The real hard sell is likely to happen this summer when it comes bundled free of charge on new machines. According to a survey of almost 2,000 iMac buyers by research firm Audits and Surveys, 29.4 per cent of those who bought the brightly coloured...
SQL Slammer's code instructs the Microsoft SQL Server to go into an endless loop, continually sending out data to other computers, in effect performing a denial of service attack, F-Secure said, comparing the slowdown to the impact of the Code Red...
Dell, which ditched floppies as standard equipment on its Inspiron 4150 and 8250 notebooks last summer, will let customers configure one of its top-of-the-line Dimension 8250 PCs without a floppy drive by the end of this month, company...
Among them are FlexICs, which is working on flexible circuits for products such as flexible plastic screens; ZettaCore, which is working on molecular memory and Coatue, a nanotech start-up that Advanced Micro Devices quietly purchased last summer.
Oracle is working with a number of RFID reader makers, including Alien Technology and Intermec Technologies, which develop the driver programs. Oracle plans to build RFID data-processing capabilities into releases of its database and application...
Reports on the comp.periphs.printers Usenet newsgroup claim that Lexmark has been planting spyware on its customers' PCs in the form of undocumented software that monitors the use of its printers and silently reports back to a Lexmark-owned...