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Court Backs FCC in Verizon Broadband Ruling

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:14:26 +0000

Today, an appeals court upheld a 2006 deadlocked decision by the Federal Communications Decision over whether Verizion could deregulate some of its commercial business lines. Under the arcane rules of the FCC, the previous 2-2... Read more...

Facebook Backs Down on Ad Plans

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:53:13 +0000

Social networking site Facebook has cancelled its advertising program, that showed what members were purchasing from ecommerce web sites. The advertising system, dubbed Beacon, let partner sites like eBay and Sony advertise the fact that... Read more...

Intel backs wireless Africa plan

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:49:38 +0000

Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, believes that Africa needs to embrace wireless broadband since it is "cheaper, easier and more efficient to communicate wirelessly." Less than 1% of Africans have access to broadband and only... Read more...

Google backs private Moon landing

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:59:33 +0000

Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon. The competition to send a robot craft to the Moon is being run with the... Read more...

EU backs standard for mobile TV

Tom Warren — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:12:00 +0000

European officials have backed a single standard for the rollout of mobile TV services across Europe. Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has called on member states to roll out services using the DVB-H standard "as... Read more...

Linspire backs Microsoft's Open XML

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:25:17 +0000

Former arch rivals Linspire and Microsoft have continued their recent rapprochement with a collaboration to improve interoperability between OpenOffice.org's Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Open XML. Linspire said that it is joining Novell and... Read more...

NASA backs quantum computing claim

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:55:56 +0000

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed Thursday that it built a special chip used in a disputed demonstration of quantum computing in February. NASA engineers used their experience with submicrometer dimensions and ultra-low... Read more...

Warner Music head backs DRM

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:56:54 +0000

After Steve Jobs wrote that music companies should abandon digital copy protection, Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman called on Apple to open up its iTunes software to other forms of DRM: "DRM and interoperability are... Read more...

French Minister Backs New Law

Mon, 01 May 2006 20:33:28 +0000

The French Minister of culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres has said the French government will move forward with a law that would render Apple's iTunes Music Store an illegal entity. The Minister said all music... Read more...

UN backs green web TV

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:11:24 +0000

The world's first online 'green' television channel has gone live with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) behind it. Green.tv is aimed solely at tackling environmental issues and hopes to become the web's definitive resource... Read more...

Anti-Piracy Company Backs 'Openness'

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:56:19 +0000

The company at the centre of a recent'e-scuffle' around DRM has pledged to be more open in its actions in thefuture. SunComm's MediaMax software was bundled on many popular Sony BMG musicCDs, including Kasabian and... Read more...

United Nations Body Backs $100 Laptop

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:54:28 +0000

The United Nations Development Programme will back MIT's NicholasNegroponte and his One Laptop per Child program, according to reports. The partnership is critical to helping the initiative which hopes to get $100 hand-cranked laptop... Read more...

Microsoft backs Eidos after senator attacks publisher

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:11:09 +0000

Microsoft has backed Eidos after a US senator declared that its gang warfare title 25 to Life "lowers common decency", while the British publisher has reacted by saying that it believes videogame are a creative... Read more...

IBM Rational Backs Off on .Net Tools Support

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:53:42 +0000

IBM and Microsoft Corp.'s fight for development environment supremacy is heating up about as fast as the onset of summer, with both sides digging in for a showdown, although IBM appears willing to make a... Read more...

Appeals court backs Apple in investor suit

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:02:16 +0000

A federal appeals court this week upheld a lower court decision that Apple Computer investors cannot sue the company over the fact that the Power Mac G4 Cube and other products didn't live up to... Read more...

Microsoft Backs "School Of The Future"

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:45:33 +0000

Philadelphia children will soon have a glimpse into what could be the future of public education thanks to a joint project between Microsoft and the School District of Philadelphia. Microsoft representatives were on hand earlier... Read more...

Lindows Backs Out of IPO

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:57:21 +0000

Lindows announced Wednesday that it has postponed a previously announced IPO (initial public offering) of its common stock due to adverse market conditions. Lindows Inc., which is the process of changing its name to Linspire... Read more...

Academy backs 'pirate-proof' tech for Oscar samplers

Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:31:48 +0000

Hoping to avoid a repeat of last years movie piracy The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has sanctioned the use of 'pirate-proof' DVDs. A company called Cinea has spent several million dollars... Read more...

SCO Backs Off GPL Claims

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:25:36 +0000

In The SCO Group Inc.'s latest U.S. District Court filing as it battles IBM over Linux, the company is no longer using the affirmative defense that the GNU General Public License (GPL) is unconstitutional. SCO... Read more...

Gates backs e-mail stamp in war on spam

Mon, 02 Feb 2004 20:47:44 +0000

Should people have to buy electronic stamps to send e-mail? Some Internet experts have long suggested that the rising tide of junk e-mail, or spam, would turn into a trickle if senders had... Read more...

Indian giant Infosys backs RFID

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:17:36 +0000

Indian information technology services and consulting company Infosys Technologies has thrown its support behind the controversial tracking technology known as RFID, or radio frequency identification. The inventory tracking system is designed to... Read more...

SunnComm backs down from lawsuit threat.

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:22:41 +0000

Cheers Fotix for his post in Back Page News! SunnComm Technologies, Inc. announced yesterday morning it would sue first-year graduate student John Halderman over his recent critique of the company's new... Read more...

Futuremark backs down on Nvidia cheat claims

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:04:54 +0000

Thanks to DiGRem for the heads up in BPN. Benchmark software company Futuremark has dropped its allegation that graphics card maker Nvidia cheated, ending the dispute between the two firms. ... Read more...

Court backs thumbnail image linking

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 12:25:55 +0000

Search engines' display of miniature images is fair use under copyright law, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, but the legality of presenting full-size renditions of visual works is yet to be determined. The 9th... Read more...

Microsoft backs servers with billions

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:27:14 +0000

Microsoft used the first day of its TechEd conference to announce a $1.7 billion investment in R&D for Windows Server products and a new version of its storage operating system. All told, Microsoft is throwing... Read more...

Futuremark backs off after apparent Nvidia scarification

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:25:36 +0000

THE MOST CURIOUS statement we've ever read, even in the frankly bizarre IT graphics market, has emerged on a 3D web site. And if we're not mistaken, Nvidia has developed Vulcan-like incandescence against benchmarketing firm... Read more...

Supreme Court backs off DVD case

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 10:31:53 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court has bowed out of a long-running dispute over a DVD descrambling utility, dealing a preliminary defeat to Hollywood studios and electronics makers. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor placed a ruling by the... Read more...

LindowsOS backs off its claim to run most Microsoft apps?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:59:23 +0000

Thanks prasanth from out BPN Forum Walmart.com and Lindows were claiming that LindowsOS "delivers the stability of UNIX with the ease of Windows and the ability to run most Microsoft programs."... Read more...

Pressplay backs CD burning

Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:30:24 +0000

Digital music company Pressplay has said it will allow users to burn downloaded tracks onto CD in a bid to compete more effectively with its rivals. Pressplay's CD burning system will be... Read more...