Articles Archive for December 2009
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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.…
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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?…
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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.…
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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.…
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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
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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.…
