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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...

China tells 'dating' websites to stop selling sex

Sun, 27 May 2007 18:32:56 +0000

The Beijing Online News and Information Panel has accused 12 dating websites in Beijing of being a cover for prostitution and has ordered them to clean up their act: "The outrageous pimping content in some... Read more...

RIAA Tells Students: Pay Up For Downloads

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:38:28 +0000

The music industry is asking 50 Ohio University students to pay $3,000 each to avoid lawsuits accusing them of pirating songs off the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America asked the university to pass... Read more...

Piracy worked for us, Romania president tells Gates

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:03:26 +0000

Pirated Microsoft Corp software helped Romania to build a vibrant technology industry, Romanian President Traian Basescu told the company's co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday. "Piracy helped the young generation discover computers. It set off the... Read more...

Norway Tells Apple Change iTunes or Face Court

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:39:48 +0000

Norway has given a final date by which Apple must open up iTunes. If Apple does not make iTunes songs playable on music players other than the iPod, by October 1, the company will be... Read more...

UK Government agency tells schools to shun Vista

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:11:08 +0000

In a surprise criticism of Microsoft, the government's schools computer agency, has warned that deploying Vista carries too much risk and that its benefits are unclear. Becta, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, said... Read more...

ATI Tells NVIDIA "Writing is on the Wall"

Steven Parker — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:13:29 +0000

ATI just released the July Street News Flash, which was published in response to the recent news of an AMD takeover. There are just too many good quotes in this one, so we thought... Read more...

Microsoft Tells Device Makers, We'll Foot Your Legal Bills

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:37:41 +0000

Amid a legally charged environment for makers of mobile computing devices, Microsoft said Thursday it would expand the protections against intellectual property lawsuits it offers to manufacturers who make devices that run Windows. ... Read more...

EU Tells Microsoft: Keep Your Source Code

Steven Parker — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:10:07 +0000

The "Wall Street Journal" has obtained a confidential document sent from European Union (EU) antitrust regulators to Microsoft last month, warning the software giant that a release of its Windows source code would not meet... Read more...

The world and his dog tells ATI we want crossfire now

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:47:49 +0000

It seems ATI has been having a hard time of late. With Nvidia taking a big slice of market share from ATI with SLI, ATI came back with an announcement of Crossfire its own take... Read more...

AOL Tells Customers to Find New Carrier

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:40:32 +0000

America Online, which earlier this year stopped signing up new broadband customers, is telling existing broadband subscribers in nine Southern states that they must find a new broadband carrier by Jan. 17. Those customers... Read more...

Yahoo Co-Founder Tells Google to Enjoy It

Fri, 08 Oct 2004 04:00:15 +0000

Speaking during the Web 2.0 conference, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said he told Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to relish their success. While his company and Google are in an escalating war to... Read more...

EU tells Sony, Bertelsmann music deal is approved

Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:02:06 +0000

Good news today from the European Union as it gave the 'ok' for the merger between BMG and Sony Music. This now makes Sony Music the world's second-largest music company (world's largest music company... Read more...

Merrill Analyst Tells HP: Better To Break Up

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:02:25 +0000

Hewlett-Packard would be better off splitting up its business operations, says Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich. The most valuable and established pieces of HP's portfolio, such as its printing division, should be saved from the... Read more...

Apple not US-centric, Jobs tells shareholders

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:30:01 +0000

Apple shareholders yesterday re-elected the company's six-member board and voted down a proposal to restrict executive pay. During the company's annual shareholders meeting at its Cupertino headquarters all board members were approved by a majority... Read more...

Sammy tells Sega to focus on arcade

Marcel Klum — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:14:02 +0000

Sammy president and CEO Hajime Satomi has told Bloomberg Japan that he wants Sega to concentrate on the arcade games business and be more strict about pouring money into loss-making home console releases, news which... Read more...

Malaysian govt tells public to quit buying CDs, DVDs

Mon, 02 Jun 2003 14:25:21 +0000

If the music and movie industry won't lower the price of CDs and DVDs, there's only one thing to do: punters should stop buying them. Just ask the Malaysian government. This week,... Read more...

Monkey Boy tells a bunch of Cockney Sparrows that they'll beat the Penguin

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:26:30 +0000

Or... Steve Ballmer tells a bunch of people in London that they see Linux as a threat and are addressing it. Although Microsoft cannot compete against Linux on price, the company will... Read more...

Sue Ellison, analyst tells Oracle users

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:28:23 +0000

Meta Group analyst Mark Shainman says Oracle users should take legal action to block the database giant from renegotiating some license fees. Meta says customers who aggregate feeds to and from data... Read more...