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My response to Richard Stallman
Talkback Your Free Boat example, I fear, has failed to clarify this for me. Just as, in my previous post, I asked two fundamental questions of you to which you failed to reply. I'm sorry, John. Truly. I hope you don't feel offended or slighted by my comments.
[January 10, 2004, 15:49]
Software patent war ignites again
News On Thursday the PES, Greens/EFA and GUE/NGL parliamentary groups warned that a measure facing a parliamentary vote on 11 or 12 October could take up where the failed software patent directive left off.
[September 21, 2006, 13:05]
NHS IT rollout 'needs proper evaluation'
News Trials of electronic patient records have "failed to demonstrate" that they would lead to more flexible services, cost savings or improvements in health care, says the report. Few of the problems with evaluation are new, yet they continue to occur...
[July 27, 2004, 14:35]
HSDPA 'will fail in consumer market'
News A senior representative of Sarian Systems, which launched an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access)-compatible router on Tuesday, told ZDNet UK that operators were misguided in hoping the technology would get non-corporate customers to use...
[September 5, 2006, 17:20]
Toilet paper pokes fun at dot-com bottom
News Stock certificates from struggling or failed Web companies are selling for far more than their paper value -- more than $100 for certificates from the now-defunct Webvan and the struggling Drkoop.com, whose stock trades around 11 cents.
[August 20, 2001, 13:31]
SymStart V1.1
Downloads DescriptionThis program is convenient and reliable manager of autoexecutablesoftware which allows you to install the set of programs used frequentlyto start when restarting or rebooting your smartphone.Also such programs can be installed on...
[April 23, 2006, 8:00]
MGI Forms Processor
Downloads Capture and resend failed emails using the Failed Mail Archive database. The MGI Forms Processor includes all of the tools that you need to process forms to email. MGI Forms Processor Features: Full email customization and data display on screen.
[February 27, 2001, 7:00]
US Report: One more battle to fight for Microsoft
News When that failed, Microsoft returned to its normal turtle vs.hare strategy, where it consistently improves its products over time and eventually passes its competitors. While the strategy worked with Windows, Word and other Microsoft products, so...
[October 5, 1998, 12:10]
Microsoft seeks to regain lost ground in mobile
News The company also failed to recognise that phones — even those that were used for business — were still as much personal as they were professional. Andy Lees [pictured], the executive brought over from the server unit a year ago, said Microsoft's...
[January 27, 2009, 12:38]
Worm 'did not cause' US blackout
News Although several computer systems failed -- in particular, a server and backup that ran software for keeping track of the status of a major power network -- the Security Working Group leg of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)'s US...
[April 6, 2004, 9:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This is a way to enforce etiquette of mobile phone usage where polite persuasion has failed. Oh that was just a way to enforce the etiquette of their advertised credit policy where my filling in the form for a loan had failed.
[September 5, 2003, 17:35]
The importance of good specs
Leader This is just one among a string of high-profile failed IT projects in the public sector, and one more black eye for EDS, the company charged with implementing the project. However badly technology failed the CSA, it did so because of a failure to...
[November 17, 2004, 12:15]
Trust in government tech lost on two CDs
Leader Darling failed to say what losses there could possibly be from people's bank accounts if there is actually no risk of fraud. He failed to state exactly which banks would reimburse people. And he failed to say how people could show the banks they...
[November 20, 2007, 18:04]
Error 9407/Blocked account, will Skype ever join the 21st Century?
Blog Call Failed - Internal Error.Meaning:- Calling from a blocked country to another high fraud destination. You dial the number and cannot get through all you receive on you screen within Skype is CALL FAILED - INTERNAL ERROR 9407.
[July 20, 2008, 18:03]
Government loses 25m confidential records
News HMRC failed to meet the high standards expected of it. Darling himself was informed of the loss on 10 November — three weeks after the discs had failed to arrive at the NAO. HMRC had given the discs to courier TNT, but had failed to record or...
[November 20, 2007, 16:38]
Contractors 'killed' PlusNet data-centre power
News They failed to notify us of this work," wrote PlusNet's communications manager, Mark Kelly, on the ISP's community page on Thursday. Kelly added that not all services can be automatically failed over.
[February 22, 2008, 10:58]
Batteries law could force iPhone design change
News The new law largely focuses on shifting more of the responsibility for battery recycling onto manufacturers of electronics, in an effort to prevent batteries and their toxic contents from ending up in landfills — something previous legislation...
[October 8, 2008, 17:05]
Demon backs down in libel appeal - update
News Earlier this year Mr Justice Morland ruled that Demon's defence of 'innocent distribution' was untenable as the ISP was aware of the posting and failed to remove it. A statement from the ISP was expected at 4pm today but failed to arrive.
[June 9, 1999, 15:12]
Sun and Microsoft: What happens next?
News Additionally, Microsoft failed to support two key APIs in the JDK 1.1 - RMI (Remote Method Invocation) and JNI (Java Native Interface). Sun filed the suit after concluding that Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 4.0 browser and the beta of its...
[October 8, 1997, 11:17]
A Year Ago: Intel under investigation
News Other chip makers say that Intel has used its muscle to attack them, by aggressively pursuing questionable technology patents and naming conventions, such as its failed attempt to trademark the 486 name.
[April 15, 1999, 6:00]
