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Five desktop Linux highlights of 2007

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:42:40 +0000

Opinion -- Sometimes putting together a best-of-the-year list is like pulling teeth. There simply isn't enough big news to fill the list out. That was not a problem for desktop Linux in 2007. This year... Read more...

One in Five PCs Infected With Rootkits

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:09:53 +0000

Malware researchers at Prevx have highlighted what they are calling a 'massive growth' in the number of PCs harboring rootkit infections. More than 725,000 PCs were scanned using the Prevx CSI malware scanner over a... Read more...

Microsoft Gives WebFives the High Five

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:54:09 +0000

Microsoft's WebFives acquisition should bolster the company's services for sharing digital content and online socializing about it. Like many other Microsoft acquisitions, there was no splashy announcement. There is simply a notice on WebFives' home... Read more...

HTC ships 1 Million HTC Touch Smartphones in Five Months

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:53:35 +0000

Sales of HTC Touch, the touch-controlled smartphone made High Tech Computer (HTC), surpassed one million units at the end of October after the phone was launched in June, according to HTC CEO Peter Chou. Total... Read more...

Xbox Live Collects Eight Million Users in Five Years

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:51:31 +0000

On November 15, Microsoft's Xbox Live service will have been in operation for five years, now with "more than eight million members now actively engaged in the largest social entertainment network on TV." To celebrate... Read more...

Chinese government at the center of five cyber attack claims

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:38:25 +0000

A wave of attacks in the UK, Germany, and the United States from Chinese-based computers had the Chinese foreign ministry issuing an official denial that their government had been involved. Afterwards, officials from New Zealand... Read more...

Microsoft Readies Five September Security Updates

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:59:08 +0000

Microsoft will release five sets of security patches next Tuesday, including a critical update for users of Windows 2000, the company said Thursday. With the remaining four security updates rated as "important" by Microsoft, this... Read more...

Purchase a Blu-ray Player, Get Five Free Movies

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:19:06 +0000

Between July 1 and September 30, the Blu-ray Disc Association will offer five free movies to new U.S. owners of Blu-ray Disc players (from any company). The deal applies to the PlayStation 3 as well,... Read more...

Five ways to defeat blog trolls and cyberstalkers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:02:23 +0000

Anyone who has participated in the blogosphere in the past two months knows the troubling story of Kathy Sierra, a prominent blogger who was the victim of online threats that included violent sexual acts and... Read more...

Microsoft: Just five years support for Vista Home, Ultimate

Steven Parker — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:33:02 +0000

Microsoft Corp. yesterday said it would limit support for three versions of the Windows Vista operating system, including its most expensive, to five years rather than the usual 10 years. The company defended the difference... Read more...

Oracle Launches Massive Update To All Five App Lines

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:40:38 +0000

Oracle gathered partners, customers and press on Wednesday to hail major new versions of all five application sets in its software lineup. Oracle E-Business Suite 12, PeopleSoft Enterprise 9, Siebel CRM 8 and JD Edwards... Read more...

Five Things to Know About Longhorn Server Core

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:28:58 +0000

I've written about Server Core before -- in my Longhorn Server review of Beta Version 2. It's Microsoft's great new addition to the Longhorn Server product. Essentially, Server Core is a slimmed-down, appliancelike version of... Read more...

Intel Promises Teraflop Chips within Five Years

Steven Parker — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:52:45 +0000

Intel today announced that it has produced its first teraflop-on-a-chip. The chip, essentially a prototype, was demonstrated when Intel CEO Paul Otellini showed off the wafer during this week's IDF conference opening keynote. Each of... Read more...

Intel pledges 80 cores in five years

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:51:13 +0000

Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating point operations per second. CEO Paul Otellini held up a silicon wafer with the prototype chips before several... Read more...

Security Projects Lag Five Years After September 11

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:17:16 +0000

Following the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, the government launched a robust, and oft-criticized, electronic surveillance program, but other IT-related security projects designed to thwart terrorism have seen little advance.... Read more...

Xbox 360 Outsells Five Year Old PS2

Joe Cashman — Sun, 21 May 2006 21:27:30 +0000

Xbox fans are touting the success of Microsoft's latest console after it outsold the PS2 last month, five months after the release of the console. Despite the PS2 now being five years old in the... Read more...

Five Former EA Employees Establish New Studio

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:56:18 +0000

Deep Fried Entertainment or DFE is the new kid on the development block. Formed by five former EA Black Box employees they hope to, "capitalise on the creative freedoms and technical innovations that often elude... Read more...

Nintendo DS sales topped five million in March

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:12:54 +0000

Worldwide sales of the Nintendo DS handheld shot through the five million mark in mid-March, putting the company well within its five to six million unit target for the full year to March 31st according... Read more...

Top Five Scams

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:16:38 +0000

PC World has published a list of the top five online scams affecting Americans. Research firm Gartner believes nearly 10 million were hit online by fraudsters in the past year. There's nothing hugely surprising in... Read more...

One in five buy their software via spam

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:20:20 +0000

THE BUSINESS SOFTWARE Alliance claimed that over one in five British people buy their software via spam. It bases that on a survey conducted by Forrester Research. According to the BSA, "many online consumers don't... Read more...

Intel to introduce five south-bridge chips for Smithfield

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:37:29 +0000

Intel plans to introduce five versions of its ICH7 south-bridge chip for its Smithfield dual-core platform, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. In addition to the ICH7 for standard PCs, there will be an... Read more...

Atlus announces five DS games

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:54:23 +0000

Japan-based Atlus announced today that it is currently planning five games for the Nintendo DS, including the tentatively titled Shin Megami Tensei DS, which will join the recently announced Shin Megami Tensei Online as upcoming... Read more...

Saudi Arrests Five After Seizing Bomb-Making CDs

Thu, 25 Dec 2003 21:49:44 +0000

Saudi authorities, facing a wave of militant attacks, have arrested five people after raiding computer shops selling compact disks containing hidden bomb-making instructions, a local newspaper reported on Thursday. Police were questioning... Read more...

Chinese cyber dissident sentenced to five years

Sun, 18 May 2003 16:00:45 +0000

China's pioneering cyber-dissident Huang Qi, one of the first to be arrested for expressing his political views on the Internet, has been sentenced to five years in prison for subversion, lawyers and a rights group... Read more...

Windows CE to outship PCs in five years - researcher

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 10:58:54 +0000

In five years' time, more Windows CE devices will be shipping than Windows PCs. So reckons PC and PDA market researcher eTForecasts. So while 2002 saw 126 million PC shipments worldwide and nine million WinCE... Read more...

AMD will die within five years, implies IBM exec

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 11:05:32 +0000

IBM MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST choice of friends for AMD if the attitude of Bill Zeitler is anything to go by. He is predicting IBM and Intel will be the only players at the... Read more...

Bluetooth in five minutes or bust

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:43:22 +0000

It's a question of time if Bluetooth companies want to see blue skies--five minutes, an industry group leader plans to tell developers this week. Mike McCamon, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG),... Read more...