News Schmooze: Microsoft wins case, goes back to being evil
News But now that Microsoft has got what it wanted -- a near-complete victory in the appeal of its antitrust case -- maybe we'll start seeing more of the old Microsoft, making it impossible for competitors to stay in business and squeezing more money...
[June 29, 2001, 16:49]
Security pros: Our defences need work
News The Internet Security Alliance's survey of 227 information security professionals worldwide found that nearly 88 percent of participants believed that protecting their business information was essential to their company's survival.
[September 10, 2002, 8:16]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback If your hardware is diagnosed as faulty an engineer will be despatched THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY'. Meanwhile I am struggling to understand technician, I have to ask him to repeat everything & the line is bad.
[August 21, 2006, 21:22]
Waitt to step down as CEO of Gateway
News He had a hand in redefining the way the PC business worked. Dukker, a long-time executive in the PC business who is currently president and CEO of eMachines "Pre-Gateway, everyone advertised erector sets -- this CPU, this monitor.
[December 9, 1999, 9:40]
Microsoft's Belluzzo leaps to Quantum
News Belluzzo is expected to use his relationships and knowledge of the tech sector to help the Milpitas, California, company increase its business. At HP, he was largely credited with building the company's profitable printer business.
[August 2, 2002, 13:01]
Action 2000 optimism criticised
News As Action 2000 confidently predicted business as usual, critics accused the organisation of using a flawed protocol to test millennium compliance. Peter Barnes, director of business continuity association Survive believes the system is...
[October 20, 1999, 14:29]
Acer TravelMate Timeline 1820p
Blog The notebook sports an 11.6 inch display and, unlike the versions of the 1820 currently at the Acer Web site, it will run a more business-appropriate operating system than Windows 7 Home Premium. It offers you access to a range of multimedia...
[December 15, 2009, 11:41]
The future is... Linux televisions
News During that time, he was part of the team that started the company's leasing business, launched IBM's ThinkPad brand and was credited with introducing IBM to a new communications technology called the Internet.
[February 20, 2004, 13:55]
Collaborating by Groove
News Groove was really founded based on the changing nature of business in general -- the fact that business would become more decentralised. BPR (business process re-engineering), right? What we have noticed during the last 18 or so months is that its...
[March 16, 2004, 10:55]
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and IT survey statistics
Blog You guessed it; research launched today by business transaction management company OpTier is alerting us to spiraling levels of complexity in IT management set-ups. The company also estimates that 72 per cent of businesses are relying on using...
[June 17, 2009, 7:49]
Eye2Eye Pt III: Oftel's Edmonds on the watchdog's future
News We look at whether a company can use its business weight in a way that gives it unfair advantage. I want to know what's in the NetCo company, I want to know what is in the resale business and what I have said is I will consult.
[November 28, 2000, 10:25]
looking for a reply from mr gates(lucifer himself)
Talkback You will not get one - the guy does not have an email account and would not know how to use it if he did.it is baffling to me that a guy and his crew that could not build an operating system if their life depended on it can grab hold of a billion...
[January 18, 2006, 15:15]
Acer Perspire One
Blog I will also be setting up a web design company for small business, plus getting back into teaching. Enough about me, let's get back to the sweaty business in hand. But now, I am leaving The Ministry, leaving The Village and leaving The Cottage all...
[September 11, 2008, 9:02]
Intel's fifth chief
News What do you think you are going to face, in terms of challenges that Craig Barrett has not had to face, as you expand beyond the traditional PC business? The fundamental value proposition of bringing standards-based Moore's Law to their business...
[August 12, 2004, 12:00]
Customers report Microsoft CRM problems
News It's also one of the first products that Microsoft's newly created Business Solutions division has built from the ground up since the company acquired Great Plains and Navision. Those acquisitions made the company a contender in the multi-billion...
[March 10, 2003, 11:33]
Bangalore closing gap on Silicon Valley
News IT accounts for 100,000 of these jobs, with the rest in business process outsourcing and call centres. MS Shankaralinge Gowda, secretary of IT and biotechnology for the state government of Karnataka, said that the number of tech workers in the...
[July 29, 2004, 8:55]
Barrett: Looking back, but leaping forward
News I still intend to do international travel and business development for Intel, like we've been doing for the last 10 years, but Paul Otellini will be in charge of the day-to-day aspects of the company.
[March 7, 2005, 11:20]
Microsoft's Ozzie spearheads drive to online services
News We believe — and I believe this deeply; I've been a desktop business for a while — that the deployment environment of using desktop tools on a PC is a really valuable one. Well, I don't know how to say it other than to say that we're running a...
[May 1, 2007, 12:57]
Microsoft: Don't sell PCs without operating systems
Talkback Some time ago I had business dealings with Compaq. I thought that capitalism is where everyone has an equal right to trade (on a fair playing ground - definition of economics according to Sameulson's standard work 'Economics' at business schools).
[April 6, 2006, 12:53]
Ellison slates computers and pushes biotech
News While database software sales are still Oracle's bread and butter, Ellison said the company's applications business -- which makes up 10 percent of overall revenue -- will eventually grow to half the company's overall revenue.
[February 22, 2001, 9:19]



