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NSA patent reveals global monitoring technology
News Johnston-Bryden, however, also makes the point that perhaps the most significant thing about this patent is that some commercial application is likely to result from it. The US National Security Agency (NSA) has patented new phone tapping...
[November 16, 1999, 11:47]
Sun pieces utility jigsaw together
News That's scheduled for trials soon, perhaps in Palo Alto, Calif.and commercial availability is scheduled for this summer and holiday season. In November, Sun announced -- but didn't actually begin selling -- a service by which customers could pay Sun...
[February 1, 2005, 8:10]
Banks 'must try harder' on ID theft
News Both regular and random risk assessments should be carried out at any outsourcing centre, especially if it is located in a high-commercial risk area - where bribery and corruption are endemic. Identity theft has been in the headlines again in...
[July 5, 2005, 11:40]
Cable elite watching AOL-Time Warner progress
News We have to be careful that this review doesn't become so intense that commercial transactions become impossible. The proposed merger between America Online and Time Warner is weighing heavily on the minds of the cable industry's elite.
[November 30, 2000, 15:31]
Google: A trailblazer for Web services?
News It could provide a way for thousands of commercial developers to use search in their software, therefore providing Google with a means to charge for its search service, widely considered the best such resource on the Web.
[May 7, 2002, 12:32]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And while there are plenty of things wrong with the UK's commercial connectivity, don't sigh over those tales of some gigabit wonderland across the North Sea. Tuesday 30/5/2006 Project complete - at least, the first cut - I prepare to pack up my...
[June 2, 2006, 18:00]
Motorola sets chip unit adrift
News Motorola's Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector will focus on delivering radio and other communications products to government and business clients. Motorola's chip unit will go its own way, the company said on Monday.
[October 6, 2003, 16:15]
Red Hat voices concerns over Microsoft patent model
News Basu added that the decision will focus Microsoft's resources so that commercial developers and distributors who decide not to accept the agreed licensing terms will be put on notice that Microsoft will be able to pursue them.
[October 24, 2007, 18:07]
Business: IM is getting out of control
News Kobielus lauded Jabber, a commercial product based on open-source development organisation Jabber.org, for using port 80--the standard port for Web traffic -- thus helping firewall administrators account for and filter IM content.
[April 26, 2001, 15:14]
Houston, we have a merger
News HP executives said last week that the company has embraced an "adopt and go" strategy under which it will pick up one product line -- commercial PCs, for example -- from one of the companies and drop the other.
[March 21, 2002, 8:35]
Industry welcomes Novell's purchase of SuSE
News The acquisition plan "puts additional commercial pressures on Linux. Novell, which has struggled for years to recover from Microsoft's victory in the server operating system market, announced on Tuesday the $210m (£125m) plan to acquire SuSE Linux...
[November 6, 2003, 11:50]
$100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux
News I see the impact of this laptop as similar to the impact that Linux has had in the commercial IT sector. Once it became clear that Nicholas Negroponte, one of the key originators of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative, was going to insist...
[February 2, 2006, 15:10]
Stallman: Three ways to deal with software patent threats
News So they imposed restrictions, making it for non-commercial use only, which meant it couldn't catch on too much. In the second part of Richard Stallman's speech at the Cambridge Computer Lab, the free software guru explains how software developers...
[March 28, 2002, 10:40]
Developers: Do you buy the ‘Context-Aware’ computing concept?
Blog If you have a commercial mind and want to explore further how the processes and functions that you are building will impact the business bottom line - then this could well be for you. How many ways can you repackage the concept of metadata, or...
[September 29, 2009, 5:43]
Merger could spawn more copy-proof CDs
News The deal does put Macrovision in a position to better replicate the standing it has in the video realm, where its commercial videotape anti-copying technology is an industry standard. Macrovision, a Santa Clara, California-based company, said it...
[November 6, 2002, 9:27]
A level playing field for financial services online?
News The general derogations relevant to financial services cover small e-money institutions (see for example by clicking here), insurance companies, advertising by operators of UCITS (undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities...
[April 15, 2002, 19:21]
Microsoft touts virtualisation lineup
News Their commercial launch is set for 12 November, 2008. Microsoft has announced a collection of virtualisation products that the company said demonstrates its interest in capturing the server virtualisation market.
[July 10, 2008, 9:05]
Outgoing BT chief hints at fibre rollout
News This is the first time that, at a senior level within BT, there's been a suggestion that this is something BT is looking at, although we are aware they have been putting a lot of thought into the question of next-generation access," he said, while...
[July 19, 2007, 14:40]
Support grows for rural DSL alternative
News The initial reaction was very negative, however, from most of the commercial concerns that tried it. Gear makers have joined a nonprofit group looking to promote wireless access to high-speed broadband connections.
[April 9, 2003, 9:17]
UK faces 3G failure
News With commercial 3G networks not expected to roll out before 2004 in Europe, Northstream believes there is time for the British government to make amends, a though its options are limited. At least one of the UK's five forthcoming 3G networks is...
[May 8, 2001, 11:09]
