David Perry, Global Director of Education for Trend Micro, said: "There are a number of naming conventions for viruses, but it's a vast and Byzantine process. Nimda is 'Admin' spelled backwards, and Canadian ASP Crooked Stick chose the name to...
Apparently a psychology professor by the name of Cleveland Evans (himself no stranger to unusual names) who works at Bellevue University in Nebraska analysed the names of four million babies born in the US in 2000 and discovered the trend of...
The three new Pentium 4 processors, along with one new Celeron model, also feature Intel's recently introduced naming convention, under which each processor is denoted with a model number meant to illustrate its overall performance.
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), a division of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), said it would publish two competing and overlapping sets of documents that define ways of confirming email senders are who they say they are.
For many months Apple has been rumoured to be working on a hybrid mobile phone/digital music device with an identical moniker, following the same naming conventions as the company's popular iPod music player and iMac desktop system.
Paul Twomey, the chief executive of Icann, told the BBC earlier this week that allowing the new naming conventions would create new "real estate" on the internet. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted Thursday to...