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A Year Ago: COM One delivers set-top box
News French communications firm COM One today announced what will be one of one the first companies to deliver a set-top box in the UK. Although COM One claims the device will be among the first set-top boxes in the UK, the firm admits that missing the...
[December 2, 1998, 6:42]
GO.com recasts portal strategy
News Walt Disney plans to reposition its GO.com Web portal as an entertainment and leisure destination, in what seems an acknowledgment that the entertainment giant's Web venture is unable to challenge stalwarts like Yahoo!
[January 28, 2000, 9:30]
MySimon.com to contest $26m damages award
News Online comparison shopping site mySimon.com has announced it will challenge the ruling of an Indianapolis jury Thursday that it infringes upon the trademark of an American real estate company. Simon Property Group, which runs a chain of Simon...
[September 4, 2000, 13:43]
Lindows.com launches Linux notebook
News Lindows.com on Thursday unwrapped an inexpensive and lightweight notebook PC based on its version of the Linux operating system. Lindows.com, Via and Wal-Mart have given rise to a new class of $200 desktop PCs, which have proved appealing to people...
[February 20, 2003, 15:05]
COM and .Net interoperability
News Although new development may be carried out using .Net, there will be a need to reuse some of the functionality existing in the form of COM components. In this article, I examine some COM and .Net interoperability techniques.
[May 21, 2002, 15:18]
lastminute.com off to flying start
News One of Britain's largest Internet flotations got under way Tuesday as lastminute.com shares began unofficial trading. By midday they had settled to around 502p, and they closed at 465p.lastminute.com has said that 188,995 private investors had...
[March 14, 2000, 9:05]
Broadband lures Tesco.com into Korean expansion
News Tesco.com is to extend its online shopping service to South Korea -- the country with the highest penetration of broadband in the world -- this winter. The Tesco.com strategy is international expansion -- either through its existing store network...
[August 13, 2001, 16:28]
A Year Ago: British cat acquires dot-com stock options
News A British cat has set a precedent in the world of dot-com stock trading by acquiring stock options in a UK start-up, it was revealed Wednesday. The investment-savvy feline, which, incidentally is black and white and called Ziggy, has apparently...
[July 6, 2001, 6:28]
Monster.com thinks again on CV purge
News Monster.com, the popular careers Web site, has partially backed away from a decision to limit which nations could be listed on CVs and job postings. Iranian-American executives have urged NIAC to encourage Iranian-American employers and employees...
[April 28, 2003, 8:18]
Amazon.com: the Web services trailblazer
News Amazon.com has fleshed out how it is using Web services to drive sales and increase profits, impressing experts familiar with this new model of computing. Amazon Web Services was announced last July and is aimed at benefiting Amazon.com by bringing...
[March 12, 2003, 15:43]
Answers.com launches Wikimedia collaboration
News Answers.com and the Wikimedia Foundation on Friday said they will jointly develop a service that gives people quick access to answers from online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. Wikipedia is certainly the most dynamic of over 120 content sources found in...
[October 24, 2005, 10:00]
WTO boss rails against 'dot-com types'
News The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has blamed "dot-com types" for recent anti-capitalist violence at WTO gatherings. He warned non-governmental organisations (NGOs) seeking change to distance themselves from "masked stone-throwers who...
[July 9, 2001, 16:32]
Listen.com to offer legal CD-burning
News As it readies a new version of its online music subscription service, Listen.com plans to announce on Thursday agreements to allow consumers to burn CDs from digital files. It won't be the digital free-for-all seen in the popular file-swapping...
[October 24, 2002, 8:04]
Open source is key, says Lastminute.com CTO
News Lastminute.com has earned its place as the UK's dot-com darling by the sheer fact that its business model actually stood up to the market reality-check that killed of so many of its peers. But although it may have earned its business spurs -- the...
[March 1, 2004, 13:20]
US Report: Is Amazon.com eyeing TV?
News Analysts were unsure if Amazon.com is eyeing digital television, Webcasting or just a new version of its site that would be easier to navigate through Web TV. But they doubted the move is purely defensive, since Amazon.com would have a strong...
[November 2, 1998, 13:42]
lastminute.com flotation wows market
News The second-best-known Internet brand in the UK got off to a fast start in London Tuesday morning as lastminute.com launched its long-awaited flotation. Lastminute joins Freeserve (quote: FRE), auctioneer QXL.com (quote: QXL), 365 and financial Web...
[March 14, 2000, 16:53]
A Year Ago: Garageband.com steps up to online MP3 challenge
News Get your band out of the garage and onto the Internet with Garageband.com -- your neighbours might thank us. MP3 music site Garageband.com launched Thursday, and was quick to disassociate itself from all existing MP3 download and exposure sites.
[September 2, 2000, 7:00]
Sightsound.com to music sites: Pay up, or else!
News The announcement followed a statement from digital music site MP3.com that it had received a missive from Sightsound, which indicated the patents "control, among other things, the sale of audio or video recordings in download fashion over the...
[January 29, 1999, 7:56]
Oscar.com site to launch
News The official Web site for the 1999 Academy Awards, www.oscar.com, will launch Feb.officials at ABC Internet Group and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday. The site will offer live coverage of the Oscar nominations...
[February 5, 1999, 7:18]
Linux fells another NT dot com
News British rock star and Internet entrepreneur Bob Geldof became an unlikely advocate of open source computing Thursday: his company, Deckchair.com, is to move over to the Linux operating system. A spokesman at the European Linux 2000 expo in London...
[June 1, 2000, 17:40]
