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Largest software group sides with DoJ
News Microsoft invited a brief in its defence from a trade group with which it is closely tied, the Association for Competitive Technology, which was filed yesterday. The computer industry's largest trade group will side with the Justice Department in...
[February 1, 2000, 14:45]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary, from Chicago, Las Vegas
News Not being invited was puzzling, actually. We show up anyway, on the reasonable logic: this is a press launch, Microsoft has invited the press, we are press: Microsoft will be glad if the Press arrives.
[November 23, 1996, 7:00]
Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push
News Microsoft has hosted four conference calls a week with national standards bodies, and recently invited international press to a conference close to its Redmond, Washington headquarters to set the record straight on the OOXML issue.
[January 29, 2008, 7:57]
£35,000 hacking challenge cracked
News Hackers were invited to circumvent PitBull, which automatically secures known vulnerabilities and restricts activity at the operating system level, and deface two functional -- but fictitious -- company Web sites.
[April 23, 2001, 14:44]
Koobface virus lures Facebook users
News After receiving a message in their Facebook inbox announcing, "You look funny in this new video" or something similar, recipients are then invited to click on a provided link. A worm responsible for sending Facebook users malicious code appears to...
[December 5, 2008, 11:12]
San Francisco mayor breaks password deadlock
News Childs had reportedly refused to surrender the access codes to his supervisors, but after a little more than a week as a guest of the city he had a change of heart and invited mayor Gavin Newsom to meet with him, according to a report on the San...
[July 23, 2008, 12:18]
They're just wild about Mahir
News In an effort to capitalise on Mahir's overnight celebrity, San Francisco Internet company eTour invited him to visit the United States. Nearly 1,000 people crowded into the lobby of a South of Market office building in San Francisco Wednesday night...
[December 17, 1999, 9:28]
Public Sector Programming Prowess or Paralysis?
Blog But more of a, “Well, I’ve been invited and they do have those jammy ones. I have to admit that in a former life I spent a year working in a media publicity role with a division of the Department of Trade & Industry that shall remain nameless.
[September 20, 2007, 20:26]
ID cards scheme: Potential suppliers named
News The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) received 11 pre-qualification questionnaire responses following the bidders conference, with eight companies now being invited to take part in a competitive dialogue with the IPS over the next few months...
[October 23, 2007, 10:00]
Solaris engineers offer personal source-code tours
News He also invited outsiders to come fix more than 300 "very small" bugs. Sun Microsystems chose to employ the human touch when it introduced more than 5 million lines of Solaris source code onto the Internet on Tuesday.
[June 15, 2005, 11:00]
Sun makes peace with the Linux world
News Sun extended its Red Hat support contract to the new Galaxy servers and invited Red Hat to share some of its spotlight, along with partners Oracle, MySQL and AMD. Sun initiated a warmer stage in its relationship with Red Hat on Monday, making...
[September 13, 2005, 9:45]
OSDL gives Microsoft the cold shoulder
News He said: "Martin Taylor of Microsoft invited me to meet with him to discuss shared research and other topics at LinuxWorld and I accepted. The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), home of Linus Torvalds, is unlikely to be accepting Microsoft's...
[August 31, 2005, 9:35]
AMD sells digital TV unit to Broadcom
News Roughly 530 AMD employees working for the DTV business will be "invited to join Broadcom" as part of the sale, which has been approved by both companies' boards of directors. Broadcom is paying $192.8m (£105m) in cash to acquire AMD's digital...
[August 26, 2008, 10:20]
Microsoft users to test patches
News We have only invited participants with whom we have a close relationship, where we are sure that confidentiality will be maintained. With aspirations to be an antivirus and anti-spyware vendor, Microsoft is opening up its security procedures to the...
[January 14, 2005, 8:00]
BT to begin third Phorm trial
News Around 10,000 customers will be invited to opt in to the trial when they commence their browsing session," said the spokesperson. BT is to perform another trial of Phorm's ad-serving technology, after delays of over half a year.
[September 29, 2008, 12:49]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He'd been invited to Microsoft's London office to speak to some American types about enterprise software, strategy and so on. Wednesday 26/10/2005 I'm not sure what the opposite to a cub reporter is — presumably Great Bear — but whatever the term...
[October 28, 2005, 19:30]
Time Computers denies tales of woe
Talkback I hope Richard Harris gets whats coming to him.he was invited to a conference call with the south region @ 1pm but then cancelled as he needed time to gather the facts they said.more like to get out! Lets face it thew company has gone.
[July 25, 2005, 21:16]
UK E-commerce bill comes under fire
News Attempts to make licensing of e-commerce firms mandatory have also been dropped and companies are now invited to license themselves with government approved bodies on a voluntary basis. Initially conceived to promote e-commerce in the UK the bill...
[July 23, 1999, 15:02]
Berners-Lee: Keep the internet free
News He was the sole witness invited to speak at a hearing in Washington, DC titled "The Future of the World Wide Web", the first of a series of events designed to keep politicians up to speed on communications issues.
[March 2, 2007, 8:12]
Yahoo squares up to Google with calendar overhaul
News For example, people can subscribe to others' calendars, such as schedules for sports teams or college courses, and share calendars publicly or with others who've been invited, said Scott Dietzen, who took over Yahoo's mail and communications...
[October 8, 2008, 12:44]
