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Moscow Judge Dismisses Music Download Case

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:29:38 +0000

Just today, a Cheryomushky District Court judge in Moscow, Russia, threw out a legal case against Denis Kvasov, former head of Mediaservices, the company behind the now defunct online store AllofMP3.com. The store, which was... Read more...

Microsoft dismisses rumours of revised Xbox 360 hardware

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:01:57 +0000

Microsoft's Chris Satchell has dismissed rumours of revised Xbox 360 hardware sporting an HDMI port and a high-capacity hard disk, even claiming that photographs rustled up by our old friend Internet Reports mean very little.... Read more...

Microsoft Dismisses PowerPoint Zero-Day Warning

Steven Parker — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:09:01 +0000

Microsoft is pouring cold water on a warning from anti-virus vendor Trend Micro that a new PowerPoint zero-day attack is under way. The Trend Micro warning, first issued Aug. 19, said that a specially crafted... Read more...

Sony dismisses rumours of PlayStation 3 downgrade

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:07:57 +0000

A Sony spokesperson has dismissed rumours that the PlayStation 3's hardware specs are to be downgraded as "ridiculous." A report on website Games Radar claimed that Sony was having trouble fitting all the PS3's components... Read more...

SAP dismisses open source innovation

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:30:00 +0000

Open source will fail to deliver innovation and is more likely to break applications, according to Shai Agassi, president of the product and technology group at SAP. "We all talk about how great Linux is,"... Read more...

US Judge Dismisses California Claims Versus Microsoft

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:19:52 +0000

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a claim by five California cities and counties that Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, had overcharged them for software. U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz in... Read more...

Nintendo dismisses Zelda release date speculation

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:26:10 +0000

Nintendo "hopes" to announce more about its new Legend of Zelda GameCube title at E3 in May, the company said today as it dismissed reports that game would be released in October as "speculation". Last... Read more...

Judge dismisses 50 IBM toxics lawsuits

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:47:17 +0000

A judge in California has dismissed approximately 50 toxic chemical lawsuits filed by former IBM employees against the computer giant, following a round of court-ordered mediation. The employees had charged that IBM... Read more...

Microsoft dismisses Xbox 2 rumors, consumers unperturbed

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:58:47 +0000

Microsoft has dismissed speculation over the Xbox 2 game console's backward compatibility with its predecessor. A story on a UK-based Web site had quoted unnamed sources close to Microsoft's development team as... Read more...

Gates dismisses Disney rumors

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:43:50 +0000

Microsoft will not get involved in any potential acquisition of Disney, the software maker's chairman said late Wednesday. Bill Gates was responding to a question from Channel Thirteen's Charlie Rose about Comcast's... Read more...

Judge Dismisses Rambus Suit

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:39:52 +0000

A U.S. judge has dismissed a complaint brought against Rambus by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that the company tried to unfairly monopolize the memory-chip market. Judge Stephen J. McGuire, the FTC's chief administrative law... Read more...

AMD dismisses Intel 'high-k' transistor tech

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:30:19 +0000

AMD this week cocked a snoot at rival Intel's pursuit of high-k dielectric materials as the foundation for future, 45nm process technologies. The chip maker's own solution is a three-gate transistor design,... Read more...

HP dismisses iPaq complaints

Tue, 06 Aug 2002 08:32:41 +0000

Amid a declining handheld market, HP fends off users demanding a recall of 'defective' iPaq devices. Hewlett-Packard has dismissed claims that many of its iPaq handheld computers are defective and warrant a recall, saying... Read more...

Ballmer dismisses rival Sun's passport service.

Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:54:35 +0000

Steve Ballmer, speaking to an industry group, dismissed rival Sun's efforts to compete with his company's Passport identity service as "craziness" built on a "weak foundation" on Wednesday. "I think what we... Read more...