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Game company sued for piracy
News When StarPlay was made aware of the situation through a European distributor, the company apparently tried several times to resolve the situation with GT Interactive, until StarPlay produced evidence that GT Interactive had no license to reproduce...
[September 1, 1999, 15:15]
A Year Ago: Game company sued for piracy
News When StarPlay was made aware of the situation through a European distributor, the company apparently tried several times to resolve the situation with GT Interactive, until StarPlay produced evidence that GT Interactive had no license to reproduce...
[September 1, 2000, 7:00]
Proxima shows multimedia notebook projector
News Proxima's distributor GBI can be contacted by telephone on 01908-504500. The Lightbook (£4,000 + VAT) is a sub-5kg portable projector for PC and Macintosh mobile systems. It supports resolutions up to 800 x 600 and comes with 1-watt speakers and...
[October 3, 1996, 15:46]
Pinpointing HP's centre of gravity
News Certainly, it's the job of the chief executives to position the company in a favourable light, in black and white if possible: HP good, IBM bad, Dell a low-end packager and distributor that doesn't invest in innovation.
[October 7, 2003, 15:00]
CA leaps on patent bandwagon
News Linux distributor Red Hat is opposed to software patents in general and allows unfettered use of its own portfolio for open source software. Computer Associates plans to submit a portion of its patent portfolio to open source developers, following...
[February 21, 2005, 8:30]
Adobe hacking case goes to jury
News He said Moscow-based ElcomSoft knowingly created a product that stripped away copy protections, offered it on the Web, and took it down only when it learned that its US-based distributor was going to cut off access to the program.
[December 13, 2002, 7:56]
Sony zooms in on high-res camera
News Sony's digital camera distributor DirekTek can be contacted by telephone on 01494-471100. The DK-1 Digital Camera (£1,500 + VAT) can capture images at up to 768 x 576 resolutions and store up to 140 images on a 10Mb flash memory card.
[October 11, 1996, 14:17]
A Year Ago: MS on verge of pricing revamp
News One distributor said that he'd heard Microsoft would make changes in three weeks and that it would be to try and "put an end to its US-UK pricing differentials". Microsoft is considering a revamp in its OEM pricing and licensing strategy in an...
[March 12, 1999, 6:25]
MS on verge of pricing revamp
News One distributor said that he'd heard Microsoft would make changes in three weeks and that it would be to try and "put an end to its US-UK pricing differentials". Microsoft is considering a revamp in its OEM pricing and licensing strategy in an...
[March 13, 1998, 16:22]
Corel Ventura 7 gets major facelift
News Channel Market Makers, Corel's distributor, can be contacted by telephone on 01703-814142. Ventura 7 (£700 + VAT; upgrade £200 + VAT) runs on Windows 95 and NT, and allows users to publish to the Web, to print, CD-ROM and as portable electronic...
[November 18, 1996, 11:32]
Media companies demand ID numbers for CDs and DVDs
News Along with the unique code, called a Source Identification Code (SID), the groups want more powers that would enable them to demand information that would help them identify the original manufacturer or distributor of the infringing goods.
[May 24, 2002, 17:44]
US Report: Is Amazon.com eyeing TV?
News Such an approach would begin to position the company primarily as an online distributor of entertainment and media services -- creating the Web equivalent to the kind of market position Blockbuster Entertainment Corp.once envisioned for itself.
[November 2, 1998, 13:42]
BBC iPlayer launch on, despite crack
News Microsoft hastily patched Windows Media Player against it, but Viodentia, the anonymous distributor of the utility, cracked Microsoft's patch. The launch of the BBC's new media player will not be delayed by a new crack for the digital rights...
[July 17, 2007, 13:48]
Microsoft takes swipe at Linux vendors' legal story
News Microsoft focused its criticism on Red Hat, saying that the Linux distributor does not assist customers with legal expenses. Microsoft has criticised the IP indemnification offered by Novell, Red Hat, HP and IBM -- the main vendors of the Linux...
[November 5, 2004, 13:28]
Red Hat hit by patent claims
News Linux distributor Red Hat announced its plan to acquire JBoss for $350 million in April and completed the deal on 5 June. Red Hat has been hit by a patent lawsuit related to JBoss, just weeks after completing its purchase of the open-source...
[July 3, 2006, 10:30]
Mandriva aims for the enterprise
News Last year it acquired Brazilian Linux distributor Conectiva and on 14 September it released a revamp to its enterprise product — Corporate Server 4.0. Mandriva has been no stranger to trouble since the dot-com crash of 2001.
[September 20, 2006, 14:00]
SugarCRM hopes support will sweeten open-source package
News With a business model not unlike that of Linux distributor Red Hat, SugarCRM will continue to offer its software for free while collecting fees for installation services, training, warrantees, technical support and software patches.
[September 7, 2004, 13:55]
Morpheus infiltrates other P2P networks
News But it also could be a setback for companies, such as Kazaa distributor Sharman Networks, that include advertising and other commercial features. New file-swapping applications are bridging formerly separate networks, promising to improve the...
[January 19, 2004, 9:45]
Caldera to release Project 42 public beta
News Project 42 is part of Caldera's strategy to establish itself as a Linux distributor specialising in business solutions. Caldera plans to release the first public beta of Project 42, the next version of its Linux distribution on 19 March, the...
[March 14, 2001, 14:41]
Elonex falls into administration
News According to reports, the move that plunged the company into administration came from a distributor, Computer 2000, which applied for a winding-up order. Cut-throat competition from the likes of Dell, along with the wafer-thin margins that dominate...
[June 14, 2006, 12:55]
