The mass-mailing virus attempts to send itself to all users found in the Windows address book and email addresses found in the temporary web browser cache. The worm can also send itself to all entries in user's address book.
History shows that Microsoft came late to the party but ended up with the best looking girl in the room: Netscape lost the browser wars and no longer has anything like the penetration levels it had back in the mid-90s.
Data stored on its servers can even tell people which sites they've visited - and when. What's novel about it is that it can keep a diary of notes about any visited web pages and then store them for access on any computer.
It works so well that I have never visited a branch of my current bank and have only telephoned a couple of times in five years. I am not confident that I really know when Columbus discovered America, so if I forgot the number and attempted to look...
A protocol allows desktop software to interact with the web browser. Google, founded in 1998, has also been rumoured in the last year to be working on a web browser, a thin-client operating system, and a searchable digital archive of library and...
Previous Harry Potter book The Order of the Phoenix made ecommerce history when it dominated Amazon.co.uk's top 10 bestseller list for most of 2003. Within two hours of its release being announced on 15 January 2003 the book raced to the top of the...