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Jane Wakefield: The week that was
News Sun's acquisition of Star Division last Tuesday will see the company going head to head with Microsoft. Our old friend Microsoft was back in the headlines last week, with a large dollop of proverbial egg on its face as news broke Monday that its...
[September 3, 1999, 7:00]
Old Microsoft execs never die ...
News Pete Higgins, the 45-year-old former group vice president of Microsoft's interactive media division, saw the company evolve from a lean, entrepreneurial organisation into a much larger institution in his 16 years there.
[February 12, 2002, 17:21]
Grid grouping draws scepticism
News IBM and Microsoft's research division are major sponsors of the Global Grid Forum. The new organisation is called the Enterprise Grid Alliance, and its founding members include Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, NEC, Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu...
[April 21, 2004, 12:35]
Microsoft mum on server Longhorn
News Greg Sullivan, lead product manager for the Windows client division, classified Longhorn's improvements as "a new storage model. But it remains unclear what the software will include and when it will debut.
[August 4, 2003, 14:35]
Linux bandwagon gains Compaq
News We're looking to leverage the same kind of clustering technology on our Unix environment as we have on our VMS system," said Joe Pollizzi, deputy division head at the Space Telescope Science Institute, in Baltimore.
[January 18, 1999, 12:15]
Companies look to recycle PC cast-offs
News We're interested in seeing what can be done through the private sector so that these materials don't enter the municipal waste stream," said Sego Jackson, principal planner in the solid-waste-management division of Snohomish County, Wash.
[October 15, 2001, 11:57]
Tight quarters for PC makers
News I'd expect to see aggressive bundles with a PC and a flat panel," said Tom Anderson, vice president of marketing for HP's consumer PC division. PC makers will be hoping for the best during the fourth quarter but must plan for the worst.
[September 2, 2003, 15:05]
PC makers squeezed by upscale sales
News It is the applications" that attract customers, said Mark Viken, senior vice president in the IT products division at Sony Electronics. Despite continued economic gloom, anecdotal evidence indicates that PC buyers purchased more high-end desktop...
[January 18, 2002, 9:22]
Union will fight to save UK mobile jobs
News Ericsson has announced that it is axing 2,000 jobs from its consumer products division as well as 10,000 white collar jobs, but a company spokeswoman explained that it was too early to say the extent to which the UK will be affected.
[April 20, 2001, 13:48]
Building an offshore presence
News Ness Technologies, through its division Ness Managed Labs, is one example of an offshore provider that offers the BOT model to software organisations looking to outsource or expand their R&D functionality, and it is indeed proving a popular model...
[December 21, 2005, 9:20]
EU plays catch-up with US at dot com summit
News According to Andrew Grant, chief executive of TMP's worldwide resource division, less than 0.5 percent of European workers move from country to country. European Commissioners have expressed concern that although the EU now has as many Internet...
[March 22, 2001, 14:04]
Microsoft fires back at AOL
News Adding to Microsoft's legal burden is a new challenge issued Monday, when AOL's Netscape division filed suit in federal court seeking damages for Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior during the browser wars of the late 1990s.
[January 25, 2002, 6:31]
SCO site suffers DDoS outage
News The US Attorney's office is investigating the attack, and information on its details was provided to the FBI's Cyber Crime Division, the software maker added. An avalanche of data blocked access to the SCO Group's Web site for several hours on...
[May 6, 2003, 7:46]
Online ad squabble nears resolution
News Companies such as major packaged-goods advertisers "are reluctant to come on board because they say, 'Until you guys agree on the numbers, this is a nightmare medium,'" said John Keck, media director of the interactive division of Foote Cone...
[October 22, 2001, 12:45]
Online music trading will survive Napster, say experts
News Rio, the music division of S3 and maker of the pioneering Rio MP3 music player, said it supports the action against Napster, but will continue to push for legitimate ways of distributing copyrighted music online.
[July 27, 2000, 14:23]
Sun targets new markets with UltraSparc T2
News Penetration into new markets will also rebound to Sun's software division, Schwartz said. The company on Tuesday plans to announce its new UltraSparc T2 microprocessor, along with plans for servers based on the chip.
[August 7, 2007, 9:57]
Itanium: Behind Intel's new brand
News Intel will make public at the Microprocessor Forum on Tuesday a new Itanium white paper that includes a few additional details about the chip, said Stephen Smith, Intel vice president and general manager of the IA-64 processor division.
[October 5, 1999, 11:18]
Toshiba goes straight on chip design
News The company's semiconductor division worked with Simplex Solutions for more than two years to develop X Architecture. The company on Monday announced X Architecture, a new design method that promises to increase the performance and reduce the size...
[June 5, 2001, 9:05]
The biggest security threat: You
News During another presentation, Michael Glancy, general manager of Intel's platform security division, told developers to expect the chip ID in all the company's products soon. This is a new focus for the security community," said David Aucsmith...
[February 26, 1999, 16:19]
Palm makes peace with Microsoft
News In the last few years, we've concentrated on making the Palm OS a great place for developers to work," said Gordon Cline, Palm's security product manager, enterprise division. That was the message sent by Palm's acquisition of enterprise-focused...
[March 8, 2001, 9:45]
