Archives: 2008 April

Fans of the Windows XP operating system will have to wait for the latest — and possibly last — service pack update. Microsoft said Tuesday that further release of Service Pack 3, which had been made available through Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center the same day, was being delayed because of a recently revealed […]

When you release a game that celebrates beatings, shootings, carjackings and other forms of social mayhem, it had better work properly. If the official forums for Grand Theft Auto IV are any indication, the programmers at Take-Two and Rockstar North should avoid lingering in dark alleys for the foreseeable future.

Dozens of disappointed GTA IV players […]

Tax forms were sent out to thousands of people in Wisconsin with their Social Security numbers on the mailing labels. A vendor hired by the state of Georgia lost a computer disk with the names and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million people. A disk with similar information disappeared in Rhode Island.

While some of the […]

Think your company is too small to attract a hacker? Think again.

“Small businesses are a hacker’s dream … Hackers know that most small business owners have the ‘It won’t happen to me’ or ‘I don’t have anything that they’d want’ mentality and prey on it,” said Renee Chronister, co-owner of Parameter Security, an ethical hacking […]

Internet Web sites of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in more than half a dozen countries have been attacked, the broadcaster said Monday.

The radio network said in a statement that the cyber warfare began Saturday and is still continuing. It said the attackers have been using a denial-of-service attack that floods the computer servers […]

An overwhelming majority of Wall Street analysts see Microsoft preparing shortly to make a hostile bid for Yahoo at Yahoo’s current price of $31 per share in cash and stock, a Reuters poll has found.

Most Wall Street analysts believe Microsoft now faces a drawn-out proxy campaign to win its unsolicited takeover of Yahoo, according to […]

A federal judge’s ruling against the RIAA not only represents a setback for the litigious trade group in one particular lawsuit, but also opens a Pandora’s box of technicalities that could mean a few speed bumps ahead for its legal steamroller. In Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA moved for summary judgment, citing the presence of […]

As Microhoo madness heats up, veteran Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley asks: Where are the company's next leaders coming from?

Microsoft's board is meeting Wednesday to evaluate its options for taking over Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Fortune reports that AT&T expects to launch Apple’s new 3G iPhone either on, or very near to, the June 27 anniversary of the original handset’s 2007 launch. Citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter, the magazine said AT&T intends to heavily subsidize the new smartphone, giving anyone who signs up for a two-year contract […]