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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Any rumours that a hardy bunch of picnickers was later thrown out of the Flask pub in Highgate for crimes connected with overrefreshment are false, and should be disregarded. Bank holiday! Lovely. Still recovering from my birthday picnic: one...
[May 30, 1998, 7:00]
Tandem shifts into Wintel mainstream
News Pesatori was in charge of Digital's PC division and his departure will fuel rumours that the company plans to quit the PC market. The US firm introduced quad-processor Pentium Pro-based servers running Windows NT and Tandem's own clustering software.
[October 31, 1996, 9:52]
Last orders in Montecito
Leader This lack of passion is partly because the dual-core Itanium 2 processor is almost a year late, a delay that only helped rumours about lack of support for the platform from outside, even inside, Intel.
[July 19, 2006, 15:30]
Tory leader compares music piracy with child abuse
Blog Up to now Cameron has appeared to have taken an informed and un-Tory view of the world - noticeable on green issues - but it seems the rumours of him moving to the right in response to Gordon Brown's appointment as Prime Minister seems justified...
[July 6, 2007, 18:30]
Mobile Device convergence - is gaming on phone devices a step to far?
Blog Karen Friar: hey--meant to ask you.what do you make of the rumours of a PlayStation Phone? I am being terribly lazy and rather than write an article about Nokia, Apple and Sony's push for a mobile device that can effectively be used for...
[June 26, 2008, 18:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Today, there are rumours seeping out that the regulator will finally decide on a 2002 complaint originally made to Oftel that BT was unfairly pricing its broadband. Monday 19/06/2006 Good old Ofcom. It has a very dynamic approach to problem solving...
[June 23, 2006, 18:45]
The451.com goes up in flames
News A spokesman at the company declined to comment, but did not deny the rumours. The451.com, one of the UK's most high profile tech newswire start-ups of the last couple of years, is to fold, according to sources.
[October 15, 2001, 14:05]
Europe Online looks for backing
News EOL said that the new shareholder would be a service operator and not a publisher despite rumours that it was talking to online giant Europe Online (EOL) is wooing a white knight after its big backer Germany's Burda Holdings GmbH said it would...
[July 10, 1996, 11:07]
Sendo-Microsoft lawsuit to proceed in Texas
Talkback There were rumours of a $120m payoff. "Sendo's allegations against Microsoft are counter to our respect for intellectual property and to the value we place in our partnerships," said a Microsoft spokesperson.
[October 15, 2003, 17:48]
Siebel tries to keep staff onboard
News Recent rumours concerning potential acquisitions or takeovers of the company have created a great deal of uncertainty among the company's employees and executives, which could negatively impact employee productivity and company performance," the...
[May 27, 2005, 9:40]
Quotes of the Week, October November 18-22
News Microsoft's Martin Gregory slaying rumours that IE 4.0 will be rolled into 5.0. "IBM has more people doing R+D than Microsoft has employees. They also give us a lot of money. They also leave us alone.
[November 22, 1996, 10:01]
Linux vendors to unify efforts
News A source close to one of the companies involved confirmed rumours that a single standardised Linux distribution is to be created, based on distributions from Caldera, SuSE and Turbolinux. Several major companies are to announce "significant...
[May 29, 2002, 15:36]
Compaq brushes up iPaq
News A 3765 model is also upcoming, but according to rumours this appears to be nearly identical to earlier models, except for running Microsoft's new PocketPC 2002 operating system. Compaq's next iPaq handheld computer will feature closer integration...
[September 28, 2001, 13:30]
OpenOffice.org 'optimistic' over Oracle's Sun buyout
Blog John McCreesh, OpenOffice.org's marketing lead, told ZDNet UK that the team - whose free office productivity software project was set up under the auspices of Sun in 2000 - was "pleased that the uncertainty is coming to an end" (a reference to the...
[April 20, 2009, 17:08]
Brit cracks Microsoft's e-book software
News Although rumours of software that strips Microsoft's copy protection away from its e-book files have circulated before, this appears to be the first time such a program has been made available to the public.
[January 9, 2003, 10:24]
Skype silent on eBay takeover rumour
News A Skype spokeswoman explained that the company was not commenting on these rumours, while eBay also told reporters that it wouldn't comment on rumour and speculation. VoIP pioneer Skype was refusing to comment on Thursday on claims that it is in...
[September 8, 2005, 14:40]
Google could bid for UK wireless spectrum
News A possibility of a launch dovetails neatly with rumours about the so-called "Gphone". Google may be considering bidding for wireless spectrum in the UK after regulator Ofcom proposed the liberalisation of key frequencies.
[September 21, 2007, 14:23]
Analysis: Who will buy my Netscape?
News Shares were up sharply yesterday on rumours of a buyout. Mega-mergers such as the Compaq-Digital announcement nearly always lead to fervid minds seeking follow-ups, and companies known for great technology but spotty finances and low-riding share...
[February 5, 1998, 11:45]
VMworld Europe: Conference Blog Day 1
Blog Pre-show rumours suggest that security issues will be especially high on the agenda in light of alerts highlighted yesterday (and reported on ZDNET.co.uk) by security vendor Core Security Technologies.
[February 26, 2008, 5:56]
Government: Open source could halve school IT bills
Talkback It is exactly that (work shy) attitude that propagates the rumours which discredit what is otherwise excellent software. @ martin: We'll have a generation of people taught to use non-standard software" - wont this then make a new standard - those...
[May 10, 2005, 12:31]
