Archives for December, 2009
Dell crowned Bad Santa computer maker by angry customers
Holiday card labelled a ‘joke’
Dell customers are furious at the computer maker after it failed to deliver products in time for the holiday season, and instead offered a “Holiday Card” to place under their Christmas trees to replace undelivered gifts.…
iSlate? I spy more control from Cupertino
Rumours, speculation and state control
Apple is probably going to launch some sort of tablet PC next month, probably on January the 26th, but is this a revolution in computing or a revolution in control?…
Hackintosher’s new line: Linux and T-shirts
Psystar refuses to die
The irrepressible Hackintoshers that earlier this month were pronounced bleedin’ demised, only to respond with a Pythonesque “I’m not dead yet!” cry of defiance, have reemerged with a new business model: T-shirts and Linux boxes.…
TJX kingpin pleads guilty to Heartland hack
Forest Gump of cybercrime face 17 years plus
TJX hacking mastermind Albert Gonzalez faces a minimum of 17 years behind bars after pleading guilty to further cybercrimes.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
MS dismisses IIS zero-day bug reports
It ain’t vulnerable, just ‘inconsistent’
Microsoft has dismissed reports that there’s an unpatched critical flaw in the latest version of its webserver software.…
The power of collaboration within unified communications
X-Box 360 theft suspect busted after online gaming sesh
From tagged to fragged
An alleged X-Box 360 thief was tracked down after he forgot to disable the game console’s auto sign-in feature before hopping on the net.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
TJX sniffer author jailed for two years
First of the gang
The malware coder who wrote the sniffer program used in the infamous TJX credit card heist has been jailed for two years.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
How the cloud could conquer the world in 2010
Escape from the belly of the Fail Whale
Comment The cloud was one of the big topics of 2009, with a broad swath of technologies and offerings coming to market from vendors of all shapes and sizes.…
TJX sniffer author jailed for two years
First of the gang
The malware coder who wrote the sniffer program used in the infamous TJX credit card heist has been jailed for two years.…
Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
Christmas stockings attract a Touch or two
An Apple under every tree
Apple’s iPod Touch was the Christmas gift of choice this year, if an apparent 1000 per cent jump in application sales in anything to judge by.…
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