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  • 18 April 2007

  • Opinion: Vista security: the truth

    Microsoft has hyped Vista as its most secure operating system ever. Does this stack up?

  • Opinion: Vista security: the add-ons

    Microsoft has added numerous other features to Windows Vista besides UAC (see 'Vista security: the truth, part I'), many of which are intended to increase the overall security of the OS. But, upon closer examination, these add-ons are only marginal improvements over previous versions of Windows.

  • Opinion: Apple Mac, PC or Linux?

    Apple might be the coolest technology company on the planet, but we’ll be sticking with Microsoft’s flaky Windows operating systems for years to come

  • Opinion: Apple Mac, PC or Linux?

    Apple might be the coolest technology company on the planet, but we’ll be sticking with Microsoft’s flaky Windows operating systems for years to come

  • News: Microsoft & Mozilla end browser wars

    The browser wars are over, and now Microsoft, Mozilla and other vendors plan to focus on positioning the browser as a development platform. That was the consensus yesterday of a panel of representatives in San Francisco at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo who help develop Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and the Google Reader

  • 17 April 2007

  • News: Huge increase in child web pornography

    According to the IWF (Internet Watch Foundation), the number of websites publishing pictures and videos of children being sexually abused continues to grow.

  • Opinion: Good at stealing Wi-Fi, rubbish at disguises

    Today we revealed that a man has been arrested and cautioned for stealing Wi-Fi broadband. Clearly, the man is an idiot and a crook, but as much as I detest his thievery, I can't help but have a certain amount of admiration for his cranky web-surfing methodology.

  • News: Is Google taking over computing?

    Google fans seem to just love watching Microsoft twitch. It's as though Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are Linux-loving geeks who grew up on the milk of Bait-Gates and now seek every opportunity to get in a dig.

  • News: First Wi-Fi thieves arrested and cautioned

    A man and a woman have been arrested and cautioned in Redditch for using other people's Wi-Fi broadband internet connections without permission.

  • News: Firefox surges with 25% browser share

    Increasing use of Firefox throughout Europe suggests that the browser battles aren't quite over, but may be headed for a slow-moving tug-of-war, according to a recent survey and analysts.

  • News: Intel plans to take over digital home

    Consumer experience will drive the adoption of home media technology, not a particular piece of equipment, an executive of Intel's Digital Home Group.

  • News: Firefox 2.0 gets Windows Media Player plug-in

    Microsoft, as part of its outreach to the open-source community, has released a new official Windows Media Player plug-in for Firefox 2.0 that resolves problems with the older one.

  • News: Intel's 80-core processor on show

    Intel demonstrated its fastest multi-core processor yet at the Spring Intel Development Forum (IDF) in Beijing today - an 80-core processor that hit a speedy 2-teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second).

  • Opinion: Should we scrap the internet?

    Much has been written of late about 'clean slate' approaches to rebuilding the internet.

  • News: Savastore re-emerges as Saverstore

    Online computer retailer Savastore is back online – albeit with a slightly different name - two months after it stopped taking order following owner Watford Electronics’ acquisition by Globally Ltd.

  • Opinion: Could next Bill Gates be a chimp?

    According to boffins at the University of Michigan chimpanzees have evolved more extensively than humans since the two species split from their common ancestor. Comparing the genomes of the two close cousins reveals that more chimp genes have positively evolved than human ones.

  • News: P2P crackdown snares BitTorrent uploader

    A man from Columbus, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to two felonies related to distribution of copyright materials over a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday.

  • News: Windows PCs hit by Storm Trojan switch

    The group behind last week's massive Storm Trojan spam blast set up Windows users with a one-two punch by switching tactics in midrun, making the second stage's subject headings more believable, according to researchers.

  • News: Microsoft slams Google's Doubleclick deal

    The planned merger of two online advertising giants, Google and DoubleClick, has some rivals calling for regulatory intervention - but for customers, trust may be of greater concern than antitrust.

  • News: Intel's Penryn boost games by 40%

    Intel's Penryn processors will push desktop PCs to run 40 percent faster for gaming than the latest Intel Core 2 Extreme chip, according to company executive at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) who gave details on the new chip design planned to reach markets in the second half of 2007.

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