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Users get more creative with passwords

News A sample of login information from 34,000 MySpace members seems to implicate that Internet users are getting better at picking more secure passwords, according to a prominent security expert. One of the users in the sample even had a 32 character...

18 December 2006, 11:19

Microsoft offers free photo-sharing tool

News Designed as a sample application to show off Microsoft's next-generation presentation and communications engine, Microsoft's 'Max' allows users to create a display of their digital photos that can be emailed to friends and family.

14 September 2005, 9:46

Camera shake could be no more

News The method isn't a miracle cure, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto have used it to significantly help a wide variety of sample images. For example, when testers are shown sample images, they...

10 August 2006, 10:30

Face recognition in your photo album

News Give the Web site a couple of pictures of your mother-in-law as a sample, and it will find the other pictures of her on your hard drive. Thus, the task of matching a sample in a consumer's hard drive is easier.

14 March 2006, 10:14

Images: Microsoft Office, then and now

News Here's a sample of what's moved and what's new in Office 2007. To sample new fonts, you might have even made changes to the document, then selected Undo to reverse unwanted changes, and repeated those steps until the style fitted your tastes.

25 January 2007, 10:47

eBay launches developer Web site

News At the Web site, dubbed eBay Community Codebase, developers will have access to source code for various eBay and PayPal tools and sample applications, as well as provide a way to more easily collaborate on projects with others.

21 June 2005, 9:42

Confusion over 'best ISP' rating

News Analyst Ian Fogg of Jupiter Research argued that: "Unless you have a large sample size per ISP, the quality of the line may be as significant as the ability of the ISP to deliver. If advancing technologies, sample sizes and differing testing...

19 July 2006, 10:54

Photos: Toyota's Panasonic kit at the British Grand Prix

News We're here to sample the atmosphere and see how Panasonic technology helps the Toyota Formula 1 racing team get the best from its drivers and cars. We arrive at Silverstone, home of the British Grand Prix.

12 June 2006, 15:48

Study: Wii weight-loss works

News The study used a sample of five girls and seven boys between 13 and 15 years old and tracked the gamers through three key measures of energy expenditure, calories burned and heart rate. Liverpool John Moores University has published findings that...

23 February 2007, 8:28

Firefox 'passes 20 per cent market share' in Europe

News XiTi, which based its figures on a sample of 32.5 million Web site visits that took place on 8 January, said that Finland has the highest proportion of Firefox users, followed by Slovenia and Germany.

18 January 2006, 9:16

Firefox use booming in Europe

News According to numbers released by French Web metrics firm XiTi, Firefox accounted for 14.08 per cent of browsers used to access a large sample of Web sites that use its measurement software. Mirroring a trend in the US, Firefox continues to grow...

7 June 2005, 11:17

Gloomy iTunes predictions inflated

News The music industry would certainly like to see better growth from digital music sales, but the Forrester report is based on a small sample size and indicates that it's too early in the digital music era to be drawing conclusions about the habits...

14 December 2006, 9:37

Microsoft 'frightened' by police hack

News The machine was running no antivirus, firewall, or anti-spyware, and contained a sample target file of passwords to be stolen. Microsoft has described the ease with which two officers from the Serious Organised Crime Agency managed to hack into

Tags: businesses, windows xp, anti, operating system

14 November 2007, 9:30

Anti-plagiarism tech catches cheaters

News For example, a search on Google for 'Ucas sample personal statement' throws up more than results. University admissions body Ucas is using automated detection technology to spot plagiarised applications from students.

Tags: cent, google, detection, trial

2 October 2007, 9:29

Legal music network struggles with illegal content

News In a sample of searches performed by CNET.co.uk's parent site CNET News.com, the same was true of songs from Green Day's latest album, a handful of tunes from The Black Eyed Peas, and other copyrighted works -- precisely what the company's new...

3 November 2005, 9:02