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Open-source projects link to Microsoft system
News At next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, backers of Higgins and Bandit plan to demonstrate an early version of an application that shows open-source identity services that are interoperable with Microsoft's Windows CardSpace and can enable...
[January 29, 2007, 8:17]
Adobe takes another look at e-books
News The publishing software company on Tuesday is scheduled to release a beta of an e-book viewer and manager called Digital Editions at its Max 2006 customer conference in Las Vegas. The first release of Digital Editions will be a beta test version...
[October 24, 2006, 11:15]
Microsoft coders get bug-checking tool
News A plug-in created by security firm Sanctum, scheduled for release in March, will be the first to easily integrate with Microsoft's development platform Visual Studio .Net. The cool thing with the integration with Visual Studio is that, because it's...
[February 10, 2003, 9:20]
Microsoft sticks to its patching guns
News An early version of a security fix for a Windows flaw that is being used as a conduit for cyberattacks was prematurely posted online by a Microsoft employee. Copies of the file have since been posted online elsewhere, but Microsoft recommends that...
[January 5, 2006, 8:45]
It's not too late for WAP
News The first release of anything gives you a chance to look at it, have ideas and try out applications in the real world," she says. In this way WAP is like the early days of the Internet, Rahmani says, when many dismissed the technology because it...
[July 26, 2000, 14:35]
Microsoft profits surge, 75% earnings jump
News Microsoft is expected to release Office 2000 in the spring followed by Windows 2000, formerly NT 5.0, in late summer or early fall. However, results also spiked due in part to demand caused by year 2000 concerns," said chief financial officer Greg...
[January 20, 1999, 9:03]
IBM adds flash to storage virtualisation
News Scheduled for release on 6 November, SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 5.0 is the first to integrate the technology into a storage virtualisation product, IBM said. The new release of SVC exchanges the IOdrive for a 2.5-inch serial-attached SCSI (SAS...
[October 19, 2009, 9:34]
AMD working on new PC rating method
News Moorhead said AMD hopes to release the new PC performance measurement by early next year. While most hardware makers are usually eager to join in on new PC industry standards, those contacted by CNET News.com said it was too early to comment on the...
[August 22, 2002, 7:22]
HP spruces up Opteron lines
News HP servers with the chips are due to ship in late May, Cumings said, but by the end of June, HP will release servers with the dual-core series 200 chips for dual-processor systems. HP won't release dual-core pricing details until the systems ship...
[April 21, 2005, 10:35]
Microsoft pledges £3.3bn to R&D
News Allchin said Microsoft will release new versions of Windows XP for a variety of devices later this year: a Tablet PC version for tablet devices and laptops; an entertainment version called Windows Media Center for hybrid TV and PCs, and Windows...
[July 26, 2002, 7:32]
Legal Napster opens for business
News Its features having been unveiled early this month, Napster's introduction to the masses Wednesday contains little in the way of surprises. Coming on the heels of strong growth figures from Apple Computer's iTunes music store and RealNetworks...
[October 30, 2003, 8:00]
First Symbian Foundation handsets due in 2010
News The SF itself will take shape in early 2009, after Nokia's intended full acquisition of Symbian in the fourth quarter of this year — a development that is, of course, subject to regulatory approval. From a developer perspective, everything is...
[June 24, 2008, 17:08]
Lotus "hedges" on Linux move
News Papows told ZDNet UK News that he was "torn" on the idea of Notes for Linux at UK Technology Week in early October. In his keynote speech, the Lotus chief only hinted that that the company was considering looking at a point release for Notes by the...
[November 3, 1998, 16:31]
IDF: Intel unveils Banias secrets
News Instead of letting the world take six months to figure it out after release, we want to get everyone ready. Banias spots these instructions and very early on hands them over to a special hardware unit dedicated to stack management.
[September 11, 2002, 13:57]
Google offers cutting-edge Chrome builds
News Google Chrome now provides a way for people to get early-access releases automatically: the Dev channel," wrote Chrome programme manager Mark Larson, in a Chrome mailing list posting late on Monday night.
[September 17, 2008, 8:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The usual claims are there in the press release - download MP3s in the blink of an eye, tremendous implications for supercomputing and science, blah blah blah. Ten minutes of hard labour untangling the terminally confused press release later, and...
[March 19, 2004, 17:05]
Microsoft to emulate open-source updates
News IDC analyst Al Gillen pointed out other reasons for Microsoft to release new pieces of Windows Server 2003 over time. Separation of components such as Greenwich and RMS allows Microsoft to better tie their release with dependent products.
[March 26, 2003, 12:57]
Apple escapes charges in US stock-options probe
News This practice isn't illegal, so long as it's disclosed, but dozens of companies failed to do so in the early part of this decade. In a press release he stated that he had in fact informed Jobs of the implications of the practice.
[July 11, 2008, 10:42]
Apple says OS X sales strong in UK
News The initial release is aimed at the installed base of Macintosh users, and won't be included in new Apple hardware until the summer. We made a decision to get it out, and we had to get the OS stable before release.
[March 27, 2001, 7:15]
Panther delays Apple developer conference
News Apple Computer has pushed its annual developers conference from May to June, and switched locations, so that the conference will coincide with the release of a preview version of the next update to its operating system.
[March 24, 2003, 7:59]
