Monthly Archives: February 2003
Sequent Takes Visual Surveillance To New Level
We live under the watchful eyes of countless video cameras on street corners, in stores, in our offices, in police cars, and elsewhere. Most...
Copy DVDs Without Losing Quality
A single scratch can make your $20 DVD a drink coaster. DVD X Copy ($99 direct), from 321 Studios, lets you make backups of...
EDS Profit, Revenues Dip in Fourth Quarter
Electronic Data Systems Inc. Thursday reported decreases across the board in earnings, net income and revenues for its fourth quarter, but the IT services...
Making MySQL Yours
"Managing & Using MySQL" is an ideal book for beginner MySQL users and developers.The author does a good job of getting the concepts across...
HP Promotes PC Recycling
Hewlett-Packard Co. is launching a program that will give consumers up to $50 toward the purchase of new products on the companys Web site...
A Digital Snow Day
Frequent flyers are well aware of the principal of force majeure: the so-called "acts of God" that relieve airlines from their obligation to schlep...
JDE Launches BI QuickStart Program
Enterprise resource planning software developer J.D. Edwards & Co. announced Thursday that it launched a program to help users implement a set of live...
Microsoft Patches Two IE Flaws
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday released another cumulative patch for Internet Explorer that fixes two new critical vulnerabilities in the browser. The two flaws are...
Microsoft Blames Virus Spread on Failure to Patch
Microsoft has blamed the explosive spread of the SQL Slammer worm on system adminstrators failure to patch their systems. But do users and administrators...
Xupiter Xhibits Xtupidity
Users all over the Net (including a few members of ExtremeTechs own staff) are hopping mad about a nasty bit of spyware called Xupiter.Xupiter...