technology - "computer"

Hamburg - An avid gamer, Eje Stabler is not always prepared to wait for the German release of computer games. And thanks to online stores specializing in imported games, he doesn't have to. These stores, once frequented by gamers keen on becoming the...

Munich - Using the wrong kind of power adapter may cause a computer to crash during heavy usage, the German PC-Welt magazine reported recently. Power may be severed, if the adapter does not meet the right specifications, the report added. That would ...

Hendrickson Software Components has replaced Sp@mX, its spam tracing and reporting utility, with Purify. Purify can filter email, forward validated email, and both trace and report spam. It can support single users or a workgroup from a central computer and its spam-filtering can be used with Hendrickson's email-archiving Compass software. The sof...

mister_woods writes 'It's not just governments that lose private data. Germany's Chaos computer Club (CCC) reports that market research firm TNS Infratest/Emnid has lost 41,000 private data records of their survey participants. By simply changing the customer ID number in the browser's address bar access could be gained to comprehensive survey results, including names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and much more sensitive data. A CCC spokesman described this as 'unprofessional, grossly negligent and above all deeply worrying' and sees this loss as a vindication for its calls for strict regulations for public and private sector data collectors.' of this story at Slashdot.

In the spring of 2007, Michael Sullivan was trying to figure out how to add some mojo to his startup, Affine Systems. As a graduate student in applied mathematics at Harvard University, Sullivan had cofounded the company in the fall of 2006 with classmate Bobby Impollonia. Working out of their homes, the two computer whizzes had whipped up a software program to let media companies know if their copyrighted videos show up on the Internet.

Leif_Bloomquist writes 'The world's first Commodore 64 LAN party was held at the Cincinnati Commodore computer Club 2008 Expo last weekend, where the new multiplayer C64 game NetRacer was unveiled. The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with Ethernet cartridges and a central server written in Java running on a PC. The game is also playable over the Internet.' of this story at Slashdot.