Topic: COMPUTER - on August 19, 2004 at 10:27:00 PM CEST
Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance
nsensitive computer programmers with little knowledge of geography have cost the giant Microsoft company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost business and led hapless company employees to be arrested by offended governments.
The problem has damaged the company's reputation and the "trust rating," which is seen as key to keeping the company competitive, has dropped, a senior Microsoft executive revealed yesterday at the International Geographers Conference in Glasgow.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 18, 2004 at 6:51:00 PM CEST
Nightmare on Web Street
New Spyware Uses Virus Tricks to Make Removal Difficult
Online security experts say there is a new type of sneaky software floating around in cyberspace. And like its namesake, Freddy Krueger of the Nightmare on Elm Street horror movie franchise, it's an online threat that just won't die.
The new scourge of the online world is a particularly nasty form of spyware — programs that are secretively downloaded when a Web surfer visits a particular site. Once installed on the unsuspecting user's computer, the program will gather information on users as they surf the Net.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 18, 2004 at 10:06:00 AM CEST
Das Internet wird schneller
Forscher entwickeln neue Verfahren und Lösungen um eine 100-fache Geschwindigkeits - Steigerung zu erreichen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 18, 2004 at 9:57:00 AM CEST
Windows Service Pack 2 - Konflikte pflastern seinen Weg
Microsofts großer Wurf in Sachen Sicherheit gilt zwar insgesamt als gelungen, bringt jedoch manches laufende Windows-XP-System aus dem Tritt. Programme verhalten sich seltsam oder verweigern den Dienst ganz. Weitere Updates sollen die Konflikte beseitigen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 18, 2004 at 9:43:00 AM CEST
Der EU-Röhrenmonitorgroschen kommt
LCD-Flachbildschirme sollen zukünftig als Unterhaltungselektronik besteuert werden. Die EU will nun LC-Computerdisplays mit Digitaleingängen stärker besteuern.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 17, 2004 at 10:52:00 PM CEST
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 17, 2004 at 9:23:00 PM CEST
Internet Heading to Light Speed
A new nanotechnology that eliminates network bottlenecks could help create a web surfers' paradise that is 100 times faster than today's internet.
Fiber-optic networks capable of sending information at 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps are being rolled out around the world and under the oceans to connect everyone to everything. But getting information to pass from one high-speed network to another can be slowed by electronic switching technology.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 17, 2004 at 6:58:00 PM CEST
200 apps clash with XP SP2
Consumers will be offered a major upgrade of Windows XP after Microsoft releases Service Pack 2 through Windows Update later this week.
The 272MB enterprise version of SP2 was released earlier this month and a smaller consumer version - weighing in at around 80MB - was due to be released via Windows Update yesterday (16 August), the BBC reports. This automatic delivery has now been put back until tomorrow (18 August). SP2 was due to debut last year so a couple of extra days wait is hardly going to make much difference.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 15, 2004 at 1:10:00 PM CEST
Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) introduces a number of new features that help increase the performance and the security of your system. These changes also affect the operations and functionality of some programs.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 12, 2004 at 4:40:00 PM CEST
Microsoft-Tool blockiert Service Pack 2
Microsoft bietet ein Tool gegen sein eigenes Service Pack 2, das die Sicherheit auf Windows-XP-Rechnern künftig erhöhen soll, an.
Da das SP2 jedoch die Funktionen einiger Programme beeinträchtigen kann, bietet Microsoft ein Tool an, das eine Installation über die Auto-Update-Funktion bis Dezember 2004 verhindert.
Hintergrund sind die Geschäftskunden, die ein Update-Desaster auf ihren oft Zehntausenden Computerarbeitsplätzen befürchten.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 9, 2004 at 2:13:00 PM CEST
A Computer With a Mouse and Mouse Ears
Combining the unparalleled creative magic of The Walt Disney Company with the leading names in technology, the Disney Dream Desk PC(TM) was unveiled today in New York City by Bob Iger, Disney president and COO, and the guy who inspired the PC's creative design, Mickey Mouse himself. Children represent the fastest growing segment of personal computer users, and now they can have a great time learning, exploring, and stretching their imagination with the first Disney personal computer created especially for them.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 6, 2004 at 12:14:00 PM CEST
Chinese nationalists sabotage Japan, Taiwan websites
Chinese hackers struck back over a cyber attack by Japanese activists by hacking into dozens of official websites in Japan and Taiwan, China's official newspaper Wen Wei Po's Hong Kong edition reported Friday. The newspaper said powerful hacker groups organized 1,900 hackers to launch a massive attack on more than 200 official websites in Japan and Taiwan on Monday.
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