as not very significant, had not the worm been so graphic in its exploitation of such little" bugs.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Possible Prior Art For Microsoft Smiley Patent Found
News Several ZDNet UK readers pointed out over the weekend that X-faces, a technology that allows users to include images in Usenet news posts or in the headers of emails, appears to cover a similar technology.
[July 25, 2005, 17:30]
Turning The Tide Against RIPA
Leader As those concerned with human rights have pointed out, this means proof of innocence rather than proof of guilt — a fundamental change in the way the law works. We have previously pointed out that with modern encryption, it is possible to have...
[August 15, 2006, 17:25]
Clinton Calls For IT To Fight Terrorism
News He pointed out that during his presidency, technology had been responsible for 30 percent of US economic growth, and emphasised the importance of technological development for debt-burdened countries.
[February 27, 2002, 14:35]
US Report: Consumers Fume Over AOL-Netscape
News ISPs now face the awkward prospect of offering browser software from either Microsoft or AOL, both of which run competing online services, as San Jose attorney Lewis Mettler pointed out. Others pointed out that a strong Netscape browser could aid...
[November 27, 1998, 9:33]
Wanadoo Closes Serious Security Hole
News This was pointed out, and it has now moved the files, meaning the hole now finally appears to be closed. Wanadoo's spokesperson thanked the forum's owner for bringing the matter to the ISP's attention, but pointed out that "he is under a legal...
[May 19, 2006, 16:55]
Microsoft File Standard Offers 'minimum Openness'
News He pointed out that Microsoft's covenant has been published on its own Web site, while Sun's was published by OASIS, the independent standards body that approved OpenDocument. Updegrove also pointed out that Microsoft only reserves the right to...
[November 28, 2005, 13:20]
IBM Moots Free DB2
News Although IBM's existing entry-level DB2 database - the DB2 Universal Database Express Edition - is not free, Teo pointed out that IBM already has a free product in its veins: the Java-based Cloudscape database, which the company contributed to the...
[November 21, 2005, 8:45]
Ira Magaziner: U.S. At Odds With EU Net Privacy Directive
News It needs to be pointed out that so far only three of the 15 EU nations have passed any kind of law" that adheres to the proposed guidelines, which say Internet users must give "unambiguous" prior consent for personal data to be collected and used...
[August 26, 1998, 6:44]
IBM: Our Unix Licence Is Irrevocable
News Sontag pointed to contract language that specifies terms under which IBM's licence may be revoked. However, Sontag pointed to the next sentence in the agreement, which reads, "Notwithstanding the above, the irrevocable nature of the above rights...
[March 11, 2003, 13:00]
Former BBC Boss Could Head Ofcom
News Analysts have pointed out such an organisation will need an extremely powerful personality at the helm and one that can fully understand the needs of both the telecoms industry and the broadcast world.
[March 12, 2001, 11:38]
Firefox Welcomes Microsoft's Offer Of Help
News But Beltzner pointed out that Mozilla had already "been testing on Vista" with Firefox and Thunderbird "as well as working to ensure that we take advantage of the new 'Default Program' infrastructure".
[August 24, 2006, 13:00]
