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The Week In Review: Lair Of The SQL Worm
News We also have the first review. Among the more interesting stories to come out of the continuing examination of the two-week-old worm disaster was the case of David Litchfield, whose "proof of concept" code demonstrating a bug in Microsoft's SQL...
[February 7, 2003, 15:55]
The Week In Review
Blog Comment I feel I must comment on Jamies observations about Skype, well done mate everything you say is 100% right and NOBODY at Skype has the guts to stand up and admit it they just keep closing "Jira" bug reports saying that with the latest drivers from...
[February 11, 2008, 23:44]
The Week In Review
News This was the week that Novell came back in from the cold with a tidy financial quarter. It was also the week that Corel CEO Michael Cowpland blew into town. Also this week: Several analysts who really should know better wrote off the Provo, Utah...
[December 6, 1996, 16:48]
The Week In Review: The Joy Of Text
News On a more downbeat note, consider the case of Daniel Feussner, who found out this week that you can't take it with you. Well, you've seen one of these stories every year around mid-February, and we'd hate to disappoint you.
[February 14, 2003, 16:27]
The Week In Review: Fooling The Tech Industry
News April Fool's Day fell on this week, a very confusing time for many IT journalists -- particularly the type who specialise in linking to apparently important stories on other Web sites. The prices of BT's wholesale business ADSL products were cut by...
[April 4, 2003, 16:52]
The Week In Review: SCO Reloads Linux Attack
News This week is likely to be remembered by many companies because of SCO Group, which broadened its attempts to increase its revenues from its Unix patents by implicating Linux -- both the companies that sell it, and potentially even the companies...
[May 23, 2003, 16:26]
The Week In Review: Slammer Dunks The Internet
News The IT world found out this week when the SQL Slammer worm slowed Web sites and corporate networks to a crawl. A music copyright ruling against EasyInternetCafe this week surprised nobody, except perhaps boss Stelios.
[January 31, 2003, 15:40]
The Week In Review: Getting Unwired
News Antennae were much in the spotlight this week, with everyone keen to cash in on one of the few relatively bright spots in the current PC industry -- wireless networking. If you get fed up with the 21st century and want to move back into the 19th...
[February 28, 2003, 16:35]
The Week In Review: Sobig, Broadband And Ratbots
News The week started pretty well for some who are attached to the tech industry in one way or another. Boeing and Lufthansa began a trial this week of a service that allows passengers to share a 20Mbps connection while in the air -- making Wi-Fi in the...
[January 17, 2003, 16:54]
The Week In Review: The War Goes Online
News Fighting officially began in Iraq this week, kicking off the biggest international conflict since the emergence into the public awareness of communications technologies such as Web logs, mobile messaging and indeed the Web itself.
[March 21, 2003, 12:37]
Week In Review: Copy-protection Drama, Scary Robots And Faster Wireless
News Along with the new year comes, perhaps, a change in climate in the computing world. No, not global warming, but a case that could prove to be a landmark in the way anti-piracy technology is viewed by the courts.
[January 10, 2003, 16:37]
The Week In Review: Fighting Back Against Spam
News Most Internet users are fed up with spam, and the marketing industry's self-regulatory body is finally taking this to heart, for what it's worth. New rules could have a big impact on stemming junk text messaging, but are less likely to make a...
[March 7, 2003, 13:26]
The Week In Review: When Is Broadband Not Broadband?
News Weirdly, the Advertising Standards Authority has decided that it knows what is and isn't broadband. NTL's 128kbps product isn't, it said, and mustn't be advertised as such, because people would feel misled.
[April 11, 2003, 16:29]
The Week In Review: The Kids Are All Wired
News It's 'hold the front page' time: Intel is going to concentrate on making chips in 2003. Chief exec Craig Barrett told the Intel Developer Forum that some $2bn will be invested in new fabrication plants, in the non-stop push for cheaper and faster...
[February 21, 2003, 16:48]
Review Of The Week, April 21-25
News The same week he kicked off his own Northwood PC company with a press conference at Regents Park Zoo. Biggest joke of the week? Speaking of odd bedfellows, Software Warehouse head honcho Steve Bennett was one of the many who said he didn't have the...
[April 25, 1997, 17:07]
Review Of The Week, January 6-10
News Traditionally, the week post-Christmas is for a post-mortem of retail sales. The week ended with plentiful MMX systems. Instead, the buzz was the amazing deal between Apple and Next. But what was more amazing?
[January 10, 1997, 17:17]
Review Of The Week, April 7-11
News This was the week that Internet Explorer 4.0 went public, the soi-disant Platform Preview - don't call it a beta - popping up on Microsoft's Web site just a couple of days after it appeared all over the world, thanks to an accidental test...
[April 11, 1997, 16:02]
Review Of The Week, April 1-4
News Today, the word from Winnersh is that early next week marks the spot. The same day, UK browser heads were disappointed to see another ship date slip on the part of Microsoft for IE 4.0. Just don't quote us.
[April 4, 1997, 15:43]
Review Of The Week, March 24-27
News On Monday, Intel kicked off its Visual Computing Conference where it announced a 1Gb/sec mode for the Accelerated Graphics Port and rolled out a roadmap to make graphics speeds 10 times faster inside three years.
[March 27, 1997, 17:46]
Review Of The Week, February 17-21
News On Monday, dullards made jokes about Intel's lack of inventiveness in naming what was Klamath as Pentium II. But if you'd made one of the biggest branding exercises ever based on a new addition to the lexicon, what would you do?
[February 21, 1997, 15:16]
