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City turns away from Office
News Houston has begun to phase out Microsoft Office for its 13,000 city workers in favour of Web-based software from a local start-up. The Texas city signed a five-year, $9.5m (£5.8m) contract last year with Houston-based SimDesk Technologies to...
[January 27, 2003, 8:14]
Bangalore, Mumbai lose their outsourcing lustre
News India's traditional outsourcing centres appear to be falling out of favour. According to Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), outsourcing companies are increasingly looking outside Bangalore and Mumbai when choosing new offshoring services bases.
[January 8, 2009, 8:35]
HP merger gets cautious thumbs-up
News Visitors to Hewlett-Packard's ENSA@Work event in Amsterdam seemed broadly in favour of the HP-Compaq merger, although some people felt it was a merger that started at the surface and had yet to drive all the way through service and support...
[January 21, 2003, 13:40]
TV beats PC for home shopping
News UK consumers would favour the television over the PC for home shopping services, according to the Pace Report on interactive television. The survey of 1004 consumers, carried out by Gallop, found that 42 percent would feel more comfortable using...
[October 11, 1999, 16:31]
Intel, Aberdeen attack AMD speed ratings
News Intel has launched a new broadside against AMD's policy of downplaying chip clock speed in favour of model numbers, and this time it has drawn analyst firm Aberdeen Group into the fray. The chip giant has funded a new report from Aberdeen, AMD's...
[March 27, 2002, 15:11]
News Burst: European parliament votes for faster unbundling
News European Parliament votes in favour Thursday of the EC's proposals to open up telecoms across Europe, promising lower access prices and a faster rollout of broadband service. The vote was hailed as an "historic decision" by the European Commission...
[October 26, 2000, 14:53]
Iona ditches app server for open-source JBoss
News Iona has ditched its proprietary J2EE application server in favour of open-source software from JBoss Group. The deal, which will see Iona focus its development efforts on its other integration products, is the latest example of the increasing...
[November 12, 2003, 14:30]
Chrome takes new tack for faster JavaScript
News Chrome programmers have removed a third-party software package from the browser in favour of their own software, as part of Google's attempt to improve performance of the open-source package. The change came with a key component in V8, the browser...
[February 6, 2009, 16:20]
SAP loses key exec Agassi
News Once a rising star at SAP, Shai Agassi is leaving software in favour of a possible switch to the hot alternative-energy sector. The world's largest enterprise software application vendor announced on Wednesday that Agassi is departing at the end of...
[March 29, 2007, 8:28]
Yahoo dumps Google in Asia Pacific
News Yahoo has dumped Google's algorithmic search technology for its Australian and New Zealand portals in favour of an in-house search engine, Yahoo Search Technologies. The move has been expected since last year when the company revealed that it had...
[March 11, 2004, 14:00]
Brief: HP vote 'neither free nor fair'
News Hewlett-Packard's efforts to sway the vote of Deutsche Bank in favour of the Compaq acquisition were tantamount to vote-buying, lawyers for Walter Hewlett argued in legal papers made public Monday. The lawyers also charged that HP failed to...
[April 30, 2002, 11:51]
Yahoo! shifts to open-source scripting
News has decided to jettison its own proprietary scripting language in favour of the open-source alternative PHP. With an eye toward its bottom line, Yahoo! The scripting switch will affect the way Yahoo! creates a wide array of features and functions...
[October 31, 2002, 7:53]
Billions at stake in chip trial
News The trial between Rambus and Infineon Technologies that gets underway this week could, if it goes in favour of Rambus, reap £1bn in licence fees for the company, but more importantly to buyers, drive up prices of standard PC memory -- already one...
[April 26, 2001, 9:27]
IT employers look for business skills
News Employers are rejecting applications from computer science graduates in favour of candidates with more business and interpersonal skills according to new research. The report, Graduate Recruitment Trends Survey 2002/3 by careers publisher GTI...
[November 26, 2002, 11:17]
World not open to Microsoft promises
Leader The most impressive aspect of Microsoft's statement on Thursday in favour of caring and sharing wasn't in anything the company said. It was the speed at which the world, or that part of it not in a commercial relationship with Microsoft, digested...
[February 22, 2008, 16:13]
Bloggers threaten revolt after Google swaps standards
News Google's Blogger service is bypassing Really Simple Syndication in favour of an alternative technology, in a move that has sparked more discord in a bitter dispute over Web log syndication formats. The search giant, which acquired Blogger.com last...
[February 12, 2004, 8:15]
Conservatives press for open-source push
News David Cameron has declared that a Conservative government would favour a greater use of open-source software. In a speech to the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts on 3 April, the leader of the Conservative Party called for...
[April 7, 2008, 11:00]
US court backs right to free speech on Web
News A federal judge in Seattle has ruled in favour of upholding the right to speak anonymously on the Web, marking victory for those seeking to protect online speech from legal dragnets. US district judge Thomas Zilly struck down a subpoena that would...
[April 23, 2001, 9:41]
China poised to impose limits on overseas software
News China is about to issue rules about the extent to which government departments must favour local software, according to a report by The Financial Times. The draft policy details issued this month imply that government procurement departments will...
[November 26, 2004, 12:35]
Corel knocks Microsoft off HP desktops
News Hewlett-Packard is booting Microsoft Office software from its Pavilion line of consumer PCs in favour of software from Corel, as more PC makers consider cheaper Microsoft alternatives. The deal, announced on Monday, marks a significant win for the...
[August 27, 2002, 9:10]
