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BT's new Internet repair man

News The BT Home IT visit scheme will see engineers visiting broadband customers to put right any queries or concerns about their home PC use -- at a cost of £75 for the first hour, £25 for each subsequent half hour.

25 September 2006, 10:43

More Brits than ever bank online

News But some respondents said they would still visit a branch for more complex banking activities. The report said that half of a bank's customers will visit the branch at least once per month. Almost 60 per cent of Britons rely on the internet to do...

3 March 2006, 9:14

'WoW' accounts still susceptible to attack

News When the players visit the sites -- which are often unrelated to WoW, but that players frequent, Thompson said -- the software is quietly installed on their computers, allowing the hackers to spy on keystrokes and steal players' WoW passwords.

11 April 2007, 11:20

BT provides homes with virtual engineer

News BT is also preparing a Home IT visit service, currently being piloted before a formal launch this summer, in which new BT Broadband customers can pay £50 to have an engineer call, get them up and running, and give them a short demonstration.

12 June 2006, 10:27

Trojan swaps porn sites for Koran text

News A new Trojan horse is serving as a moral guardian of sorts, displaying text from the Koran if users visit what could be a pornographic Web site, Sophos warned on Monday. The Trojan horse, dubbed 'Yusufali-A', scans the title bar of the active Web...

7 September 2005, 9:37

Photos: Reinventing the scroll wheel

News A recent visit by CNET.co.uk's sister site, News.com, to Synaptics' headquarters in Santa Clara, California, turned up several notable concept designs that might make their way into future PCs. The company, perhaps best-known for its iPod Click...

23 August 2006, 11:01

New worm spoofs Google, Yahoo and MSN sites

News People with infected machines who try to visit those popular search sites are redirected to spoof versions, antivirus company Panda Software said on Friday. Security experts have discovered a malicious program aimed at tricking users into clicking...

3 October 2005, 9:39

Tate Modern Web site rehung

News The Tate's Web site now boasts a virtual tour of the galleries designed to help art lovers planning a visit to the South Bank. Tate Modern has unveiled a revamp of its online offerings to complement the art gallery's recent rehang.

27 June 2006, 10:52

IBM speeds push into 3D virtual worlds

News Chairman and chief executive Sam Palmisano is set to visit Second Life on Tuesday, following a "town hall" meeting with some 7,000 employees in China. IBM is ramping up its push into virtual worlds with an investment of roughly $10 million over the...

10 November 2006, 11:06

Microsoft investigates potential new IE flaw

News An attacker could craft a malicious Web site that takes advantage of the flaw and gain control over the PCs that visit the Web site or install malicious software on those systems, a representative of the French Security Incident Response Team...

18 August 2005, 9:32

Oscar hopefuls bag tech goodies

News Some of the more exotic gifts doled out to Oscar luminaries included a vintage silk kimono from designer Kay Ungera, a spa visit at Cornelia Day Resort in Manhattan and a retreat to the Mayan Riviera or a Canadian ski holiday, courtesy of Fairmont...

6 March 2006, 10:05

RFID scans trolleys at Samsung Tesco

News So, if a customer wants to buy ingredients for a breakfast meal, he would have to visit multiple sections of the supermarket," said Lee Kang-Tee, chief information officer of Samsung Tesco. Korea's second largest supermarket chain is counting on...

Tags: stores, shopping, house, patterns

5 July 2006, 11:08

Google experiences brief outage

News He said the problem was related to the DNS (Domain Name System), which routes your Internet protocol address to the appropriate Web site you want to visit. Google's Web site was inaccessible for a brief time on Saturday and some visitors reported...

9 May 2005, 10:02

Reuters opens 'Second Life' bureau

News If they haven't time to visit the atrim, users will also be able to receive this news via an in-game 'mobile'-style device, known as the Reuters News Centre, which they can carry with them as they explore the virtual world.

17 October 2006, 10:17

Worm attack on eBay -- man pleads guilty

News In July and August 2003, Clark and accomplices infected about 20,000 computers with a worm, a type of malicious program that allowed them to direct the machines to visit eBay.com, overwhelming the popular Web site, the attorney's office said.

29 December 2005, 8:41