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Internet villain nominees revealed
News In October it was revealed that the RIAA was planning to use what it called a "licensing virus" to target users' PCs directly to stop them from using peer-to-peer online services. The BBC, music publishers and a disparate group of analysts have...
[December 23, 2002, 8:31]
EDS investigations revealed
News The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has investigated IT supplier EDS four times over the past three years, a Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request has revealed. The OGC commissioned a first investigation from accountant firm Deloitte into...
[February 16, 2005, 11:40]
BBC's iPlayer numbers revealed
News These are just some of the fascinating facts revealed by iPlayer boss Anthony Rose, in an exclusive one-on-one interview with ZDNet UK's sister site CNET UK. During peak hours, BBC iPlayer pumps out 12GB of data every second, and seven petabytes...
[May 11, 2009, 12:06]
High-Tech Crimes Revealed review
Reviews Overall, High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front is a useful and interesting -- if distinctly US-orientated -- book. Branigan is a former manager for Bell Labs Computing and Network Research, and has a background in both...
[November 17, 2004, 7:35]
Revealed: Blair's broadband wake-up call
News Ed Richards, on his last day of duty as Tony Blair's senior policy adviser on media and telecommunications -- before joining Ofcom as a senior partner -- revealed on Thursday that immediately after Labour's landslide general election win in 2001...
[March 28, 2003, 15:17]
Get Safe Online membership costs revealed
News A Word document sent in error to silicon.com, ZDNet UK's sister site, has revealed that the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has specifically been consulting only with security and online fraud experts willing to pay between £50,000 and...
[October 28, 2005, 14:25]
Secret of Ginger to be revealed?
News Other details revealed by Kamen have been that the device takes just 10 minutes to assemble, has a price tag of less than $2,000, (£1,404) and will debut in 2002. More details on Ginger, the alleged scooter at the centre of controversy and wild...
[November 30, 2001, 9:12]
Scale of online tax credit fraud revealed
News More than half of the 40,000 suspicious tax credit applications detected by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) during a six-month period last year are believed to have been made by organised criminal gangs, new government figures have revealed.
[January 17, 2006, 8:35]
Secrets of stock spam scams revealed
Talkback I've started getting undelivered mail reports saying that I have tried to send these spam mails and that they have been rejected or that the recipients don't exist. How have they been able to get into my account to send spam in my name when my...
[September 30, 2006, 17:43]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment Will the "promos and special offers" be any more real with Windows 7 than they were with Vista? Can you name a single one that was offered with Vista Ultimate which actually turned out to be real, was delivered as promised, and provided any benefit?
[February 4, 2009, 9:52]
Firefox extension contest finalists revealed
Talkback Sorry about the broken link -- they should all be working now. Sorry for the inconvenience!
[February 8, 2006, 12:00]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment Um.no. From what I've read, each version of 7 will be a logical step up from the next, unlike Vista, which was a mish mash of inclusion and exclusion of features depending on version selected.
[February 4, 2009, 11:11]
UK's broadband capital revealed
Talkback I think you'll find Carlisle is in England, not Scotland.
[August 2, 2006, 12:09]
UK's broadband capital revealed
Talkback Whoops! Well spotted - I shall immediately lobby the editors to send me there in penance.
[August 2, 2006, 15:20]
Secrets of stock spam scams revealed
Talkback I hate to tell you this, but this problem is NOT unique to the United States. We in the United States also cannot block this garbage, nor do we encourage it's origination. So those of you OUTSIDE the United States, please stop your whining.
[September 27, 2006, 21:54]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment MS have taken the route of a mother and her nice new clean house. She wants the house kept clean and tidy and their are rules - she's not having you returning from university with your laundry bags, and vegging out on junk food, the remains of...
[February 4, 2009, 12:53]
Windows 7 variants revealed
Blog Comment Out of his listing, he left out Home Basic. No the bozos still haven't figured out that it was confusing the first time and its going to be as confusing this time. What really makes things super stupid is that somebody released the idea that MS was...
[February 5, 2009, 13:32]
HP's email bugging secrets revealed
Talkback Instead of avoiding HTML emails altogether, you could also encrypt the email attachments or email messages in HTML with email anti-theft software, converting documents into .ecc's. This unfortunately will not stop them from tracking the email, but...
[September 29, 2006, 20:27]
HP's email bugging secrets revealed
Talkback Email virus.er' tracking software like ReadNotify's pointing and click software also has it's foil in email anti-theft technology. You can also secure your email privacy with one-click by using tools that strip unwanted bits of data and...
[September 29, 2006, 21:24]
EDS investigations revealed
Talkback I would like to think that the OGC did this type of analysis on all suppliers to the Government and therefore I am extremly pleased that these reports exist. It would have been useful if the OGC had made this clear.
[February 16, 2005, 15:16]
