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Four upcoming Motorola handsets

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:53:17 +0000

Motorola has a few interesting designs set to launch in 2009. Currently only codenames and images are available for the phones. The four devices known to us are: FLASH (pictured below), a touchscreen-only device, RUSH2... Read more...

Four Microsoft security patches due next week

Steven Parker — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:47:37 +0000

Microsoft plans to fix critical bugs in its Word, Publisher, and Jet database software next week. The software vendor also plans to release a less-critical update for its antivirus products, fixing a flaw that attackers... Read more...

Microsoft preps four Office patches

Steven Parker — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:28:27 +0000

Microsoft is planning at least four security updates this week in its Patch Tuesday release for March. The security update will address four vulnerabilities, all of which have been given Microsoft's highest alert level of... Read more...

Four People jailed in Lebanon for Facebook comments

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:53:54 +0000

A Lebanese Facebook group began as a collection of juvenile jokes revolving around a fellow student. After complaining to university authorities and being told that the matter was not a university concern, the woman took... Read more...

Google Hosts Content From Four News Services

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:11:55 +0000

Internet search leader Google Inc. has started hosting stories and photographs distributed each day by the AP, Agence France-Presse, The Press Association in the United Kingdom, and The Canadian Press on its own servers. Google... Read more...

EarthLink to Cut 900 Jobs and Close Four Offices

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:50:14 +0000

Internet service provider Earthlink announced today that it will cut more than 900 jobs and close four offices in an effort to reduce operating costs. The company will also repurchase $200 million of its stock... Read more...

Bungie Confirms Four Player Halo 3 Online Co-Op

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:54:31 +0000

Halo fans rejoice! Bungie, maker of Halo 3, one of the most anticipated games for Microsoft's Xbox360, has just confirmed today that Halo 3 will have a not two, not three, but four person co-op... Read more...

Warez ringleader gets over four years in prison

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:34:11 +0000

After pleading guilty in a US federal court earlier this year, 44-year-old Hew Griffiths, the head of underground piracy group "DrinkOrDie", was sentenced to 51 months in jail last week on one count of conspiracy... Read more...

Microsoft to release four critical patches next week

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:30:00 +0000

Microsoft has announced plans to issue four "critical" security bulletins next week that address vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Windows Mail in Vista. "Critical" is the most severe ranking Microsoft assigns to... Read more...

Apple plugs Four Security Holes

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:59:00 +0000

Apple has made four new security updates available on its website and the Software Update selection under the Apple menu on a Mac. The flaws in Mac OS X and iChat were identified by the... Read more...

Retail breach may have exposed card data in four countries

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:23:06 +0000

The credit and debit card data of a large number of shoppers in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada, and possibly in the U.K and Ireland, may have been compromised as the result of a... Read more...

Microsoft pulls four planned patches

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:55:19 +0000

Microsoft has pulled four bulletins from its announced list of Patch Tuesday fixes, but did not specify why it was backpedaling on the security releases. It now plans to issue four security bulletins on Tuesday,... Read more...

Microsoft ships four games

Todd Tanner — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:57:02 +0000

Microsoft today announces it has released four new Games for Windows (though two are for the same game) and are shipping to stores now: Flight jockeys, military tacticians and animal lovers can rejoice... Read more...

Intel to stop production of four Pentium D CPUs by year-end

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:35:57 +0000

Intel informed its channel partners in Taiwan that it plans to stop manufacturing four desktop-use Pentium D processors (model numbers 830, 840, 930 and 940) by the end of 2006, according to channel sources. The... Read more...

iPod Life Estimated at Four Years

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:55:38 +0000

Though some iPods do develop faults, Apple builds them to last at least four years, the company claims. A Chicago Tribune report weighs up the cacophony of complaints regarding Apple's music players. With Apple selling... Read more...

McAfee's 'Falcon' to come in four flavours

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:56:36 +0000

McAfee said on Tuesday that it plans to release four versions of its new "Falcon" security products, which is designed to rival Symantec and newcomer Microsoft. The four editions will vary in the number of... Read more...

Four plead guilty to online piracy

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:41:43 +0000

A group of three men have admitted distributing music illegally and another man pleaded guilty to one count of criminal copyrightinfringement. Matthew Howard of Colorado, Aaron Jones of Oregon, ... Read more...

Four Livedoor Staff Arrested

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:26:42 +0000

Despite denying any wrongdoing the head of Livedoor, Takafumi Horie, has been arrested along with three other colleagues in Japan. The Japanese company has recently caused havoc... Read more...

ATi R580 will come in four versions

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:57:23 +0000

ALTHOUGH SOME web sites reported that the upcoming R580 chip will come in three different versions, the fact is that R580 chip will replace the R520 line entirely. ... Read more...

iTunes Japan Shifts 1m Songs in Four Days

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:39:05 +0000

Apple Japan has sold more than one million songs to Japanese consumers since it opened its own iTunes Music Store last Thursday, the company said today. "iTunes has sold twice as many songs in just... Read more...

Sony Ericsson unveils four new phones

Sean Bradford — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:41:54 +0000

Sony Ericsson unveiled four new mobile phones Monday, the K6O8, J210, S600 and the Z520. The new phones rang from a basic handset with text and calling options, to a advanced phone with third-generation technology... Read more...

Fantastic Four movie

Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:02:39 +0000

Activision has released the first movie trailer for Fantastic Four, revealing more of this third-person action adventure tie-in by Beenox Studios to the upcoming 20th Century Fox motion picture. This high-resolution clip introduces the game... Read more...

Zelda's Four Swords coming to the DS

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:02:02 +0000

Retail sources say Nintendo has announced a new version of its GBA-connected GameCube game. Nintendo's Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures may have been a hit to those who played it, but... Read more...

EU asks four countries to justify call for Intel chips

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:19:41 +0000

The European Commission has asked four European Union countries to justify why they favor Intel Corp. processors in computers for public authorities, it announced Wednesday. The Commission has asked France, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden... Read more...

Halo 2 Live to support four players on one Xbox

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:23:15 +0000

Halo 2 will allow four people to connect to Xbox Live on the same Xbox at the same time. That's just one of many closely guarded details that a cheeky beta tester announced to Microsoft's... Read more...

Four Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:02:02 +0000

A big thanks goes out to VikingStorm for spotting this bit of news first. Secunia has discovered four new Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. These bugs affect IE 5.01, IE 5.5, and IE 6. ... Read more...

Zelda: Four Swords Adventures site opens

Thu, 27 May 2004 15:13:19 +0000

Nintendo launches a teaser site for The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures ahead of its release next month. Nintendo has recently launched a mini Web site for The Legend of Zelda:... Read more...

Sony PSP: Four exclusive new movies unveiled

Darren Bolton — Thu, 20 May 2004 08:50:17 +0000

Loads more footage of the handheld wunderkind in action: GT4, Metal Gear, Wipeout Pure and more... Sony's PSP handheld was one of the real highlights of this year's E3 and, so you can... Read more...

Man shoots computer four times

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:41:19 +0000

A bar owner in the US has been charged after shooting his laptop computer. George Doughty is said to have fired four bullets into the Dell computer in the middle of his bar... Read more...

AOL gives four ISP's access to it's cable

Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:16:05 +0000

The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday certified four providers of high-speed Internet service to compete on AOL Time Warner cable systems around the country, which fulfills the requirements that the FTC imposed on AOL... Read more...

One in four U.S. Internet users get religion

Mon, 24 Dec 2001 00:38:32 +0000

God trumps money online, a study released Sunday found, as more adult Americans use the Internet for religious purposes than for gambling, banking or trading stocks. One out of four adult American... Read more...

GameCubes sold out in four minutes

Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:08:52 +0000

The online arm of leading toy and video game retailer Toys R Us said it sold out its first pre-order of the new Nintendo GameCube video game console in four minutes on Monday. ... Read more...