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The Day Ahead: Dot-coms search for happy medium

...a New York City venture capital firm that helped fund TheStreet.com, StarMedia, and Multex.com. "Public markets aren't valuing these companies fairly on... Read more

9 October, 2000 by Larry Dignan

HP announces three strategic alliances

...affair that has drawn nearly 700 people. Two of the deals, with StarMedia Network and USA.Net, involved HP swapping hardware, software and services for... Read more

10 September, 1999 by Michael Fitzgerald

AOL saga opens old dot-com wounds

Barter transactions were popular during the dot-com boom, but since the econommic downturn, they are being investigated in increasing numbers Read more

13 August, 2002 by Jim Hu

A Year Ago: Security loses to holiday rush

First published: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 06:57:34 GMT Read more

3 January, 2001 by Kimberly Weisul

Cha Cha AOL-LA

...it's not surprising that Latin America is already staked out by StarMedia Network (Nasdaq: STRM), among others. Given the success of AOL-LA's... Read more

2 August, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The Day Ahead: AOL Latin America has nice name, little else

...kidding. AOL Latin America is behind competitors such as Terra Networks and StarMedia on nearly every measure. Of course, the name alone may boost AOL... Read more

1 August, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The Day Ahead: Will Rediff.com be an IPO hit?

...specific audience have done well. China.com, a Chinese portal firm, and StarMedia, which targets Latin America, both made impressive market debuts. Terra Networks was... Read more

14 June, 2000 by Larry Dignan

The Day Ahead: Let Lycos be acquired in peace

Lycos made shareholders fat and happy. But the portal gets no thanks for being acquired by Terra Networks for $12.5bn. Wall Street started nit-picking instantly Read more

18 May, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Security loses to holiday rush

Without prodding, companies would tend to relegate security to the back burner Read more

3 January, 2000 by Kimberly Weisul

VA Linux set for flotation

...operating system. The company said its largest customers include Akamai Technologies, eToys, StarMedia Network and 24/7 Media. Sales to those customers accounted for 14... Read more

9 December, 1999 by Larry Dignan

Markets fall in love with Linux

...customers of VA Linux are companies employing Internet infrastructure, such as eToys, StarMedia Network and Akamai Technologies. With revenues of nearly $18m (£11m) in the... Read more

7 December, 1999 by ZDNet

La vida latina hits the Web

While thousands converge on Comdex, other Internet leaders meet in Miami, strategising over how to capture the fastest growing market of all -- Latin America Read more

16 November, 1999 by Jennifer Mack

China.com soars up 233 percent in IPO

...and concluding that the company will be the next America Online or StarMedia, the Latin American portal. "This will be hot like StarMedia," said Randall... Read more

14 July, 1999 by Larry Dignan

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Jack Schofield

Moonlight wasn't a Microsoft product, so it's not really a failure for Microsoft, more a failure for open source. Or, specifically, for Novell,...

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J.A. Watson

@apexwm - You are basically right. GIMP is not included in the Fedora 17 base distribution, but it can be installed from the Add/Remove Software...

1 hour ago by J.A. Watson on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
Moley

@pjc158 Unfortunately our government signed away any such possibility in a entirely unequal treaty with the USA, purportedly in response to...

1 hour ago by Moley on Judge orders US to share MegaUpload evidence
J.A. Watson

@Thomas - Thanks for the tip, based on what you said I went back and downloaded the KDE spin, and installed that one another netbook (NF310). You...

1 hour ago by J.A. Watson on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
apexwm

JW, Thanks as always for the great review on these new releases. One thing that I've also read is that Fedora 17 will include GIMP 2.8 which is...

2 hours ago by apexwm on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
SoapyTablet

'Cut Price' Data Roaming? The price has been cut, but it is certainly not 'cut price' in the sense of the phrase, and nowhere near local EU data...

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apexwm

BrownieBoy: "Such crashes are normally down to the OS and/or a rogue application, which could be fixed by re-imaging. Everybody knows how Windows...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've just started using it too, and like you I feel that Fedora is a fine GNOME 3 showcase distribution. I am torn, though, because I checked out...

5 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
pjc158

Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

5 hours ago by pjc158 on Judge orders US to share MegaUpload evidence
Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

18 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

23 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

1 day ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC