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Microsoft on Trial: Gates fails to recall emails

Videotaped testimony released for the first time Monday showed a forgetful Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, incapable of... Read more

3 November, 1998 by Will Rodger
So who will run Apple while Jobs is away?

So who will run Apple while Jobs is away?

...network of retail stores. On the software front, chief software architect, Avie Tevanian, is no longer at the company, but several other software executives remain... Read more

15 January, 2009 by Ina Fried

Leopard unveiling expected at Apple confab

...well as the security-oriented Service Pack 2. In May 2004, Avie Tevanian, who was then Apple chief software technology officer, said the company would... Read more

7 August, 2006 by Ina Fried and Tom Krazit

Apple 'to benefit' from Microsoft's dallying

The delays to Windows Vista are likely to have just one beneficiary, and that's Apple, according to analysts Read more

24 March, 2006 by Ina Fried and Joris Evers

Apple misses targets but rewards staff

...of $563,829 in 2002, up from $452,219 in 2001. Avadis Tevanian, senior vice president of software engineering, saw his salary increase to $492... Read more

25 March, 2003 by Ian Fried

Jobs: Mac OS 9 is dead

In his keynote to an Apple developer conference, Jobs 'buries' OS 9 and introduces new features to OS X Read more

7 May, 2002 by Ian Fried

Q&A: Palm OS chief puts Apple experience to work

David Nagel talks about the challenges he faces as head of Palm's OS unit, and how his experience at Apple will help him Read more

5 February, 2002 by Ian Fried

Steve Jobs - another year, another dollar

Once again, Apple pays its chief executive a symbolic salary of one dollar for a year's work. He gets a bonus, though - a Gulfstream V jet worth $43.5m Read more

27 December, 2001 by Michael Kanellos

QuickTime prepared to make its comeback

The technology that started the multimedia revolution is ten years old this month, and Apple is opening a new chapter with MPEG-4 Read more

5 December, 2001 by Evan Hansen and Paul Festa

Mac OS X Public Beta 2

Despite Avie Tevanian's claims today that Mac OS X has the latest version of... Read more

30 March, 2001 by Stephan Somogyi

OS X is here. So now what?

...At Apple's press event last week, both Steve Jobs and Avie Tevanian made some pretty bold statements related to the unix underpinnings in OS... Read more

29 March, 2001 by Stephan Somogyi

Roundup: Mac Expo 2000

Hottest news from MacWorld Expo 2000 in New York: new iMac colours, Apple G4 Cube and two-chip PowerMacs Read more

18 July, 2000 by ZDNet

Top Microsoft exec calls it quits

The Microsoft brain drain continues as Tod Nielsen says it's time to go back to being an entrepreneur Read more

13 June, 2000 by Charles Cooper

A Year Ago : Microsoft on Trial: New 'Sabotage' claims

...proceedings in the Microsoft antitrust trial, included a bold prescription: Avadis "Avie" Tevanian Jr., the senior vice president of software engineering, claimed Microsoft must be... Read more

1 November, 1999 by Sean Silverthorne

Apple makes OS X Server open source

...originally developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon University lead by Avie Tevanian, who now runs software operations at Apple. Developers can alter the kernel... Read more

17 March, 1999 by Lisa Bowman

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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...

2 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
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!

13 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...

14 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

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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...

18 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...

18 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
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...

19 hours 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.

21 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

22 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

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

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

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

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

1 day ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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