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Privacy on the Line review
Reviews The US government failed with the Clipper Chip in the mid 1990s. Many companies have tried and failed to gain acceptance for electronic cash. Other companies have tried and failed to make a commercial success of privacy protection products.
[July 12, 2007, 15:35]
Love goes to the heart of UnitedLinux effort
News Instead, the move increased expenses and failed to provide the expected gains. McBride has known Love since they worked together in the 1990s at networking-software maker Novell, a company that spawned Caldera but failed to withstand the onslaught...
[June 28, 2002, 11:24]
Siebel targets small-scale CRM
News Siebel has failed three times over the past five years. Any company that uses a third party to host, such as Microsoft, SAP, PeopleSoft - you can just list all the dinosaurs -- they have failed the litmus test because they are not really believers.
[December 8, 2004, 14:20]
Palm chief admits mistakes
News Some of the harshest comments came from Joan Keil, who said she was a former employee and current shareholder disappointed with a lack of oversight by the company's management, which she said has failed to deliver on its grand plans.
[October 12, 2001, 9:31]
Microsoft on Trial: Barksdale marathon drawing to an end
News Two successive efforts failed in the next two months. Shader then ran through a succession of five separate features Netscape had failed to deliver before Intuit finally gave its business to Microsoft.
[October 27, 1998, 10:16]
Dear Diary
Blog The place at which it failed was 400 miles and three days from home, in Edinburgh - a fine city lacking in none of the requirements of civilised living, but sadly missing a well-equipped store of esoteric power connectors born from a fever dream...
[November 6, 2006, 8:51]
News Schmooze: Hacker attacks and Amazonion profits
News What would it achieve, the Schmoozer wonders, other than giving AOL a non-Microsoft platform for its service -- which, incidentally, it already had in the form of Gateway's failed "Touch Pad" Web appliance.
[January 25, 2002, 17:36]
Government must update cybercrime laws, say experts
News The first two failed; the third is scheduled for a second reading in December. Robertson called for government action to close.For more, click here.the loophole, as previous attempts to legislation through private members bills have failed.
[November 4, 2005, 16:05]
Download Deputy
Downloads Download Deputy Turbo automatically resumes failed or paused downloadsDownload Deputy Turbo can retry a failed or incomplete download as many times as you choose. Download Deputy Turbo is a download manager and download accelerator all in one small...
[February 20, 2003, 7:00]
Download Deputy X
Downloads Download Deputy Turbo automatically resumes failed or paused downloadsDownload Deputy Turbo can retry a failed or incomplete download as many times as you choose. Download Deputy Turbo is a download manager and download accelerator all in one small...
[February 20, 2003, 7:00]
IBM focuses on microscopic advances
News In 1971, researchers at Intel were struck with a sense of dread when the first-ever batch of microprocessors failed to work. Federico Faggin, one of the three inventors, quickly slid a sample into a microscope and breathed a sigh of relief when he...
[August 8, 2002, 7:57]
When is a mouse not a mouse?
News A recent study found that 79 percent of the 105 UK Web sites tested failed basic compliance testing, with financial and travel sites doing the worst job. Local government fared better, but 40 percent of these sites also failed to meet accessibility...
[May 26, 2004, 16:55]
Microsoft AntiSpyware: Is it worth bothering with?
News Ad-Aware found them on a "smart" system scan while AntiSpyware failed to do so even on a deeper scan. I’ve seen reports that this works pretty well, although it failed to block or notify me of six new tracking cookies installed on my system in a...
[January 24, 2005, 13:15]
Google celebrates 70 percent profit rise
News The Google earnings report is a sharp contrast to the first-quarter results announced by Yahoo on Tuesday in which the company saw net profit drop 11 percent from a year ago and failed to meet Wall Street expectations.
[April 20, 2007, 11:12]
IBM and SCO gather reinforcements
News A court filing from SCO dated 4 November said that IBM failed to produce source code to AIX (IBM's version of Unix) and "all contributions by IBM to Linux. IBM has listed 7,200 potential witnesses on its behalf -- primarily employees -- and has...
[November 13, 2003, 7:35]
Dot-com stars shine brightest before they die
News The study also found no differences among the 50 failed companies in terms of market category: consulting services, e-commerce, search engines and entertainment sites were equally represented. Researchers speculated that companies whose public...
[February 28, 2001, 11:37]
Open-source experts deride SCO's 'evidence'
News Since Plaintiff has failed to provide enough evidence to establish a 'reasonable probability' that Net2 or BSD/386 contain trade secrets, I find that Plaintiff has failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits of its claim for...
[August 20, 2003, 9:00]
Noose tightens on Napster clones
News In December, a federal court ordered Madster to shut down, after the service failed to comply with a preliminary injunction ordering it to put an end to copyright infringement. Madster operator Johnny Deep said Monday that although the court had...
[July 1, 2003, 9:06]
Sun plans 'computer free' HQ
News Sun has been pushing the thin-client message for around ten years but on the whole it has failed to gel with users. Research from IDC published last year showed that interest in the thin-client model is increasing -- although Sun failed to make it...
[January 23, 2004, 11:50]
Planning for distributed environment disaster recovery
News You can get around this by keeping a standby server at the central site, moving the data to it over high-bandwidth LAN links, and then shipping the server to the failed site. That site sends the failed server back to you, where it's repaired to...
[June 27, 2005, 13:20]
