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Microsoft Misinforms Users On Date Bug
News Contrary to the information given to Microsoft by Prove It 2000, the software publisher last week told ZDNet News that the bug affecting its date function on Windows 98 only affected machines on Dec 31 of any year.
[August 18, 1998, 15:56]
'Over-enthusiastic' Agent Spams Mobiles
News The Surfers Paradise office of Ray White real estate has apologised for blanket spamming mobile phone users, and has told ZDNet Australia it will "severely discipline" the employee responsible. That was done purely by new staff member, he had no...
[July 30, 2003, 10:00]
A Year Ago: Microsoft Misinforms Users On Date Bug
News Contrary to the information given to Microsoft by Prove It 2000, the software publisher last week told ZDNet News that the bug affecting its date function on Windows 98 only affected machines on Dec 31 of any year.
[August 18, 1999, 7:30]
Microsoft Exec: Google 'years' Behind Us On Privacy
News Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the software giant's chief privacy strategist told ZDNet.com.au on Thursday in an interview. Google's a great company, got some great products, but you know in some respects I think Google...
[August 29, 2008, 16:55]
Symantec: Microsoft Security Lacks Innovation
News John Thompson, chief executive of Symantec, told ZDNet.co.uk that Microsoft lacked innovation in devising security products. All Altiris technology runs on common architectures — we're doing that today," Butterfield told ZDNet.co.uk.
[June 13, 2007, 10:42]
Biggest Ever Web Credit Card Theft?
News Egghead told ZDNet US that its servers had been hacked by network intruders, and that an unknown number of credit cards details may have been lost. Sources in the credit card industry have told ZDNet US News that up to 3.7 million credit card...
[December 22, 2000, 14:29]
PlusNet Accuses Broadband Rivals Of Misleading Customers
News We trialled some capped products about a year ago and we found customers really didn't understand what a cap meant," she told ZDNet UK. Marketing director Marco Potesta told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the industry was "mis-selling on free" and wrong...
[September 1, 2006, 9:55]
Dell Sues Dell Over Web Hosting Site
News Mr Dell told ZDNet UK that Dell is suing him because he launched a Web design site in April 2001 called dellwebsites.com. I replied to them stating that my name is Dell and I create Web sites and I hoped that would be the end of the matter," Paul...
[February 21, 2006, 15:30]
Internet Price Cuts May Never Reach Consumers
News Sources within the telecoms industry have told ZDNet UK that the savings are likely to be swallowed up by other telecoms operators -- depriving Internet Service Providers of the chance to pass them onto their customers.
[July 19, 2002, 11:13]
BT To Tap Community Spirit In Rural Broadband Push
News Industry sources have told ZDNet UK that BT will kick off the system on Tuesday. We said earlier this year that we are looking at another group of local exchanges and trying to find ways of justifying the cost of upgrading them to offer broadband...
[June 17, 2002, 16:11]
Oracle Linux Customer Undergoes Trial By Fire
News Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking told ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia that in the weeks following its announcement to adopt Oracle Linux, upset Linux enthusiasts phoned, emailed and wrote about the company online to complain at the...
[April 2, 2007, 11:56]
Vodafone Denies Responsibility For Stolen SIM Bill
News Stephen Tracey told ZDNet UK he received the bill after his SIM card went missing in South Africa. We argued for a long time," he told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. Vodafone's spokesperson confirmed to ZDNet UK that the company had immediately barred Tracey...
[May 24, 2006, 16:30]
Nasa Hacker's Lawyers Prepare High Court Appeal
News McKinnon's solicitor Karen Todner told ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday that as McKinnon had recently been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, she was considering an application to the High Court to consider halting his extradition, should an application to...
[September 4, 2008, 10:02]
Australian Army Slams Soldiers' Site
News An Army spokesperson told ZDNet Australia that it had directed members responsible for the mil-kit-review.com Web site to "comply with their obligations" regarding release of information to the public, citing concerns over security, accuracy...
[February 26, 2004, 8:20]
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]
Bluetooth Security Dangers Ignored, Say Experts
News Schmidt, who is a board member for protocol-testing company Codenomicon, told ZDNet.co.uk at the Infosecurity Europe 2008 conference on Tuesday that protocols used in Bluetooth communications are vulnerable to attack and that device manufacturers...
[April 23, 2008, 15:53]
Hackers Attacked Parliament Using WMF Exploit
News MessageLabs, the email filtering provider for the UK government, told ZDNet UK that targeted emails were sent to various individuals within government departments in an attempt to take control of their computers.
[January 23, 2006, 12:35]
Rural Broadband Drive 'hit By Fraud'
News The company told ZDNet UK News on Wednesday that it had spotted that several hundred false expressions of interest in broadband had been submitted for the Wrexham North local exchange. Buckley told ZDNet UK that, at one local exchange, he is having...
[November 13, 2002, 16:30]
Shut Down Or Else: CrimeNet's Final Warning
News Hulls) basically said that he's not satisfied and still wants me to close down," Shultz told ZDNet Australia. Attorney General Mr Rob Hulls told ZDNet Australia that "it is totally inappropriate that Shultz should dictate to the judiciary.
[June 2, 2000, 10:07]
Oftel To Push For Wholesale Midband?
News Sources close to the issue have told ZDNet UK that Oftel is unwilling to allow BT to monopolise the midband market, which could potentially consist of many millions of households. Any potential obligations to provide a midband product on a...
[February 10, 2003, 12:21]
