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Facing the (digital) music
News That distribution barrier goes away. Now, it's the music industry's turn. What makes them big and makes them powerful is their control over distribution," said Ken Wirt, vice president of corporate marketing at Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.
[November 23, 1998, 9:38]
Silicon Graphics suffers delisting
News The company received a warning from the NYSE back in May when its share price dropped through the $1 barrier. Silicon Graphics, doyenne of the supercomputer world, is to de-list from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) next Monday, after its share...
[November 2, 2005, 13:55]
Concern grows about Bulldog's broadband service
Talkback I actually feel sorry for the staff in the centres as because they are not british and there is a language barrier they end up having to take a lot of verbal abuse of pissed off customers. ordered it 3 times and everytime I have ended up canceling...
[December 6, 2005, 14:22]
Poor business case could hobble WiMax
News According to Drs Mark Heath and Alastair Brydon of Sound Partners Ltd, WiMax will come under intense pressure from rival wireless and fixed-line technologies in the developed world while, in the developing world, limited disposable income will...
[November 6, 2006, 14:17]
Sun details expanded open source plans
News Free is the lowest barrier to entry for acquiring a product. Sun said Wednesday that it will offer free access to its Java server suite and N1 management software and bundle them with its Solaris operating system.
[December 1, 2005, 9:25]
IBM plans 20 petaflop supercomputer
News Like Roadrunner — the first system through the one-petaflop barrier — the new machine is being developed for the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) "to help continue to ensure the safety and reliability of...
[February 3, 2009, 15:43]
Mobile Payment: Potential and reality for Nigeria
Blog Comment The second is that the major barrier to mobile payments is Know Your Custome legislation. There are many issues here. The first is that the places where we've seen great sucess have been those where the process has been driven by networks and not...
[January 15, 2009, 14:25]
Porn access debate hots up in Australia
Talkback Porn that is already available legally in other forms of media will never be controlled as different countries have differerent definitions of what is acceptable.and even if that was a barrier that could be overcome in the global information...
[May 3, 2004, 5:31]
December inboxes clogged with junk mail
News In terms of its share of total email traffic, spam broke through the 40 per cent barrier for the first time -- meaning a staggering four in every 10 emails sent is unsolicited. Spam continues to make computer users lives more stressful - clogging...
[January 10, 2003, 14:06]
A Year Ago: Diamond brings cheaper networking to consumers
News The product has broken a price barrier that had kept wireless from being a legitimate thing for consumers. Multimedia hardware maker Diamond Multimedia Systems started shipping its HomeFree wireless networking home-network solution on Monday.
[November 3, 1999, 6:05]
US Report: Sun makes Solaris free... for some
News We don't want price to become a barrier to anyone who might want to play around with Solaris and maybe come up with some innovative development ideas. Instead of paying $300 to $695 for client and server versions of Solaris 2.6, college types and...
[August 13, 1998, 7:48]
Samsung Q35 review
Reviews It ducks beneath the magic 2kg barrier by a reasonable margin, weighing in at 1.89kg. Design The Q35 is certainly a small format notebook, measuring just 29.9cm wide by 21.4cm deep by 2.74 to 3.58cm high, giving it almost the same footprint on a...
[June 13, 2006, 16:15]
Google shows Native Client built into HTML 5
News But to use it, there is a significant barrier: people must install a browser plug-in. Google has been demonstrating its sandboxing technology for making web applications perform at similar levels to those associated with native desktop applications.
[May 29, 2009, 16:29]
2004: Internet Explorer's year of shame
Talkback Anti-trust' case (which 'documented' Microsoft's attempt to unfairly expand their 'industry-monopoly' by creating a 'technological-barrier' [disadvantage] to ALL competition, both then present, OR, which might have arisen in the future).
[July 11, 2004, 0:05]
Novell bundles GroupWise and Linux
News Anderson explained that one barrier to users buying GroupWise has been the additional servers required for the migration. Novell is offering a free version of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) with the latest version of its GroupWise...
[August 16, 2005, 15:35]
IT spending still growing slowly
News More than 60 percent of large firms interviewed by IDC said this was a bigger barrier to new projects than the weak economy, company profits or the cost of projects. European companies are holding back on cutting edge technology and instead...
[April 7, 2005, 17:55]
Intel to expand BT broadband range
News BTopenworld recently announced its Plug & Go products, which eliminate the need for an engineer visit, as a way of reducing the price barrier for customers wishing to sign up for high-speed, always-on Internet access.
[March 1, 2002, 14:01]
Stupid Security prize relaunched
Talkback Its comparitively easy to spend loads of money and build a secured environment, but the real skill is to justify the security barrier with respect to threat. In reply to the previous comment "In defense of security professionals", I partly agree...
[September 1, 2006, 9:57]
Strong passwords a must for web apps
News Sometimes, passwords are the only barrier between hackers and a series of potentially harmful operations. Sure, passwords alone can't secure your Web-based system. But you can still take measures to make them more effective.
[March 25, 2003, 13:58]
Canadian ruling won't derail lawsuits
News And last week's ruling by Canadian regulators will not pose a formidable barrier for CRIA to begin its own round of litigation, according to a legal analyst. A ruling in Canada declaring downloading music through peer-to-peer services legal, but...
[December 17, 2003, 9:20]
