Counterfeit computer component crackdown promised (The New Zealand Herald)
Counterfeit computer component crackdown promised (The New Zealand Herald)
BRUSSELS - EU and US senior officials say they will crack down on counterfeiting of computer components after seizing over 360,000 fake items in just two weeks in a joint operation at the end of last year.
S.O.S. staff member heads program’s computer lab (Delta Democrat Times)
GREENVILLE - A Greenville native and computer afficionado, Jansie Williams loves to gather information and then share it with others.
Banks, Wall St. Feel Pinch from Computer Intrusion (Slashdot)
An anonymous reader writes "Financial institutions and companies in the securities/futures business are reporting sizable increases in the amount of losses and suspicious activity attributed to computer intrusions and identity theft, says the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog. The Post obtained a confidential report compiled by the FDIC which analyzed Suspicious Activity Reports from the 2nd …
Still Debate Over Sales Tax For Computer Companies (CBS 13 Baltimore)
The long debate over a sales tax for local computer companies continues.
Computer Programmer’s Attorneys Use ‘Geek Defense’ (Washington Post)
OAKLAND, Calif. — When Nina Reiser disappeared in September 2006, investigators suspecting foul play looked long and hard at her estranged husband, the computer genius Hans. Eccentric, awkward and notoriously difficult as a human being, Hans Reiser proved quite accommodating when it came to…
Computer memory vulnerable to hacking (The Pantagraph)
SAN FRANCISCO — Want to break into a computer’s encrypted hard drive? Just blast the machine’s memory chip with a burst of cold air.
‘World Wide Computer’ is on horizon (USA Today)
According to Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch and former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, a revolution that’s coming is based on the idea that the Internet, a network of computers, is becoming a gigantic computer itself. Not only will users be able to write programs to run on this "World Wide Computer," as Carr calls it, but sooner or later, this system will gain a level …