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Microsoft urges organizations to ensure data privacy instead of relying on state legislature

Usama Jawad — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 06:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has encouraged organizations to rebuild trust with customers by ensuring data privacy themselves rather than solely relying on state legislature in the path to economic recovery. Read more...

Microsoft advises partners on how to sell Windows 10 S and Pro

Usama Jawad — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:02:01 +0000

At an Inspire 2017 session last week, Microsoft provided updated guidance to OEMs, partners, and resellers on how they should sell Windows 10 Pro and S; by 'lighting up' their services. Read more...

8,000 companies have signed up to try Microsoft's SQL Server for Linux in first week

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:22:01 +0000

Last week, Microsoft announced it would be bringing its SQL Server product to Linux. Now the move seems to be a big winner, with thousands of companies signing up to try the beta of the product. Read more...

Patent trolling costs $29 billion annually in the US

Paul Ferson — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:40:35 +0000

Patent holding companies, known as 'trolls' for their business practices, are costly to fight legal battles against. A recent academic paper attempts to put a cost on the losses these trolls create. Read more...

Survey: 60 percent of company articles on Wikipedia have factual errors

John Callaham — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:00:22 +0000

A new survey says that 60 percent of the articles about specific businesses on Wikipedia contain factual errors and that it takes a long time, if ever, to see those errors corrected. Read more...

Ballmer tells companies to upgrade from XP

Sam Symons — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:03:06 +0000

CEO of Microsoft Corporation, Steve Ballmer, has warned companies to upgrade from Windows XP, or else they will face anger from employees. The reason for this is because, according to Steve, "If you deploy a... Read more...

Music Companies Sue Baidu and Sohu

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:40:29 +0000

According to the International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI), popular Chinese search engines Baidu.com and Sohu.com have been sued for aiding illicit online copying, in a move by the music industry to control piracy in... Read more...

Companies still slow to green their IT – Survey

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:01:39 +0000

Despite growing awareness of the need to adopt more environmentally friendly IT practices, a quarter of firms (26%) admit to having done next to nothing to green their IT, according a PMP Research study commissioned... Read more...

SanDisk Accuses 25 Companies of Patent Infringement

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:01:18 +0000

SanDisk has filed two separate lawsuits in the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, seeking unspecified damages and a permanent ban on three patent infringements accusing a total of 25 companies of using SanDisk technology in... Read more...

Record Companies finally woken up by Radiohead

Steven Parker — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:02:48 +0000

Remember 2001, when it was decided that the record industry was going to be brought to its knees by peer to peer sharing? Remember yesterday, when last time we checked, there was still a thriving... Read more...

Cable Companies Facing Big Bandwidth Crunch

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:03:45 +0000

With internet usage expanding exponentially and demand for high-speed connections ever growing, cable internet companies may soon be facing serious bandwidth issues, according to a report by ABI Research. The problem comes from more demanding... Read more...

Companies and Party Aides Censor Wikipedia

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:40:29 +0000

Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities keen for some good PR. But a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order... Read more...

Taiwan companies team up on Microsoft smartphones

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:28:39 +0000

Taiwanese companies E-ten Information Systems and Arima Communications have signed a technology agreement to develop 3G and 3.5G smartphones around the Windows Mobile OS, combining their technical expertise to deliver at least four new Windows... Read more...

Intel Invests in Another Six Companies

Thu, 10 May 2007 20:57:02 +0000

Intel has invested a total of $31 million in six companies through the company's venture capital arm: Intel Capital. In the first quarter of this year, Intel Capital invested $154 million in 43 deals worldwide,... Read more...

Cell Companies to Replace 1.3 Million Batteries

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:38:24 +0000

NTT DoCoMo and Mitsubishi Electric are planning to replace around 1.3 million batteries manufactured by Sanyo Electric because they may overheat and catch fire, the companies said today. The batteries were manufactured before June 2006... Read more...

Uwe Boll Blames Game Companies

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:44:39 +0000

Uwe Boll, the butt of many jokes from the gaming and movie communities due to his generally lackluster video game to movie translations, is blaming the game companies for his movies' poor showings at the... Read more...

Companies push Linux partitioning effort

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:54:35 +0000

A push is under way to endow Linux with a virtual partitioningtechnology used by rival operating systems to make servers moreefficient. SWSoft is trying to get OpenVZmade part of the mainstream Linux kernel--the... Read more...

Steve Jobs Slams "Greedy" Record Companies

Joe Cashman — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:39:37 +0000

Apples chief executive Steve Jobs spoke out ahead of the Apple showcase in Paris stating that record companies are becoming "greedy", pushing for higher prices on music downloads from iTunes music store. Jobs is determined... Read more...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Cable Companies

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:20:23 +0000

In their second major ruling on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal court verdict that would have required cable companies to open up their networks to third party Internet service providers. The... Read more...

Companies Ramping up E-mail Monitoring

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:44:40 +0000

The boss is getting serious about e-mail snooping. A new study has found that 63 percent of corporations with 1,000 or more employees either employ or plan to employ staff to read... Read more...

State AGs to warn file-sharing companies

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:04:45 +0000

A group of state attorney generals are preparing a letter warning file-sharing companies that they could be targets of legal action if they don't take stronger action on privacy and intellectual property violations. ... Read more...

Linux companies hit play on Real's software

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:03:04 +0000

Red Hat and Novell have announced plans to include RealPlayer 10 in their operating systems. The fun isn't stopping there; they're also planning on integrating Real's DRM technology Helix. While this comes as... Read more...

Tough times for hard-drive companies, report says

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 28 May 2004 11:53:27 +0000

The disk drive industry is spinning its wheels, according to a new report. The industry, a notoriously difficult one in which to succeed, is stuck in a rut of cutthroat pricing and grim profit prospects,... Read more...

Antivirus companies muting false alarms

Wed, 12 May 2004 16:03:49 +0000

They were wrong, and they were annoying, so now they've been stopped. With a new version of Symantec's SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) e-mail security product, the antivirus company is trying to... Read more...

SCO filed lawsuit against companies that use Linux

Tue, 02 Mar 2004 07:22:06 +0000

Thanks process_this. SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride announced the plan Monday at the Software 2004 conference here, but he didn't identify the company beyond saying it would have a recognized name. SCO, which owns a... Read more...

Kazaa Owner Gets OK to Sue Movie, Record Companies

Sat, 24 Jan 2004 06:38:25 +0000

A U.S. federal court has cleared the way for Kazaa file-sharing software owner Sharman Networks to sue the entertainment industry for copyright infringement, Sharman said on Friday. Sharman, targeted by studios and record companies because... Read more...

Senators ask P2P companies to police themselves

Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:23:11 +0000

A group of Washington lawmakers called on Friday for file-swapping companies to help stop distribution of copyrighted materials and pornography on their networks. In a letter sent to the heads of several leading... Read more...

Storage companies synch up with Windows

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:34:08 +0000

In a boost for the emerging iSCSI networking standard, more than a dozen storage hardware companies have proven that their iSCSI-based products work with Microsoft's Windows. Microsoft on Wednesday plans to announce the news and... Read more...

DRAM companies speed up investment to meet DDR2 demand

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:37:46 +0000

Realizing the increasingly important role to be played by DDR2 memory, DRAM makers plan to quicken the pace of capital investment for production of the new generation of double data rate chips. Mainly driven by... Read more...

iChat AV poses threat to phone companies

Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:41:28 +0000

Alex Salkever posits With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? in his latest Byte of the Apple column for BusinessWeek Online. Salkever doesn't think that iChat AV will replace the phone specifically, but talks in broad... Read more...

Anti-hacking law creates 'headache' for companies

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 20:49:16 +0000

Businesses are unprepared for a new law under which they must notify customers if personal data is compromised, say legal experts. A new California law requiring companies to notify customers if their computerised personal data... Read more...

Cable companies say no to home made Wi-Fi networks

Tue, 09 Jul 2002 14:03:00 +0000

US Cable companies are now cracking down on people who use their Internet connections to create wireless local area networks (WLANs). This is much like what happened with cable TV in the 1980s when so-called... Read more...

Cable companies considering download limits

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:10:05 +0000

It has been reported that cable companies AT&T Broadband, Charter Communications, and Cox Communications are considering moves which could see the end of cheap bandwidth as they look towards limiting users and forcing them to... Read more...

StarOffice creator pitches for devices, mobile companies

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:24:13 +0000

StarOffice creator Marco Boerries is to unveil his new venture, a device- and OS-agnostic system intended to allow wide ranges of appliances to communicate with each other, and across the Internet. Boerries company VerdiSoft, which... Read more...

Record companies suing Napster ordered to prove copyright ownership.

Darren Bolton — Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:29:12 +0000

Just seen this over at The Nando Times The record industry must provide documented proof it owns copyrights to scores of popular songs it is seeking to protect in its lawsuit against... Read more...

Phone companies to offer copies of Sept 11 voicemails

Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:27:42 +0000

One of the most heart-wrenching aspects of the Sept. 11 terror attacks was that many victims, thanks to the widespread use of mobile phones, were able to call loved ones and say goodbye. ... Read more...