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Microsoft and SAP square up for business applications battle
News Esselte plans to continue using SAP alongside its new Microsoft systems, even though that will require stitching together two incompatible sets of programs. Lani Spund is SAP's worst nightmare. Spund, chief information officer of Esselte, a $1.1bn...
[December 11, 2003, 10:15]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog That makes home appliances purchased in Europe incompatible with houses in the U.S.one has to buy a transformer to accommodate the difference. In 1880 approximately, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse contended between two kinds of electricity...
[July 9, 2007, 1:02]
Intel Larrabee roadmap -- who says there ain't no Santa Cores?
Blog That makes for interesting comparisons with IBM's Cell, which has a conventional Power PC core doing control and housekeeping and entirely incompatible processor units managing the heavy lifting. More news is leaking out about Larrabee, Intel's...
[June 14, 2007, 14:41]
Confused promises don't help WiMax
Leader But then, the final 802.16e standard is already a portmanteau of incompatible options and could well include aspects of either. Nokia is annoyed. It's annoyed that WiMax, for all its good points, has been overhyped and won't have anything like the...
[October 14, 2005, 14:05]
Argentina scores with WiMax
News As ZDNet UK reported last month, Alvarion has admitted that it may have to modify the BreezeMAX system if it turns out to be incompatible with the final WiMax specifications. Telecoms operator Millicom Argentina is rolling out a high-speed wireless...
[July 13, 2004, 18:40]
Sun's Java jive lacks openness
Leader Without Sun's strict control, it says, Java could fork into multiple incompatible variants and be no good to anyone. The delicate courtship between Java and open source has taken another twist. Old Mother Sun, jealously guarding the honour of her...
[March 17, 2005, 12:05]
Information commissioner to quit
News Her objections centred on concerns that the Bill could be incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998, by interfering with a person's right to respect for private and family life. The information commissioner, Elizabeth France, is to quit her...
[January 3, 2002, 11:18]
UK ISPs clean up their act
News In addition, said the IWF, 23 percent of child-abuse content is traced to Russia, “where we believe the laws are incompatible with UK legislation, when defining potentially illegal child abuse content.
[March 26, 2004, 9:55]
First Blu-ray spec finished
News The two blue-laser formats are incompatible, but both are compatible with current DVD formats. A group promoting and developing a format for a next-generation DVD technology announced on Wednesday the completion of the first version of the...
[August 12, 2004, 9:15]
Top mobile execs to launch handset auction site
News But, because of differing standards around the world, most handsets will only work in certain parts of the world and will be incompatible with other networks. Consumers could soon be offered a greater choice of mobile phone handsets if an online...
[November 13, 2001, 13:10]
Wi-Fi Week: Where are the standards?
News Diagnosing problems with incompatible Wi-Fi adaptors is difficult: the only sensible way is by swapping cards and checking against ones that are known to work. It's a nice thought that every Wi-Fi wireless card will work with every Wi-Fi network.
[January 28, 2004, 11:55]
64-bit processors in disarray
News Intel's Itanium processors were redesigned from the ground up so that their instruction set - IA-64 - is completely incompatible with the IA-32 set used from the 80386 to the Pentium 4. What does a 64 bit processor do that a 32 bit processor does not?
[November 1, 2002, 8:06]
Oracle releases data-gathering tool
News The introduction of the new data-gathering software is part of Oracle's strategy to bring in more revenue from the business of stitching together incompatible software. Oracle this summer plans to introduce tools designed to gather better...
[May 17, 2004, 11:45]
Gartner changes tune on embedded 3G
News Firstly, new chipsets, like Qualcomm's Gobi, support multiple access technologies, making it unnecessary to swap out data cards when travelling between previously incompatible regions. Gartner has decided to recommend the use of laptops with...
[June 2, 2008, 13:14]
Apple leaps onto the Blu-ray bandwagon
News The two incompatible formats are the main technologies being considered by electronics and PC makers, as well as entertainment studios, to succeed the highly popular and profitable DVD. Apple has sided with the Blu-ray Disc Association, as it...
[March 11, 2005, 8:35]
ISPs told 'Free' must mean free
News Contrary to BT's advertising, which suggests Surftime is available to all, customers cannot use the service if their ISP has not joined the scheme or if their local telephone exchange is incompatible.
[September 13, 2000, 7:48]
CAG CALLS FOR WHITE-LISTING - THIS MAKES A LOT OF SENSE!
Talkback With no viral attacks to thwart, malware to hunt down, or incompatible applications to invoke the blue screen of death, IT can spend more time and resources on improving operations instead of constantly fixing computers.
[February 24, 2009, 23:50]
Dell struggles with PC shipment delays
News Many of the Dimension 8100 ordering problems stem from a Web ordering glitch that let customers order a USB keyboard and mouse that are incompatible. But the major problem appeared to be with the Dimension 8100, where a glitch with Dell's Web...
[December 19, 2000, 10:28]
Norton's 2005 security line-up
Talkback I have gone to the website to gotten a fix and followed directions and made sure that everything is running in "incompatible" mode (weird eh? I have used Norton's for probably 6 years, and this year I am having a horrible time with it.
[February 2, 2005, 14:29]
Qualcomm mixes network cocktail
News The GSM and 1x phone standards are usually incompatible. Equipment that lets wireless carriers using GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) networks convert to Qualcomm's rival technology is set for its first trial, a company executive said...
[November 11, 2002, 14:18]
