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From TechRepublic: Four major PC makers have no plans to sell the media-player-free version of Windows, which Microsoft was ordered to offer by Europe’s competition commissioner. Microsoft will make an updated version of Window XP N available on Wednesday, but none of the computer manufacturers that ZDNet UK spoke to are considering preinstalling it on …
From E-commerce Times: “There is a monster data market of information from sources that aren’t supposed to have that information,” says Jeff Moss, president of Black Hat, a Seattle-based computer security training and conference firm. “Inside employees who are misbehaving are very hard to stop,” he says. “It’s very frustrating.” In the recent cases of …
From MSNBC (Reuters): Internet “zombie” attacks that attempt to knock computer systems offline are more likely to come from users of America Online than any other source, according to a report released by a security company on Tuesday. AOL and other large Internet service providers serve as launching pads for most “denial of service” attacks, …
From CNN: For a video game, Pac-Man is getting downright old. The ghost-wary hero with an insatiable appetite for dots turns 25 this month. From the early 1980s “Pac-Mania” to today’s endless sequels and rip-offs, the original master of maze management remains a bright yellow circle on the cultural radar. But there was more to …
From InternetNews.com: Not to be outdone in the search features race, MSN quietly turned on a new version of Start.com, a different take on the personalized search home page. The default Start.com page contains a search bar at the top, with weather, stock quotes and a few RSS (define) feeds. Users can select from a …
From USA Today: The first one-time-use video camera goes on sale this week at CVS drugstores in the Northeast. The makers of the $29.95 camera and CVS hope the device will do for video what one-time-use cameras did for film sales: dramatically increase the market. “The one-time-use camera revolutionized the film market,” says Grant Pill, …
From MSNBC: Even Bob Woodward doesn’t trust the Internet. Last week, after Vanity Fair surprised everyone last week by disclosing the identity of Deep Throat, The Washington Post published a lengthy, detailed retrospective by Woodward on W. Mark Felt, the FBI agent who served as his secret informant during Watergate. Woodward had the story essentially …
From VNUnet: Sales of laptop computers in the US have outstripped desktop PCs for the first time, according to figures released by analyst firm Current Analysis. Laptop sales made up 53.3 per cent of total retail PC sales in May, compared to 45.9 per cent during the same period last year.
From Windows IT Pro: As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Monday during his keynote address at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2005 that his company is migrating to Intel microprocessors. The transition will take over two years, Jobs noted, with the first Intel-based Macs appearing in mid-2006. “Our goal is to provide our …
From TechRepublic: Dell will launch a new premium brand targeted at high-end home customers, the company announced on Thursday. The No. 1 PC maker said the as-of-yet unnamed brand, which is slated to debut this fall, would include both desktop and notebooks priced between $1,200 and $3,500 and positioned just above the company’s Dimension and …