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Microsoft Accused Of Withholding Vista APIs
News The antivirus company claimed on Tuesday that no security vendors had yet received APIs. Anti-malware company Symantec has accused Microsoft of withholding key information about its upcoming Vista operating system, in an attempt to gain an unfair...
[September 27, 2006, 12:35]
Minnesota And Microsoft Verge On Antitrust Agreement
News Microsoft on Monday reached a preliminary settlement with consumers in Minnesota to end an antitrust suit that claimed the company had overcharged for its Windows operating system and its Office application software.
[April 20, 2004, 9:20]
Ballmer Claims Microsoft Is Thinking Green
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has claimed that more efficient use of IT is one of the company's main priorities for the future despite the fact the company has been widely criticised for producing processor-hungry software.
[March 5, 2008, 14:31]
Cisco Settles Class Action Lawsuit
News Cisco has settled a class action suit brought by shareholders who claimed that the company had misled its investors. In the lawsuit, Cisco shareholders claimed that senior executives had acted on insider information when they sold almost $600m of...
[August 18, 2006, 18:15]
Dell Aims For Carbon Neutrality
News Nevertheless, its chief executive, Michael Dell, on Wednesday claimed the company is heading for carbon neutrality. His company's programme is called "Plant a Forest for Me", which follows another Dell initiative, "Plant a Tree for Me".
[September 27, 2007, 17:29]
Carphone Warehouse 'cleared' Over Free Broadband Claim
News Carphone Warehouse will be cleared by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over its promotion of "free" broadband, the company's chief executive claimed on his blog on Thursday. Dunstone added that the company will be making "some small...
[July 14, 2006, 12:45]
Xerox Printers Said To Contain Security Hole
News Brendan O'Connor, who works for an unnamed US finance company, claimed that malicious hackers could take advantage of a configuration error in the printers' Web interface. Xerox UK was not immediately able to comment on the claims, but a company...
[August 4, 2006, 12:30]
Microsoft Reaches Massive Settlement Over Software Copying
News This operation, which took over a year, revealed that the pirating had been done by a third-party company apparently claimed to have a "license" to replicate a certain number of discs annually, and that the Thai subsidiary of the French company...
[December 19, 2006, 12:51]
Bytemark Claims Atom Server First
News Matthew Bloch, the hosting firm's managing director, has claimed the company is the first in the world to use dedicated servers based on the Atom. The hosting company Bytemark has begun offering space on servers that use Intel's low-powered Atom...
[July 22, 2008, 17:01]
Court Gives Nod To Mac OS X Refund
News Apple Computer had already reached a tentative agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed that the company had failed to fully support Mac OS X on some G3-based Macs. The company is also required to send notice of the proposed deal to...
[October 31, 2003, 10:10]
McAfee And Microsoft Tangle Over Vista Security
News The advertisement, entitled "Microsoft increasing security risk with Vista", claimed that the company's aim was to see "a world in which one giant company not only controls the systems that drive most computers around the world but also the...
[October 3, 2006, 14:20]
SuSE Takeover 'pushed Customers To Debian'
News A German company that provides support for Debian, the free Linux distribution, has claimed that Novell's takeover of SuSE Linux has been good for Debian-related business. Köthe claimed that some German government agencies decided to switch to...
[March 14, 2005, 15:30]
Proliant Blades Lead HP Charge
News The headline product announcements included a four-way Proliant blade server claimed as the world's first and new models in the company's AlphaServer range; and the company's partnerships with SAN leader Brocade and Microsoft got new strength.
[January 20, 2003, 15:01]
Music Players 'cause Trouble' For IT Helpdesks
News The study, conducted by research company Vanson Bourne for software provider Touchpaper, questioned 100 IT directors and found that many IT service departments are under increasing pressure. Two factors were cited - consumption of network bandwidth...
[October 26, 2005, 16:20]
Novell Pushes Agile Infrastructure Vision
News Speaking on Monday at the BrainShare event in Salt Lake City, Utah, the company's chief technical officer, Jeff Jaffe, claimed that Novell was uniquely positioned to make IT infrastructure more agile — something that IT departments are crying out...
[March 18, 2008, 9:55]
Red Hat Launches Global Desktop
News Speaking at the company's annual user conference in San Diego on Wednesday, Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik claimed, in his opening keynote, that the company would be making announcements around the "the long-anticipated pursuit of the...
[May 10, 2007, 14:01]
Government Must Force ISPs To Take Security Seriously
News In a recent interview, the CTO of Messagelabs Mark Sunner claimed the current attitude of ISPs to malware is akin to a water company pumping raw sewage to customers and expecting them to clean it up. Similar comments have also been made by the...
[December 6, 2004, 15:55]
Intel Likes A Touch Of Suede
News "Chic" was the word on Intel's lips this week as it showed off a new line of concept laptop PCs that the company believes brings the luxurious personal touch to mobile computing. The company has teamed up with Toray Ultrasuede, self-styled "leaders...
[November 30, 2005, 11:35]
Startup Launches With Promise Of Cheaper Wireless VoIP
News Following a limited set of unspecified enterprise-grade products in August, a consumer VoIP handset will be launched by the end of 2006, the Florida based company claimed on Tuesday. Establishing a base station should cost in the thousands rather...
[March 28, 2006, 9:15]
Microsoft Wants All Your Mobile Life
News Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer has claimed the division between business users and consumers is artificial, and vowed that his company is going to focus on developing software and services that appeal to "people" rather than market...
[February 14, 2006, 16:05]
