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News.blog: Email autocomplete causes $1bn oopsie

News That's the one that guesses who you want to send the email to by looking at the first few letters you type. I've always been leery of Microsoft Outlook's autocomplete feature. It's right most of the time.

Tags: bar, note, microsoft outlook, autocomplete

7 February 2008, 9:26

Nanocars ready to roll

News The university's nanocars, which will be described in an upcoming issue of the journal Nano Letters, are actually complex molecules that behave like vehicles. Rice University has concocted the ultimate in high-tech vehicles.

24 October 2005, 9:52

Users get more creative with passwords

News The average password is eight characters long and 81 per cent of those in the sampling consist of both letters and numbers, Bruce Schneier, chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security, wrote in an article published on Wired News on...

18 December 2006, 11:19

Gates reassures customers over security

News Given human nature, evolving threat models and the increasing interconnectedness of computers, the number of security exploits will never reach zero," Gates wrote in a Microsoft Progress Report, the latest in a periodic series of letters on major...

1 April 2004, 10:30

Green paint from 1700s has tech promise

News The scientists revealed their findings in the paper 'Direct Kinetic Correlation of Carriers and Ferromagnetism in Co2+:ZnO', published in the 21 July edition of Physical Review Letters. An obscure and unpopular artists' pigment invented in 18th...

9 August 2006, 9:15

Bush administration objects to .xxx domains

News The Department of Commerce has received nearly 6,000 letters and emails from individuals expressing concern about the impact of pornography on families and children," Gallagher said in a letter on Thursday that was made public on Monday.

16 August 2005, 9:46

Sony Music gives bloggers free videos

News But Sony will also actively encourage fan sites and bloggers -- who are mostly used to receiving cease-and-desist letters from studios -- to link to the material. Sony BMG Music Entertainment wants to give bloggers free music and video -- sort of.

19 June 2006, 9:15

Microsoft set to unveil Windows Mobile 6

News Among the most visible changes is the ability to type in a few letters of a song, contact or email subject and have the phone automatically show only matching results. With its latest operating system, Microsoft is promising improved search, better...

8 February 2007, 9:16

The death of the smiley?

News These are emoticons (or emotive icons), the arrangements of letters and symbols that have been inserted into emails, message board posts and instant messages since the fledgling days of the Internet. Author Vladimir Nabokov said in a 1969 New York...

14 March 2007, 10:41

EU telecoms vote tackles file sharing

News Such legislation, enthusiastically backed by many in the content industry, would have Internet service providers (ISPs) issue warning letters to those customers they think have been illegally downloading or uploading copyrighted material, before...

Tags: package, providers, service providers, strikes

8 July 2008, 8:57

BT reads riot act to download 'hogs'

News The letters offer customers the chance to pay for their excess bandwidth consumption or seek service from another provider. BT is cracking down on heavy Internet users who are habitually breaking its monthly download limit, suggesting that they...

28 March 2006, 11:13

Internet fathers honoured with presidential medal

News The main idea was to enclose packets in 'datagrams' that would act something like envelopes containing letters. Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, who developed the TCP/IP protocols used to transmit traffic across the Internet, next week will receive the...

7 November 2005, 8:59

Anti-plagiarism tech catches cheaters

News The organisation has also sent letters to schools warning about the new plagiarism detection tactics. University admissions body Ucas is using automated detection technology to spot plagiarised applications from students.

2 October 2007, 8:29

Geeks to hold open-source camping weekend

News They're calling it Bar Camp as a play on the word 'foobar', a common version of the military acronym 'FUBAR', the last three letters of which stand for 'beyond all recognition'. For a couple of years, Tim O'Reilly has been bringing together some of...

22 August 2005, 9:03

Jack Thompson rebuked by judge

News Friedman then read several excerpts from letters from Thompson, in which he called the original Bully hearing "a disturbing abortion of justice" and threatened to sue Friedman personally. Those who thought the denial of Jack Thompson's attempt to...

27 October 2006, 10:01