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Gartner should look at Apple's Stock growth over the last five years
Talkback If you go to any stock report for the last five years you will see massive growth for Apple, MS is flat-lining and Dell, well Dell's shares are just plain losing profit down the line. It's about the bottom line for the share holders and over the...
About: Gartner: Apple should quit hardware business
[November 21, 2006, 15:02 by Paul Randall]
Five years ago: McAfee finds first known Linux virus
Talkback I think Mr. Veitch is a little behind the times. In the June 2004 of Linux Format magazine (LXF54)(www.linuxformat.co.uk) on page 51 is an insert discussing this same subject and they say that MacFee was about a year late in talking about the Bliss...
About: Five years ago: McAfee finds first known Linux virus
[August 3, 2004, 4:05]
Man gets five years for £14m computer fraud
Talkback Hashash has been released from prison on parol and is at it again
About: Man gets five years for £14m computer fraud
[February 20, 2005, 8:31]
Man gets five years for £14m computer fraud
Talkback he is out on licence and at it again
About: Man gets five years for £14m computer fraud
[August 23, 2006, 14:32]
US hacker gets five years in the slammer
Talkback These were not just any PC, but specifically *Miccrosoft Windows* PCs. Obviously people have come to associate MS Windows with seive-like security. And it goes without saying that botnets are exclusive to MS-WIndows, but surely, it should not be...
About: US hacker gets five years in the slammer
[May 10, 2006, 6:35]
Monolithic OS upgrades are so over
Blog Five years, $6bn later and what do the ingrates do? Even Newham Council, which over the past couple of years veered from Linux pilot poster child to Vista case study as one of Microsoft's five key public sector accounts in the UK, has now delayed...
[September 25, 2007, 18:26 in Vista Upgrade Blog by mattloney]
Alps touchpad keyboard dispenses with mouse
Talkback I've had an Alps Glidepoint Touchpad Keyboard for four or five years now and I will never go back to any other type of cursor as long as I can continue to get a touchpad keyboard. It comes right back up when I restart my computer, though, so I do...
About: Alps touchpad keyboard dispenses with mouse
[May 5, 2004, 22:42]
Longhorn: If they build it, will anyone come?
Talkback The idea of having your company go through some sort of total migration project once every three, four or five years to then cool things down for several years seems to be a thing of the past. That way it could easily become a five, six year long...
About: Longhorn: If they build it, will anyone come?
[April 1, 2005, 23:59]
Time collapse support site forced offline
Talkback The head of the Administration team is the same guy who sold Tiny to Time five years ago. Theres even a question of whether the whole scam has been deliberately orchestrated over the last five years: the have been long-standing rumours and...
About: Time collapse support site forced offline
[August 1, 2005, 19:32]
Forget Vista--here comes Vienna
Blog Current version Vista ran into so many delays and shifts in direction that it took more than five years to arrive. Microsoft says it's planning to release the next update to Windows--known internally as version 7 and formerly code-named Vienna...
[July 23, 2007, 12:54 in Vista Upgrade Blog by Karen Friar]
Behind the Scenes: Next Gen Mobile Technology
Blog Today handsets capture and share video with ease which is something that seemed like a distant reality just five years ago. Thinking back to the days of squinting to make out those fuzzy images that friends would send from their cell phones five...
[July 5, 2009, 19:42 in On The Road by MobileTech]
IBM accused of hypocrisy over patent collaboration
Talkback Supporters of the Directive believe the proposed Motion in the European Parliament which is primarily based on ‘discontinuity’, lacks sufficient grounds to validate restarting a legislative process which has been going on for five years now.
About: IBM accused of hypocrisy over patent collaboration
[January 11, 2005, 18:45]
Give the world back its giants, JSTOR
Blog JSTOR is between one and five years behind the times, which is just fine. This new memory technology means that in three years' time, we could all have the equivalent of five hundred iPods embedded in our ears" is as far as it normally goes.
[October 14, 2007, 14:22 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Can Linux break into banks?
Talkback Vista is going to be at least five years after WinXP, if not more. Don't read better, just different - the jury's out on whether it's going to be better, which is a sad comment of five years worth of work).
About: Can Linux break into banks?
[September 13, 2005, 0:54]
How to think about Vista, part 1
Blog Microsoft ain't saying - it's a good bet it doesn't know - but Business Week's best guess is that it took 10,000 people five years to develop Vista. So that's five years and around ten billion dollars.
[February 24, 2007, 1:34 in Reviews Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Ultralateband disappoints Wi-Fi sniffing Bluetooth
Blog But that was five years ago. The past five years have also seen much of what made UWB special slip into the murk - it was originally an extremely novel system that punched tightly-timed pulses of energy into the aether without any form of carrier.
[November 1, 2007, 11:20 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
A Futurology Timeline Translator
Blog In five years' time: Someone said they could do it in two In twenty five years time: In 1982 you thought loading Jet Set Willy from tape to a ZX Spectrum was cool. In the next two to three years: I saw it in a shop in Japan
[March 2, 2007, 0:21 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Open source - feel good, but work better.
Blog And if the need or desire isn't there, then they won't and quite right too: it's not like Microsoft Office, where a burning need for new revenue forces massive feature churn every five years. It is certainly true that while most things work first...
[April 30, 2009, 15:20 in by Rupert Goodwins]
Nanowires!
Blog And it looks as if this will work down to around 9nm, which will be just in time: from having devices looking good in the lab to getting into development normally takes five to six years, and then it's another five to six years from there into...
[June 24, 2008, 12:41 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
HP's memristor edges closer to chipdom - and beyond
Blog That's five years ahead for working systems, says HP, with another five years for commercialisation. Normally, twenty years is closer to the mark. More news about HP's new memristor technology, from EE Times.
[July 10, 2008, 8:24 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
