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Windows Mobile glitch dates 2010 texts 2016
News These reports have not yet resulted in widespread customer inquiries; however, we are working closely with our manufacturing and mobile-operator partners to investigate the cause and correct the issue, as appropriate.
[January 6, 2010, 12:21]
Cowboy's..
Talkback I can see it now death resulted from user not being able to make a 999 call from their phone. "Like some of its competitors, Sony Ericsson is "clearly trying to do a trade-off of getting attractive devices to market as quickly as possible, but...
[November 23, 2009, 21:09]
Gobsmacked at Amazon delivery fiasco
Blog Comment A 'friendly' call to the helpline resulted in the driver being investigated and a replacement item dispatched. wow that brings back floods of botched deliveries memories. I had a wonderful occurance that was from a popular high-street store...
[January 14, 2008, 11:11]
PalmSource chairman to leave
News PalmSource said that since the spinoff, it has completed a stock offering that resulted in net proceeds of about $59m (£32m) and has launched an update of the operating system for mobile devices. PalmSource Chairman Eric Benhamou will step down...
[August 13, 2004, 16:35]
Asian firms boost salaries to secure IT talent
News The high attrition rate also resulted in a strong counter-offer trend, with companies dishing out increments well in excess of 30 percent to retain mission-critical staff, said the international recruitment consultancy.
[March 17, 2008, 8:06]
Cisco takes NAC software open source
News This deal appears to have resulted in Cisco surrendering its grip on the desktop market to Microsoft. Cisco is ceasing development of its network access control client software, called Cisco Trust Agent, and will submit the code to the open-source...
[February 12, 2007, 16:08]
European Parliament blocks patent liberalisation
News Florian Mueller, the founder of NoSoftwarePatents.com, said the proposal would have resulted in more litigation and more software patents. The European Parliament on Wednesday voted against a proposal that would have allowed companies to defend...
[March 16, 2006, 9:35]
Patch demand briefly downs Windows Update
News Past patches have resulted in two million people visiting Microsoft's Windows Update site every hour to download fixes. The crush of millions of Windows users trying to patch their computers overwhelmed Microsoft's update service for several hours...
[April 15, 2004, 8:50]
The importance of being earnestly consistent
Blog Just a couple of times, a repeated behaviour resulted in ever-so-slightly different outcomes (the cursor was on the line above). I have been munching my way through a stack of HTML files of late, wishing I had learnt Regular Expressions in...
[January 5, 2010, 16:06]
Security researcher faces jail for finding bugs
News That action resulted in a case being brought to trial at a court in Paris, France. A French security researcher who published exploit codes that could take advantage of bugs in an antivirus application could be imprisoned for violation of copyright...
[January 11, 2005, 11:45]
Microsoft reaches settlement with Burst
News The agreement resulted in the cancellation of a court hearing scheduled for that day. Software company Burst.com has agreed to a tentative $60m settlement with Microsoft over charges that the giant had stolen its streaming media technology.
[March 14, 2005, 15:45]
Macromedia's Renaissance man
News Recent sales of its Studio MX 2004, the package that combines new versions of major Macromedia Web design and development tools, such as Flash and Dreamweaver, were considerably slower than expected, which resulted in the company having to lower...
[November 25, 2003, 13:45]
Amazon refuses to be tracked by Phorm
News However, BT's first two Phorm trials, carried out in 2006 and 2007, did not have user consent, and on Tuesday, the UK government's failure to censure BT or Phorm for those secret trials resulted in legal proceedings against it by the European...
[April 15, 2009, 17:00]
UK shrugs off American broadband troubles
News Large proportions of bandwidth-intensive users have caused headaches for cable providers like Excite@Home and TCI, which has resulted in a drastically slowed service for other users. Broadband in the US is causing all sorts of problems for the...
[March 20, 2000, 8:42]
Managing content the open source way
News The four-year-old initiative, backed by the British government, has resulted in an open-source CMS, customised for UK local authorities. It feels like a week hardly goes by without public sector organisation on the European mainland announcing a...
[April 19, 2005, 17:25]
Microsoft asks laid-off workers for refund
News An inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment in severance pay by Microsoft," the letter states. Microsoft says it made an accounting error when it laid off some employees last month and now feels the best way to...
[February 23, 2009, 8:15]
Office 2003 will 'protect Microsoft's monopoly' - Sun
News According to Wong, Microsoft's adoption of rights management services would negate any positive impact that might have resulted from its decision to adopt open standards for its file storage format. Sun Microsystems has expressed concerns that...
[September 30, 2003, 9:35]
Humans beat AI in robot wars
News Computer Science students at the university fed a basic wheel design into an AI program to breed the best racer over a hilly course while a team in Austria gave AI a free hand in developing a flat-ground racer, which resulted in weird computer...
[November 28, 2003, 12:30]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Yes it resulted in many deaths, but your freedom as well as mine exists because of this. Hello Brant. How are you? I suppose you must be shocked to hear what others think about your "peaceful Japan" comment.
[October 18, 2006, 7:53]
Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
News A spokeswoman for Shell confirmed to ZDNet UK sister site Silicon.com that "a small number of customers have been affected" and added that the company is now co-operating with a police investigation that has already resulted in nine arrests in...
[May 9, 2006, 16:10]
