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Lowered expectations at wireless show
News AT&T Wireless plans to unwrap new phones and international dialling services, according to spokesman Ritch Blasi, in a bid to better meet one of the major needs of travelling professionals. So-called machine-to-machine (M2M) product lines combine...
[March 17, 2003, 13:06]
SuSE expects break-even second quarter
News And struggling competitor Caldera International just managed to squeeze in its IPO before the Internet bubble burst and investors lost their willingness to fund unprofitable companies. SuSE has three main elements to its business strategy...
[February 5, 2002, 15:42]
Civil rights group slams Cyber Patrol tactics
News The civil-rights group's charges stem not from the Mattel lawsuit accusing two international hackers of violating the copyright agreement of its Cyber Patrol software, but with the tactics of Mattel's lawyers in pursuing a temporary restraining...
[March 27, 2000, 9:41]
Palm eyes services to woo enterprise
News Kessler said to expect more partnerships with management software companies -- similar to the relationship Palm now has with Computer Associates International, which enables IT managers to keep track of Palms through CA's Unicenter.
[September 7, 1999, 10:02]
Liberty Alliance unveiling spec
News Later members included American Express, America Online, Hewlett-Packard and Visa International. Once the spec is out, Sun and others will be able to build "single-sign-on" Web sites and software that permits a computer user to log in once, then...
[July 10, 2002, 16:24]
A Year Ago: NCD to tap Intel chips for 'lean' clients
News Market research International Data Corp.forecasts the market for terminal replacements will hit 10 million units by 2001. With both Microsoft and Intel recognizing terminal-based computing, companies supporting the concept of a non-Wintel network...
[March 9, 1999, 5:35]
Microsoft tests Google News UK rival
News Microsoft has started testing an international news search service in competition with Google's, upping the ante in the hotly contested Web search market. It said it uses computer algorithms to determine when to feature stories.
[November 18, 2003, 8:50]
Sight to the blind via silicon?
News The International Solid State Circuits Conference, the granddaddy of semiconductor research conferences, and the semiannual Intel Developer Forum will both take place during the week of 15 February in roughly the same location.
[February 13, 2004, 14:40]
File sharing legal - Canada
News Sharing copyrighted works on peer-to-peer networks is legal in Canada, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, handing the record industry a sharp setback in its international fight against file swappers.
[April 1, 2004, 8:40]
Supreme Court to hear case on 'obviousness' of patents
News The case has its roots in an obscure patent spat about vehicle gas pedal designs involving two companies without mainstream name recognition: the Canadian company KSR International and Limerick, Pennsylvania-based Teleflex.
[November 28, 2006, 10:02]
UN attacks tech giants over China co-operation
News And is it wise to have some international organisation adopting regulations governing internet speech? Anriette Esterhuysen, executive director of the left-leaning Association for Progressive Communications, said it is time to "begin to create an...
[November 1, 2006, 9:42]
SuperDisks to supercede Zips
News That means the disks come with special software that allows you to drag and drop a file onto the disk and have it automatically encrypted with a Blowfish algorithm (64-bit keys for U.S.disks, 56-bit keys for international versions).
[October 28, 1999, 7:18]
Email wiretaps made easy
News That idea is terrifying to Simon Davies, director of UK-based Privacy International. He notes that even if JavaScript is turned off on your computer, you could still be a carrier -- the code will affect the next person you send the message to who...
[February 5, 2001, 15:47]
Surveillance: How your boss is watching you
News Matt Rotenberg, executive director of independent think tank Privacy International, says people who do not want their email read need to learn a few basic rules. Network security consultant with UK computer security firm Oceanus, Ian Johnston...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
SARS illness disrupts Asian business plans
News The New York Times reported that crowds flooded Hong Kong supermarkets Tuesday in response to a rumour that the city would be labelled an infected area and face an international quarantine. Concerns about SARS led computer maker Sun Microsystems to...
[April 3, 2003, 10:04]
Sun's move to 'change the rules'
News Then there is the fact that in choosing to take on Microsoft's flagship product, Sun risks repeating a history of disasters at several other companies, including Novell and the former Borland International.
[August 31, 1999, 16:41]
The monarchy and technology through the ages: Part one
News He adopted a robust attitude to interference from head office by proclaiming loudly "Who will rid me of this turbulent vice-president for international liaison? But perhaps his greatest contribution to IT was the invention of modern bureaucracy...
[June 3, 2002, 7:32]
HP takes merger into a new year
News Another area in which integration efforts are taking longer involves HP's international reach. The company had aimed to have a number of its key internal computer systems merged by the start of the fiscal year.
[November 1, 2002, 16:18]
Internet, hardware stocks lift Nasdaq to another record
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) jumped 2 1/8 to 31 1/16 and International Business Machines (IBM) closed up 7 11/16 to 115 9/16. Compaq Computer finally made a move Monday, surging 3 1/2 to 30 9/16. Dell Computer trimmed 1/8 to 50 7/8 and Apple...
[January 4, 2000, 9:36]
OSI outlines licence cull plans
News Five existing board members were joined on Friday by five more, most from outside the United States: Joichi Ito, vice-president of international operations at blog indexing Web site Technorati and a board member of ICANN; Bruno Souza, a senior...
[April 7, 2005, 9:20]
