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Trafford Council Spends £4m On SAP
News SAP has won a £4m contract from Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council for e-government systems based on mySAP.com components. The council has bought the financials, procurement, works management, property management, CRM and portal components...
[November 8, 2002, 16:23]
Judge Fines Spammer $4m
Talkback YES! Now this is the kind of news I love reading about. Bless Microsoft. A $4M fine is a fair enough judgement I guess. I would have loved to see a little jail time as well, and maybe confiscation of all of the spammers computer equipment.
[July 27, 2004, 7:06]
Y2K Bug Blamed For £4m Banking Blunder
News The millennium bug is suspected to have caused a German bank to accidentally issue a computer-banking customer with an account inflated by more than £4m. This lucky businessman's account not only showed this surprising balance figure, but also...
[January 4, 2000, 9:57]
Spyware Kingpin Hammered For $4m
News The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has wrapped up its first major spyware lawsuit with a $4m (£2.1m) judgment against spam king-turned-spyware master Sanford Wallace. A judge in the US District Court for the District of New Hampshire has ordered...
[May 5, 2006, 10:50]
News Burst: Hacking Costs Spanish Big Brother $4m
News The Spanish Big Brother could be fined up to $4m after a hacker broke into its server and posted personal details of applicants on a fanclub Web site. The details were meant to remain undisclosed and included the contestants' credit rating, IQ and...
[August 25, 2000, 10:20]
Hacking Could Cost Spanish Big Brother $4m
News The Spanish version of Big Brother could be fined up to $4m after a hacker broke into its server and posted personal details of applicants on a fanclub Web site. The details were meant to remain undisclosed and included the contestants' credit...
[August 25, 2000, 15:24]
MandrakeSoft Builds War Chest For Acquisitions
News Shareholders of MandrakeSoft have approved a share sale to raise as much as $7.3m (£4m), a move that should make it easier for the Paris-based Linux seller to pursue its acquisition strategy. A vote on Monday approved the sale of up to 1 million...
[September 17, 2004, 9:00]
Spammers Hit By Government Fines
News Six Web sites, including Internet portal Korea.com, have been fined for bombarding Internet users with spam emails, according to reports. South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) announced on Monday that penalties of between 4m...
[July 22, 2002, 11:25]
Hybrid Pentium 4 Finds Home In Laptops
News It's not quite a notebook chip and not quite a desktop chip, but Intel's Pentium 4C processor is managing to establish an identity for itself in a small niche of the consumer notebook market. The 4C -- which is not listed on Intel's public price...
[October 1, 2002, 8:50]
HP Unveils New Six-way NetServers
News Hewlett-Packard announced yesterday that it is selling three new six-way enterprise servers at prices typically associated with four-way models. The company is adding the NetServer LT 6000r, LH 6000r and LH 6000 to its L-series server family.
[March 7, 2000, 10:33]
The Day Ahead: Lehman Bond Analyst Zaps Amazon Again
News Commentary: Amazon.com's third quarter has a lot of bulls cheering. The company is heading into a strong fourth quarter, showing operational improvement and has plenty of cash. However, Lehman Brothers bond analyst Ravi Suria is raising red flags...
[October 27, 2000, 13:22]
IT Revamp Saves Council £5m
News The City of Edinburgh Council has reported savings of £5m in direct IT costs and expects to save £6.4m over five years from a major transformation project The project has involved BT replacing Edinburgh's dated infrastructure with Microsoft-based...
[September 3, 2007, 13:44]
SCO Warns Businesses Over Linux Liabilities
News SCO Group, a financially struggling company that claims its Unix intellectual property has been illegally incorporated into Linux, has sent letters to about 1,500 of the world's largest corporations warning they could be liable for using Linux.
[May 15, 2003, 7:28]
It's Not Easy Being Green
Leader Press release 8/11/06: Choccolard Inc, the maker of the Chump Bar, has announced a startling new concept in low-calorie confectionary — the Share-A-Sweet scheme. Anxious to do its bit for the nation's health, Choccolard Inc has decided to reward...
[November 8, 2006, 14:56]
Australian Government Moves On SMS Spam
News Australian mobile text messaging may be spared the tsunami of spam that cripples email, with carriers involved in the distribution of unsolicited bulk messages facing fines of up to AU$10m (about £4m).
[June 13, 2003, 8:48]
The Calculator
Downloads The value suffixes is one of the most interesting features of The Calculator. So, if you need to enter a 4 000 000, just type 4M. That's all. Calculate the cosine of 20 degrees, (By default, The Calculator works with radians) Type cos (20g) and get...
[December 2, 2005, 5:16]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Wednesday 24/04/2002 To One Aldwych, where Intel is hosting one of its regular Views at Ten breakfast briefings. This one was trailed as being all about the Pentium 4M -- the mobile version, all low power and cute packaging -- but rather...
[April 27, 2002, 0:03]
Environmental Searches Bloom Online
News The Environment Agency has completed the initial rollout of a £4m project to make its property searches available online. The Property Search project, developed with Computacentre, has already cut the time taken to compile an environmental search...
[September 2, 2003, 16:05]
BSA Alert Over Illegal Software On Online Auctions
News Online auctions selling illegal software worth more than $8m (£4m) have been detected and closed down during the first half of 2007. Anti-counterfeit software body the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents the likes of Adobe, Apple...
[October 3, 2007, 8:53]
DTI Funds Research Into Network Security
News The Department of Trade and Industry has made £4m available for four research projects aimed at reducing the IT risk created by human error. The programme, which is part of its Network Security Innovation Platform, reflects the fact that human...
[June 18, 2007, 12:22]
