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Article | 1/05/2001 Spy plane incident leads to government hack
Two US government Web sites were hacked over the weekend, with at least one of the hackers posting a photo of Chinese pilot Wang Wei, who was killed w...
Article | 1/05/2001 DVD appeal to tackle copyrights, free speech
In a case that envelops two of the most bitter battles currently being waged in the online arena, a rogue hacker magazine is set to fight round two ag...
Article | 1/05/2001 Potential price hike seen for CD-R media
Prices for CD-R (compact-disc recordable) may increase soon, the result of royalty demands from the recording medium's patent holders. But name-brand ...
Article | 1/05/2001 Microsoft buys content management software for .Net
Microsoft has agreed to acquire NCompass Labs, which makes software for creating and managing Web content, in a move designed to further the software ...
Article | 1/05/2001 Sony lets slip details for new Clié handheld
In a case that demonstrates the dangers of being overprepared, Sony managed to inadvertently advertise its new Clié handheld computer for sale on its ...
Article | 30/04/2001 NIPC warns companies of Chinese hacker threat
The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the cybersecurity arm of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, warned U.S. businesses yester...
Article | 30/04/2001 Napster says sorry for 'overblocking'
As Napster's user numbers continue to decline, the embattled peer-to-peer file-sharing software company has issued an apology to its users for "overbl...
Article | 30/04/2001 IBM's Project eLiza aims at self-managing servers
Feeling pressure from its users to invent the future more quickly, IBM Corp. on Friday detailed a massive multiyear, multibillion dollar initiative to...
Article | 30/04/2001 Macromedia releases ColdFusion 5
Macromedia on Monday plans to announce Version 5 of its ColdFusion Web server, which features performance and productivity enhancements such as advanc...
Article | 30/04/2001 AMD pushes back Hammer release
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Friday that it would delay the release of microprocessors based on its 64-bit "Hammer" core until the second half of ...
Article | 27/04/2001 Sun introduces JXTA for peer-to-peer applications
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday formally unveiled its Web-based software platform called JXTA, an open-source project that will provide a basic framewor...
Article | 27/04/2001 AOL, IE marriage on the rocks
While spokespeople from America Online. (AOL) and Microsoft denied that they were filing for divorce over their expired browser contract Thursday, th...
Article | 27/04/2001 AMD preps for market share battle
Despite a weak PC market and lower-than-expected earnings in the fourth quarter, the 2000 fiscal year was "the most successful year in AMD's history,"...
Article | 27/04/2001 Microsoft launches Web resource to foster hosting model
Microsoft on Thursday opened the doors to an online community for software developers and vendors who want to build products for its emerging .Net pla...
Article | 27/04/2001 VeriSign's domain deal on hold
The US government will need until May 14 to review a controversial deal extending computer security firm VeriSign's managerial responsibilities for r...
Article | 26/04/2001 Japanese pack 1000GB into 1cm-cube memory
When Bill Clinton spoke to students and administrators at the California Institute of Technology in January 2000, the then US president talked of futu...
Article | 26/04/2001 Rambus trial gets underway
In what could be the first of several such cases, the trial in Rambus's patent infringement lawsuit against Infineon Technologies began this week.
Article | 26/04/2001 HP adds CD-RW to entire consumer PC line
Hewlett-Packard Co. released new consumer desktops Tuesday, making CD-RW (CD-rewriteable) drives standard from top to bottom in its Pavilion line and ...
Article | 26/04/2001 Intel demonstrates 2GHz Pentium 4
Intel officials turned up further pressure on rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) by demonstrating a 2GHz version of the Pentium 4 at the Intel Develop...
Article | 26/04/2001 Chernobyl to hit again Thursday
Chernobyl, a 3-year-old virus that devastated thousands of computers worldwide when it first hit in 1999, is set to become active again Thursday, acco...

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