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Merced: The Scare Stories
News One of the scare stories which traditionally precede the arrival of a new processor is that existing applications will no longer run on the new platform. And so it is with Merced, otherwise known as IA-64.
[March 16, 1999, 16:49]
Benefit Discs Threaten New Data Scare
News The latest scare comes less than two weeks after it was announced that two child benefit discs containing the personal details of 25 million people have gone missing. The Department for Work and Pensions on Monday was awaiting the return of two...
[December 4, 2007, 7:37]
HP-Compaq Deal Not Likely To Scare Dell
News Does the merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer scare Dell Computer? Probably not, say analysts. See full coverage at: "HP-Compaq: What happens now? Although the combined company will command a whopping 81 percent of the US retail PC market...
[September 5, 2001, 9:39]
Virgin Shuts Down All Email After Hacking Scare
News A hacking scare at Virgin.net Sunday forced the company to close all email accounts and some customers were also hit with restricted Internet access. Nearly a quarter of the company's 800,000 subscribers had no Net access Sunday, while email...
[January 10, 2000, 16:42]
A Year Ago: Virgin Shuts Down All Email After Hacking Scare
News A hacking scare at Virgin.net Sunday forced the company to close all email accounts and some customers were also hit with restricted Internet access. When does an ISP resort to snail mail? Ask Virgin.net's customers.
[January 10, 2001, 6:05]
Al-Qaeda Internet Plot Reports Are 'scare-mongering'
Blog According to a senior government security advisor, reports that there was an Al-Qaeda plot to take down the UK's internet access by sabotaging Telehouse Europe are 'scare-mongering'. Reports stated that a plot to sabotage the colocation company had...
[March 12, 2007, 17:17]
Intel 'jumping All Over' New Bug Scare
News Reported in Robert Collins' x86 Monthly Digest, a well-known Web site for observers of Intel activity, the brouhaha refers to an arcane problem allegedly experienced by Pentium II and Pentium Pro chips converting floating point to integer numbers.
[May 6, 1997, 10:45]
Five Years Ago: Intel 'jumping All Over' New Bug Scare
News First published 6 May, 1997. Reported in Robert Collins' x86 Monthly Digest, a well-known Web site for observers of Intel activity, the brouhaha refers to an arcane problem allegedly experienced by Pentium II and Pentium Pro chips converting...
[May 3, 2002, 7:01]
Lawsuits Scare Music Downloaders Off The Net
Talkback In my opinion the study shows only that people have stopped to cofess using of P2P programs. Conclusion about number of users downloading files made on this base is irrelevant.
[January 5, 2004, 14:58]
RealPlayer And Helix Player In Linux Security Scare
Talkback I think I have real player installed on most of my systems, but cannot recall having ever used it. It's just easier to use MPlayer for both Windows and Real streams. Of course, someone could find an exploit in MPlayer, then we would really be hosed.
[September 29, 2005, 16:15]
Safety Scare Over G4 Batteries
News Apple is recalling 128,000 batteries that were shipped in its PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 laptops over the past eight months, marking the second time since last summer that it has issued such a warning.
[May 23, 2005, 9:15]
Sony Appoints Safety Manager After Battery Scare
News Following the massive battery recalls announced by Apple and Dell last week, Sony has handed a senior executive responsibility for ensuring product safety in the future. Makoto Kogure, formerly head of Sony's television business, was appointed...
[September 4, 2006, 17:40]
Hackers May Be Snooping On You - Broadband Scare
News That's the danger highlighted in a security advisory released on Wednesday by hacker-cum-security specialists L0pht Heavy Industries. The flaw affects Windows 95, 98 and 2000 as well as the SunOS and Solaris 2.6 running a network service known as...
[August 12, 1999, 11:43]
TK Maxx Customers Hit By Hacking Scare
News Customers' credit card details have been stolen from the company that owns the popular TK Maxx cut-price retail chain. The details were stolen by a hacker who broke into the systems of parent company TJX.
[January 18, 2007, 11:31]
Oracle Evacuates Conference After Bomb Scare
News Responding to a bomb threat, software maker Oracle ordered thousands of attendees at its OracleWorld conference in San Francisco to evacuate the Moscone convention centre on Wednesday. The Moscone Centre notified the San Francisco Police Department...
[September 11, 2003, 8:35]
Funding Instability Threatens To Erode Business Community's Confidence In The Housing Voucher Program: Ill-Considered Changes And Radical Proposals May Scare Off Property Owners, Lenders, And Others
White Papers At its core, the Section 8 housing voucher program represents a partnership between the private sector, which builds and maintains the housing occupied by voucher holders, and the public sector, which provides a subsidy to make the housing...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Zoom In Email Security Scare
News Internet service provider Zoom is investigating the security of its free email system after a customer complained that her private email accounts could be accessed by others. Zoom said Thursday that it could not confirm whether there was a security...
[January 12, 2001, 16:01]
Did The Asian Financial Crisis Scare Foreign Investors Out Of Japan?
White Papers Foreigners became net sellers of Japanese equities during the Asian financial crisis in 1997. In this study, I examine whether this shift in aggregate foreign portfolio investment activity in Japan exacerbated the effect of the crisis on markets...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
RealPlayer And Helix Player In Linux Security Scare
News Popular media players RealPlayer and Helix Player are at risk of a security vulnerability that could let malicious attackers launch remote attacks on a user's system, security experts say. A flaw has been discovered in RealNetworks' RealPlayer...
[September 28, 2005, 9:35]
