Posted in Technology, The Net on Apr 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Microsoft is scrambling to fix a bug in its free Hotmail email service that mysteriously deletes the body text from sent and received messages. Various reports from Australian users suggest the problem has occurred for several days but Microsoft has yet to install a remedy. Karin Muskopf, senior product manager at Microsoft, said the company [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student has earned a $30,000 prize for work on destroying drug-resistant bacteria and keeping medical and food-processing equipment sterile. Timothy Lu, 27, was named winner of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize on Wednesday for developing processes to attack bacteria strains that increasingly resist antibiotics. One of Lu’s projects involves engineering [...]
Posted in The Net on Nov 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Hacker Dan Egerstad A Swedish hacker tells how he infiltrated a global communications network used by scores of embassies over the world, using tools freely available on the internet. In August, Swedish hacker Dan Egerstad gained access to sensitive embassy, NGO and corporate email accounts. Were they captured from the clutches of hackers? Or were [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Nov 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Intel plans to roll out its newest generation of processors on Monday, flexing its manufacturing muscle with a sophisticated new process that crams up to 40 percent more transistors onto the company’s chips. The world’s largest semiconductor company expects to start shipping 16 new microprocessors – which also boast inventive new materials to stanch electricity [...]
Posted in The Net on Nov 7th, 2007 No Comments »
The Facebook free ride is over as the social network now seeks to turn its 50-million-strong user base into an army of viral marketers. It comes as the company is under intense pressure to cash in on the wealth of personal data it has collected, following a $US250 million ($268 million) investment from Microsoft, which [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Nov 6th, 2007 No Comments »
An Australian researcher is on the road to riches after discovering a way to make broadband connections up to 100 times faster. University of Melbourne research fellow Dr John Papandriopoulos is in the throes of moving to Silicon Valley after developing an algorithm to reduce the electromagnetic interference that slows down ADSL connections. Most ADSL [...]
Posted in The Net on Nov 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Rating: 3.5/5 The fifth edition of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system may have been worth the wait but it’s worth waiting a little longer before you buy it. Apple will probably need to issue an update to smooth Leopard’s rough edges, while several other companies have to update their [...]
Posted in The Net on Nov 4th, 2007 No Comments »
In a backhanded compliment to Apple, online criminals are apparently so impressed with its scorching sales they are sending Macintosh computers an attack typically aimed at machines running Microsoft’s dominant Windows operating system. Symantec researchers said the websites serving up the new attack also deploy a Windows version. “For a while Mac users have enjoyed [...]
Posted in The Net on Nov 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Internet social networking leader MySpace is joining Google Inc.’s platform for sharing applications across the Web _ a concept that threatens to undermine the rapid growth of their common rival, Facebook Inc. Google trumpeted the MySpace coup Thursday in a meeting with reporters, two days after revealing its plans to create a distribution network for [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Apple Inc.’s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system is hitting store shelves as consumers are increasingly snapping up Macintosh computers to complement their iPods and iPhones. Dubbed Leopard, the upgrade went on sale at 6 p.m. local time Friday at stores around the world. It offers improvements to an operating system that [...]