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PS2 Pre-orders Will Run Out Saturday
News Early feedback suggests that UK shops will run out of pre-order forms for the Sony PlayStation2 (PS2) by Saturday, just three days after ordering began. Only 200,000 units of the console will be released in Britain before Christmas.
[September 8, 2000, 13:50]
Warning: Back Orifice Threat This Saturday
News The creators of Back Orifice promise to release the virus at 4pm EST this Saturday, to coincide with the highly publicised Def Con 7.0 security conference in Las Vegas. Mathew Bevan, and ex-hacker who now works for UK-based Tiger Security says...
[July 8, 1999, 11:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Saturday Diary
Blog Email addresses: seven. E-mail messages: 168. Not good. Muse miserably about being "Technical Editor (Online)"; everyone sends you free accounts for their Internet services, which is good. Almost none support E-mail forwarding, which is bad.
[July 27, 1996, 10:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Saturday Diary
News Email addresses: seven. E-mail messages: 168. Not good. Muse miserably about being "Technical Editor (Online)"; everyone sends you free accounts for their Internet services, which is good. Almost none support E-mail forwarding, which is bad.
[July 27, 1996, 9:07]
Saturday Night Speedway
Downloads Get behind the wheel of fast and dangerous dirt-track vehicles with the next generation of dirt-track racing from Ratbag, the developer of Dirt Track Racing and World of Outlaws Sprintcars. Bash fenders in professional stock races, plow through...
[March 17, 2004, 11:46]
Saturday Night's All Right For Blogging
Blog So, here we are - the ops team beavering away on the new site software, us bashing away at our keyboards checking that it all works, ready for the site to go live tomorrow evening. Which means we'll be in tomorrow as well: with luck, you can read...
[October 28, 2006, 17:48]
ISS Products Targeted By Witty Worm
News Network security company ISS is likely to face embarrassing questions from its customers following the discovery of new worm on Saturday that was exploiting flaws in its software. Witty had infected an estimated 10,000 computers by early Saturday...
[March 22, 2004, 9:05]
Did States 'deep Six' MS-DoJ Talks?
News In his statement released Saturday, Posner expressed frustration that the talks had failed. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner on Saturday called off his four-month attempt to mediate among the parties embroiled in the federal antitrust case...
[April 3, 2000, 8:28]
Gobsmacked At Amazon Delivery Fiasco
Blog Comment Like you, I work during the week so I need Saturday or "after hours" delivery. It didn't arrive so in the New Year I put my number into the Amazon "call back" service and almost instantaneously the phone rang - the chap on the phone said that they...
[January 15, 2008, 7:38]
Windows Bug May Allow Network Traffic Hijacks
News A problem in the way Windows PCs obtain network settings could let attackers hijack traffic, security researchers said on Saturday. Microsoft acknowledges the problem in a support article published on Saturday on its TechNet website.
[March 26, 2007, 8:44]
Columbia Collectibles Soar On EBay
News Within hours of the Columbia space shuttle tragedy on Saturday, hundreds of collectibles featuring the doomed space shuttle were placed for sale on eBay as prices soared. Columbia ripped apart on re-entry to the earth's atmosphere early on Saturday...
[February 3, 2003, 7:33]
Photos: Microsoft Veteran Blasts Into Orbit
News Saturday's launch of a Russian rocket will mark the fifth time a tourist has flown into space. Liftoff was scheduled for just before midnight local time on Saturday from the Baikonur space facility in Kazakhstan, and the travellers were expected to...
[April 11, 2007, 12:19]
US Report: Microsoft Expects Suit Today
News Department of Justice broke down on Saturday, according to DoJ officials, with no future discussions planned going forward. In a short statement released by the DoJ on Saturday, the government said, "discussions between the Justice Department, a...
[May 18, 1998, 10:35]
Yahoo! And Microsoft Traffic 'hijacked'
News A computer glitch is being blamed for cutting off Web traffic headed for Yahoo.com and Microsoft.com on Saturday. But they were kept in a "holding bin" until they were published to the Internet as the result of human error on Saturday.
[January 22, 2001, 13:20]
Apple Shows Off London Shop
News Apple's first UK store will open this Saturday on London's Regent Street. The newest iPods have yet to arrive but are promised to turn up before Saturday. Apple's 99th store - with its largest single retail space to date - takes up two floors in...
[November 18, 2004, 15:35]
Yahoo Rejects 'absurd' Microsoft-Icahn Buyout Offer
News Yahoo announced on Saturday night that it had rejected a joint buyout proposal offered on Friday night by Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn. Yahoo's board, after consulting with its legal and financial advisers, rejected the offer on...
[July 14, 2008, 11:38]
Hackers: Firefox Has JavaScript Flaw
News The open source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said on Saturday afternoon. The JavaScript issue appears to be a real vulnerability, Window Snyder, Mozilla's security chief, said after watching...
[October 2, 2006, 8:25]
NetAid Concert Delivers 2.38M Streams
News Saturday's Webcast of the NetAid concerts was the most-watched video-streaming event ever to occur over the Internet, according to event organisers. Cisco Systems, which organised the Webcast along with the United Nations Development Program, said...
[October 12, 1999, 9:02]
Hosting Firm Felled By Attacks
News A wave of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against hosting giant WebCentral, which began on Saturday, downed the network for a second time on Sunday. According to a statement issued by the Queensland-based company, the attack began on...
[February 9, 2004, 8:55]
South African TV Show Evangelises Open Source
News The first in a 13-part series of television shows to promote open-source software was broadcast in South Africa on Saturday. Go_Open will be broadcast on the South African television channel SABC 2 every Saturday at 5:30 p.m.but will soon be...
[November 24, 2004, 14:20]
