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Net blamed as 10,000 kids turn to crime

James Hall — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:24:58 +0000

ABOUT 10,000 Victorian children aged 10 to 14 have been cautioned by police, arrested or ordered to appear in court in the past year, as a surge in youth crime continues. Victoria Police say the... Read more...

Malware outbreak blamed on file-swapped MP3s, MPEGs

Tom Warren — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:22:05 +0000

Consumers are being warned that they may get an ad instead of a music or video file on several file-sharing sites in what security firm McAfee says is the most significant malware outbreak in three... Read more...

Gunplay blamed for Internet slowdown

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:32:41 +0000

Internet service providers in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire. TeliaSonera AB, which lost the northern leg of its U.S. network to the cut,... Read more...

Solar flares blamed for dropped cellphone calls

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:37:48 +0000

Solar flares, fiery geysers that erupt on the sun's surface, have been known to interrupt radio and television signals from satellites, but now a team of researchers, led by Queen's University professor David Thomson in... Read more...

Apple Blunder Blamed for MacBook Heat Issues

Brad Sams — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:29:11 +0000

In a new article on its support Web site this week, Apple acknowledges that some 13-inch MacBooks may run warmer than normal due to a small oversight where some of the notebooks shipped with a... Read more...

Video sites blamed for web-traffic crisis

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:07:23 +0000

CNET News have published an article documenting how the recent explosion in online video sites has experts worried and searching for more efficient technology to deliver the goods. Sites such as... Read more...

Video game blamed for boy's murder sells out across Britain

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:55:25 +0000

Sales of a violent video game, linked to the brutal murder of a British teenager, were soaring as buyers rushed to buy their copy before the game is banned. Publicity surrounding the "Manhunt"... Read more...

GTA blamed for false bomb threat

Marcel Klum — Thu, 27 May 2004 18:25:58 +0000

Grand Theft Auto is in court again, although not - for once - as the defendant. Instead, this month an American man is claiming that the false "bomb threat" he is alleged to have shouted... Read more...

DoS attack blamed for Internet outage!

Sat, 29 Nov 2003 02:22:52 +0000

A denial of service attack on security website Zonelabs has been blamed for major disruption of the Internet over the past couple of days. According to an anonymous NTL employee's posting on www.frogger.uklinux.net,... Read more...

Damaged undersea cable blamed for UK Net problems

Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:24:15 +0000

A damaged undersea transatlantic cable is being blamed for causing havoc for Net and phone users in the UK last night. A number of ISPs are understood to have been hit by the problem, which... Read more...

Tablet PC in trouble--Microsoft blamed

Fri, 07 Nov 2003 16:47:24 +0000

One year after Microsoft launched its tablet PC operating system, sales have been disappointing, the choice of models is still poor, and software developers have no incentive to create specialist applications, according to a report... Read more...