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News Burst: Lucent hit by Melissa virus
News According to the spokeswoman the Melissa virus was discovered late Friday, forcing the company to shut down e-mail systems. The spokeswoman confirmed that no outgoing or incoming e-mail has been sent or received since Monday.
[March 31, 1999, 14:27]
Exclusive: AMD axes the K6-III
News An AMD spokeswoman confirmed to ZDNet Wednesday that "demand for K6-2 chips and Athlons has pushed out demand for K6-IIIs. Quoting the official line on the chips' demise, the spokeswoman said the company hopes the existing range of K6-2 and Athlon...
[January 26, 2000, 14:37]
University suggests students uninstall Kazaa
News A spokeswoman for the University of Western Sydney's (UWS) information technology department yesterday told ZDNet Australia that it had identified spyware piggy-backing on Kazaa as the cause of login problems for some students attempting to access...
[March 4, 2004, 11:35]
Singapore government deploys OpenOffice.org on 5,000 PCs
News Singapore's Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) has large-scale plans for deploying OpenOffice.org on Windows PCs, a MINDEF spokeswoman told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. MINDEF has already installed the OpenOffice productivity suite on 5,000 desktop computers...
[November 2, 2004, 9:46]
Brit arrested over Cisco code theft
News Police have arrested a man suspected of stealing source code from Cisco Systems in May, a spokeswoman for Scotland Yard confirmed on Friday. The man is suspected of committing "hacking offences" under that country's Computer Misuse Act of 1990...
[September 20, 2004, 7:55]
AOL and Freeserve laywers in talks
News However, lawyers for both sides are today in talks and an AOL spokeswoman says the company is hopeful of an "early resolution" of the dispute. A Dixons spokeswoman claims the issue is unresolved, hence the current writ -- lodged in the High Court...
[April 19, 1999, 12:07]
Patent directive adoption just days away
News An EU Council spokeswoman said on Monday that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), which many say will allow widespread software patenting in Europe, is likely to be ratified on 31 January.
[January 24, 2005, 16:30]
AOL/Alcatel deal looks likely
News AOL would not comment on whether it talking to Alcatel but a US spokeswoman for the online giant confirmed the company's intention to push the service onto all available platforms as part of its "AOL Anywhere" strategy.
[April 16, 1999, 17:13]
Gates to testify before Congress
News MSFT) CEO Bill Gates will indeed testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 3, a committee spokeswoman said on Friday. A spokeswoman for the committee said it was "pleased that Mr. Microsoft Corp.
[February 16, 1998, 9:26]
Freeserve: Email is safe, 'glitch' is being sorted
News A spokeswoman for the company told ZDNet News: "No email has been lost. Asked what happened the spokeswoman said that information was not yet available but that technicians are working on the "glitch" now.
[May 24, 1999, 12:07]
MoD recovers top-secret laptop
News The Ministry of Defence recovered a stolen laptop containing top-secret details of a £250bn Anglo-US fighter plane project, a spokeswoman said Monday. A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman says that government does not believe that the laptop was...
[May 22, 2000, 14:06]
Oracle cuts kitty for PeopleSoft purchase
News Oracle has lowered the amount of the credit line it can tap to acquire PeopleSoft from $5bn (£2.8bn) to $1.5bn, an Oracle spokeswoman said on Tuesday. We lowered the amount on hand with the investment bankers because we have so much cash on our...
[December 31, 2003, 8:10]
Warning email hides scam
News An email purporting to be an advisory from Westpac to its customers about the dangers of online fraud is itself fraudulent, a bank spokeswoman confirmed today. However, a Westpac spokeswoman stressed that the email did not come from the bank, and...
[December 18, 2003, 9:50]
Intel confirms Pentium bug, seeks workaround
News An Intel spokeswoman in Santa Clara, Calif.said a crash occurs when a user intentionally adds some obscure code to the DOS, Linux, Windows 95 or NT operating systems. It's not everyday software," said spokeswoman Luanne Darbonne about the bad code.
[November 11, 1997, 10:49]
Yahoo to fix Zimbra's password-exposure flaw
News New security features planned for Zimbra will resolve an issue responsible for passwords being transmitted as clear text when accessing Yahoo Mail, a Yahoo spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Plain-text authentication is an industry-wide challenge that...
[October 1, 2008, 8:10]
BT suspends business broadband rollout
News A BT spokeswoman confirmed on Friday that it has stopped upgrading local exchanges to offer SDSL, which is more suitable for small businesses and branch offices than ADSL. It is because of a lack of take-up," explained the BT spokeswoman.
[August 19, 2005, 13:10]
Juniper defends hiring Cisco flaw researcher
News A spokeswoman for Juniper confirmed on Wednesday that it had hired Michael Lynn as a full-time employee but released no further details other than to state it was not the policy of the company to comment on the circumstances of an individual...
[November 9, 2005, 15:20]
Lucent caught out by Melissa
News According to a company spokeswoman, the virus was discovered late Friday, forcing the company to shut down e-mail systems. Lucent's IT department is working to "restore it as soon as possible," the spokeswoman said.
[March 31, 1999, 16:02]
Code leak spurs Windows Server 2003 piracy
News The Microsoft spokeswoman made clear that Microsoft would scour the Internet looking for the leaked code. A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed the leak late Monday and said Microsoft was investigating the matter.
[April 8, 2003, 7:28]
Microsoft makes last-ditch effort to appease EC
News A European Commission spokeswoman told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that Microsoft met Tuesday's deadline for submissions, but European authorities need to examine Microsoft's proposal to see if the company has complied fully with the conditions laid out...
[June 1, 2005, 13:15]
