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1999 - year of DVD?
News I think 1999 is going to be the year of DVD," said Wainwright. While Freeman forecasts DVD player sales jumping from 1.5 million this year to between 3 million and 5 million players in 1999, the analyst believes that DVD-ROM-equipped PCs are...
[January 4, 1999, 8:47]
2001: Year of the virus
News Antivirus experts say that the worm spread with even greater speed than February's Kournikova worm, the other major email germ of the year. But the ratio of emails that contain viruses has also increased, from roughly one in 1,500 emails last year...
[May 10, 2001, 15:06]
Year-old Bluetooth vulnerability invites mobile worm
News For the past year, mobile phone vendors have been trying to fix several Bluetooth security vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to create an MSBlast-type worm that spreads from handset to handset without any user intervention.
[August 3, 2004, 13:40]
2008 proving a peak-growth year for laptops
News Shipments of portable PCs should grow 34.5 percent this year, according to a PC shipment tracker that IDC released this week. That's up from 33.9 percent in 2007 and way above the projected 13.4 percent for next year.
[June 13, 2008, 9:48]
Priceline Asia to launch by year end
News US-based reverse auction site Priceline.com is planning to roll out its services in Asia by year end through its Hong Kong-based joint venture. Hutchison-Priceline is a six-month-old partnership between the Nasdaq-listed company and Hong Kong-based...
[August 10, 2001, 17:26]
A Year Ago: Apple names Jobs caretaker CEO
News Apple said it formalised Jobs' role at its new board's first regularly scheduled meeting last week and expects to name a new CEO by year's end. Apple Computer Inc.last Tuesday named co-founder Steve Jobs as interim chief executive officer two...
[September 16, 1998, 9:26]
A Year Ago: NT 5.0 public beta due next week
News A year later, the gun will fire. When Microsoft Corp.releases the first public beta version of Windows NT 5.0 next week -- its new network operating system -- you'll hear the distinctive sound of a bullet being loaded into the chamber.
[September 22, 1998, 6:27]
The Year Ahead: Skills trends for 2003
News One year ago, the world was still reeling from the raw impact of 11 September and security on every level was a priority. A comparison to a year ago points to a decrease of 127,000 -- or 12 percent -- of people employed in ICT as whole.
[December 27, 2002, 6:24]
Easynet promises super-fast broadband this year
News Easynet, one of BT's major competitors in urban areas, is aiming to launch significantly faster broadband services later this year. The company announced on Friday it has begun trialling ADSL2 and ADSL2+, technologies that can run on the same...
[April 1, 2005, 17:50]
Kazaa owner pins hopes on 105-year-old defence
News Parties are due back in court on the 1st of July; the presiding Justice Wilcox said he hopes for a hearing date sometime in this year. Sharman License Holdings may be resting its defence on a precedent set over one hundred years ago, according to...
[May 19, 2004, 10:40]
A Year Ago: Government panel recommends digital poll tax
News The panel, headed by economist Gavyn Davies, proposes digital viewers be charged an extra £24 a year, starting next April. Elderly people, the unemployed and the low paid cannot afford to pay £125 a year BBC licence fee," he said.
[August 8, 2000, 7:06]
HMRC named 'internet villain' of the year
News HM Revenue & Customs was named as "internet villain" of the year by the Internet Services Providers' Association on Friday. The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA), which represents internet service providers across the UK, holds an...
[March 17, 2008, 10:36]
A Year Ago: Netscape posts another solid quarter
News In the quarter that ended September 30, sales were $150 million, a 50 percent increase over $100 million in that period a year earlier. Internet bellwether Netscape Communications Corp.grew slightly faster than expected in its third quarter...
[October 22, 1998, 6:15]
One Year Ago: PC Expo - Net PC positioning fragmented
News Despite confirming that Dell would be offering a range of Net PCs later this year, he seemed less bullish than most manufacturers in this camp about its potential adoption, appearing to suggest instead that building management features into a...
[June 17, 1998, 7:41]
A Year Ago: PCs to get Silicon Graphics 3D savvy
News Later this year, the first motherboards based on its Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) are slated to appear. Silicon Graphics (SGI) is finally entering the PC mainstream after announcing deals with Intel, Compaq, Number Nine and five other companies...
[March 24, 1998, 6:00]
US 'botmaster' faces 60-year prison spell
News By day, 26-year-old John Kenneth Schiefer worked as a security consultant for the company 3G Communications. A Los Angeles man is facing up to 60 years in prison and fines of up to $1.75m (£839,000) after admitting to infecting at least 250,000 PCs...
[November 12, 2007, 7:02]
Intel to launch 160GB SSD this year
News According to Dadi Perlmutter, Intel's mobility group GM, the Sata drives will debut in two form factors, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch form factors later this year, in two sizes: 32GB and 160GB. We've been spending 20 to 30 years improving processing...
[April 3, 2008, 10:06]
A Year Ago: Microsoft to fight UK skill shortage
News We want to get another 5,000 MCPs in the next year. Microsoft has turned its attention to the shortage of IT technical professionals in Britain, with one eye firmly on boosting NT Server literacy. The Microsoft Authorised Resource Centre programme...
[September 25, 1998, 6:50]
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]
HMRC hopes IT contract will save £110m a year
News HM Revenue & Customs says its newly revised Aspire contract with Capgemini will save £110m a year without cutting jobs. It is in addition to savings of £70m a year pledged in 2007, when Capgemini cut its workforce in the department by more than 20...
[November 2, 2009, 9:01]
