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AOL investment fuels feud with Microsoft
News The stakes are high: control of the technology that will be the underpinning of billions of transactions on the Web, as well as access to a vast database of consumer data. Microsoft has long held bragging rights as a premier technology player...
[July 26, 2001, 10:09]
PeopleSoft buyout 'would be anticompetitive'
News This is clearly not the type of deal we would like to see succeed," said Duncan, adding that IBM is not interested in entering the market because its business partners have "generated billions of dollars in revenue".
[September 9, 2003, 17:20]
Of Microsoft, china pigs and hungry bears
Blog It's got so much money it can lose tens of billions on a new project like the Xbox, and still keep the thing going. Few people would want to sink the required 40-odd billion dollars of ready cash into such a deal, let alone take on the hundreds of...
[August 28, 2007, 16:51]
A blur between applications & content… really?
Blog Comment The billions and billions and billions being spent globally to make it all faster, better and more efficient will see that the blurring of all applications, systems, methodologies, delivery models, content types and devices continues until we’ve...
[May 28, 2008, 9:21]
Ethernet inventor welcomed into Hall of Fame
News Q: You're being inducted this week into the Invent Now Hall of Fame for inventing Ethernet, which, in the 34 years since it's been invented, has become the de facto standard in local area networks and generated billions of dollars in revenue.
[May 8, 2007, 17:54]
Rambus back in court
News If the patents are upheld, analysts believe that Rambus could be entitled to billions in royalties and licensing fees. Large memory manufacturers have to invest billions on production facilities, employees and design teams to stay in the market.
[January 26, 2005, 11:20]
BT, Intel develop 'instant messaging on steroids'
News Telecommunications network providers have spent billions on 3G network licenses and are committed to spending billions more on building the infrastructure. Intel and BT are to create next-generation collaboration products, dubbed 'instant messaging...
[May 17, 2001, 18:05]
Microsoft's future — the word on the street
Leader The potential market is billions of people making billions of calls. After years of research across multiple laboratories with a budget of millions, Microsoft has finally made a significant breakthrough in speech recognition.
[March 15, 2007, 15:53]
New e-commerce minister is broadband believer
News I am not asking the government to invest billions and billions of pounds in an information infrastructure -- that will not happen, and it does not need to -- but we desperately need from the government some vision, leadership and the willingness...
[May 30, 2002, 14:12]
Ofcom launches fibre-access consultation
News BT is reluctant to spend billions of pounds installing fibre to the home (FTTH) or fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) while regulations state it would have to give rival providers equivalent access to those connections.
[September 26, 2007, 15:17]
SAP spawns integration clash
News It's worth billions and billions [of dollars] to whoever can capture that. The German company has spent more than a year developing the new package of programs, called NetWeaver 2004, and will release it by 31 March, SAP executive board member Shai...
[March 8, 2004, 14:50]
Inside the Linux arcana
Talkback IBM will have to foot billions, probably upon billions - and that's after they pay the fines [5 billion if SCO as it's way]. Folsom, what are you thinking? Sun holds an option to buy SCO stock at $1.83.
[March 19, 2004, 16:48]
Lycos sports 'for sale' sign
News Few expect a return to the heady days of the late 1990s, when Internet companies with no profits were sold for stock worth billions of dollars on paper. Walt Disney shut down Infoseek after spending billions of dollars trying to build out its own...
[April 28, 2004, 9:00]
Truphone to pursue T-Mobile court case
News Mobile operators invest billions of pounds in building mobile phone networks, and that's what connection rates are about," the spokesperson added. not 'Have I spent billions of pounds? The legal tussle between VoIP provider Truphone and mobile...
[July 17, 2007, 15:31]
As the Mac turns 20, has the PC caught up?
Talkback I suppose it's a better problem to have than the failure of their OS's security (as the billions and billions of dollars lost as a result of Win XP's utter failure in security has shown), but the perception of Apple is a tenacious problem...
[January 22, 2004, 16:41]
Sun CEO: Volume will drive value
News If we can get billions of people to travel around with a mobile Java device, not only does that generate a small amount of revenue for Sun, it generates billions of dollars of infrastructure opportunity [for Sun] in the world of telecommunications...
[August 30, 2007, 15:03]
Is the heyday of the MP3 coming to a close?
News NPD researchers estimate that there was a net loss of about 742 million MP3 files from US hard drives between August 2003 and July 2004, despite people acquiring billions of songs from file-trading networks and their own CDs.
[October 18, 2004, 11:00]
The future is... Linux televisions
News The big shift is in devices -- we are talking about billions of them, which structures the market in quite a different way, and I don't see Microsoft dominating that larger market. So when there are billions of devices with Web access, how will...
[February 20, 2004, 13:55]
Qualcomm 3G phone ban to take effect
News The ban would be particularly tough for all the major mobile-phone operators, which during the past several years have spent billions of dollars deploying their 3G networks. The Brattle Group, a consulting firm, issued a report in July citing two...
[August 7, 2007, 10:52]
Start-up breeds better chips
News The first stage of the process involves creating billions of random genetic variants of a bacteriophage, or virus, that attacks the E.coli bacteria. Each bacteriophage has one protein but there are billions of bacteriophages," Knapp said.
[August 5, 2004, 11:10]
