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News: Begin a New Year
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, January 01, 2010 - 04:30 AM PST |
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Mostly Creative Workshop wishes everyone a wonderful new year! Hopefully we'll get our new site up and running soon.
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News: Microsoft Windows 7 Released to Public
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 03:24 AM PST |
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Ventura, CA - Microsoft Corp. has officially released their latest operating system, Windows 7, to the marketplace...
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News: Where did Mostly Creative Workshop go again?
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 12:14 AM PST |
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Ventura, CA - Over the past couple of years, Mostly Creative Workshop has been working more heavily in the video production world and will be working to make a feature length film in the future, but in the mean time, we have a number of smaller projects in production...
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News: Actor Heath Ledger Found Dead in New York Home
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 03:02 PM PST |
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New York, NY - Actor Heath Ledger, starring as "The Joker" in the upcoming sequel to the film "Batman Begins," was found dead in his New York Apartment earlier today...
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News: Microsoft Extends Xbox 360 Warranty to Astonishing 3 Years
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, July 06, 2007 - 01:27 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corp., on Thursday, announced that it would expand its warranty period for the Xbox 360 from its previous extension of 1 year to 3 years for those experiencing the 3 Red Light failure condition...
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News: Xbox 360 Users Can Enjoy Motion Sensor Controller
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 01:14 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - The Sony Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii both offer some sort of motion control technology with their consoles, however, Microsoft's Xbox 360 hasn't offered that feature, until now, thanks to a third party add-on...
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News: Microsoft Cracks Down on Modified Xbox 360 Consoles
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 12:01 AM PST |
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Hollywood, CA - A little over a year after the modified DVD drive firmware hacks starting becoming big, Microsoft Corp. has finally begun to ban modified Xbox 360 consoles, similar to what they did with the original Xbox...
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News: ASUS Announces World's First SideShow Notebook
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Friday, March 16, 2007 - 01:47 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - One of the world's top 3 notebook PC makers, ASUS, Inc., announced yesterday that they will be releasing the first notebook PC to feature the new SideShow auxiliary display supported by Microsoft's new Vista operating system...
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News: New DOCSIS 3.0 Wideband Tuner Brings More Than 160Mbps to Cable Modem
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 12:15 AM PST |
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Plano, TX - Leveraging both its experience and expertise as a leading silicon tuner supplier to the cable market, Microtune, Inc. yesterday introduced the MicroTuner MT2170, the industry's first 1-gigahertz input tuner based on the new CableLabs DOCSIS 3.0 specification....
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News: HD-DVD Decrypted! Free Software Can Decrypt HD-DVD discs
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 12:07 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - A user by the name of muslix64 on the popular Doom9 forums released source code for an application that can decrypt HD-DVD movies, possibly a major blow to the movie industry...
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News: Microsoft Xbox 360 Owners Receive Christmas Presents
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 - 12:21 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Microsoft Corporation, the company behind the Xbox product, has extended the warranty period on the Xbox 360 from 90 days to one full year for all Xbox 360 consoles...
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News: Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Killed While Taping New Show
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 08:02 AM PST |
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Brisbane, AUSTRALIA - The world famous "Crocodile Hunter," best known for his use of the word "Crikey!" during trouble, was killed by a stingray while filming a new television series...
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News: Our Solar System Is No Longer Nine Planets
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 10:07 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - On Thursday, the International Astronomical Union, after many weeks of debate, stripped Pluto, currently the ninth and smallest planet, of its planetary status...
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News: Second Firmware Patch for Xbox 360 DVD Drive Made Public
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 09:48 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Within the past couple of months, the progress towards breaking the Microsoft Xbox 360, touted as highly secure, has revealed a major weakness, and today, a new firmware hack for the Hitachi DVD-ROM drive was released...
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News: Intel Launches New Xeon Server and Workstation Platforms
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 12:19 AM PST |
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Irvine, CA - Intel Corp. on Tuesday, launched their new Xeon platform line, formerly codenamed "Bensley" (Server) and "Glidewell" (Workstation) with immediate availability...
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News: Xbox 360 DVD Firmware Hack Released in to Wild
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 12:39 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - On the heels of E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), the first general release of a hack for the Xbox 360 starts to make its way into the public...
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News: Apple's New OS Can Run Microsoft Windows
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 11:20 AM PST |
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Cupertino, CA - Apple today introduced Boot Camp, public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run Microsoft Windows XP...
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News: Preparing for New Transition
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 02:08 AM PST |
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Mostly Creative Workshop has been quiet these past few months as we have been preparing for a new launch. We have not stopped doing what we do - and have a backlog of reviews and news to post up. However, at the moment, our website has taken a backseat due to the number of events going on in the personal lives of our members. Please stay tuned as we begin to add exciting content, and come out with version 4 of the Mostly Creative Workshop website. Thanks to our loyal fans and readers for their continued support.
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News: Star Trek's Scotty Passes Away
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 12:05 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - James Doohan, the actor who portrayed engineer "Montgomery Scott" in the original Star Trek series, seven films, in a guest appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation, passed away yesterday morning...
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News: AEG, America Online, XM Satellite Create New Company
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 12:15 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Network Live, a joint venture of AEG, America Online, and XM Satellite Radio, is the first multi-platform digital entertainment company committed to delivering live entertainment programming through the Internet, satellite and other third party global media platforms...
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News: Sasser Worm Creator Gets Suspended Sentence
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, July 11, 2005 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Berlin, GERMANY - Sven Jaschen, creator of the Sasser worm was given a suspended sentence and ordered to do community service...
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News: Stealing Wireless Internet is a Crime
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, July 08, 2005 - 12:19 AM PST |
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Miami, FL - Earlier this week, police in St. Petersburg reported that a man who was arrested for stealing a wireless internet signal faces a pretrial this month...
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News: Dinosaur Track Discovery in Alaska
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 12:02 AM PST |
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Anchorage, AK - On Tuesday, the Alaska National Park Service held a press conference regarding last week's find of a 70-million year old dinosaur footprint...
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News: China to Join International Effort in Fighting Spam
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 12:08 AM PST |
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Beijing, CHINA - Nearly 10% of spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail) originates from a computer located in China, and after months of discussion, China will cooperate with other countries to fight it...
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News: NASA's Deep Impact Probe Completes Mission
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 12:10 AM PST |
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Pasadena, CA - At 1:52 am yesterday, Deep Impact, NASA's probe sent to study the comet Tempel 1, collided with it in a brilliant flash, ending the mission...
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News: Poacher Responsible for Tiger Disappearance Arrested
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, July 01, 2005 - 01:26 AM PST |
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New Delhi, INDIA - Sansar Chand, a well known poacher most likely responsible for the disappearance of all tigers in a national reserve park, was arrested on Thursday...
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News: AMD Files Antitrust Suit Against Intel
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 01:08 AM PST |
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Sunnyvale, CA - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ("AMD") announced yesterday that it has filed an antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation ("Intel") on Monday...
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News: Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware Beta Refresh
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:17 AM PST |
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Ventura, CA - Microsoft Corp., having entered the anti-spyware market with the acquisition of GIANT Company Software in December, released an updated beta of their AntiSpyware application on Friday...
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News: Your Home May Be Seized Forcefully
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Friday, June 24, 2005 - 12:09 AM PST |
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Washington, D.C. - The United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, backed the seizure of private property by cities in the name of economic development...
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News: Manchester United to Stop Trading
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 03:04 AM PST |
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London, ENGLAND - The American football's Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner, Malcolm Glazer, will delist Manchester United after 14 years of trading on the stock market...
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News: Microsoft Files More Lawsuits Against Pirates
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 02:22 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Earlier this week, Microsoft filed suits against four separate companies found to be selling counterfeit and/or illicit software and software components...
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News: Patriot Act Loses Some Power
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 12:09 AM PST |
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Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to block a part of the Patriot Act in effort to restore privacy...
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News: Microsoft Release Windows XP "N" Editions in Europe
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 12:09 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Windows® XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional N, versions that came about as a result of the European Commission's decision in March 2004 will be available today...
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News: Michael Jackson Acquitted of All Charges
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 12:40 AM PST |
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Santa Maria, CA - Yesterday, after four months of trial, the "King of Pop" was found not guilty of all counts brought up against him...
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News: NASA Space Probe to Go in a Blaze
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, June 13, 2005 - 01:44 AM PST |
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Pasadena, CA - Deep Impact, NASA's spacecraft sent to survey Comet Tempel 1 will hit its goal on July 4th...
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News: Ford and Sirius Extend Exclusive Relationship
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 12:01 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - On Monday, the Ford Motor Company and SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced an agreement extending their exclusive agreement through 2011...
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News: Intel Launches Dual Core Processors
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 12:01 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - Intel Corporation, the leading provider of computer processors, launched their newest Pentium processors today...
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News: Happy Holidays!
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, December 25, 2004 - 02:55 AM PST |
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season. No, we are not gone, we have been working towards a new objective. Stay tuned for what we will bring to you in 2005.
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News: Microsoft Praises Joint Effort by Law Enforcement
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 12:02 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corp. yesterday applauded the FBI in Los Angeles for its leadership following a two-year investigation undertaken in a significant partnership with Microsoft and other industry investigators...
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News: Microsoft Sets 2006 for New Technologies
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 12:13 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corp. announced Friday that it will target broad availability of the Windows client operating system code-named "Longhorn" in 2006, and make key elements of the Windows WinFX developer platform in "Longhorn" available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003...
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News: Microsoft Unveils New Hardware Designs
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, July 09, 2004 - 12:14 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corp., known for their Windows operating system, unveiled new designer mice to break away from the traditional boring designs...
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News: Possible Brain Chemical Link to Teenage Suicide
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, July 07, 2004 - 12:04 AM PST |
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Miami, FL - On Monday, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago released a study linking a possible decrease in a hormone to suicide...
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News: New York Freedom Tower Construction Begins
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 12:02 AM PST |
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New York, NY - A 20-ton stone was placed Sunday in the southeastern corner of what will become the new Freedom Tower's foundation...
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News: Network Associates is No More
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 03:05 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - Network Associates, the parent of the popular McAfee antivirus line of products and many other utilties has changes its name...
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News: NASA Set to Launch Aura Satellite on July 10
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 12:04 AM PST |
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Ventura, CA - NASA's Aura spacecraft, a next-generation Earth-observing satellite that will supply the most complete information to date on the health of the Earth's atmosphere, is scheduled for launch Saturday, July 10...
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News: First Pregnancy Reported After Ovarian Transplant
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 02:23 AM PST |
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New York, NY - Initial reports were released earlier this week of a patient in Brussels that had her ovarian tissue removed prior to cancer treatment, and is now pregnant after the transplant...
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News: Iraq No Longer Under Outside Rule
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, June 28, 2004 - 01:35 AM PST |
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Washington, D.C. - After 14 months of U.S. rule, Iraq was turned over to the interim Iraqi government two days earlier than expected...
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News: Sender ID Proposed for Standards Consideration
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, June 25, 2004 - 02:26 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corp. and CTO of PoBox.com have combined their e-mail spoofing prevention specifications into one for submission to the Internet Engineering Task Force...
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News: The Next Xbox specs: Fact or Fiction?
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 12:01 AM PST |
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New York, NY - Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox gaming system has taken off since its price drop a few months ago, and now, rumors of the next generation console from Microsoft are beginning to surface...
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News: Supreme Court Sides With HMOs
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 - 03:11 AM PST |
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Washington, D.C. - A powerful blow came to patients covered by HMOs - they no longer have the right to seek damages...
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News: Intel Release Next Gen Computing
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Monday, June 21, 2004 - 03:40 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - Intel's newest version of the Pentium 4 processor, along with the 915 and 925 chipsets are now officially released...
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News: Possible New Source of Stem-Cells
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, June 04, 2004 - 12:10 AM PST |
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Washington, D.C. - Last Friday, German scientists announced a new method of extracting stem cells which could leave the very controversial embryo source out of the picture...
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News: Citigroup Faces Large Penalty
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 12:07 AM PST |
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New York, NY - Last Thursday, the Federal Reserve announced that Citigroup Inc. and a subsidiary would be facing a $70 million penalty related to their practices...
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News: DVDXCopy Battle Hits Retailers
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 12:10 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Technology One, a California-based online retailer, has been sued by two Hollywood movie studios over the recently banned software published by 321 Studios...
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News: William Hung Sings During Baseball Game
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, June 01, 2004 - 02:48 AM PST |
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Toronto, Ontario - William Hung, known for his appearance on the Fox show 'American Idol,' sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch on Monday...
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News: Careful With Those Almonds
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 12:03 AM PST |
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Washington, D.C. - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns of Paramount Farms almonds...
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News: 'Shrek 2' Sets Records, Beats Expectations
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 12:03 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - This animated sequel to the 2001 hit beat out any dreamed expectations, according to executives at DreamWorks...
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News: Intel Sued by Canadian Company
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Sunnyvale, CA - All Computers, a Toronto-based computer company, filed suit against Intel Corp. for allegedly violating a patent they were issued...
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News: Space Shuttle Columbia Debris Sent for Research
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, May 24, 2004 - 04:16 AM PST |
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Cape Canaveral, FL - The first pieces of Space Shuttle Columbia debris, loaned to a non-governmental agency for testing and research, were sent on their way from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California last Thursday...
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News: Intel Investing in Innovation
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - Intel Corporation announced Wednesday that it plans to invest an additional $2 billion in its Ireland-based facilities...
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News: Wireless Devices to Use Unused Television Space
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 12:07 AM PST |
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Washington, D.C. – In an initiative to increase the use of radio spectrum to provide greater service to the American public, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week proposed using unused portions of the broadcast television spectrum...
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News: Ex-Fox Employees Charged with Piracy
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, May 17, 2004 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - On Friday of last week, six individuals were charged with conspiring to distribute pirated movies...
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News: Intel's Processor Numbers Are in Affect
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 12:04 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - Earlier this week, Intel introduced its latest CPU, formerly codenamed Dothan, it is the newest line up to the Pentium M family. These new CPUs also use Intel's newest naming scheme...
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News: Bronze Star Medal Recipients Dropped
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 12:08 AM PST |
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New York, NY - Due to the recent prisoner abuse scandal, many soldiers slated to receive the Bronze Star will be dropped from the list of recipients...
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News: Stephen Sommer's 'Van Helsing' Beats Others
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 12:21 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - 'Van Helsing,' the latest flick by Stephen Sommers, and starring Hugh Jackman, topped the box office this past weekend with approximately $54.2 million in the U.S....
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News: Modified Xbox Consoles Safe from Microsoft Ban
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 12:01 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - Xbox consoles have been “modded” for quite some time now, but once you try to connect to Microsoft Live, you will get banned. Not anymore...
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News: Microsoft Windows Running on the Microsoft Xbox
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 01:33 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Just hours ago, a notice was posted on a popular Xbox hacking site; Windows CE.Net can be put on the Microsoft Xbox...
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News: Computer Intelligence by Intel
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:14 AM PST |
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Vancouver, British Columbia - Researchers at Intel Corporation released software on Monday which would give computers the capability to "learn" from what they have done in the past...
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News: RIAA Rampage Still Continues
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 12:02 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - The Recording Industry of America (RIAA) is at it again, this time filing 41 new lawsuits against internet music traders...
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News: AT&T Wireless Unleashes Highspeed Wireless Internet
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 12:10 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - The EDGE Network, AT&T'S enhancement to their GPRS system, allows for burst speeds of up to 300k, faster than anything available over wireless...
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News: Writing Viruses? You Have a Price-Tag on Your Head
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 12:01 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Viruses have become a major pain, especially in the past couple of months, and now, the Microsoft and the FBI are offering rewards for the arrest and conviction of virus programmers...
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News: Wells Fargo Stolen PC Contained Customer Info
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 12:09 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - On Friday, Wells Fargo & Co. announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for stealing a computer earlier in the month...
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News: S. 877 Anti-spam Bill - Bill Gates Applauds
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 12:11 AM PST |
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Washington, D.C. - Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., issued the following statement on Saturday, in support of the House's passage of the S. 877 anti-spam bill...
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News: Microsoft Office System Launches With Record Number of Programs
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 02:17 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of the new Microsoft® Office System, along with research that shows how leading companies are already gaining a competitive advantage from Microsoft Office System productivity solutions...
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News: Microsoft Launches Exchange Server 2003
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 01:57 AM PST |
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New York, NY - Today, Microsoft Corp. launched Exchange Server 2003, the next edition of its messaging and collaboration server, as part of the Microsoft® Office System...
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News: Intel And Sony Music Team Up to Deliver to Cell Phones
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 02:03 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - Late last week, Intel Corporation and Sony Music Entertainment announced a partnership to deliver Sony Music Entertainment content to Intel-based cell phones and PDAs...
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News: One Unwired Day - Free Wireless Internet Access
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 12:04 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Intel, still spreading the word on the mobile Centrino technology, has teamed up with their hotspot vendors to offer FREE WiFi access at thousands of locations on September 25th, 2003...
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News: Palm Not At Hand
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 12:07 AM PST |
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Milpitas, CA - Palm, Inc. announced yesterday the new name it will adopt following the proposed spin-off this fall of PalmSource, Inc., makers of Palm OS platform software...
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News: Schwarzenegger Loses Airtime
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 12:04 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - Arnold Schwarzenegger, well known actor, and now running for governor of California, will not be seen on many cable channels any time soon...
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News: NVidia Loses to ATI in Xbox Battle
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 12:01 AM PST |
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Ontario, Canada – ATI Technologies Inc. announced yesterday that it has entered into a technology development agreement with Microsoft Corp...
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News: Microsoft Office Project to Be RTM
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 01:00 AM PST |
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Mountain View, CA - Microsoft Corp. announced earlier this week that on Aug. 18 it will release to manufacturing one of the programs of the Microsoft® Office System...
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News: European Cigarette Packs to Graphically Depict Side Effects
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, August 08, 2003 - 12:06 AM PST |
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London, England - After numerous studies showed that the warning labels were going unread, it has been decided to add graphical warning labels to cigarette packs sold within the European Union...
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News: What's Under Your Sink?
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 12:10 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - Last Friday, the National Library of Medicine opened their new website listing ingredients of household products...
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News: Stay Tuned - Intel to Release 'Tejas' Next Year
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Monday, August 04, 2003 - 12:13 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - According to inside sources, Intel Corp, the largest manufacturer of computer processors, will be releasing a new Pentium-class CPU, and will once again move away from the ZIF and pin design...
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News: RIAA On The Attack
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 - 12:17 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - The Recording Industry Association of America is on the prowl again, having sent out subpoenas last Wednesday to a number of internet service providers...
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News: Loch Ness Monster Found
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, July 21, 2003 - 12:05 AM PST |
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London, England - Although, not the elusive "Nessie," the remains of a 150 million year old dinosaur have been found on the banks of Scotland's Loch Ness...
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News: Orbitz Unavailable
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 12:52 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Orbitz, the number two travel reservation site, went down early Wednesday morning due to a database problem...
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News: Intel Corp Releases New Xeon Processor
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 12:04 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - On Monday, Intel Corporation, the leading provider of computer processors, introduced a new line of Intel® Xeon™ processor for dual processor servers and workstations with double the on-die cache of previous generations...
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News: MSN and eBay to Combine Forces
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 12:07 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - MSN, owned by Microsoft, and eBay today announced plans to expand their current relationship to assist consumers with a better online experience...
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News: Latest NASA Mars Rover Heading to Target
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 12:02 AM PST |
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Cape Canaveral, FL - After numerous delays and the recent loss of the Columbia shuttle, NASA has launched the Mars Exploration Rover...
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News: Microsoft's Exchange Server 2003 Available Soon
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 12:11 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corp. announced Monday the release to manufacturing of Exchange Server 2003, the next edition of its messaging server...
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News: Star Trek: Elite Force II Now Available
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 12:02 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - "Star Trek: Elite Force II," the sequel to what has been called "the best Star Trek game ever," is in stores TODAY...
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News: Iomega Enters DVD Writing Arena
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 03:25 AM PST |
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San Diego, CA - Iomega Corp., the company that introduced the world to the ZIP Drive, has entered into the multi-format DVD market with their new writer...
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News: eBay Fraud Perpetrator Sentenced to 3-Years
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, June 16, 2003 - 12:15 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - On Friday, a Los Angeles man was sentenced to 3-years for organizing one of the largest internet auction frauds on eBay...
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News: Intel Corp. Ships 1 Billionth CPU
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 - 02:15 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - As Intel, the world's largest computer processor maker, approaches it's 25th anniversary, it has just reached it's 1 billionth CPU milestone...
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News: AOL Time Warner and Microsoft Forge Partnership
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 02:08 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corp. and AOL Time Warner Inc. announced Thursday an agreement to collaborate on long-term digital media initiatives that will accelerate the adoption of digital content, and to settle the pending litigation between their companies.
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News: Snapstream Media PVS 3 Goes Gold
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 12:15 AM PST |
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Houston, TX - SnapStream Media, a leading provider of digital entertainment software, announced Thursday that Personal Video Station 3 is now shipping....
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News: New Miniature Species of Seahorse Discovered
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 12:08 AM PST |
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Vancouver, British Columbia - Last Friday, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of seahorse, originally thought to be the offspring of a larger seahorse species....
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News: Intel and Lego Team Up For Life-like Toys on the PC
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - Intel Corporation and LEGO Interactive announced today they are working together to deliver and co-market a fast-paced adventure game that combines the top-selling BIONICLE® toy line with the latest in PC technology....
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News: Microsoft Hardware Team Turns Twenty
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, May 05, 2003 - 12:09 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - On Friday, Microsoft's hardware team, developers of the IntelliMouse technology and the Sidewinder line of gaming products, celebrated twenty years of innovation...
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News: Cardiomyopathy Higher Risk in Babies and Children
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, May 03, 2003 - 12:05 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - Dr. Steven Lipshultz of the University of Rochester released a study showing that babies are at a higher risk of developing the fatal heart condition than adults...
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News: First New Vitamin Discovery Since 1948
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, May 01, 2003 - 12:13 AM PST |
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Tokyo, Japan - Pyrroloquinoline quinone, first discovered in 1979, can now be categorized as a vitamin...
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News: Music Piracy Shutdown Results in 3 Arrests
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, April 28, 2003 - 12:03 AM PST |
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Sydney, Australia - On Thursday, police announced the arrest of three students and the shutting down of 'MP3 WMA Land,' an online music hosting website...
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News: Microsoft Releases Windows CE .NET 4.2 to Manufacturing
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 01:05 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - At the Embedded Systems Conference, Microsoft Corp., the worldwide leader in embedded operating systems, announced Wednesday the release to manufacturing of Microsoft® Windows® CE .NET version 4.2, previously code-named "McKendric"...
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News: Baghdad's Museum Looted and Raided
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 12:31 AM PST |
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Baghdad, Iraq - The chaos and current situation of Iraq has led to the loss of valuable artifacts dating back thousands of years...
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News: Intel And Via Technologies, Inc. Settle Patent Infringement Cases
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, April 10, 2003 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - On Monday, Intel Corporation and VIA Technologies, Inc. reached a settlement agreement in a series of pending patent lawsuits related to chipsets and microprocessors. The agreement encompasses 11 pending cases in five countries involving 27 patents...
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News: Hidden Gene Stock Used to Revive Endangered Species
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, April 09, 2003 - 12:02 AM PST |
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San Diego, CA - Earlier this week, researchers admitted that a pair of banteng calves born last week were cloned from an animal that had died more than 20 years ago, and the technology may be used to assist other endangered species...
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News: Sony Announces Blue Laser-based Optical Drives
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Tuesday, April 08, 2003 - 12:46 AM PST |
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San Jose, CA - Sony today announced a new blue laser optical data storage disc drive and cartridge-type disc media (both rewriteable and write-once versions), which will be demonstrated for the first time at the Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM) conference in New York from April 7 through April 9...
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News: Beware of War-based E-mail Content
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 01:47 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - The war in Iraq has resulted in a new e-mail worm with subjects enticing people to open up the message...
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News: Microsoft Teams Up with University of Leeds Students
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 02:28 AM PST |
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London, England - On Friday, Microsoft announced it would be joining forces with the University of Leeds to develop the United Kingdom's first undergraduate computer security module to focus on the skills that developers need to prevent security vulnerabilities and write secure code...
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News: SONICblue Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 12:07 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - SONICblue™ Incorporated announced yesterday that it and three of its subsidiaries will file voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of California, San Jose Division...
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News: Possible Root of the Mysterious Pneumonia-like Illness
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 12:05 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - Doctors announced Wednesday that they were focusing on a hotel in China as the root of the outbreak, which has resulted in numerous deaths and a number of reported illnesses...
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News: The Birth of a Black Hole
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 09:00 PM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Earlier today, astroners around the globe turned their telescopes skyward to see the birth of a black hole...
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News: Flat Panel Chip Makers Combine Efforts
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 12:12 AM PST |
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San Jose, CA - Genesis Microchip Inc. and Pixelworks, Inc. announced yesterday the execution of a definitive merger agreement...
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News: Security Flaw in Windows 2000 - Update Available
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Monday, March 17, 2003 - 04:54 PM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Microsoft has just sent out a release regarding an unchecked buffer in the Windows 2000 WebDAV component which would compromise the web server...
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News: New Pathogen Still a Mystery
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, March 17, 2003 - 12:50 PM PST |
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London, England - Scientists are still on alert, attempting to identify the cause of a new pneumonia that has taken the lives of seven people so far...
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News: New Servers!
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 04:15 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - After months of "hell," MostlyCreativeWorkshop has left the horrid FeaturePrice web hosting company and moved on...
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News: Cellular Phone Messages Leading to Illiteracy
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 12:05 AM PST |
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London, England - SMS, a commonly used method to send short messages from phone to phone, requires short abbreviations due to the limited message size, and has now found its way onto a student's paper...
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News: Major Flaw Discovered in Popular E-Mail Backend
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 12:05 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Internet Security Systems, Inc., the developer of 'Sendmail,' a popular e-mail sending program which handles nearly 75% of all email traffic, announced today of a severe vulnerability...
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News: Pioneer 10 Spacecraft Becomes Silent
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:16 AM PST |
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Moffet Field, CA - After more than 30 years, it appears the venerable Pioneer 10 spacecraft has sent its last signal to Earth...
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News: Fourth Oldest Person in the World Dies
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 12:06 AM PST |
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New York, NY - John McMorran, the second oldest person in the United States, died Monday of heart failure at the age of 113...
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News: Intel Expands Network Processing Line
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 12:10 AM PST |
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San Jose, CA - Last week, at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Corp. introduced three new network processors targeted towards the home, small office/home office (SOHO), and the small- to medium-enterprise market...
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News: 50 Year Old Moon Mystery Solved
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 12:01 AM PST |
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Pasadena, CA - Late last week, NASA scientists were able to put to rest a 50 year old mystery regarding the possible photograph of an asteroid striking the moon...
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News: Rabbi Behind Bars for Cybersex Date
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, February 24, 2003 - 12:15 AM PST |
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New York, NY - A leader of the New York City Board of Rabbis was arrested Friday, facing up to four years in prison due to his interest in having sex with a "minor"...
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News: Microsoft Acquires Connectix VM Technology
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 12:03 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it has acquired the virtual machine solutions of privately held Connectix Corp., a leading provider of virtualization software for Windows®- and Macintosh-based computing...
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News: Intel and Microsoft Unveil Windows Powered Smartphone Concept
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 04:01 AM PST |
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Cannes, France - Earlier this week at the 3GSM World Congress 2003, Microsoft Corp. and Intel announced the immediate availability of the first Microsoft and Windows® Powered Smartphone concept design...
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News: Microsoft Announces Corporate Rights Management Solution
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 12:02 AM PST |
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Simi Valley, CA - Microsoft Corp. today announced plans for Windows® Rights Management Services (RMS), a new technology for Windows Server 2003 that will give organizations advanced ways to help secure sensitive internal business information including financial reports and confidential planning documents...
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News: California to Sue Spammers
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 02:39 AM PST |
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Sacramento, CA - Unsolicited commercial e-mail, also known as SPAM, has begun to more than annoy some, and now a bill has been introduced making it a crime to send SPAM to anyone in the state of California...
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News: Microsoft Meets Muppets
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - With the help of the Opera browser, Microsoft's MSN website now appears in a nonsensical language...
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News: Xbox Game Causing More Trouble
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, February 16, 2003 - 12:15 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Dave Mirra, pro BMX bike rider, is taking Acclaim Entertainment Inc., creator of "BMX XXX" to court...
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News: Infamous Cloned Sheep Put To Sleep
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 04:29 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - Only 6 years old, "Dolly," the famous cloned sheep, had to be put to sleep by veterinarians...
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News: Probe Precisely Dates Universe
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 05:44 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - A NASA probe has precisely dated the universe, and calculated when stars began to shine...
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News: Former Microsoft Employee Dies While Out On Bail
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 03:23 AM PST |
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Seattle, WA - An ex-Microsoft Corp. manager died last Friday due to multiple organ failure, while the cause remains under investigation...
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News: Lethal Mobile Phones Seized
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 07:02 PM PST |
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Rouen, France - The French police announced that they had seized guns, in the form of cellular phones, capable of shooting 4 bullets with the keypad being the trigger...
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News: Former ViewSonic Employee Behind Bars
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 03:23 PM PST |
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City of Industry, CA - A former employee of ViewSonic Corp. was arrested on Thursday for a crime going back to April of 2000...
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News: Microsoft Rethinks Xbox Construction Strategy
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 05:17 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - After the release of the quarter-end sales, Microsoft asked suppliers of components for its Xbox console to make "applicable adjustments" to their shipments...
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News: Microsoft Reports Quarter End Details
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 12:12 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Microsoft Corporation, the largest operating system vendor, posted its quarter-end results for all divisions today, with the Office division being most profitable...
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News: Profiles Of The Crew Of The Columbia
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 02:43 PM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - A brief profile of the crew members lost in today's space shuttle disaster...
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News: NASA Press Conference Scheduled for 3PM EST
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 02:29 PM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - A press conference by Space Shuttle Program Manager Ron Dittemore and Chief Flight Director Milt Heflin will take place from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, beginning at 3 p.m. EST today...
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News: United States Loses Another Space Shuttle
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 02:24 PM PST |
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Cape Canaveral, FL - All seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia were killed after it broke up just 16 minutes from its scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, the U.S. space agency NASA said...
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News: Artists Pigment To Become Radiation Poisoning Cure
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 02:08 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Prussian blue, used since the early 1700s as a pigment, will now be used to protect people exposed to radioactive "dirty bombs"...
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News: Red Cross Recalls Blood
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 08:32 AM PST |
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Atlanta, GA - "White Particles" found in blood products collected recently in Georgia and northern Florida have led to the American Red Cross asking medical centers to stop using them...
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News: ISP Termination Fees Under Battle
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 05:34 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Court papers released Friday stated that a California consumers rights group sued several Internet service providers for the return of what the group says were illegally forced termination fees...
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News: Digital Audio Battle Escalates
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 03:05 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has become a major proponent of digital rights, and has even resorted to hacking to obtain results, but, now face a counter-suit by one of their targets...
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News: SQL Worm Continues Havoc
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 02:08 PM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - The recently released 'SQL Slammer' worm continues to do damage, exploiting a known vulnerability in the Microsoft SQL Server software...
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News: Tampa Bay Wins The Super Bowl
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 10:32 PM PST |
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San Diego, CA - Super Bowl XXXVII ended with a spectacular last minute, or more like last 5 seconds interception, leading the Buccaneers to a massive victory...
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News: MostlyCreativeWorkshop Now Wireless
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 05:02 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Using the unique Danger, Inc. Sidekick, we are now able to bring you news without wires...
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News: Latest From Bill Gates
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Bill Gates issued his latest address to the public regarding the future of security in a digital world...
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News: Microsoft To Unveil Family Secret
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 12:13 AM PST |
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Thousand Oaks, CA - Microsoft Corporation, known for closely guarding its source code, will finally let a global power take a peek...
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News: APC Recalls UPS Units
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, January 20, 2003 - 05:28 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), American Power Conversion Corporation (APC), of West Kingston, R.I., is voluntarily recalling about 900,000 back-up power supply devices...
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News: Kevin Mitnick Going Online
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, January 20, 2003 - 02:30 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - On Tuesday, Mitnick, who has been on probation, will get to taste the Internet for the first time in eight years...
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News: Microsoft Stocks Finally Bring In Cash
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, January 20, 2003 - 01:30 AM PST |
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Seattle, WA - With the recent 2-1 split, Microsoft will also be paying out its first dividend, which will reel in nearly $100 million for the chairman...
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News: Mercury Is In The Air
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 04:49 AM PST |
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Sacramento, CA - On Friday, California's attorney general filed lawsuits against five leading grocery chain stores, stating that they failed to warn consumers of the risk in consuming fish...
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News: Intel Releases New Mobile Computing Products
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 12:01 PM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - Intel Corporation today delivered six new mobile processors, including its highest-performing mobile processor to date, the Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor - M at 2.4 GHz. Additionally, Intel announced an integrated graphics chipset for the mobile PC processor family: the Intel® 852GM...
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News: Neptune Has More Moons
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 12:01 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - On Monday, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reported three previously unknown moons around Neptune, bringing the total to eleven...
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News: Microsoft Settles Class Action Suit
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, January 11, 2003 - 04:04 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - The San Francisco law firm of Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, lead counsel for two certified classes of California consumers, and Microsoft Corp. jointly announced today that a $1.1 billion settlement has been reached in a series of coordinated class action lawsuits alleging that Microsoft violated California's antitrust and unfair competition laws. Trial was scheduled to commence in San Francisco before California Superior Court Judge Paul H. Alvarado on Feb. 24, 2003...
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News: "Smart Displays" Available For Purchase
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 06:51 AM PST |
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Las Vegas, NV - This week at the 2003 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. announced that the first Microsoft® Windows® Powered Smart Displays, the ViewSonic airpanel V110 and V150 Smart Displays, will be available today...
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News: Microsoft Releases Windows Media 9 To Public
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 06:04 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Yesterday, Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate availability of Windows Media® 9 Series, the next-generation digital media platform that offers benefits for hardware and software vendors, the media and entertainment industry, consumers in the home, and organizations looking to communicate and train more effectively...
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News: Hubble Views Into Distant Past with "Zoom Lens"
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 05:25 AM PST |
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Seattle, WA - The Hubble Space Telescope was able to look back to nearly 2 billion years after the possible big bang with help from a star cluster...
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News: Macworld Expo Doesn't Have "WOW" Effect
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 03:29 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - At the Macworld Expo, Apple Computer Inc., unveiled a wide-screen laptop, their own web browser, and a faster wireless technology in an attempt to bring over IBM-Compatible PC users...
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News: Gateway Inc. Headed Downhill
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 01:34 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - Gateway Inc., manufacturer of personal computers, announced greater than expected loss for the quarter end, blaming losses to an increased overhead...
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News: Norwegian Teen Freed of DVD Piracy Charges
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 12:35 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Jon Johansen, aka "DVD Jon," creator of the DeCSS software which could allow for illegal DVD copies, was cleared of all charges in the Oslo courtroom...
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News: Hitachi to Unveil Massive Microdrive
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, January 06, 2003 - 05:02 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Last week, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) sold its hard disk drive unit to Hitachi Ltd., and today, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies unveiled a new microdrive that put IBM's to shame...
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News: China Plans for Manned Space Missions
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, January 06, 2003 - 03:05 AM PST |
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Beijing, China - After nearly a week in orbit, China's "Shenzhou IV," an unmanned spacecraft, successfully landed in snow-covered Mongolia, and China's plans for manned missions are being developed...
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News: Xbox Hack Contest Promoter Revealed
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 12:12 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Last July, an anonymous source offered a prize of $200,000 to the individual or group that could hack an Xbox to run the Linux operating system...
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News: ".Biz" Class-Action Suit Settled
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, January 03, 2003 - 03:25 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - Accused of handing out wanted ".Biz" domain names through what could be considered an illegal lottery, the managers of the ".Biz" domains will be paying $1.2 million to settle the charges...
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News: Los Angeles Internet Cafes Under Investigation
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, January 03, 2003 - 12:27 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - In the Wake of a shootout earlier this week at an Internet Cafe in the Los Angeles area, Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine said on Thursday he plans to introduce a motion at a hearing next week asking for a report from the Los Angeles Police Department on recent outbreaks of violence at cybercafes...
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News: Kevin Mitnick Granted Ham Operator License
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, December 27, 2002 - 04:18 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Once known as "the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history," ex-computer hacker Kevin Mitnick was allowed to renew his ham radio license, and will be allowed to resume surfing the internet next month...
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News: Sun vs. Microsoft, Sun Wins
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, December 23, 2002 - 10:19 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - A federal judge ordered Microsoft to distribute Sun's Java, instead of Microsoft's own, in its Windows operating systems...
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News: Yahoo to Buy Inktomi
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, December 23, 2002 - 09:44 PM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Yahoo Inc., a leading web portal, said Monday that it would pay $235 million to purchase Inktomi Corp., a maker of Internet search software...
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News: Online Dissent Leads to 12 Year Sentence for Vietnamese
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, December 23, 2002 - 09:16 PM PST |
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Ventura, CA - The state-run Vietnam News Agency reported late last Friday that the People's Court of Hanoi sentenced a 47-year old man to 12 years in prison, accusing him of helping an overseas dissident group collect complaints against the government via the Internet...
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News: Morinda Citrifolia Noni Fruit Benefits Health
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, December 19, 2002 - 05:36 AM PST |
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Ventura, CA - A number of nutritional supplements and aids are available in today's health conscious society, however, the earthy civilizations of the past harvested nature to cure, and one such rediscovered natural health aid is Morinda Citrifolia...
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News: Judgment in Favor of ElcomSoft
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - 03:30 AM PST |
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San Jose, CA - Russian company ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. was found not guilty of criminal charges stemming from the creation of software which Adobe Systems Inc. felt violated their software, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...
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News: Microsoft Revamps Hologram CD Faces
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, December 16, 2002 - 07:01 AM PST |
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Ventura, CA - Microsoft has issued notices to computer manufacturers that the 'Edge-to-Edge' (E2E) CD that Microsoft uses as a form of piracy prevention, will now feature a copper face instead of aluminum...
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News: Microsoft Releases MapPoint .NET Version 3.0
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:25 PM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Even as Microsoft Corp. releases Microsoft® MapPoint® .NET version 3.0, the newest version of its flexible Web service platform for mapping and location-based services, early adopters of the technology already see its benefits...
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News: Fake eBay Websites Want Your Personal Information
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 07:42 PM PST |
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Ventura, CA - Over the past two months, a surge in "e-mails from eBay" were sent to millions of users requesting the receiver to re-fill their credit card, or other personal information, into a website...
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News: AOL Lays Off 300 Employees
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 07:42 PM PST |
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New York, NY - America Online, the internet subdivision of AOL Time Warner, Inc., confirmed that it cut 300 jobs on Wednesday in what is expected to be just the beginning in a wave of layoffs...
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News: TiVo to Expand Into Digital Music and Pictures
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 05:06 PM PST |
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New York, NY - TiVo Inc. announced today that its personal video recorder will soon be able to play music and show pictures stored on personal computers...
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News: Nextel Unveils Two New IDEN-Based Phones
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 02:44 PM PST |
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Reston, VA - Nextel Communications, Inc., a leader in the industrial mobile phone communication sector, unveiled two new phones, the Motorola i35s, and the GPS-enabled Motorola i58sr...
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News: Norwegian Teen Facing DVD Piracy Charges
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 03:57 AM PST |
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Oslo, Norway - Jon Johansen, creator of DeCSS, software to bypass the copy protection techniques of DVD videos, pleaded not-guilty on Monday to charges of illegally creating software that copies movies...
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News: AOL to Cut Expenses in Online Unit
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 08:17 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - AOL Time Warner Inc. plans to eliminate about $100 million in operating costs due to lower revenues from advertising, and a change in strategy...
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News: Man Shoots Himself Over Child Porn
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 06:40 AM PST |
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Toulon, France - Close to 30 people were arrested nationwide as part of an investigation to crack down on the Internet distribution of child pornography...
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News: Massachusetts versus Microsoft
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 06:07 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - A shout from one of the smallest states in the United States was heard Friday, as Massachusetts appealed the settlement in the Microsoft Corporation antitrust case, going against the company alone...
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News: Copyright Case Against ElcomSoft Approaches
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 04:04 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - In the first criminal prosecution for alleged violations of the four-year old Digital Millennium Copyright Act, jury selection has been set to begin on Monday...
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News: Internet Porn Scam Cost Consumers $1.6 Million
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 05:16 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday that a California billing firm has agreed to give up $1.6 million due to improper and misleading billing for internet-based pornography...
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News: Sony Pictures Entertainment Forms Digital Policy Group
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 06:09 PM PST |
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Culver City, CA - Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony Corporation, said Tuesday that it formed a digital policy group to handle the issues and opportunities associated with the digital distribution of entertainment products...
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News: You Can Pirate Software, If Willing to Pay For It
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 04:57 PM PST |
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London, England - The Danish Anti Piracy Group (APG) identified 150 alleged software pirates, and instead of legal action, mailed an invoice for the price of everything they downloaded...
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News: Hewlett Packard Introduces Smallest iPaq Yet
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 05:11 AM PST |
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Palo Alto, CA - Hewlett Packard added to their line of handhelds by announcing the iPaq Pocket PC h1910, the thinnest and lightest Pocket PC available on the market, at a cost of $299...
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News: Segway Human Transporter for Sale on Amazon.com
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 04:03 AM PST |
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New York, NY - Dean Kamen, CEO of Segway LLC, the creator of the revolutionary personal transport device, announced Monday that the $4,950 device will be available for purchase exclusively from Amazon.com...
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News: XBox Live Available Now
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, November 18, 2002 - 02:20 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Microsoft Corporation released the 'Xbox Live,' the online connectivity kit for their Xbox Game Console on Friday at an estimated price of $49.99...
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News: Intel Introduces Newest Processor with Hyper-Threading Technology
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, November 18, 2002 - 12:44 AM PST |
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San Jose, CA - Intel Corporation today introduced its innovative Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology for the new Intel® Pentium® 4 processor at 3.06 GHz. HT Technology enables a new class of high-performance desktop PCs that can work quickly among several computing applications at the same time, or provide extra performance for individual software programs that are multithreaded. HT Technology can boost PC performance by up to 25 percent.
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News: ViewSonic to Sell Microsoft Smart Display Products
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 08:06 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Previously known under the codename 'Mira,' the first Microsoft Smart Display's will be sold by monitor-maker ViewSonic in the first quarter of 2003...
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News: Intel Boosts XScale Technology
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 05:12 AM PST |
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Intel Corporation is broadening its support for developers of leading-edge embedded products with a version of its highest-performance Intel® XScale™ technology for complex applications that must operate in extreme temperatures...
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News: Bill and Melinda Gates Donate $100 Million to India
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - 12:44 AM PST |
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New Delhi, India - Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation, announced that his charity will donate $100 million to India to battle HIV/AIDS in the second largest AIDS afflicted country...
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News: VeriSign Separates Root Servers
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, November 11, 2002 - 12:36 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - VeriSign Inc. took a step towards preventing DOS and other internet-based attacks by separating their root servers, physically and electronically...
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News: AMD Unveils a Fast Notebook Processor
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, November 11, 2002 - 07:21 AM PST |
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Sunnyvale, CA - AMD today introduced the high-performance mobile AMD Athlon™ XP processor 2200+. Featuring AMD PowerNow!™ technology, the new AMD mobile processor gives business and home consumers a balanced combination of performance and mobility to boost productivity for notebook PC users...
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News: Space Shuttle Endeavour Grounded
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, November 11, 2002 - 05:03 AM PST |
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Cape Canaveral, Fl - NASA has postponed the flight of the space shuttle Endeavour due to a mysterious oxygen leak which appeared just hours before lift off...
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News: High Power Laser May Prevent Future Weapon Attacks
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 08:27 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Army, in conjunction with TRW Inc., developed a high-energy laser to shoot down missiles, and Tuesday's test was a success...
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News: AOL Loses Battle to Protect Identity of Client
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 08:27 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - The Virginia Supreme Court ruled in favor of Nam Tai Electronics Inc., whose request to subpoena the identity of an AOL user had been won in a lower California court earlier...
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News: Internet Piracy Ring Shutdown By Italian Police
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 03:33 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Guardia di Finanza and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) teamed up during a year long investigation which resulted in the arrest of a member of a multi-million dollar software piracy ring, and the seizure of more than 100,000 counterfeited products...
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News: Sun Microsystems Inc. to Continue Fight Against Microsoft
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, November 04, 2002 - 09:03 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - Following the ruling on Friday, Sun Microsystems, Inc., vowed to continue the battle with Microsoft, and urged the other nine states to appeal the judgement...
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News: 2,000 Year Old Cemetery Uncovered in Thailand
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 06:26 AM PST |
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Lopburi, Thailand - An ancient cemetery, uncovered by archaeologists in central Thailand, dates back over 2,000 years, and may help determine the origin of the Thai people...
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News: STMicroelectronics Unveils New Light-Emitting Silicon
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 06:26 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - STMicroelectronics said it patented a structure that may lead to more powerful microprocessors, faster high-speed optical data transmissions technologies and more efficient semiconductor chips used in automobiles...
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News: Canadian Internet Registry Facing Serious Charges
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 06:26 AM PST |
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Ottawa, Canada - The Internet Registry of Canada was charged with deceptive practices by Canada's Competition Bureau in a case similar to that against the United States' Verisign...
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News: Antitrust Fine to Hit Nintendo
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 12:31 AM PST |
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London, England - Japanese video game maker Nintendo and a number of its distributors will face a fine by European antitrust regulators for sales practices it employed in the mid-90s...
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News: Floppy DV Screen Sooner Than You Think
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 12:18 AM PST |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands - Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) announced the acquisition of Oxford-based rival, Opsys, giving it major control over the creation of organic light emitting diodes (OLED), a key ingredient to surpass current LCD technology...
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News: Office 11 Reaches Testers Next Week
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 01:41 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - On Friday, individuals received their official confirmation e-mail from Microsoft pertaining to the Office 11 beta test...
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News: Monday's Internet Attack Under Investigation
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 10:03 PM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - The Denial of Service (DOS) attack on Monday is under investigation, the Bush administration announced today, however, it will be difficult, if not impossible to trace the root of the attack...
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News: Microsoft ActiveSync 3.6 Released
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 03:59 AM PST |
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Microsoft® ActiveSync® 3.6 is the latest synchronization software for Microsoft Windows® Powered Pocket PCs and Smartphones. ActiveSync 3.6 includes all the significant improvements brought to you in ActiveSync 3.5: it is easy to install and use while offering the best levels of reliability. If you had not already installed ActiveSync 3.5, ActiveSync 3.6 will also bring you up to date with compatibility to Microsoft Office XP and Windows XP...
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News: Enron's Former Chief Energy Trader Pleads Guilty
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 06:02 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Enron Corp.'s former chief energy trader agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with others to commit fraud in a scheme to manipulate and drive up electricity prices during California's energy crisis, the Justice Department said on Thursday...
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News: Teenager Arrested in Connection to Finland Mall Explosion
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 04:52 PM PST |
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Helsinki, Finland - Finnish Police announced Tuesday they had arrested a 17-year old teen on suspicion of assisting a chemistry student create a bomb that exploded in a crowded Finnish shopping mall last week, killing seven, including the bomber, and injuring dozens...
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News: British Man of 'Dot-USA' Domains Ordered to Pay Back
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 04:19 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Thomas Goolnik, a U.K. resident, has agreed to pay back $350,000 to customers that purchased the ".usa" domain names from the entrepreneur...
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News: Seagate Technology Inc. to go Public Again
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, October 14, 2002 - 12:04 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - Seagate Technology Inc. on Friday filed to raise as much as $1 billion in a proposed initial stock offering that would partially reverse the deal two years ago which took the company private...
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News: Fake Bank Web Site Discovered by British Police
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 06:31 AM PST |
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London, England - On Tuesday, British police announced that had uncovered a fake bank website used to con at least two people out of $100,000...
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News: The Baby-Cry Detector
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, October 09, 2002 - 06:31 AM PST |
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Madrid, Spain - Pedro Monagas, an electronic engineer, said "Why Cry," a cry-detector that lets parents know why their child is crying, will go on sale in Spanish pharmacies for under $100 by the end of the month...
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News: Space Shuttle Atlantis Experiences More Problems
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, October 07, 2002 - 01:14 AM PST |
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Cape Canaveral, Fl - The space shuttle Atlantis, its mission to the International Space Station already delayed more than six weeks by cracked hardware and a hurricane, could face a further delay due to a potential problem discovered in the fuel-cell system that generates electricity for the orbiter, NASA said on Sunday...
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News: Verizon vs. The Music Industry
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 06:40 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - Verizon Communications was in court on Friday, accused of harboring and condoning illegal activity by the music industry...
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News: Russian Hacker Lured to U.S. Gets 3-Year Sentence
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 05:30 AM PST |
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Seattle, WA - Vasiliy Gorshkov, lured to the United States from Russia by the FBI, was sentenced to three years, instead of 16, on Friday. However, controversy surrounds the case...
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News: Asteroid Strikes May Cause World War
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, October 03, 2002 - 04:44 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Even small asteroids that never hit Earth could have deadly consequences, because they might be mistaken for nuclear blasts by nations that lack the equipment to tell the difference, scientists said on Thursday...
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News: WorldCom Outage Scares Many
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, October 03, 2002 - 04:13 PM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - WorldCom, one of the major backbone providers of networks that route traffic over the Internet, suffered a major commercial Internet outage beginning at 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday...
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News: Kevin Mitnick to Auction 'Dirty' Laptops
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, October 03, 2002 - 04:13 PM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - Kevin Mitnick announced Wednesday that he is coming clean of his past hacking activities and hopes to make money through a book he is in the process of writing, and by auctioning off the laptops he used to break into networks...
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News: Free MP3 Downloads from Music Industry
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, October 03, 2002 - 04:09 PM PST |
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London, England - In an effort to bring back MP3 downloaders to the light side, the music industry, beginning today, is allowing folks to download a variety of songs from 6,000 different artists...
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News: 3D Flat Screen Developed by Sharp Electronics
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 05:57 PM PST |
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Tokyo, Japan - The United Kingdom division of Sharp announced Friday that it had developed a flat-panel display for 2D and 3D that does not require any glasses...
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News: Recording Industry to Hack MP3 Exchange Networks
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, September 29, 2002 - 01:34 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Congress is considering expanded legal protection for record labels that resort to sabotage in their ongoing battle with "peer to peer" networks that allow users to freely trade music, movies and other copyrighted material.
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News: China Cracking Down on Anti-Communist Activities
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, September 27, 2002 - 04:16 AM PST |
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Beijing, China - Chen Shaowen, a laid-off Chinese writer, was arrested in the southern province of Hunan. This follows the government's latest move to rein in the activity of Internet writers and surfers, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement on Wednesday.
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News: Playstation 2 to Record TV Programs
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, September 27, 2002 - 02:00 AM PST |
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Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corp has decided to make its Playstation 2, with over 40 million units sold worldwide, into a consumer device capable of recording television...
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News: Motorola Announces Instant GPS with IBM
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 01:38 PM PST |
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Chicago, IL - Motorola Inc. announced Tuesday a new chip small enough to fit in a wristwatch, yet still work as a GPS device...
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News: Nintendo Sells Its Share of Rare to Microsoft
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 12:51 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Nintendo, well known for its gaming consoles, has sold its shares of 49 percent stake in Rare, formerly one of Nintendo's top game developers, to Microsoft, the multi-billion dollar software company...
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News: Microsoft Announces Wireless Networking Hardware
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 06:36 PM PST |
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Seattle, WA - Microsoft Corporation announced today that they will soon release their own wireless networking hardware products on the market...
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News: Intel Demonstrates Tri-gate Technology
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 12:15 PM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - Following the heels of AMDs recent announcement of the double-gate transistor, Intel showed off its new tri-gate transistor technology...
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News: Inventor of Microsoft Word and Excel Leaves Microsoft
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 08:04 AM PST |
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Seattle, WA - Charles Simonyi, a member of the Microsoft staff since 1981, and original programmer and architect of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, said Tuesday that he is leaving after 21 years to start a new company...
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News: New Chip Technology Announced by Intel
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 01:27 PM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - Intel Corporation announced today that it plans to combine functions of analog and digital chips onto the same piece of silicon, a push into the communications semiconductor industry...
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News: Microsoft Sends Out Office 11 Beta Tester Acceptance E-Mails
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 12:07 PM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Approximately 35 minutes ago, Microsoft Corporation began to send out the acceptance e-mails for those individuals that have been accepted into the Microsoft Office 11 Beta program...
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News: Microsoft Word Allows Readers to Steal Files
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 06:17 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - Microsoft Corporation stated Friday that it will be investigating a serious flaw in Microsoft Word which allows for malicious documents to steal user files...
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News: Dockers to Release Anti-Radiation Pants
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 02:50 PM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Dockers, a brand name of Levi Strauss, has created a new pair of pants, lined with an anti-radiation material to protect consumers from cell phones...
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News: Space Shuttle Atlantis Refit for Launch
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 12:32 PM PST |
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Cape Canaveral, FL - Months of delays due to repairs, and the recent issues with the shuttle transport devices, has grounded the shuttle fleet all summer. Now, Atlantis is ready to soar...
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News: All's Quiet On the Cyber-front
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 05:56 AM PST |
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Thousand Oaks, CA - With fears of cyber-attacks to mark the one year anniversary, the only 'attack' related to last year's disaster is an 11-month old hoax...
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News: 75,000 Digital Cameras Recalled
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 04:16 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - Many of Kodak's DC5000 Digital Camera's have been recalled due to shock hazard...
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News: Games Banned in Greece
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 04:53 AM PST |
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London, England - Greece, the origin of the Olympics, has a law which bans all forms of electronic games. Next week will bring about the first court case involving violation of the law...
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News: Microsoft's Windows Media Player 9 Hits the Street
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, September 06, 2002 - 09:11 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - 'Corona,' the name given to Microsoft's Windows Media Player 9 during beta, was finally released as a public beta during a gathering in Hollywood...
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News: Napster Naps Eternally
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, September 06, 2002 - 07:42 AM PST |
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London, England - Napster was laid to rest, as announcement of a Chapter 7 filing was revealed on Thursday...
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News: China Blocks Google
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, September 04, 2002 - 12:16 AM PST |
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Beijing, China - The Google search engine has been blocked in China, due to it giving people access to content that works against the Communist government...
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News: Windows XP Service Pack 1 to Fight Pirates
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, September 03, 2002 - 11:12 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - With the upcoming release of Service Pack 1 for Windows XP, Microsoft has incorporated a number of changes to battle piraters of the popular operating system...
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News: Ford Stops Electric Car Production
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, September 02, 2002 - 12:34 AM PST |
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Detroit, MI - Ford Motor Company announced Friday that it will stop production of its electric car...
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News: Microsoft to Release Windows XP Service Pack Sept. 9
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, September 01, 2002 - 03:39 PM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corporation announced Friday that it will be releasing its highly awaited service pack for the Windows XP operating system on Monday, September 9...
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News: AOL Releases New Netscape Browser
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, September 01, 2002 - 03:38 PM PST |
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New York, NY - America Online, part of the AOL Time Warner company, has released Netscape 7.0...
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News: Ford Fights F***edCompany
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, August 28, 2002 - 04:42 AM PST |
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New York, NY - Ford Motor Company was able to get the F***edCompany.com website shutdown temporarily due to trademark infringements...
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News: CONTOUR Spacecraft Sails for Eternity
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 08:58 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - The CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) spacecraft that was lost earlier this month, may have one last chance in December, but most have lost hope...
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News: AMD Will Produce at 90 Nanometers
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:02 PM PST |
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Penang, Malaysia - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced today that it will partner with Taiwanese United Microelectronics Corp to produce 90 nanometer wafers...
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News: Blue-Laser DVD Battle
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, August 26, 2002 - 04:20 AM PST |
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Tokyo, Japan - A new blue-laser standard to be proposed by Toshiba and NEC may not receive a happy welcome...
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News: ForensicTec Raided by FBI
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, August 24, 2002 - 04:31 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Last week, ForensicTec stated the government's systems were weak in security, and broke in to show them. The FBI didn't take it standing up, and yesterday, raided ForensicTec Solutions...
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News: RIAA Being Banned
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, August 24, 2002 - 01:34 AM PST |
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Fanwood, NJ - Earlier this week, Information Wave Technologies, LLC., an ISP, decided that the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) policy of seeking out piraters and invading ISP networks was going too far...
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News: ATI Gains Advantage Against NVidia
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:06 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - NVidia has suffered another blow on Thursday by losing out to ATI on contracts with manufacturers such as Apple and Hewlett-Packard...
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News: Microsoft XBox to See Differently
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 10:38 PM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - The Microsoft video game console, Xbox, may be receiving a new video interface chip, instead of the currently used NVidia chip...
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News: RIAA After Verizon
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 10:22 PM PST |
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New York, NY - The Recording Industry Association of America has filed a suit against Verizon, one of the largest telecommunications firms, forcing them to turn over information on an unnamed client...
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News: AOL To Grow...
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 12:27 PM PST |
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New York, NY - AT&T plans to sell its stake in Time Warner Entertainment, which is now part of the AOL giant, giving AOL complete control...
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News: Undercover Cops Unveiled
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 04:04 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - The customer list of a Florida-based company that supplies surveillance devices to law enforcement agencies was posted on the internet for all to see...
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News: Expanding EBay
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:22 PM PST |
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New York, NY - EBay, the world's largest online auction site has been cleared to buy out PayPal...
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News: Palm Not Colorful
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, August 19, 2002 - 09:55 PM PST |
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New York, NY - Palm, Inc., one of the leading handheld PDA (personal digital assistant) manufacturers, announced today that the m130 handheld can't display as many colors as advertised...
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News: CONTOUR May Be In Pieces
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, August 18, 2002 - 04:58 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - The CONTOUR spacecraft which disappeared off NASAs radar when it failed to signal back on Thursday, may actually have split up during its burn operation...
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News: Military Computers Are Not Secure
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, August 16, 2002 - 02:44 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Many computers containing military data are easily accessible on the internet, and data not protected...
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News: AOL Under Investigation by SEC
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, August 16, 2002 - 02:35 PM PST |
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New York, NY - AOL has fallen into the growing chain of corporations making false filings, and now, the SEC is taking no prisoners...
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News: Another Possible Failed Space Probe
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 03:16 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Early this morning, the CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) space probe did not re-establish contact with Earth. The probe may or may not be forever gone...
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News: Nextel Market is Growing
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - 04:48 PM PST |
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Reston, Va - Nextel shares were on the climb today after announcing the elimination of some debts, a steady customer growth, and the acquisition of new wireless licenses...
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News: IBM to Cut Almost 16,000 Jobs
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 09:57 PM PST |
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New York, NY - International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has announced that they will be cutting 15,600 people from their workforce...
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News: FBI Website Out of Service
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 05:27 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - The FBI's website was down for part of the day today, but not due to a hacker, the cause was their own incorrectly configured servers...
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News: Microsoft to Launch 'XBox Live' on November 15
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 01:32 PM PST |
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Redmond, Washington - Microsoft announced today that it will launch 'Xbox Live,' the online service for its Xbox console, on the one-year anniversary, which falls on November 15....
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News: Virus Writing on the Decline
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 03:41 PM PST |
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London, England - The year 2002 may hold a big surprise for everyone that uses a computer, the lack of new virii to attack them. The past two years brought us a number of 'annoying' virii, however, this year is like the US stock market, just going down...
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News: Hightened Fear of Hacking, Post September 11
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, August 11, 2002 - 05:48 PM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - U.S. Prosecutors are not going to take any hacking attempt lightly. In spite of the recent possible NASA break in, and last weeks failed "denial of service" attack that was supposed to come in from Europe, the U.S. is on a manhunt....
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News: NASA Investigating Data Theft On Future Projects
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, August 10, 2002 - 03:53 PM PST |
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A closed database containing sensitive information on NASA's next-generation launch vehicles fell into the hands of a "hacker" and investigators don't know how...
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News: Biometrics Might Make It Harder to Shoot Someone
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, August 09, 2002 - 03:05 PM PST |
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Albuquerque, NM - Two companies in Albuquerque are making advances in biometrics, instead of attempting to determine the fingerprint, they have developed a device that measures the light-waves returned...
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News: All Digital TV By 2007
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 08:09 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - The FCC has decided that all TV sets will require digital tuners by the year 2007...
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News: Microsoft Passport Technology Case is Settled
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 03:07 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Over the past two years, Microsoft has transitioned to their "Passport" security technology, claiming it's much more secure than anything else...
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News: Speed of Light May Not Be Constant After All
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, August 07, 2002 - 03:19 PM PST |
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Sydney, Australia - a team of scientists are attempting to unravel the speed of light, as it may not be constant after all...
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