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What the Microsoft-DOJ deal means
News The agreement would require Microsoft to give full access to its books and business plans for five years to independent monitors. The proposed settlement would be in effect for five years, with the possibility of a two-year extension.
[November 7, 2001, 11:20]
Talking PCs? Talk to the hand
News If these predictions are true, then it means that within five years we could see the science fiction writers' vision of speech interaction with computers become a reality. Forty-five years later, voice synthesis technology can be found in products...
[June 12, 2006, 13:25]
Bluetooth shipments take off
News We expect a compound annual growth rate of over 300 percent in sales of Bluetooth chipsets over the next five years. Analysts projected that chipset shipments of Bluetooth, the short-range radio technology for connecting PCs, consumer gadgets and...
[December 3, 2001, 13:33]
Sex.com Web address battle returns to court
News Now Kremen is going back to court seeking $43m as retribution for the five years he was unable to generate revenue from the domain name. Now with Sex.com back in Kremen's hands, the case is focused on who gets to keep the money earned from the site...
[March 8, 2001, 11:35]
IBM accused of hypocrisy over patent collaboration
Talkback Supporters of the Directive believe the proposed Motion in the European Parliament which is primarily based on ‘discontinuity’, lacks sufficient grounds to validate restarting a legislative process which has been going on for five years now.
[January 11, 2005, 18:45]
News Roundup: Mounting pressure on RIP Bill
News Snooping Bill to drain £43bn out of Britain in five years The controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill will cost Britain a crippling £43bn over the next five years if made law, says a report Monday.
[June 13, 2000, 9:28]
Magnificent MEMS and the micro-machines
News A market for tiny transmitters could also emerge within five years, out of a need to better monitor power lines, freeways and bridges for potential failures. The first "killer apps" for the types of MEMS Pisano described will appear in about five...
[February 25, 2003, 10:58]
IBM says Amdahl migration plan is old hat
News This is a global programme which we expect to make $750m to $1bn in the next five years," said Keith Vickers, global programme architect for Destination Solaris, "Customers are keen to make the final move.
[November 21, 2001, 9:37]
Spammers face lawsuits and jail
News Also on Thursday, senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy introduced the Criminal Spam Act (CSA), which would punish repeat spammers with up to five years in federal prison and fines of up to $25,000 (£14,920) a day.
[June 20, 2003, 9:27]
UK's poorest families still avoiding the Net
News This equates to nearly 12 million households, five times as many as were connected five years ago. Earlier this week, the government vowed that every home in Britain will have access to online services within the next five years.
[December 17, 2003, 13:10]
Give the world back its giants, JSTOR
Blog JSTOR is between one and five years behind the times, which is just fine. This new memory technology means that in three years' time, we could all have the equivalent of five hundred iPods embedded in our ears" is as far as it normally goes.
[October 14, 2007, 14:22]
E-commerce: Familiarity breeds content
News For instance, 36 percent of consumers who have been surfing the Web for more than five years have stored their information with traditional merchants, compared with just 12 percent of online consumers with less than one year of Web surfing...
[August 14, 2001, 10:42]
Gartner: Web 2.0 set to transform business
News Other transformational technologies not far behind Web 2.0 on the hype cycle are cloud computing, virtual worlds and service-oriented architecture (SOA) — which the analyst reckons are all within two to five years of mainstream adoption.
[August 12, 2008, 8:19]
Can Linux break into banks?
Talkback Vista is going to be at least five years after WinXP, if not more. Don't read better, just different - the jury's out on whether it's going to be better, which is a sad comment of five years worth of work).
[September 13, 2005, 0:54]
Linux taken for a ride in the Old West
News A:In the last five years we've made a lot of progress — we've moved all our file and print servers, approximately 90 percent of our Web server activity and several mission critical applications to Linux.
[February 20, 2006, 14:55]
IBM looks into its crystal ball
News The GTO is essentially a seven- to eight-hour presentation in which scientists from IBM's research division discuss what they think will emerge as major technology trends over the next three to five, or even 10, years.
[March 29, 2006, 10:20]
MBA degree retains popularity among IT pros
News There were 112,258 MBA degrees awarded during the 1999-2000 academic year in the US -- up nearly 20 percent from five years ago, and 46 percent from 10 years ago, according to the US Department of Education.
[November 1, 2002, 10:12]
Hacker trackers throw in the towel
News Attrition.org is home to what is perhaps the most complete archive of tagged Web pages on the Internet, stretching back more than five years. With the rapid increase in Web defacement activity, there are times when it requires one of us to take...
[May 22, 2001, 10:12]
Lost property costs Cabinet Office £100,000
News Earlier this month, The Ministry of Defence (MoD) refused to respond to Parliamentary questions, tabled in late October, which revealed that nearly 600 computers had disappeared from the department in the last five years.
[January 31, 2002, 17:48]
HP: Linux ready for mission-critical applications
News Citing a HP-commissioned global study conducted by market-research company GCR earlier this year, Hergett said that three out of five decision makers were ready to deploy Linux for mission-critical applications within the next two years, while one...
[October 1, 2007, 12:58]
