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July will be 'month of browser bugs'
News This blog will serve as a dumping ground for browser-based security research and vulnerability disclosure," Moore said on his blog. Each day this month, a prominent security expert will highlight a new vulnerability found in one of the major...
[July 6, 2006, 10:55]
Photos: Re-use don't recycle, says Computer Aid
News Following the long-awaited enforcement of the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive into UK law on 2 July, Computer Aid is keen to highlight the message that, while recycling is better than dumping into landfill, re-use is...
[July 5, 2007, 15:59]
An 'Outlook Killer' is in devlopment over at OOo -- it will spell the beginning of the end of Microsoft Office
Member Review Real, rational reasons for not dumping M$ Office for OOo are dwindling to a very few, and with the 'Outlook Killer' called 'GLOW' in development and due out in 2004, 'the clock is ticking'. OpenOffice.org far outdistances Microsoft Office in all of...
[November 10, 2003, 8:00]
Recycle your old PCs
News Some vendors and recycling organisations do a very good job of recovering PCs and monitors for proper disposal, but there's no nationally accepted method for dealing with electronic waste, and the US government chose not to sign the Basel...
[April 24, 2006, 12:05]
Roundup: Full coverage of the Vista launch
News But while Microsoft won plenty of headlines around the world with the launch, it has also been condemned by the Green Party, which predicts a mass dumping of old PCs as people find they need new hardware to run Vista.
[January 31, 2007, 11:10]
Corel serves up suite bargains
News Eric Lefebvre, Corel European communications manager, denied that Corel is dumping the product on the market but said it is using a new method of licensing. Corel has issued a serious pricing challenge for Microsoft Office by licensing its Office...
[September 16, 1996, 16:34]
Why Offshore Outsourcing to India ?
Blog Moreover, outsourcing provides the freedom of dumping all of their non-core activities, which is also an important aspect of their Projects and gives them freedom to focus on their core activities. First you should understand, How to choose perfect...
[April 18, 2008, 12:03]
Mandriva fires Adam Williamson
Blog This seems a bit odd to me - certainly the most important resource you can have for this area is intelligent and competent staff, so you are not exactly positioning yourself for the future by dumping one of the best there is.
[December 10, 2008, 8:26]
The Day Ahead: eToys collapse
News Here's the catalyst that had investors dumping eToys shares -- eToys reported strong sales but missed the "whisper numbers" for its fiscal third quarter. EToys is trading at a 52-week low and is more than $3 (£1.86) shy of its May 20 IPO price.
[January 28, 2000, 12:23]
Open source projects 'need more customer focus'
Talkback Look at MS's record for "dumping" old products only to get an uproar from customers and announcing another 6 months of extended support - and not even software that is that old, look at the Windows XP SP debacle last year.
[June 3, 2005, 11:26]
Net will change music business
News MP3 is like dumping gas on the fire -- it's an accelerant -- but not the solution," he said. Real-world music stores and the current giants of the music industry will find themselves in the line of fire as the Internet squeezes out the middleman...
[December 2, 1998, 5:36]
HP to promote .Net for enterprise
News Parsons denied the company is dumping or downplaying the rival J2EE scheme. Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced an initiative to promote Microsoft's .Net Web services architecture to its enterprise customer base.
[September 24, 2002, 9:52]
Recognising the rotten side of recycling
Leader The report claims that US and European manufacturers are dumping computers and other electrical goods in Africa under the guise of recycling or charity donations. The IT industry's obsession with upgrades, invention and novelty is hard on the...
[October 27, 2005, 13:00]
The African e-waste conundrum
Blog In the UK HP avoids working with organisations that donate PCs to developing countries as it claims that some of these organisations are unscrupulous and use the idea of donating PCs as a cover for dumping dead machines on these countries.
[September 5, 2007, 17:41]
Microsoft cracks down on used Windows sales
News Many sellers say they are dumping their old Windows software because they are planning to get Microsoft's Windows XP, which is due in stores next month. People looking to off-load their old Microsoft software to make way for Windows XP have to be...
[October 9, 2001, 9:20]
IBM: Our Unix licence is irrevocable
News Among claims in SCO's lawsuit is the allegation that "IBM is affirmatively taking steps to destroy all value of Unix by improperly extracting and using the confidential and proprietary information it acquired from Unix and dumping that information...
[March 11, 2003, 13:00]
Nasa uses spacecraft to test interplanetary network
News If you lose a link between relay stations (routers), he explained, "the routers start dumping packets on the floor after a few milliseconds". The interplanetary network Vint Cerf envisioned years ago had its first real test recently.
[November 20, 2008, 15:38]
The Day Ahead: Is QXL.com really the next eBay?
News Message board banter blamed SG Cowen, which noted it has co-managed an offering of QXL.com shares in the last three years, for pumping and dumping the stock. The surge of UK-based auction house QXL.com raised quite a ruckus after an analyst gave...
[April 7, 2000, 12:54]
OLPC and Intel bury the hatchet
News And in a May interview, Negroponte accused Intel of dumping Classmate PCs way below cost in order to win deals with local governments and sabotage Negroponte's dreams of bringing PCs to the world's poor children.
[July 16, 2007, 8:18]
Microsoft launches Tablet PC amid doubts
News Before millions of us start dumping our PDAs for tablet computers, there's still a few things that need to happen, argues Charles Cooper NEWS: Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Fri 8 Nov: Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC edition makes tablet PCs easier...
[November 7, 2002, 9:30]
