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AIM+ 'spyware' component to be removed
News The recent decision comes after some users of Big-O Software's AIM+ program -- which adds chat logging, ad removal and other features to AIM -- complained that the program violated their privacy by sending information about their online identity...
[June 7, 2002, 13:44]
A Year Ago Today: MS protests O'Reilly claims
News NT Workstation is not designed to be a big Web server so we put a limit to restrict it to 10 inbound connections. PCDN Comment: The O'Reilly article has made a big stick for Microsoft bashers. Microsoft yesterday rebutted O'Reilly & Associates...
[September 11, 1997, 9:18]
MS protests O'Reilly NT claims
News NT Workstation is not designed to be a big Web server so we put a limit to restrict it to 10 inbound connections. PCDN Comment: The O'Reilly article has made a big stick for Microsoft bashers. Microsoft yesterday rebutted O'Reilly & Associates...
[September 11, 1996, 12:13]
SCO fights back against 'don't pay' advice
News SCO shook up the tech world last year when it filed a lawsuit against IBM charging that Big Blue had included in its Linux software some source code from Unix, which SCO claims to control. However, the legal status of SCO's claims remains unclear...
[May 28, 2004, 9:55]
IT contractors face big rate cuts
News IT contractors are facing substantial pay cuts as big companies seek to cut costs. Among the big companies leading the offensive are Barclays Bank, which is to cut IT contractor rates by 20 percent from 1 July, and GlaxoSmithKline, which could be...
[May 29, 2002, 11:19]
Firefox? Bah Humbug, I say
Talkback It's obvious that you have big holes in your knowledge about HTML/CSS - and even bigger in the understanding of the basis of these technologies. Those holes are far to big for you to call yourself 'developer'.
[November 8, 2004, 1:21]
Dell warns of Vista upgrade challenges
News A 2GB image for each user will have a big impact. Vista is big and complex and there is a lot to it. Dell has taken the unusual step — for a PC vendor of its size — of toning down its sales pitch for Microsoft's Vista operating system and warning...
[July 4, 2007, 18:02]
How Windows Azure avoided a HailStorm of criticism
News Also, while Microsoft is big, it is no longer the only technology behemoth. Salesforce.com is the big one that broke through that glass ceiling," O'Kelly said. Microsoft's HailStorm prompted an avalanche of criticism when it was proposed seven...
[October 30, 2008, 12:10]
IBM moving out of desktop manufacturing
News IBM's decision reflects the big debate in the PC world: outsource or build to order? San Jose-California-based Sanmina-SCI, IBM said, plans to use existing locations in Scotland and at Big Blue's Research Triangle Park complex in North Carolina to...
[January 9, 2002, 11:31]
Microsoft software to manage itself?
News O'Brien said that big companies spend too much time and effort trying to improve applications after they are in place. Its three companies are working to build big self-repairing, self-managing software package they believe will appeal to enterprises.
[March 14, 2003, 16:41]
Open source: 'it's all about collaboration'
News Marten Mickos, chief executive of open-source database company MySQL, said the open-source movement has shown that individual developers working together can be more effective than big, corporate project teams.
[November 21, 2003, 9:35]
Jamcracker reworks its software strategy
News Though the concept sparked interest among technology buyers, few big companies proved willing to trust an outside company to host and manage their most important, and sensitive, business data. What I don't want," he said, "is a big data centre with...
[February 11, 2002, 6:31]
Microsoft defeat stirs patent concerns
News But Rosen notes that for most big companies, patent hazards come with the territory. Recently, SCO has pressed its intellectual-property claims against IBM for Big Blue's implementation of the open-source Linux operating system.
[August 14, 2003, 14:55]
The Day Ahead: IPO flop-o-meter runs amok
News Nuance may have had a better debut if Lernout and Hauspie didn't recently buy Dragon Systems to lock up a big chunk of the market. The big wild card is competition. In addition, there's too much stock on the market -- IPOs, secondary offerings and...
[April 12, 2000, 11:52]
Valentine's Day goo clogs Net
News Another big factor sending people online is that non-virtual card stores are almost sure to run out of stock on Feb. E-mail messages must pass through gateways to move from the Internet to the servers of an ISP or a corporate network, and when big...
[February 16, 1998, 9:31]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News It's a big catch-up exercise, and really rather valuable for us, writers; and equally a big forecasting opportunity, as people get the chance to tell us what's coming. Editors' Day is the day the various writers and labs testers of PC Magazine go...
[February 28, 1998, 6:00]
Comdex 2001: Microsoft preps messaging for business
News For the advanced .Net developer this is a big deal. But Microsoft clearly sees big potential for these technologies in the corporate market. Microsoft is betting businesses are quickly developing a taste for instant messaging and digital media...
[November 13, 2001, 10:11]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms grow up, chief execs step out
News Carpenter has a reputation for missing quarters, blowing big ad budgets and burning through chief financial officers every few months. There's also a big dose of reality in these moves -- you need more than vision to run a company.
[July 31, 2000, 12:35]
Enabling machines to reason like humans
News Well, I suppose one of the big things was the recognition that computers would have to do nonmonotonic reasoning. Now, that was around 1980, or a little bit before, that formalising nonmonotonic reasoning began, and it's turned into a fairly big...
[July 5, 2006, 16:00]
Support wanes for GameCube
News One of the problems was we just had too much time between our big software launches," Perrin Kaplan, vice president of marketing for Nintendo of America, said in an interview. I think these guys have a really good chance to become the big come-from...
[May 16, 2003, 8:05]
