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Microsoft settles Be lawsuit for $23m
News Earlier this year, Microsoft reached a deal with AOL Time Warner in which the software maker will pay $750m to settle a suit brought by its Netscape Communications unit. In 1998, revenue came to $1.2m, but net losses reached $16.9m.
[September 8, 2003, 8:40]
Napster fury fills the Senate
News Despite chastising record labels for not pursuing a marketplace solution, Henley also said he would welcome the involvement of Congress -- possibly in the form of an online compulsory licence -- "if a resolution cannot be reached quickly".
[April 4, 2001, 9:01]
KPNQwest struggles back after shutdown - but for how long?
News When you have reached that level, you have reached bottom. Efforts to keep customers and sell the network as a going concern reached a brick wall last week when staff walked out after KPN withdrew the lifeline funding it had kept up for two months.
[July 25, 2002, 10:46]
The year of the penguin
News The rivalry between the Microsoft and the devout followers of Linux reached a head in July, when the two operating systems duelled to the death in lab tests. Accusations that the contest was rigged and the appearance of numerous spin-off...
[December 25, 1999, 6:00]
Net users still hesitant to pay
News In contrast, newspaper circulation revenue reached more than $11bn last year, while magazine circulation reached $10bn, the researcher said. Even though consumers are growing more comfortable with buying goods on the Web, people are hesitant about...
[March 20, 2002, 14:45]
PayPal snagged by anti-terrorism law
News If a settlement is reached, it won't be the first time PayPal has paid up over processing online gambling payments. Last August, the service reached a settlement with the attorney general for the state of New York, under which it ceased processing...
[April 1, 2003, 8:06]
Thumbnails ruled ok
News However, as to the second action, we conclude that the district court should not have reached the issue because neither party moved for summary judgment as to the full-size images," according to the opinion.
[July 8, 2003, 10:52]
IBM probed for tax evasion
News The suit was dismissed earlier this year on grounds that Churchhouse had already reached a dismissal settlement with IBM in Britain in 1995. He estimated that the total amount of royalty increases between 1991 and 1996 reached about 900 million...
[August 6, 1999, 12:32]
GeForce4 more than twice the speed of GeForce3
News The Ti 4600 hit 8603 on 3DMark 2001 with Quincunx anti-aliasing, while the Ti 500 reached 8363 without anti-aliasing. For example, with 4x anti-aliasing, the Ti 4600 reached 5678, topping the Ti 500 with Quincunx anti-aliasing, which hit 5312.
[February 6, 2002, 14:49]
Netbooks prop up European PC sales
News Acer reached the top spot in the EMEA PC market for the first time in the third quarter, with 21.3 percent of the market, up from 14.2 percent the same quarter a year ago. Asus reached the fourth-place spot with sales of more than two million of...
[October 21, 2008, 10:32]
Standards wrangle threatens Ultrawideband
News Speaking before the latest 802.15.3a delay, Pat Gelsinger, Intel's chief technical officer, said that unless an agreement is reached soon then the chipmaker would consider creating a special interest group (SIG) to set a standard independent of...
[September 26, 2003, 14:15]
Spammers tout banned DVD technology
News ProDVDCopy could not immediately be reached for comment. A call to a support line listed in the email advertisement reached a company called "CrazyEight. A representative for 321 Studios could not immediately be reached for comment.
[March 2, 2004, 8:15]
Reporters tracked before HP story ran
News It's not clear how news of Sherbin's conversation with Krazit reached HP's investigators, nor is it clear what prompted HP to target Kawamoto before the story was published. The Journal reported that the investigation reached a new phase in January...
[September 20, 2006, 17:15]
US hits legal turbulence over EU passenger data
News The European Council and the US Government reached a disputed agreement in May 2004 on the processing and transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data for all European air passengers travelling to the US.
[November 23, 2006, 16:26]
DOJ, Microsoft close to antitrust deal
News The Justice Department could not be reached for comment. The hiring of Brendan Sullivan is interesting timing, particularly if the feds have reached a settlement," Gray said. In the event some states continue without the Justice Department, there...
[November 1, 2001, 8:57]
Naughton: The American dream turned sour, Part II
News After a few wrong turns on Pacific Coast Highway, Naughton reached the pier. As he reached the halfway point of the pier, where the wooden planks meet the asphalt walkway, Naughton had a choice: To continue straight toward his car, which would take...
[March 21, 2000, 13:55]
Wi-Fi standards face patent claim
News One reason that Wi-Fi has proliferated as it has is because it's reached a point where it's incredibly cheap, so it's easy to just stick a Wi-Fi chip in a consumer electronics device," said Stan Schatt, a vice president at ABI Research.
[November 21, 2006, 7:49]
JBoss and Sun partially bury Java hatchet
News Sun and JBoss have sought to come to terms on licensing terms for the testing suites required to gain the official logo denoting J2EE compliance, but no agreement has yet been reached. Sun could not immediately be reached for comment.
[September 22, 2003, 16:35]
Executives sending jobs offshore earn more
News According to Tuesday's report, IBM chief executive Sam Palmisano's pay reached $7.7m in 2003, up 13 percent from 2002. The ratio of chief executive pay to worker pay reached 301:1 in 2003, up from 282:1 in 2002.
[September 1, 2004, 9:05]
IBM: JBoss more of threat to BEA
News Eric Stahl, a director of product marketing at BEA, said that it would be a long time before an open-source application server reached the same level of success as open-source operating systems and databases.
[October 5, 2004, 14:35]
