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Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment That bugbear has passed me by. Mac bashers fall back on the same old arguments to justify the alleged superiority of PCs. Mac advocates do the same, of course. The old battle has itself become a cliché but it has endured more than 25 years of... [17 Apr 2008]
£34m shelled out calling ISP tech support
News The survey of around 11,000 broadband customers found technical support is the main bugbear, with just 49 per cent of users saying they are satisfied - down 11 per cent on March 2006. UK broadband customers are increasingly dissatisfied with the... [17 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.05.07
Round-Up Hidden delivery charges are apparently our biggest bugbear as consumers. If, like the Round-Up, you always used to get a copy of the Guinness Book of Records from your uncle and auntie at Christmas time you will have a preternatural interest in... [25 May 2007]
SIP: The way forward for VoIP?
News The bugbear of application interoperability will need to be worked out - as will compatibility with legacy systems - if the enterprise market is to be won over. SIP (session initiation protocol) has become the new standard for VoIP and is expected... [22 Feb 2006]
Pirates won't stop film downloading being $977m industry
News Hardcopy piracy will still be the bugbear of the industry though, with $3.5bn being lost last year to pirates and that figure expected to top $4.5bn by 2010. While the MPAA announces its latest wave of action, a new report has claimed the film... [31 Jan 2005]
Spam? It's enough to make you switch ISPs
News Spam is becoming such a bugbear for internet users they're now prepared to swap their ISP to get away from the nuisance of junk mail. According to research from analyst house Gartner, given the choice between two ISPs of the same cost where one was... [09 Jun 2004]
Windows XP Service Pack 2: What you'll get and when you'll get it
News Neglecting to reboot a machine after installing a patch is one bugbear - it leaves users thinking they're patched and leaving their machine wide open as ever. Microsoft has been showing off its Service Pack 2 offering and dropping some serious... [13 May 2004]
Security Alert: W32.Bugbear@mm Spreading Globally
White Paper According to security experts, the W32.Bugbear@mm worm is the most severe threat this year, affecting millions of users. The Bugbear worm allows hackers to take control of infected machines remotely and attempts to terminate the processes of... [24 Feb 2004]
Security Alert: W32.Bugbear.B@mm
White Paper W32.Bugbear.B@mm is a mass-mailing, polymorphic worm that also spreads through network shares. This worm infects a select list of executable files, has keystroke-logging and backdoor capabilities and will attempt to terminate the processes of... [24 Feb 2004]
McAfee Proactive Threat Protection: help close your Window of Vulnerability
White Paper Arising periodically to wreak havoc all over the world, high profile, massively destructive threats such as SQLSlammer, Bugbear, Klez, Nimda and CodeRed underscore enterprises need for to close the Window of Vulnerability the period of time when... [24 Feb 2004]
Call centre waiting times: Blame the technology
News It's not the only bugbear that agents have with switching between multiple applications. Call centre dead air - those few silent seconds or minutes while an agent digs around to find your details - could be down to technological bumbling, a survey... [09 Feb 2004]
Amsterdam cops bust 419 ring, arrest 52
News The scam, which often originates in Nigeria, has been a bugbear to its political establishment and has prompted promises to crackdown on the fraudsters from the Nigerian authorities. A ring of alleged 419 scammers got their comeuppance yesterday... [30 Jan 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Process - no substitute for creativity
Comment My biggest bugbear is benchmarking. Is throwing away the manual the answer? In the field of technology we have become process junkies. In fact I believe critical qualities - most notably creativity and innovation - have been supplanted by process. [13 Jan 2004]
Spam and data protection: know the law and take precautions
Comment The directive applies across the whole spectrum of electronic communications - from phone and fax to email and SMS - but just how much of the new law will keep the spammers at bay and how much is designed to convince consumers that Europe is... [10 Dec 2003]
Oftel complaints stats bad news for 3, BT, Vodafone
News On the internet side, customers most often aired their grievances to Oftel over billing - but the second biggest bugbear dogging web users was a sporadic or non-existent broadband connection, followed again by companies adopting the "La la la, I... [20 Nov 2003]
