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Registrar named in massive cybersquatting suit
News A new US federal lawsuit charges that Dotster, one of the largest domain name registrars, has unlawfully participated in a massive cybersquatting campaign targeting companies such as Cingular Wireless, Disney, Ikea, Google, Neiman Marcus, Playboy...
[June 5, 2006, 9:35]
Salesforce sees a future in partnership
News In an effort to keep fuelling its ever-expanding business, the on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) software vendor Salesforce.com is now targeting what it calls partnership relationship management (PRM).
[June 26, 2006, 9:55]
Microsoft CRM moves under the microscope
News Microsoft's long-anticipated entry into the CRM niche, announced in February, put it in direct competition with Onyx, Pivotal, and other software companies targeting small businesses. Companies like Siebel, PeopleSoft, SAP and Oracle, which are...
[April 17, 2002, 12:01]
Hotmail tools fight the war against spam
News Microsoft on Thursday plans to unveil new anti-spam tools for its MSN and Hotmail services, noting that it now blocks 2.4bn email messages targeting subscriber in-boxes every day. Microsoft said MSN 8 and Hotmail subscribers this week can elect to...
[May 8, 2003, 10:39]
News Burst: Bluetooth community slams BT wireless plans
News The criticisms come a day after BT and Home Wireless Networking (HWN) announced they would be ushering in a new age of digital sophistication targeting five million UK homes over the next five years. Full story to follow.
[September 7, 1999, 15:09]
Comdex: Infra-red moves to cameras, phones
News Now IrDA is targeting makers of digital cameras and even mobile phones and pagers. In just a few years, IR speeds have more than quadrupled and the ports have become ubiquitous in handheld and mobile PCs.
[November 21, 1997, 11:23]
Macromedia plans Web makeover for UK government
News Macromedia is hoping to cash in on the need for improved Web accessibility across the public sector with the launch of a business unit directly targeting government. Macromedia Government, officially launched in the UK on Thursday at an event at...
[June 17, 2004, 14:45]
Autodesk warns of IE 7 compatibility bug
News The "hotfix", or patch targeting a specific issue, will be issued for Autodesk Design Review 2007 and Autodesk DWF Viewer 7.0 later this week, said Jennifer Toton, a spokeswoman for Autodesk. Autodesk plans to release a patch for two products that...
[October 24, 2006, 9:40]
News Burst: AMD targets notebook PCs
News The x86 processor maker has been concentrating on consumer PCs in the last year but now aims to step up plans to attract business buyers by targeting mobile PC makers with its 233MHz and 266MHz K6 chips.
[July 13, 1998, 11:42]
CompuServe rubbishes AOL's flat-rate move
News They're targeting the price-oriented user and I'm sure it will attract a certain kind of customer but £16.95 [AOL's 'Unlimited' usage plan] is a very high price for the average customer who uses the service for seven to ten hours per month.
[June 23, 1997, 9:39]
Chrome OS: What does it mean for Android?
News The company said it is targeting Chrome OS at netbooks. This week saw Google announce its first foray into the world of the desktop operating system with the Linux-based Chrome OS. Interestingly, it is a market that Google is set to enter, thanks...
[July 10, 2009, 15:23]
US Report: Compaq aims at Dell
News Shares of Compaq Computer Corp.jumped 1 9/16 to 34 7/16 yesterday as the company unveiled its latest battle plan against Dell Computer Corp.by targeting small- to mid-sized businesses through direct sales.
[November 12, 1998, 10:03]
Juniper jumps into switches
News It is targeting its EX-series, made up of three grades of switches, at medium to large enterprises comprising over 500 employees. Juniper Networks on Tuesday announced it is adding a lineup of enterprise Ethernet switches to its portfolio, marking...
[January 30, 2008, 13:38]
Sony rocks out with supersonic subwoofer speakers
News Sony is targeting games players with the subwoofer upgrade; which can deliver 25 Watts per channel, and that's on top of the speakers' 2.5W per channel. The SRS-PC3DW subwoofer upgrade (£100 + VAT) works with the Sony SRS-PC51 multimedia speakers...
[November 15, 1996, 8:26]
Security wake-up call
News A worm targeting SQL Servers had hit company and commercial data centers around the world. On a Saturday morning in late January 2003, many system administrators woke up to cell phones and pagers alerting them to serious network problems with their...
[February 11, 2003, 9:46]
Microsoft's unified communications suite review
Reviews Over the years, one of Microsoft's particular talents has been to identify an application, such as word processing, web browsing or email, and develop a suite of software targeting that market. The software giant often takes several attempts to get...
[October 16, 2007, 10:34]
Microsoft 'solves' hacking mystery
News An advisory from the software giant last week warned companies of a number of attacks targeting servers running Windows 2000, the cause of which had initially puzzled Microsoft. Microsoft has put a new spin on a mysterious rash of Windows 2000 hacks.
[September 10, 2002, 8:02]
Microsoft readies Office Live beta
News The company is targeting businesses with fewer than 10 employees. Microsoft plans on Wednesday to kick off the test version of Office Live, the company's collection of Web hosting and business applications for small businesses.
[February 14, 2006, 12:35]
PC vendors sing NT 4.0 September Song
News UK PC vendors say they expect to be able to deliver pre-installed Windows NT 4.0 on systems by as early as mid-September as reports grow that Microsoft is targeting an end-of-July deadline for final bug squashing.
[July 24, 1996, 17:34]
Trojan logs e-banking habits
News Antivirus company Sophos is warning that the Banker-AJ Trojan is targeting online customers of banks such as Abbey, Barclays, Egg, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Nationwide and NatWest. Security experts say they have discovered a Trojan horse that records e...
[November 11, 2004, 13:45]
