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Signed code: Security or censorship?
News For drivers, code is signed by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs after it has passed a battery of compatibility tests. Yet, Pratt, who confirmed that Whistler will have an option to only accept signed code, believed that if consumers...
[November 27, 2000, 15:54]
Academic network signs up for text service
News The Joint Academic Network has signed a deal for a mobile-phone text service to connect the 18 million users of its education network. UKerna signed a deal last year for automated back-up, archiving, hosting and web-file services.
[May 3, 2007, 11:09]
Sony to plug TiVo into its products
News Sony said on Thursday that it has signed a deal that will allow it to incorporate TiVo's personal digital recording technology into its line of consumer electronics products worldwide. The licensing agreement announced Thursday extends an earlier...
[October 19, 2001, 8:32]
Scotland signs deal for blanket broadband
News The Scottish government has signed a deal to get satellite broadband in the places that ADSL cannot reach. Avanti's managing director, Matthew O'Connor, told GC News that, while the company's priniciple business is as a supplier of networks, it...
[June 30, 2008, 10:30]
Sun may be in storage deal with Hitachi
News Sun Microsystems has signed a deal to sell high-end storage products from Hitachi Data Systems, according to an analyst who follows the companies. A deal has been signed," said Pacific Growth Equities analyst Thomas Mancino said in an interview...
[July 11, 2001, 14:33]
Government confirms one million broadband connections
News The UK government announced on Tuesday that one million businesses and consumers have now signed up for broadband, and insisted it is still on target to make Britain the world's most extensive and competitive broadband market.
[October 8, 2002, 10:03]
US Report: Netscape beefs up Netcenter search
News Netscape has signed agreements with search services Lycos, Infoseek, LookSmart and Digital's AltaVista. An Excite spokeswoman said the company was aware of the other deals when they signed up with Netscape, and felt "confident" in their deal.
[May 22, 1998, 6:00]
eBay and AOL extend marketing pact
News eBay has signed an agreement with AOL Time Warner to extend the companies' marketing relationship. The new deal, signed last week, will extend the companies' marketing relationship, which was due to expire this year, until 2004, eBay spokesman...
[August 14, 2001, 10:06]
Novell boosts legal team with litigation expert
News Novell has signed up one of America's top patent lawyers. Just three weeks after the partnership agreement was signed in November, the companies fell out with each other. Eric Acker, head of litigation for the San Diego office of global law firm...
[August 6, 2007, 13:16]
HP and Dell to ship Java with all PCs
News Sun Microsystems signed deals on Wednesday under which Dell and Hewlett-Packard will ship Java technology on all PCs, a move that bypasses Microsoft's reluctance to distribute the software. The deals were signed on Wednesday morning, Sun executives...
[June 12, 2003, 10:00]
Bug may pose risk to encrypted email
News A problem related to a widely used open-source cryptography technology could let miscreants tamper with digitally signed and encrypted emails. The problem lies in how certain email applications display messages signed using the GNU Privacy Guard...
[March 8, 2007, 9:15]
Napster signs Euro indie labels
News Napster today signalled the end of free music swapping on its service, with the announcement that it has signed up the European independent music industry. On Tuesday, Barry said that more than a million people had signed up for the beta testing.
[June 26, 2001, 13:27]
Cable & Wireless, Ericsson seal FMC deal
News Telecoms-kit company Ericsson has signed a five-year, £30m contract with telco Cable & Wireless to supply and manage a GSM mobile network that will let Cable & Wireless sell FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) services.
[September 15, 2008, 8:23]
Hong Kong signs up to view Windows code
News Hong Kong has just signed on to Microsoft's Government Security Program (GSP), giving the Hong Kong government controlled, no-fee access to Microsoft Windows' source code and related information, subject to US export restrictions.
[November 27, 2003, 8:50]
No hard drive in Xbox future?
News Flash-memory maker M-Systems announced on Wednesday that it has signed a contract to provide storage products for future versions of the Xbox, bolstering speculation that Microsoft may ditch the game console's hard drive.
[February 26, 2004, 8:10]
T-Online dumps Overture for Google
News T-Online, one of Europe's largest Web access providers, on Thursday signed a multiyear deal with Google for search services -- severing its contract with rival Overture Services early. T-Online signed Google to provide Web search results and Google...
[August 13, 2003, 10:05]
HP to resell open-source email software
News Hewlett-Packard has signed an agreement to sell Sendmail's email software, the latest move by the longtime Microsoft ally to also woo open-source players. HP has a long history of working with Microsoft -- whose Exchange software competes with...
[June 14, 2004, 9:05]
US secrets order covers Internet
News President Bush has signed an executive order that explicitly gives the government the power to classify information about critical infrastructures such as the Internet. In his executive order, which replaces a 1995 directive signed by President...
[March 27, 2003, 8:44]
Financial firms turn to secure IM
News Several leading financial services companies signed up for an instant messaging service on Monday designed to provide security and allow control over the information sent to clients and employees. The companies have each signed multiyear...
[April 9, 2002, 10:40]
IBM answers Nokia's calls for help
News Nokia has signed an agreement with IBM under which Big Blue will run the handset maker's helpdesk operations and support its desktop PCs. IBM recently signed similar PC and software maintenance deals with Electrolux, Zurich Financial Services and ABB.
[January 19, 2004, 12:50]
