Nasa hacker gets sentenced
Twenty-nine year old Ikenna Iffih, from Boston, Massachusetts, a former computer science student has been sentenced to six months house arrest, two years probation and a ban from using computers for recreational purposes after he repeatedly hacked into the Nasa computer system last year.Iffih gained access to a Nasa research project over a four month […]
Don’t wear gloves when using your Toshiba
Toshiba are planning to add fingerprint reading devices to their laptop computers in a bid to fight security problems as an extra feature. This facility is to be supplied by specialist Identix, that will use a biometric PCMCIA card with BioLogon software.The device that uses the Identix DFR-300 optical fingerprint reader can be installed on […]
Watch out – Christmas viruses starting to make rounds
Look out for another christmas virus that is starting to find it’s way to festive office workers. This is attached to an e-mailed christmas carol and it contains a damaging internet worm.It is known as the I.worm.music, or W32/Music work and it first came out in September, only to re-appear last week as a friendly […]
PowerPoint Resource Centre
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Freeserve in talks for takeover
Freeserve have confirmed that they are holding discussions with Wanadoo, the internet service provider controlled by France Telecom that could lead to a takeover.Freeserve who is currently 80% owned by Dixons stated that they had entered into discussions that ‘may or may not’ lead to an offer being made for the company in shares.Freeserves shares […]
Microsoft issue patch to fix security flaw
Microsoft have provided a patch for Exchange 2000 Server in order to fix a security problem that allowed hackers to log in remotely and gain access to other resources on the same domain.The problems has appeared in earlier version of this application that allowed the setup utility to create an account with an known user […]
Netscape Version 6 – now released
Netscape Communications announced the release of their new Netscape browser that operates an interface that works with Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems. It also supports the XML programming environment that will help developers and users to create applications that can be used across platforms as well as transfer data between different environments.Additional improvements include […]
Training Exchanges – what are they?
Traditional approaches to purchasing training appears to be taking a new angle in conjunction with the changing trends of training delivery. This is not about e-learning but about what is to be referred to as ‘training exchanges’ the on-line joining of corporate training buyers and vendors.Many of those in search of their appropriate training provider […]
Corel demonstrates WordPerfect Office at Comdex Conference
Corel demonstrated their preview version of their planned WordPerfect Office 2002 application suite and stated that their upgrade operates much faster than their previous versions.This suite includes WordPerfect 10 wordprocessor, Quattro Pro 10 spreadsheet, CorelCentral 10 personal information manager and Corel Presentation 10. As there is an increase in performance, this should go towards improving […]
Comdex Conference – Bill Gates warns of death of the browser
At this years Comdex conference, in his new role as Microsoft Chief software architect, Bill Gates introduced two new products and at the same time issued a warning stating that the browser is dying.Gates claimed that the future lies in a software-to-software model based on XML protocol with peer-to-peer models such as Napster, Gnutella and […]
Network Security Training
With more high profile security scares being regularly reported, this should increase the issue of security on any businesses agenda, otherwise further incidents could lead to very embarrassing and costly situations as for example the recent intrusions experienced by Microsoft.Security training should cover all those end-users that have access to a network, even though most […]
Review of Microsoft Exchange 2000
The intention of Microsoft’s Exchange 2000 is to provide Anytime, Anywhere systems to enable companies to provide their employees with facilities for better communication with their customers and with each other. It has been reported that Exchange 2000 and Windows 2000 Server version meets this requirement.Exchange 2000 Server allows the sharing of resources across networks […]
EMMA Foundation awards – ‘recognising excellence in digital media content’
Digital Media organisation the EMMA Foundation has announced the winners of this years International EMMA Awards. Entries from over 40 countries competed for the awards, given to ‘recognise excellence in digital media content creation’, which were presented at an online ceremony on the EMMA website – the awards were judged in Amsterdam.In the Education and […]
NETg win two training awards this year
NETg, a subsidiary of Harcourt General, a $4 billion publishing and multimedia organisation, that deliver technology-based training products, have won the award of Training Company of the Year at the Computing Awards for Excellence 2000 held in October this year. This follows an earlier award from the Institute of IT Training (IITT) which means that […]
Leicester Companies to benefit from LearnDirect project
The University for Industry has launched a pilot project at the LearnDirect centre in Leicester aimed at supporting local businesses and encouraging lifelong learning.The Learning Works provides companies with an interactive PC, supported by virtual mentors. Employees can then access a range of courses at work. All costs for the scheme are being covered by […]
Survey 2000 – Attitudes to e-learning
A survey conducted by the Campaign for Learning, KPMG, Ufi Ltd and Peter Honey Learning between June and August 2000, have highlighted practices and attitudes towards e-learning and from this have published their findings in a report outlining some of the issues involved with this method of training: The majority of e-learning takes place at […]
UK Internet Privacy Group fight against RIP act
The recently passed law, Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act is being fought against by the UK Internet civil liberties group Cyper Rights & Cyper Liberties. To help them with their project they have teamed up with US e-mail encryption company Hush Communications.Together their ‘Cyber-Rights.Net’ will be working at bypassing the regulations that this Act […]
Virus scanning software McAfee locks Windows
Network Associates have recently confirmed that their latest version of McAfee Virus Scanning software has caused many Windows systems to lock up whilst it has been starting up.This has been caused by a bug in the programs definition file and the scan engine software. The only way to amend this is by re-booting windows in […]
eLEARNITY forms alliance with THINQ
eLearnity, an independent e-learning consultancy has joined forces with THINQ in order to provide customers with a total integrated e-learning solution. By forming such a partnership, they will be able to offer implementation, development and management of e-learning strategies to ensure that they get exactly what it is they want from a single service provider.They […]
Microsoft Windows Whistler Beta 1 released
On Tuesday, Microsoft have released their first official beta version of Microsoft Whistler, the successor to Windows 2000. This week they will begin shipping their CD versions to an additional 200,000 testers who subscribe to the Microsoft Developer Network service. They will be delivering desktop versions of the operating system first followed by server versions […]
