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  • Businesses at risk from fake computer parts

    Businesses are at risk of buying fake computer parts and software following a significant growth in intellectual fraud over the past 12 months. Enquiries about intellectual property (IP) theft have...13 Mar 2012

  • Photos: Hardware Hoarders - Your old computers (PART 2)

    Chris Broads multiplication/division device Chris Broad's collection of 50s and 60s hardware includes this device, of which he comments, "long before Sinclair produced a cheap calculator, mechanica...30 Mar 2010

  • Photos: Hardware Hoarders - Your old computers (PART 1)

    Steve Robsons trusty Psion 3a Steve's hung on to this Psion 3a since 1993 and still uses it every day. Steve says of his faithful companion: "I was affronted to see one in the Science Museum. How d...26 Mar 2010

  • Photos: Hardware Hoarders - Your old computers (PART 3)

    Cheryl Amery: The Long Lost Art of Data Preparation Cheryl Amery sent in this photo of a motley assortment of vintage data equipment - including a card punch and card, and reel of data punch tape.   >...25 Mar 2010

  • Photos: Virus sculptures from computer waste

    Sculptor Forrest McCluer brings a new twist to the term "computer virus" by constructing 3D representations of biological viruses using old computer parts.29 Jan 2010

  • Space shuttle program seeks computer parts on eBay

    The company that oversees the day-to-day operations of the US space shuttle uses auctions on eBay as a guide to sourcing computer parts that are no longer manufactured. However, United Space Allian...14 May 2002

  • 'Prison-like' conditions for workers making IBM, Dell, HP, Microsoft and Lenovo products

    Chinese factory workers are working in prison-like conditions for 41 cents an hour to make computer parts for IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Dell, a report...17 Feb 2009

  • Irate German IT user discovers windows crack

    E-mail, instant messaging, Facebook, violent frustration... is there no end to the ways that computers can bring us together? This week a man in Berlin who became so enraged with his computer that ...10 Sep 2007

  • Mandrakesoft wins French government server deal

    The French Ministry of Equipment is in the middle of a multiyear programme to replace the aging Microsoft Windows NT operating system on about 1,500 of its office and infrastructure servers with ve...12 Jul 2004

  • Hard drive with US social security numbers disappears

    The disappearance of a laptop hard drive in the California State University (CSU) system has triggered a year-old state law requiring anyone whose personal information might have been stolen to be ...07 Sep 2004

  • US demands compensation from hacker

    The US is demanding £21,000 in compensation from a teenage hacker who infiltrated computer systems at a US government nuclear physics research laboratory. The compensation demand, believed to be th...19 Dec 2003

  • Pakistan offers all-in deals to entice UK investors

    There is little, it seems, that the Pakistan government will not do to win a share of the billion-pound international outsourcing business. Bill Goodwin finds out what is on offer to UK investors A...25 Jul 2002

  • Fake Compaq products seized from reseller

    Compaq and the US Marshals Service have seized a large quantity of what they say are counterfeit computer components from reseller Hardware 4 Less. In a statement issued on 14 February, Compaq said...15 Feb 2002

  • Thefts prompt security fears

    Bill Goodwin IT directors are being urged to review their security policies following police raids on a gang believed to have been behind the theft of millions of pounds of computer equipment. Comp...06 Dec 2000