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Microsoft updates Longhorn roadmap
News Microsoft on Tuesday updated its server software road map but offered hardware makers few specifics about several of the products on the horizon. Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin said the server version of Longhorn -- the next major...
[May 5, 2004, 13:00]
Customs & Excise overhaul to fight fraud
News Although specifics of the new system are not yet worked out, Thomson anticipates the new use of technology will have wide-ranging effects in the fight against crime. According to a HM Customs & Excise spokesman Mark Thomson the overhaul will...
[February 19, 1999, 9:04]
Peering into Office 12
News The company is still not discussing the specifics on most of the features it will add with Office 12, but it is promising to have the productivity software suite ready by the second half of next year.
[May 19, 2005, 13:35]
Yahoo! to clip divisions, lay off 400
News executives gave some specifics regarding a long-expected corporate restructuring, saying that they will whittle down Yahoo! Yahoo! offered details of its long-awaited turnaround strategy on Thursday, hinging its future on advertising, exclusive...
[November 16, 2001, 9:15]
Microsoft FUD squad targets competition
News An Oracle spokeswoman declined to offer specifics but said that in the face of anti-Java propaganda generated by Microsoft, Oracle decided to educate people about the benefits of XML and Java. Oracle executives are embarking on a "Java's not dead...
[September 7, 2000, 13:46]
W3C issues handicap guidelines for the Web
News They include the dictum that sites should contain text that corresponds to audio and images, and offer specifics on how to make changes on sites created in a variety of technical formats. The W3C guidelines, which officials said are suggestions for...
[May 7, 1999, 8:19]
IBM updates Unix, Linux strategies
News At its simultaneous London-New York-San Francisco launches, IBM will provide specifics on its "Project Sun Screen" server-software initiatives that are aimed squarely at IBM Unix archrival Sun Microsystems, sources say.
[September 13, 1999, 14:39]
Disney to deliver content with Microsoft
News While containing little in the way of specifics, the deal solidifies one of the software giant's key Hollywood relationships, which it views as critical to the future of its audio and video software platform.
[February 9, 2004, 11:25]
Metadata holds key to future of storage
News The shift involves the facilitating role that metadata will play in abstracting the specifics about data and where it's stored from the applications, end users, and operating systems requiring access to it.
[October 21, 2003, 14:55]
Microsoft responds to DoJ offer
News Under the circumstances it would be inappropriate to comment any further on any specifics related to any settlement effort. Responding to the DoJ's offer of a settlement in Microsoft's antitrust case, a spokesman for the company said yesterday: "We...
[March 23, 1999, 6:54]
IBM shrinks DB2 for handhelds
News Although officials at IBM declined to comment on specifics, they did acknowledge that the company is crafting the smaller DB2 at its Santa Teresa Laboratory, in San Jose. The company is developing an as-yet-unnamed version of DB2 for Microsoft's...
[February 16, 1999, 14:06]
Apple slices off a small number of jobs
News A company representative would not go into specifics about the latest cuts or say how many jobs were affected. Apple on Thursday cut a small number of jobs as part of an ongoing restructuring effort, CNET News.com has learned.
[April 5, 2002, 13:47]
Call it Windows 98: MS dubs next OS
News The company announced some product specifics, but there were few surprises. Microsoft did not give a release date -- although presumably users can start looking for the new operating system in 1998. At a briefing in Seattle Wednesday, Paul Maritz...
[July 24, 1997, 11:05]
Intel uplifted by new chip plans
News Some of the specifics he outlined were plans for a number of new processors, including the Itanium 2 server chip, expected in the second half of 2002, and Banias, the code name for a new notebook chip due in early 2003.
[April 26, 2002, 8:34]
Google ranking suit may continue
News During a hearing on Friday, US District Judge Jeremy Fogel said he's considering issuing an order that would allow KinderStart.com to amend its lawsuit against Google to add more specifics. A federal judge in California hinted that a parenting Web...
[July 3, 2006, 11:10]
Inconsistency in the air over UK software patent examinations
Blog Comment Others might generate their own software that does the same thing and you would then be relying on your reputation (and brand name) and the specifics of the design of your software to maintain your competitive position in the face of competitors...
[November 3, 2008, 10:28]
New York - PC Expo: Intel, Novell team on Java
News They declined to offer more specifics on which Intel products or technologies Novell will be able to access but Novell Vice President of Strategy Chris Stone said the company will be optimising a JVM called "NetFire" for Intel's 32-bit and 64-bit...
[June 18, 1998, 12:12]
Speculation about Microsoft's mysterious X#
News While he didn't give many specifics about the new language, he did indicate that it would be used to treat XML as a first-class citizen in the .Net programming arena. One of the more intriguing things to come out of Microsoft lately was a nearly...
[April 10, 2003, 14:57]
IBM adopts fighting talk over SCO Unix suit
News Though Fay didn't comment on the specifics of the suit, the tone of IBM's statement indicates the computing giant won't knuckle under quickly to SCO's lawsuit and associated demands. IBM began hitting back on Friday against a SCO Group lawsuit that...
[March 10, 2003, 8:21]
Sun loses open source leader
News She will continue her open source work when she joins the chipmaker on Monday, but in an interview, she declined to share specifics. Danese Cooper, who has led Sun's interactions with the open source community for six tumultuous years, has left for...
[March 21, 2005, 8:15]
