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Intel: Linux can save you money
Talkback Must be a good money spinner and compromise Zdnet's objectivity and impartiality. Did anonymous watch the interview? Intel stated, amongst other things, that they had saved hundreds of millions (of $'s) by using Linux and had achieved better...
[March 17, 2005, 15:20]
New Euro law could make criminals of us all
Talkback When records were the major money-spinner, they attempted to stop the cassette system from being introduced, then moved to "home taping is killing music", until they introduced their own cassettes. This looks clearly like it was written by lawyers...
[August 7, 2003, 11:13]
Microsoft Permissions?
Talkback The Linuxes must have Windows alogorithms to read the spinner. How long Microsoft grant one use of Linux? days? After reading The Truth about Linux I'm very scared of the Linuxes OS. I don't want all I do with my computers to be owned by Microsoft...
[July 14, 2008, 15:24]
Sun's Chinese deal 'shuts out Microsoft'
News But speaking at his company's European user event in Berlin today, Sun president, chairman and chief executive Scott McNealy admitted the deal won't be a big money spinner. Sun is aiming for "hundreds of millions" of desktops in China to be running...
[December 4, 2003, 10:35]
Siemens and Intel in £1.3bn memory deal
News It is hoped that these will prove a money-spinner for mobile phone manufacturers. Intel announced Thursday it will provide the high-performance flash memory for next generation Internet mobile phones and wireless devices from German electronics...
[February 9, 2001, 9:55]
Take on Skype for £250
Blog Cool marketing and a minor money-spinner to boot, depending on your business model. While trawling through what was a largely news-free VoIP for Business conference yesterday, I happened upon the stand of Babble, a VoIP company which is roughly as...
[March 23, 2007, 8:37]
Raytheon Beechcraft Bonanza A36
Downloads High quality art & texture treatments for the glossy windows, fuselage, spinner, strpes, panel, placard text, instrumentation and 3D cockpit / cabin. Inroducing the venerable & prestigious Bonanza A36.
[April 24, 2006, 8:00]
Free phone email service launches
News A spokeswoman for Virtualplus admitted "this is not really a money spinner," but said that it was more about building market share for the company in the burgeoning unified messaging market. Unified messaging specialist Virtualplus has launched a...
[November 4, 1999, 10:44]
SA unions threaten £1.7bn Vodafone deal
Blog The decision followed an interdict from the trade unions, who fear mass job losses if Telkom loses its biggest money-spinner (Vodacom provides 77 percent of Telkom's operating profit, they point out).
[May 17, 2009, 14:49]
Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP
Downloads High quality original art & texture treatments for the windows, fuselage, spinner, stripes, panel, placard text and instrumentation. Created from FAA TCDS 3a12 (airframe), 1E10 Rev 22 (engine), Cessna information/documentation, and countless cross...
[June 23, 2005, 8:00]
AOL: Online music's next king?
News America Online's 6.0 version, released at Internet World, certainly is a crazy quilt of software and content, including WinAmp, the music player Spinner, and either content or software from RealNetworks, Launch Media, CDNow Online, SonicNet, MTV...
[December 6, 2000, 7:58]
Eureka!
Downloads Spinner: This screen saver features a Multi-Ground system, so it contains multiple backgrounds and foregrounds. The only rule is that you cannot activate more than 1 background; doing so creates display glitches and a very odd picture.
[December 1, 2007, 7:00]
Inmarsat prepares to enter mobile market
News Data rather than voice is Inmarsat's current money-spinner, accounting for 80 percent of the company's traffic and 60 percent of its revenue. Satellite company Inmarsat is becoming "more like a mobile operator" with the imminent launch of its...
[June 7, 2007, 16:26]
BT banks on e-commerce for spend-thrifts
News Mike Elsden, one of BT's e-commerce team, believes the banks are slow to react to a potential money spinner: "Very few organisations offer micropayments services that span the few pence to around £15.
[October 14, 1998, 17:25]
Netscape revs Communicator
News The new version of Communicator also includes an updated version of Netscape Radio, which rebroadcasts content from the Spinner music site and provides links to artists and music groups through the Netscape Music section of Netcenter.
[October 1, 1999, 10:01]
Symbian OS 7.0 increases focus on smartphones
News Such messages now make up about 10 percent of network operators' revenues, and operators hope multimedia messages could be an even bigger money-spinner. Symbian, whose operating system is best known for driving sophisticated wireless "communicators...
[February 20, 2002, 15:33]
Net radio fees push some broadcasters underground
News For every big business such as America Online's Spinner.com or Listen.com, scores of tiny stations with only a few daily listeners have defiantly broadcast their own all-Gregorian chant or bluegrass banjo stations into the digital void.
[July 3, 2002, 14:36]
News Roundup: BT must face up to its debt problem
News We all thought that data-enabled mobile phones would be a great money spinner; they turn out to be a cash-sucking whirlpool. BT is facing crunch time. Managing director Sir Peter Bonfield needs to pay off a third of his company's £30bn debt as...
[March 21, 2001, 11:22]
Skype aims to avoid shutdown with new tech
News Skype has never emerged as a serious money-spinner for eBay, despite the vast amount paid for it by the e-commerce giant, and eBay had to take a $900m (£440m) write-down on Skype in late 2007. Skype is trying develop new peer-to-peer technology to...
[July 31, 2009, 16:37]
Tech companies: Let's not make a deal
News AOL spent $525m on MovieFone in April and went on to buy the When.com Web-calendar service for about $150m and Web music firms Spinner.com and Nullsoft for $400m. It is so quiet in the Internet-deal game lately you can practically hear a stock drop.
[September 16, 1999, 16:39]
