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Closing the Door to Microsoft Vista

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:07:31 +0000

General Motors (GM) may take a detour around Vista, the latest computer operating system from Microsoft (MSFT). The automaker has encountered so many speed bumps getting Vista to work on its machines that it may... Read more...

AMD opens door to ATI Linux drivers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:26:23 +0000

AMD's ATI division is reversing its open source strategy by offering better open source drivers. The graphics chips maker has traditionally demonstrated a poor performance in allowing open source drivers. Dell, for instance, made a... Read more...

Windows Live Bug Opened Door to Scammers

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:48:50 +0000

Microsoft Corporation has fixed a bug in its Windows Live ID registration that let users deceptively register a false e-mail address. The false e-mail address could then be used as an ID for Microsoft's Live... Read more...

Scientists Open Door to Laptop That Literally Screams

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:11:17 +0000

Scientists at the University of Utah have developed a way to convert the wasted heat in electronic devices into sound and then electricity, promising cooler, greener, and perhaps louder, computers and other machines. Orest Symko,... Read more...

Lawmakers working to ban hacked RFID door cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:28:44 +0000

There's already an RFID security brouhaha brewing in Washington, and if some people have their way, it won't be the last legal fight waged in the nation's capital over use of the wireless technology. The... Read more...

Mozilla: Firefox 3.0 opens door to Web apps

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:21:24 +0000

Firefox 3.0, the open-source browser which is slated for release in the second half of 2007, will include many new features, including offline support for Web applications and new bookmark and search features. While the... Read more...

First OLPC laptops make it out the door

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:28:38 +0000

After much anticipation and hordes of coverage, the first OLPC ($100 laptops) laptops are being shipped. Only 10 units so far have made it out the door, and are going to be evaluated as beta... Read more...

Opinion: IE7 is out of the door, Move along Firefox?

Steven Parker — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:48:31 +0000

Yesterday on Wednesday 18th at around 5pm PST Dean Hachamovitch, the General Manager for the IE development team, announced the immediate availability of Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP and Server 2003. Vista versions... Read more...

UK wants back door into Windows Vista

Tom Warren — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:42:58 +0000

According to the BBC, UK officials are in talks with Microsoft about creating back doors into Windows Vista. Microsoft is currently using BitLocker Drive Encryption through a chip called... Read more...

Sun Opens Door to Windows

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:15:29 +0000

Sun Microsystems may be warming up to the idea of selling Microsoft's Windows operating system on its servers. Tom Goguen, vice president of operating platform marketing for Sun, said this week that while Sun currently... Read more...

Java flaws Open Door to Hackers

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:51:37 +0000

Sun Microsystems has fixed a pair of security bugs in Java that could be exploited by attackers to take over computers running Windows, Linux and Solaris. The flaws are "highly critical," security... Read more...

IBM will unlock door to Cell

Tue, 24 May 2005 21:13:39 +0000

The three developers of the Cell processor are preparing to release full chip specifications and software libraries in an effort to rally the open-source community around the device that powers the Sony Playstation 3. With... Read more...

Mac malware door creaks open

Tue, 10 May 2005 16:51:32 +0000

Dashboard, one of the much-publicized features of Apple Computer's latest OS, Tiger, could be ripe for exploitation by porn scammers. Apple has been encouraging developers to create new widgets for Tiger's Dashboard-—a... Read more...

Homeland Security works door at Gates' party

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 05:35:36 +0000

A party at Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' waterfront mansion recently became the focus of unusual police attention. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a "temporary security zone" earlier this month around... Read more...

MyDoom Attacks Microsoft.com Through Back Door

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:44:23 +0000

As many security researchers feared after analyzing the code for MyDoom.O, a second, related attack began in earnest Tuesday with a new piece of code using the back door installed by MyDoom.O to spread itself... Read more...

Longhorn: Will Microsoft keep the door open?

Brad Wardell — Sun, 23 May 2004 17:43:27 +0000

The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn has incredible possibilties. The desktop, as you know it, dies with Longhorn. Instead, it will be a fully composited desktop. Or, to put it another way,... Read more...

Sun: Door still open on open source Java

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:32:46 +0000

While acknowledging obstacles remain, a Sun Microsystems official on Tuesday left open the possibility that Sun might offer its Java programming language under an open source format. Speaking during a Sun Software Summit in Menlo... Read more...

Israel slams the door on Microsoft

Tom Warren — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:47:52 +0000

In a bold assertion of independence, Israel has thrown the full weight of its antitrust legislation at Microsoft. The Israeli Ministry of Commerce has suspended all governmental contracts with Microsoft, and indicated... Read more...

Foot in the Door for Open Source?

Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:43:45 +0000

There is no question about it: As far as David-and-Goliath scenarios go, the scrappy open-source office applications that have taken on mighty Microsoft Office could not have picked a seemingly more invincible foe. Bill Gates'... Read more...

Linux founder opens door to DRM

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 02:49:39 +0000

Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux operating system, threw a curve ball into the open-source programming community Thursday. In a posting sent to a key Linux-focused e-mail list, he outlined a... Read more...

Security fix for OpenVMS ships out back door

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:57:38 +0000

THE MUCH TOUTED invulnerability of the VMS operating system has received a knock after Akita Security found a bug in the UCX pop server. That, according to the firm in an advisory, which... Read more...

Google Turns Away Robots From Its Front Door

Darren Bolton — Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:45:52 +0000

Citing the need to protect its server resources, Google has prevented competing search engines from indexing much of its own Web site, the company confirmed Wednesday. While Google has amassed an index of over... Read more...

Door Opened for Mars Odyssey Science

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:36:41 +0000

By Lori Stiles - University of Arizona News Mars Odyssey today is a step closer toward its mission to map the Red Planet. Odyssey is carrying the Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS), built... Read more...

BUSTED! Breaks door down starts yellin, that kinda stuff

Steven Parker — Sat, 15 Dec 2001 00:41:21 +0000

Well, that same little bird that has been updating The C-A-D with the latest news about the FBI piracy busts has a sad story to tell. He himself has been raped of his computer,... Read more...