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RSS startup in newsMicrosoft offers helping hand to UK start-ups
News Announcing the Startup Accelerator Programme, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the aim is to help those companies that show enormous potential but find it difficult to get started in the right way. [02 Oct 2007]
Cash rolls into tech start-up scene...
News Even so, says Laura Roden, who sits on the board of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, new infusions of venture capital and seed money from individual "angel" investors are translating into real jobs again for computer pros... [10 May 2005]
Microsoft: SP2 download flaw is social engineering
News The user must go to the folder containing that executable and choose to run it, or log off and log back onto the computer if the attacker attempted to save the malicious executable into the user's Windows Startup folder," the spokesperson said. [23 Nov 2004]
"Highly critical" IE flaw unplugged by XP SP2
News The attacker's program would be placed in the Windows startup folder and would run the next time the user restarted the computer. What you have actually done is drop [a program] into your startup folder. [24 Aug 2004]
Apple chief Jobs in cancer scare
News He returned to Apple in late 1996, when Apple acquired Jobs' startup, Next. Apple CEO Steve Jobs underwent surgery at the weekend to remove a cancerous tumour in his pancreas, but told employees in an email that the surgery was successful and said... [02 Aug 2004]
Virus alerts: Malware in waiting for post-xmas chaos
News When an infected system is restarted, Windows automatically runs an application called "startup.exe", which begins by informing the user that the PC is infected. The Jitux.A worm has already begun to spread via MSN Messenger, according to Panda... [02 Jan 2004]
Sobig virus may be the tip of the iceberg
News Besides spreading by email, it also copies itself to the "startup" directories on other computers on the network. Sobig.C is already spreading rapidly around the world, and experts are warning that it may be succeeded in a few days by yet another... [03 Jun 2003]
Microsoft security: Four flaws uncovered
News The hacker could, for example, place another malicious program in the Windows startup folder, which would execute when the computer reboots. Microsoft said the first new flaw discovered exploits a problem with ActiveX, the Microsoft technology that... [04 Oct 2002]
Bugbear worm - how it works
News Finally, it adds itself to the Startup folder as three random letters followed by .exe (for example, Startup\zay.exe). Bugbear arrives via email with no distinct characteristics except for an attached file that is always 50,688 bytes long. [01 Oct 2002]
Working Title buys boo.com film rights
News Earlier this year the film Startup.com followed the life and death of a lower profile internet company, govWorks.com. The film company that produced Notting Hill has bought the rights to another tale of incompetent bumblers rubbing shoulders with... [20 Dec 2001]
Federal law suit beckons for 'misleading' Gateway
News The suit claims Gateway reported false and misleading financial results for the three months ending in September and failed to report the declining value of its investments in startup companies. Filed in a San Diego federal court on behalf of... [11 Dec 2000]
News in View: Disadvantaged being bypassed by information superhighway
News Natalie Melton, director of antersite.co.uk - a web development startup which was spun off from TS2K - wants to see companies look further than college graduates for potential IT employees. The poorest sections of UK society are still to benefit... [01 Aug 2000]
