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Sobig.F Is 'worst Variant Yet'
News Shipp believes that it has been released by the same virus writer who created the original Sobig, which hit the Internet in January this year. It is thought that Sobig.F does the same, which Shipp believes is proof that the virus writer is working...
[August 19, 2003, 18:15]
Google: An Apology
Leader In it staff writer Elinor Mills used Google itself to find out public information about Google chief executive Eric E. We cannot speak for News.com, although we are proud to march under the same CNET banner.
[August 9, 2005, 14:55]
Nimda Rampage Starts To Slow
News News.com's Corey Grice, staff writer Richard Shim and Reuters contributed to this report. Customers of DSL provider XO Communications sent complaints to CNET News.com that Internet service had slowed to a crawl because of the worm.
[September 21, 2001, 9:27]
Microsoft 'regrets' Mac-to-PC Convert Ad
News Although the ad appears to be from a "real person", similar to the Apple campaign, and Microsoft claims her experience was genuine, the company said it commissioned the posting from a freelance writer who was paid for her work.
[October 15, 2002, 7:30]
Worms Find Fertile Ground In IM
News As more people migrate to XP, there is an increased risk because it becomes an attractive element for a virus writer," said Vincent Gullotto, the senior director of McAfee's Avert group. Something is wrong,'" Bates said in an IM exchange with CNET...
[August 15, 2001, 9:12]
Singaporean Denies Smuggling US Military Technology
News Staff writer Samuel Quek contributed to this report. After payment was made to one Daniel Stevenson from Stellar, Ho assumed all was well.until Singapore.CNET.com confronted him with the allegations today.
[August 30, 2001, 16:23]
Rewards Shift Nature Of Worm Hunt
News At about the same time as the Sasser arrest, there was also an arrest of a suspected writer of Agobot. He recently spoke with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com about Microsoft's ongoing battle with virus writers.
[June 11, 2004, 11:25]
Deciphering Microsoft's Yahoo Bid
News ZDNet.com editor in chief Dan Farber talks to Ina Fried, senior writer at CNET News.com, about Microsoft's Friday announcement of a $44.6bn (£22.7bn) cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. They discuss the reasons behind the potential acquisition...
[February 4, 2008, 11:49]
The Fox Guarding The Chicken Coop
News A twist of fate has led the former virus writer Czech student Marek Strihavka to take a job stopping digital pests like those he used to create. In addition, some antivirus companies are attacking Zoner for hiring a known virus writer.
[January 18, 2005, 9:50]
Handspring Poised To Sell PDA-phone
News Staff writer Richard Shim contributed to this report. Handspring Chief Operating Officer Ed Colligan told CNET News.com on Monday that the device should begin selling in the United States in January, with availability in parts of Asia beginning in...
[November 13, 2001, 8:59]
Will Utility Computing Reshape The Way People Do Business?
News Business writer Nicholas Carr raised many hackles in the information technology industry when he published a piece titled "IT Doesn't Matter" in 2003. IT executives queried by ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com agreed that hosted services and...
[June 21, 2005, 12:20]
Google Faces Massive Copyright Suit
News The individual plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which seeks damages and an injunction to stop the digitising, are former New York Times editorial writer Herbert Mitgang, children's author Betty Miles and Daniel Hoffman, the 1973-1974 Poet Laureate of...
[September 21, 2005, 8:55]
Adobe: OS X's New Best Friend?
News Brian Pickerill, a statistical analyst and writer in Muncie, Indiana, said he believes that "the release of Photoshop will be huge for Mac OS X". Many (Mac users) are waiting for Photoshop, which we intend to release in the second quarter of next...
[December 18, 2001, 9:45]
Portals In Space
News Firmage subsequently became associated with Ann Druyan, a respected science writer and the widow of famed astronomer Carl Sagan, and withdrew from public scrutiny to devise what he and Druyan described as a science-based entertainment portal.
[July 29, 2003, 17:45]
MyDoom Strikes Again Through IE Flaw
News It's not the first time a code writer has exploited a flaw in a Microsoft product before the software giant has had a chance to plug the hole. As a best practice, users should always exercise extreme caution when opening unsolicited attachments...
[November 9, 2004, 7:53]
Hotmail Deletions Catch Members Out
News For three months, freelance writer Lydia Zajc updated friends and family on her adventures in Southeast Asia by sending detailed messages from her Hotmail account. However, Microsoft said that was impossible, according to a message from Hotmail...
[July 26, 2002, 8:14]
I Can't Help It If My Code's Read, Says Researcher
News Litchfield said that this argument doesn't hold water, as it is a simple matter for a skilled virus writer to target a vulnerable program, even without sample code. Once a program has been patched, the virus writer can compare the patched software...
[February 5, 2003, 15:45]
Privacy International Demands Yahoo Boycott
News As previously reported, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday that Shi Tao, a 37-year-old writer for the Dangdai Shang Bao (Contemporary Business News), had been sentenced in April to 10 years in prison after being convicted of...
[September 7, 2005, 17:15]
Tapwave Makes Palm-based Games PDA
News CNET News.com Staff Writer Ian Fried contributed to this report. See ZDNet UK's Mobile Technology News Section for the latest news, reviews and price checks on mobile phones, PDAs, notebook computers and anything else you can take away.
[May 6, 2003, 11:04]
Notebook Makers Tune Into Wireless
News CNET News.com staff writer Michael Kanellos contributed to this report. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. As wireless networking grows in popularity, IBM and Compaq Computer are joining the race to integrate the...
[May 11, 2001, 8:12]
