Computer Updates and Site Info

Is Your Work Computer Private? 
A judicial panel flip-flops, finding that workers have constitutional rights when it comes to government searches of their employer-provided computers. In 27B Stroke 6.

Hynix Semiconductor 4Q Profit Up 35 Pct 
Hynix Semiconductor Inc. said Wednesday its net profit jumped 35 percent in the fourth quarter on strong demand for computer chips related to the launch of Windows Vista.

Microsoft computer scientist missing after setting sail alone 
A Microsoft computer scientist in San Francisco was missing after setting out for a day of sailing.

Computer intrusion count gets man probation, fine 
A Prairieville man who hacked into a national defense contractors computer system to access a Korean satellite wont go to prison. U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola sentenced 32-year-old Shawn Phillip Brady on Monday to five years probation and fined him $2,500.

Microsoft researcher missing at sea
Silicon Valley - A pioneering Bay Area computer scientist is missing after he left Sunday morning for what he told family was a day sailing trip to the Farallon Islands to dispose of his mother’s ashes. Jim Gray, 63, founder and manager of Microsoft’s Bay Area

Microsoft starts Vista hard sell
BBC News - So-called digital rights management (DRM) technology in Vista gives Microsoft the ability to lock you out of your computer. “Vista requires more expensive and energy-hungry hardware, passing the cost on to consumers and the environment. “This

My Computer Works, Inc. Selects Numara FootPrints to Manage Virtual
Forbes - Numara Software, Inc., a leader in help desk solutions, today announced that My Computer Works, Inc., a personal computer technical support services company, has selected Numara FootPrints(R) to automate, track and report customer support requests

Tech Update: Are you Vista-ready?
Reuters - PC owners can use a Microsoft download to determine if their current computer has the brains and the braun or if a new PC will be necessary. Conway G. Gittens reports from New York. Speaker: Jeremy Kaplan, executive editor, PC Magazine. Reuters

Microsoft Launches New Vista System
Baltimore Sun - Mike Johnson, 29, of nearby Rolesville, bought a laptop computer with the new software preinstalled. “The biggest reason for me is the new interface. It looks so much better than XP,” he said. “Apple computers have had nice graphical interfaces for

‘Dumb Terminals’ Can Be a Smart Move
Wall Street Journal - A new generation of simplified devices — most often called “thin clients” or “simple terminals” — is gaining popularity with an increasing number of companies and other computer users in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The stripped-down machines from

TJX delays reporting security breach
Baltimore Sun - BOSTON // TJX Cos. took a month to make public a computer security breach because it was trying to prevent further damage, the TJX chairman said in an online message and full-page advertisement in Boston newspapers. TJX Cos. discovered in mid

Vt. Computer With Data On 70,000 Hacked
Guardian Unlimited - WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) - A state computer containing the names, Social Security Numbers and bank account information for 70,000 Vermont residents was hacked into by a remote user sometime before early December, the state said Monday. It is possible that

DMV computer link could raise voter pool
Hampton Roads Daily Press - RICHMOND — A new computer link between voting registrars and the Department of Motor Vehicles could help quell a Williamsburg controversy surrounding the voting rights of college students. The link is scheduled to be up and running in early February

Center for War Amputees Opens
Washington Post - The privately funded Center for the Intrepid includes a rock-climbing wall, a wave pool and a virtual-reality computer system. About 3,200 people attended a dedication ceremony, including Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

Geek Squad City to employ additional 350 workers 
Five months after opening its Geek Squad City computer-repair facility in Bullitt County, Best Buy Co. Inc. already is in need of more employees at the site.

VMware upgrade aims to simplify virtualization 
Virtualization software maker VMware is set to introduce a new version of its VMware Converter migration tool software, which facilitates setting up server virtualization on a computer system.

NE militants turning computer savvy 
The militants have joined computer courses to keep up to date with the changing times.

Va. Computer-Chip Makers Say Competition is Global / Henrico’s Qimonda, Micron of Manassas Stress Education, Need for … 
By JEFFREY KELLEY Virginia’s computer-chip manufacturing industry is strong.

Don’t fret over scraps of files that are left behind 
Q: I recently tried to delete an Internet security program from my computer. My subscription had run out, and I suspected the program was conflicting with some of my other software. But the Add and Remove Programs feature in Windows XP didn’t completely work….

Hunt and peck on the way out 
WARE - Like most of her peers, Katie A. Tracy of Ware entered fifth grade at the Middle School here with few computer skills, including her keyboarding hunt-and-peck style with only her index fingers.

Computer-TV hybrids redefining entertainment 
It’s getting harder to tell the difference between a television and a computer. You might have read something like that in the mid-1990s, but never before have both platforms shared so many capabilities.

Don’t throw old computer in trash 
Q. What am I supposed to do with the old computer and printer I no longer need, now that I have replacements for them? I hate to toss them into the trash. …

State transportation workers’ data posted on computer network 
INDIANAPOLIS — The names and Social Security numbers of about 4,000 employees of the Indiana Department of Transportation were inadvertently posted on an internal network computer drive, the agency said yesterday.

Computer Problem Slows BMV Plate-Renewal Notices 
Time-consuming computer work forces the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles to delay the mailing of thousands of license plate renewal notices.

Dell To Take Midnight Orders For Vista PCs 
The computer maker recommends consumers stick to systems with dual-core or quad-core processors.

Densest computer chip ever 
UCLA and Caltech researchers have created the densest computer memory chip ever, a nanosized device that can comfortably hold the Declaration of Independence yet is only the size of a white blood cell.

Computer-chip advance a ‘big deal for industry’ 
SAN JOSE, Calif. In dueling announcements, Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. separately say they have solved a puzzle perplexing the semiconductor industry about how to reduce energy loss in microchip transistors as the technology shrinks to the atomic scale.

Employees’ private data left on INDOT server by mistake 
The names and Social Security numbers of about 4,000 employees at the Indiana Department of Transportation late last year were inadvertently left on a computer server accessible to all agency employees and some private contractors, officials announced Friday.

Concurrent Computer posts $3.5 million loss in Q2 
Concurrent Computer Corp. continued to run in the red in the second quarter of 2007.

Nokia, Vodacam multimedia computer trial 
Nokia and Vodacom Tanzania announced yesterday collaboration for trial of the latest Nokia multimedia computer on the countrys new network, starting this month.

Computer Security Site Deleted After MySpace Request 
A popular computer security Web site was abruptly yanked offline by MySpace.com and GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, raising questions about free speech and Internet governance.

Local Shoppers, Businesses React To National Computer Hack 
Investigators said cyber thieves have access to credit and debit cards and check information dating back to 2003, part of a recently discovered computer hack involving 2,500 stores.

Computer viruses may be on the way 
Big winter blast of computer viruses may be headed for Pensacola.

Unternehmen/Finanzen, Computer/Telekommunikation 
Wien (pts/25.01.2007/10:48) - Sun Microsystems meldet seine Ergebnisse des zweiten Quartals im Finanzjahr 2007, das am 31. Dezember 2006 endete. Der Umsatz im zweiten Quartal des Gesch ftsjahres 2007 betrug 3,566 Milliarden Dollar.

Computer a better guide to postseason worthiness 
It’s time to relegate college hockey’s subjective media polls below the unbiased computer.

Will Computer Hardware/Networking Demand Increase, Decrease, or Remain the Same in the First Half of 2007? 
DUBLIN, Ireland—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the ChangeWave Research report: Computer Hardware & Networking Industry Report to their offering.

Avnet Electronics Marketing Reaches Sales Milestone with Analog
Forbes - AVT) markets, distributes and adds value to the products of the world’s leading electronic component suppliers, enterprise computer manufacturers and embedded subsystem providers. Additionally, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of service capabilities

Computer Sciences gets $378M contract
Boston Globe - EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Computer Sciences Corp. , a supplier of information technology services to industry and government, on Monday said it signed a contract worth up to $378 million with BlueScope Steel Ltd., which makes metallic coated and painted

support.com to Provide Consumers With ‘Instant Technology Relief(SM
MSN MoneyCentral - - Leader in Technology Problem Resolution Launches Guaranteed Service to Quickly and Conveniently Solve Consumer Computer Problems - REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SupportSoft, Inc. SPRT , a leader in technology problem

Keep Your Computer Private at Work 
(ARA) - Protecting confidential information is more critical than ever, but an astounding 72 percent of people admit to sneaking glances at others’ computers. Although the majority of Americans admit to snooping, 69 percent don’t take precautions to keep their computers private.

Stolen computer tattles; tip leads to drug arrests 
When police follow the alerts of the anti-theft device and arrest the alleged thief, a man with “bad timing” knocks on the door allegedly carrying a…

EMC’s Fourth-Quarter Profit Almost Triples on Computer Sales 
Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) — EMC Corp., the world’s largest maker of data-storage computers and software, said fourth-quarter profit almost tripled as the company reduced staff and reported higher sales of its most-expensive computers.

PRCC computer classes set 
Pearl River Community College is offering several short-term computer skills training classes starting next month at the Lowery A. Woodall Advanced Technology Center in Hattiesburg.

Majesco Entertainment Names New Director 
Computer game publisher Majesco Entertainment Co. said Tuesday that Mark Stewart has joined its board.

Remote computing
NorthJersey.com - He created a password for the site and a pass code for access to his computer, and then e-mailed that information to me. I logged onto the site, entered the codes, and within seconds, I was viewing his entire computer screen from the comfort of my

Iowa Woman Fired for Journaling at Work
CBS News - A supervisor told her to stop writing on company time, but instead, Bauer wrote her journal, all 300 single-spaced pages, on her work computer. In the journal, portions of which were introduced during a recent hearing regarding Bauer’s request for

L’Anse Creuse students suspended for tampering with computer grades
Detroit News - HARRISON TOWNSHIP — L’Anse Creuse school officials have suspended 13 L’Anse Creuse High School-North students in connection with a scheme to change grades in an computerized grade book. Four of those students — the ones who actually changed the

The Oil Drubbing’s Over
Street.Com - To get the full benefit of Vista (especially the Aero interface) one needs a powerful and (most likely) a new computer. “The vast majority of existing Windows PCs won’t be able to use all of Vista’s features without major hardware upgrades. They will

Virus exploits interest in Europe storm 
Spammers are exploiting the public’s interest in this week’s European storm to spread a computer virus that sends junk e-mail, computer security experts said Friday.

Computer virus uses European storms to spread globally 
A computer in a cafe in Hong Kong, December 2006. A computer virus has made use of devastating storms sweeping across Europe to infect email systems and spread rapidly throughout the world, a Finnish IT security company has said.

Transitions offers computer training 
Transitions Center for Women will be offering a Microsoft Office XP Simplified Computer Training Course.

Retail Giant TJX Discloses Massive Data Breach 
Banks and credit card companies are rushing to notify their customers to keep an eye out for fraudulent activity on their accounts after several retailers discovered thefts of customer data from their computer systems.

Beginning Computer Courses Offered at DSLCC RRC 
LEXINGTON - Two four-week non-credit computer courses for beginners will be offered at the Dabney S. Lancaster Community College Rockbridge Regional Center on Mondays from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The instructor for both courses is Ed Mays.

TJX says it suffered computer system intrusion; customer data stolen 
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. The parent company of the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls discount stores says its computer systems were hacked late last year and customer data was stolen.