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LocustWorld: Swarming over the traditional telcos
News But put a few thousand together, and you start threatening telecoms companies and mobile network operators. Gates and Allen. Jobs and Wozniak. Hewlett and Packard. The technology sector has a history of successful double acts.
[December 30, 2004, 13:25]
Gartner: Patent issues aren't the only cause for Munich's Linux delay
News Legal risks mostly come from US patents, and no vendor with relevant patents seems to have shown any interest in threatening or initiating a lawsuit. Event On 4 August 2004, the City of Munich decided to postpone its program to migrate 14,000...
[August 12, 2004, 10:10]
Newham Council denies playing dirty with Linux
News The phrase "doing a Newham" has even been coined, to describe the act of threatening Microsoft with a defection to Linux in order to drive licence fees down. Officials at the London Borough of Newham denied on Monday that they had faked an interest...
[August 16, 2004, 17:15]
Caldera unlocks Microsoft evidence
News In the DOJ case, Microsoft executives were quoted threatening to choke off Netscape Communications Corp.s air supply. For years, Caldera Inc.has boasted of its rich store of 1.5 million pages of documents that it has collected in its information...
[April 29, 1999, 10:01]
Carphone Warehouse freebie broadband stumbles
Talkback Have written to TT complaints dept and sent emails threatening to contact Oftel. I signed up to Talk3 International on 19th May, was already a TT customer on phone. Was told broadband go live date of July.
[August 5, 2006, 18:02]
Date set for Large Hadron Collider launch
News Other currently theoretical particles may also be observed for the first time, including microscopic black holes — some people have theorised that this side of the project could go wrong with Earth-threatening results, a fear that Cern has...
[August 8, 2008, 12:41]
BT takes cheers and faces jeers
News Ofcom forced BT to offer to set up this access services division by threatening to begin the process of splitting the firm unless it allowed more competition. BT came face-to-face on Wednesday with the anger it has created by only choosing foreign...
[July 14, 2005, 18:20]
Mobile adult sites face hacking threats
News Last year, Betfair, along with several other online betting companies, was targeted by cybercriminals threatening DDoS attacks unless a ransom was paid. Network operators and companies looking to provide pornography or gambling-related Internet...
[October 24, 2005, 16:55]
Privacy groups take efforts to European level
News Especially since 11 September, the pace in which civil rights threatening regulation has been passed demands unified action from civil rights defenders. Ten European privacy and civil rights groups, including two from Britain, have joined forces to...
[June 13, 2002, 16:10]
Faulty transformer downs Large Hadron Collider
News However, it has also spawned fears among some that the experiments could prompt natural disasters or black holes that would swallow Earth, which has led to threatening phone calls and emails, Cern said.
[September 19, 2008, 8:07]
No threat at all then really
Talkback Maybe if they rethink their ways they may be able to benefit from cooperation with open source communities the way IBM and SUN does rather than threatening everyone all the time and gaining nothing. If Microsoft actually thought they could gain...
[September 19, 2007, 21:55]
Napster to name new chief
News But with a lawsuit threatening to put Napster out of business -- and render Hummer Winblad's investment worthless -- Barry quickly became one of the most prominent public defenders of the legal rights of file-swappers online.
[July 24, 2001, 9:07]
Nokia: Pretty shop but ugly marketing speak
Blog Linux as a mobile OS is threatening to cut a swathe through even top-end smartphone design and hopefully cost. After Apple confounded popular opinion that high-street retail just wasn’t cost efficient, Nokia amongst others has decided to follow suit.
[February 12, 2008, 9:28]
Online music services accused of anti-competitiveness
News That level of duopoly.of content ownership and the ownership of distribution is threatening to the arrival of competition in the delivery of music on the Web," he said. Record industry executives and critics are trading barbs at an industry...
[July 9, 2002, 10:41]
Microsoft: Chinese Linux companies struggling
News Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of the software giant, was accused this week of launching a threatening, foul-mouthed and violent tirade against Google when he learnt that a member of his firm's staff was joining the search giant, but Chen...
[September 8, 2005, 13:00]
Open source threatens Java servers
News But the growing popularity of open-source alternatives, coupled with products becoming commodities and a prolonged IT budget squeeze, are threatening to reshape the application server software market.
[February 14, 2003, 14:04]
MyMobiSafe.com Startup Announces Big Month as Mobile Security Provider
Blog Collectively the media wants to focus on mobile viruses, which is just a small part of what is really threatening the mobile industry. MyMobiSafe.com Startup Announces Big First Month as Mobile Security Antivirus Provider!
[June 27, 2007, 0:05]
Microsoft: Audit, or there'll be trouble
News The letter stops short of threatening repercussions if a recipient doesn't comply, but Microsoft Associate Counsel Nancy Anderson said hauling customers into court would only be "a last resort". In its continuing jihad against software piracy...
[June 25, 2001, 9:35]
Power play: Electric company hacked
News Yet, Levy stressed that far from threatening, the incident seems just like a bunch of kids playing. Unknown intruders have hijacked an electric company's servers, using its computers and the company's Internet connection to host and play games, the...
[December 15, 2000, 10:18]
Schwartz: Sun to focus on storage business
News And, for the data centres we serve, many are seeing the cost of electricity threatening to eclipse their hardware budgets (yes, I'm serious). Sun is to increase its focus on storage through a major internal reorganisation, the company's chief...
[October 2, 2007, 13:11]
