Quotes of the Week , January 19-23
"A lot of Microsoft officials came back from Christmas after being chastised by relatives and friends. They got an... Read more
23 January, 1998 by Martin VeitchZDNet is available in the following editions:
"A lot of Microsoft officials came back from Christmas after being chastised by relatives and friends. They got an... Read more
23 January, 1998 by Martin Veitch"[Katmai is] their version of our K6-3D." - AMD's Richard Baker on Intel's latest chip plans Read more
16 January, 1998 by Martin Veitch"It takes me back to a year ago when people said Windows CE devices were in competition with Psion." - Microsoft's Anne... Read more
9 January, 1998 by Martin Veitch"Most PC makers want IE because that's what users want. Microsoft can no longer make PC vendors install IE but it's a... Read more
15 December, 1997 by Martin Veitch"The human face of networking is interactive and changing. The intelligent network mode - the idea that the network... Read more
24 November, 1997 by Martin Veitch"We are fundamentally changing the way we're doing business." - Steve Jobs on Apple's plans to sell direct. Read more
14 November, 1997 by Martin Veitch"It was a rumour started on the Internet, perhaps by someone who has something to gain." - Jukka Pokkinen, European desktop marketing manager for Digital, re. The Intel-Alpha buyout rumour. Read more
13 October, 1997 by Martin Veitch"Unfortunately, we've entered that two-speed, four-speed cycle, just like with CD-ROM drives." - Ideal Hardware's Eddie Moore on DVD-ROM. Read more
19 September, 1997 by Martin Veitch"What shall we call our PowerBook clone?" - Motorola internal memo after Apple's announcement of the Power Computing buyout. Read more
5 September, 1997 by Martin Veitch"The 440LX gives the Pentium II a lot more clout and everything including graphics will run a lot better but it's true that you have to write to a specific API to get the most out of AGP." - Intel spokesman. Read more
29 August, 1997 by Martin Veitch"I pretty much had given up hope that the Apple board was going to do anything. I didn't think the stock was going up". - Steve Jobs admitting he had earlier sold all but one share in Apple. Read more
15 August, 1997 by Martin Veitch"Microsoft was giving away the browser and now they're paying people to take it. Bill probably earned that much in his sleep last night." - Netscape's Sam Sethi on that $150m investment. Read more
8 August, 1997 by Martin Veitch"We're going to see lines to xDSL modems, set-top boxes, Web TVs, digital VCRs and digital cameras. There are 650... Read more
14 March, 1997 by Martin Veitch"This is not a scare, this is not a panic. This is an early warning for our customers. Unlike our competitors we don't... Read more
14 February, 1997 by Martin Veitch"How can there be a level playing field if Microsoft goes around giving one PC vendor special treatment?" -- PC vendor on the Microsoft-Viglen co-branded PC. Read more
3 October, 1997 by Martin Veitch
If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...
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1 hour ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...
1 hour ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...
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5 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.
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2 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...
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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary
2 days ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everythingseriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...
3 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloadsRead about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...
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Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...
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