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Home PC users wake up to need for firewalls
News Home PC users are starting to catch on that surfing the Net requires a certain level of protection.
Sony Vaio PCV-W1
Reviews Sony's stylish home entertainment PC is coming to the UK in the autumn. Here's a preview.
SirCam tops virus charts for July
News Hyped-up warnings about the return of the self-propagating Code Red worm have overshadowed reports of the SirCam virus, which was by far the most prolific virus throughout July.
Gartner: PCs, handsets to lead electronics recovery
News Analyst firm says it has seen first signs of economic recovery in the electronics industry, with mobile phone and consumer PC markets leading the way.
Tags: Personal Computers, Cellular phones, Smart phones, Phone, mobile-phone, Recovery, home PC, handset, Personal Computers, Semiconductor
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Product Reviews Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows ME, Video, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Millennium, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 95, home PC
RIM reveals BlackBerry roadmap
News Mobile company lays out business plans for Blackberry with "prosumers" in its sight.
Tags: Business plans, Mobile, BlackBerry, Customer resource management (CRM), RIM BlackBerry, SAP AG, Small And Medium Enterprise, Research In Motion Ltd., phone, CIO
Clampi Trojan stealing online bank data from consumers and businesses
News Security researcher warns that two-year-old Trojan has infected hundreds of thousands of PCs and is stealing login credentials when victims access bank and other Web sites.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Network security, Security, SecureWorks Inc., antivirus, computer, bank, trojan horse, banking
Microsoft: Scareware, PDF exploits rise
News The company's latest Security Intelligence Report shows a rise in the use of rogue security software and attacks targeting PDF, Word, and other common file formats.
Tags: PC security, Network security, Security Management, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Phishing, Microsoft Corp., Malware, Security, Vulnerability
Wozniak joins SSD start-up
News Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will join solid-state drive firm Fusion-io as chief scientist and technical adviser, after having served on the company's advisory board.
Tags: Storage, Leadership, Solid State Disk, Steve Wozniak, Chief Scientist, Storage, mainframe computer, Computer, Fusion-io, advisory board
Gartner: Brace yourself for cloud computing
News Cloud computing led Gartner's list of ten big technologies to plan for in 2010. Also: mobile apps, desktop virtualization, social networks, green IT.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Cloud computing, Computer, Virtualization, Information Technology, mobile, Business Strategies & Functions, Social Computing, Gartner Inc., Cloud computing
McAfee launches free online cybercrime help center
News New McAfee Cybercrime Response Unit site offers PC scanning tool and helps people learn whether they are at risk of cybercrime and where to go if they have been victimized.
Tags: PC security, Spam and phishing, Phishing, Cookie, Malware, Security, Site, Fraud, computer, McAfee Inc.
Verizon expects 4G launch next year
News The wireless provider's chief technology officer discusses his expectations of the next-generation network and names the vendors that are building it.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireless, Wireless Network, Broadband, Verizon Wireless, E-readers, 3G, 4G, network
Remote terminal on your phone
Blogs Our tip today looks intimidating to most people, but may be a life saver to server administrators. If you're a server ad...
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Development/design, Network infrastructure, Mobile
For a more powerful notebook, try remote access to your home PC
Blogs Notebooks are designed for portability and are not meant to be used as powerful workstations. Notebooks tend to have slo...
Sober worm variant makes the rounds
News Sober.P harvests e-mail addresses from a victim and then sends a barrage of spam to those recipients.
Tags: Viruses and worms
