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Users locked out of Google Mail
News Google is "working to resume normal service soon" on its Google Mail service after thousands of users were left without access. By late afternoon on Thursday users were reporting the service as being back to normal, although many were questioning...
[May 25, 2006, 17:40]
Users are biggest threat to mobile-phone security
News Users are the weakest link when it comes to protecting information systems, because of social engineering, which relies on the manipulation of people rather than machines. The same trickery is being used against mobile-phone users, despite attempts...
[July 13, 2007, 9:59]
UUNET outage fixed - users back online
News UUNET customers will be relieved to hear the ISP has now fixed the problem that prevented many users accessing US-based Web sites. UUNET customers were suffering this morning due to a major service outage emanating from the US side of the ISP's...
[October 7, 1999, 16:57]
Users Freed From Manual e-Mail Archiving; Redundancy Reduces Risk of Data Loss for College#$#s ^Killer App^
White Papers W&L wanted to provide users with more a robust, user-friendly e-mail infrastructure. Washington and Lee University (W&L), a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Va.has a pedigree that few U.S.colleges can match.
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
The new Scour: Users will pay
News CenterSpan Communications, the new owners of Scour's file-swapping technology, plan to start charging users when the service is re-launched sometime before March, a company spokesman said Thursday. That means 4.5 million registered users might as...
[December 15, 2000, 9:52]
Users find hole in their PocketPC upgrades
News PocketPC users who ordered an upgrade to Microsoft's new PocketPC 2002 operating system back in September began receiving their software last week, and many have discovered to their surprise that some key software isn't included in the deal, and...
[December 10, 2001, 16:20]
Users warn of problems with IE8 Beta 2
News One day after Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8, users have reported issues with its installation and sites and services that are incompatible. In a blog on Wednesday, Microsoft IE developers explain how IE8 users...
[August 29, 2008, 9:53]
Users hidden by the fog of browser wars
Leader This might seem good news for users: a competitive market at work focuses a developer's mind wonderfully. One is managing browsing sessions where all local traces are removed on exit — a good idea, as Safari and Firefox users have proved for years.
[August 28, 2008, 16:39]
Users face prosecution if email is illegal
News A case, presently under review by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), illustrates that users could face prosecution for possession of illegal data on computers, even if they are oblivious to its existence, or have not been involved in its creation.
[November 27, 1998, 14:32]
Users report inconsistent results from latest IE patch
News Microsoft's latest security patch for its Internet Explorer browser doesn't always work, users report. However, some users have found that even after the patch is deployed, the "feature" is still active.
[February 4, 2004, 17:15]
Users irate at Windows stealth update
News Microsoft has been criticised for automatically uploading and installing files to PCs even if their users have specifically forbidden the automatic installation of patches. However, users have been critical of the so-called "stealth" update and...
[September 14, 2007, 13:30]
Users upset as CA antivirus attacks Windows
News Users of Computer Associates antivirus software were complaining on Thursday after the software mistakenly identified a Windows XP systems file as a virus. The CA advisory reads: "CA Internet Security Suite users should restore affected files from...
[July 10, 2009, 11:55]
Users warned on Yahoo! Messenger attacks
News Messenger users have been alerted to a number of newly discovered holes in the instant messaging system, leaving their PCs open to malicious code and denial of service attacks. Users are advised to upgrade to version 5,0,0,1065, released on Yahoo!
[June 6, 2002, 15:06]
Users must pay for Microsoft Office beta
News Although Microsoft's Information Worker Product Management Group decided to initiate a fee for new users of Beta 2, the "technical refresh", or update, for current users of the software will remain free, the representative said.
[July 31, 2006, 9:30]
Microsoft: Users confused by Vista UAC prompts
News Scott Charney, head of trustworthy computing at Microsoft, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control prompts are not intuitive and confuse users. Krstić said software vendors were "weaselling off responsibility for security to...
[May 23, 2008, 10:13]
CeBIT 2002: Users find one-handed Linux PDA gripping
News Filewalker, which runs on the Linux operating system, lets users enter text by way of three buttons on the left side of its case, and a scroll wheel on the top. Text is entered by pressing the buttons, and users can turn the scroll wheel to change...
[March 15, 2002, 14:01]
Users warned over IE clipboard exploit
News Windows users were warned over the weekend of an exploit in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that lets any Web site copy the contents of the Windows clipboard without the user knowing. Popular Windows site NTFS highlighted the exploit, which...
[December 23, 2002, 11:32]
The record labels' new target: users
News They cite a common belief in the industry, initially sparked by a study of Gnutella users conducted by Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), that only about 10 percent of file-swappers provide about 90 percent of the content available through...
[July 4, 2002, 8:12]
Users flee email charges at Mac.com
News Even as a petition circulates to try to get Apple to change its mind, many users are shopping around for a lower-cost way to get their mail before Apple pulls the plug on the free service at the end of September.
[July 26, 2002, 8:27]
Users report inconsistent results from latest IE patch
Talkback Most users don't even know what a "patch" is.and they surely don't know if it is "working" or not. Yet when their shoddy designs expose users to harmful risks, Microsoft expects them to know when and how to fix the problem and to verify that it is...
[February 4, 2004, 19:01]
