iPhone Headlines News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
CNET News reporter Elinor Mills knows what it's like to feel frustrated by computer glitches. (Credit: James Martin/CNET News) When faced with a technology breakdown, levels of optimism and frustration vary depending on age and gender, according to a ...
ZDNet UK Highlights (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apple tells Mac users to install antivirus software Tags: , , , Elinor Mills CNET News.com Published: 02 Dec 08:28 GMT In what appears to be a first, Apple is recommending that Mac users install antivirus software.Rather than an admission that the Mac operating system is suddenly insecure, this is more a recognition that Mac users are vulnerable to web application exploits, which have...
CNET News.com (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... recently, exposing calls and phone numbers but not e-mail, according to a CNN report. Posted By: Elinor Mills Nov 20 2008 Two former Federal Communications Commission staffers and the head of Google.org will help president-elect's transition team write tech policy. Posted By: Stephanie Condon Nov 19 2008 The CEO on Monday laid out broad policy proposals for Washington that include...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... recently, exposing calls and phone numbers but not e-mail, according to a CNN report. Posted By: Elinor Mills Nov 20 2008 Two former Federal Communications Commission staffers and the head of Google.org will help president-elect's transition team write tech policy. Posted By: Stephanie Condon Nov 19 2008 The CEO on Monday laid out broad policy proposals for Washington that include...
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Elinor Mills writes on C|Net News : Facebook has been awarded $873 million in damages against a Canadian man accused of sending spam messages to its members. The default judgment was issued in federal court in San Jose, Calif., on Friday against Adam Guerbuez, of Montreal, and his company, Atlantis Blue Capital. The ruling also forbids Guerbuez from using Facebook or interacting with...
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Elinor Mills writes on C|Net News : Symantec researchers spent a year observing the chat among cybercriminals on IRC channels and forums on the Internet between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008 and were able to piece together a veritable menu of malicious code, as well as dig up detailed information on the exchange of highly prized financial information. For example, credit card information...
THE PRICE OF RICE (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
CNET News - November 18, 2008, by Elinor Mills Photo Credit: Jonathan James Three years after losing her left eye in a car accident, San Franciscan Tanya Vlach wants to make her artificial eye more useful: She's planning to put a video camera in her eye socket with the goal of having a bionic eye. Asked in an e-mail what her inspiration is, Vlach wrote: The Bionic Woman and maybe Bladerunner!...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
What qualifications will the company be stressing as it seeks a replacement for CEO Jerry Yang? Reporters Stephen Shankland and Elinor Mills explore that question and more.
Gadget Cravings (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
CNET News reporter Elinor Mills knows what it’s like to feel frustrated by computer glitches. (Credit: James Martin/CNET News) When faced with a technology breakdown, levels of optimism and frustration vary depending on age and gender, according to a new study to be released on Sunday. That’s the straight lead. The one I was pondering writing is: I’m a [...]
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Security firm Finjan gets $22 million in funding from VCs.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
The company, which sells Web gateway security software to the corporate market, plans to expand its sales and marketing infrastructure with the money.
Crave RSS (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
CNET News reporter Elinor Mills knows what it's like to feel frustrated by computer glitches. (Credit: James Martin/CNET News) When faced with a technology breakdown, levels of optimism and frustration vary depending on age and gender, according to a new study to be released on Sunday. That's the straight lead. The one I was pondering writing is: I'm a late-baby-boomer woman and I hate...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
CNET News Daily Podcast: Microsoft shakes up security worldPosted by Microsoft is causing a stir in the security world by dropping the fee for its antivirus software. That might be great news for security in general. But if people come to expect the service for free, where does that leave the companies that focus solely on security? Reporters Ina Fried and Elinor Mills join me in the...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
CNET News Daily Podcast: Microsoft shakes up security worldPosted by Microsoft is causing a stir in the security world by dropping the fee for its antivirus software. That might be great news for security in general. But if people come to expect the service for free, where does that leave the companies that focus solely on security? Reporters Ina Fried and Elinor Mills join me in the...
ZDNet UK Highlights (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Yang's departure could open door to Microsoft Elinor Mills CNET News.com 17:42 GMTJerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo opens the door wide for another Microsoft offer, analysts and shareholders said on Monday."I would expect Microsoft to come back within the next three or four months," said Eric Jackson, an activist Yahoo shareholder who was among the investors who criticised...
