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Librarians mutiny over Moore's Law bounty
News A second copy owned by the University of Illinois is under lock and key. Intel, which has now spoken with several people or institutions that have copies of the magazine, will close down its eBay listing on Thursday night, a company spokesman said.
[April 15, 2005, 9:50]
Hats off to you, for trying Linux in the first place
Talkback Most importantly - GNU/Linux/FOSS applications do not vendor-lock you into a specific application by using proprietary formats. Dumbing Down" the users makes us all vulnerable - not only to malware, piracy, and cyber-crime, but also to retarding...
[December 1, 2009, 8:30]
Microsoft stumbles with XP preview
News Because of Windows XP's activation feature, which requires inputting a 25-key code and connecting to Microsoft servers to "lock" the software to the computer, many people may not be able to use the rogue downloads.
[July 10, 2001, 9:27]
Police will not pursue ransom hackers
News Greater Manchester Police (GMP) will not be pursuing the criminals who used a Trojan horse program to lock a Manchester woman's files and demanded a ransom to release them. However, the national force is concentrating on 'organised' crime, and so...
[June 2, 2006, 12:50]
Timna chip turns back the clock, Part III
News From there, sources said, the two chips -- the current version of Celeron and Timna -- will continue in lock step throughout the rest of the year. It all comes down to what consumers are willing to live with.
[May 12, 2000, 12:41]
Keeping Business Objects on track
News But with IT budgets remaining under lock and key, analysts say this is one area that can still command serious attention from purchasing agents. Sales went down and the stock went from $50 to $5. Like many high-tech executives who lived through the...
[August 23, 2005, 14:20]
HP details latest notebook range
News Gene Wang, until the end of last year chief executive of Bitfone but now vice president at HP's handheld business since the company's acquisition, spoke at length about the HP Enterprise Mobility Suite, covering areas such as over-the-air fixes...
[May 10, 2007, 12:24]
Wi-Fi Week: Roaming in the dark
News It's a safe prediction that universal roaming will eventually happen, but while providers are wedded to excessive prices and user lock-in -- a hangover from old ways of thinking about telecommunication provision -- we shouldn't wait underwater.
[January 29, 2004, 10:40]
VMware and SpringSource: New deal or old battle?
Leader Hybrid enterprise means playing each part to its strengths, and that includes making the best of open source's inherent freedom from lock-in and a fortress mentality. When a territory breaks down into mutually antagonistic regions, it is rarely...
[August 11, 2009, 17:45]
Open source scores in higher education
News There are so many more open source solutions out there that lock-in is not an issue, and many proprietary solutions have begun to embrace open standards anyway," pointed out Metcalfe. It's interesting for what it makes possible three years down the...
[August 7, 2006, 13:35]
American Express toys with free ISP
News We used to think it was a way to lock in high-value customers, but over the long run it's costly because of all the customer service, general network costs and leasing lines. Among the failures, CMGI-back AltaVista pulled its free Net service after...
[February 9, 2001, 8:30]
Oracle has its eye on BEA customers
News Essentially, this is a defensive announcement to lock in their current base. IBM and BEA have both introduced stripped-down "express" versions of their respective Java application servers aimed at small and medium-size businesses and departments in...
[April 1, 2003, 11:33]
Apple PowerBook G4 (17in., SuperDrive) review
Reviews The notebook's new Sudden Motion Sensor uses a tri-axis accelerometer to detect sudden drops; in mid-air, the PowerBook's hard drive heads will lift and lock to prevent damage. Hard drives are available in two capacities: 80GB, which pushes the...
[March 17, 2005, 9:45]
Of Microsoft, china pigs and hungry bears
Blog In shape and prospects, Microsoft is an unreformed infrastructure company with a lock on the market. The company's shares are mostly owned by outsiders, who are fed up with getting poor returns on their investments while they watch the cash either...
[August 28, 2007, 16:51]
Differnence in webapp en website, context and task
Talkback If your site really, really needs a mobile version — perhaps your users are stuck with ancient browsers or you're doing something unimaginably special — do not lock your users in. But that's not an argument for a separate mobile version; it's an...
[March 26, 2009, 10:55]
Contribute 2.0 review
Reviews Administrators can ‘lock out’ sections of pages against changes, manage groups as well as individuals, and protect scripts and folders from certain users. Contribute bogs down on mid-range Macs. Unlike most professional graphics applications...
[August 28, 2003, 7:47]
Ten security laws you can rely on
News Almost always there is also a fairly solid door with a lock (the one I had just come through because it hadn't been locked) so someone could work in complete privacy. After walking into the server room, sitting down, and flipping on a terminal, I...
[February 7, 2005, 17:15]
Optimising and securing your network review
Reviews Alternatively, you can use a proprietary security system to lock the network's windows as well as its doors. With so many different parameters to keep track of, we suggest you write them all down. Because wireless signals often travel beyond the...
[February 6, 2003, 14:55]
Apple's enterprising iPhone
Leader We'll be back in the golden age when the only platform was a wide choice of PC compatibles running DOS, with the small exceptions that there'll be no lock-in to any one company, we have development tools worthy of the name, and applications can be...
[June 12, 2007, 17:14]
New PCs restrict copying
News But Microsoft has included copy-protection with the operating system that uses encryption to lock recorded TV shows to the PC. We have two relationships we have to balance here: the consumer who wants the content and Hollywood so they feel...
[September 4, 2002, 8:55]
