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HP opens new front in PC price war
News The computer giant on Thursday began taking customer orders for the new Pavilion a210e PC on its HPShopping Web site. Hewlett-Packard is again doing the low-price computer limbo with a new $349 (£209) desktop PC.
[June 27, 2003, 14:42]
HP notebooks built for battle
News The computer giant on Thursday unveiled a rugged notebook PC and tablet PC designed to absorb punishment from vibration or shock, repel water during inclement weather -- and keep working. The computer giant expects that some corporations, as well...
[March 19, 2004, 10:50]
Another Microsoft Web site hacked
News This time the software giant's US Web site may have become the victim of computer crackers According to Alldas.de, a German Web site that records Web page defacements, a Web server located within Microsoft's .com domain at streamer.microsoft.com...
[May 8, 2001, 9:55]
Microsoft domination 'threatens US security'
News A computer industry group critical of Microsoft plans to release a report on Wednesday arguing that the software giant's dominance in key technologies threatens US infrastructure. The report, issued by the Computer and Communications Industry...
[September 24, 2003, 14:30]
PC makers ready to throw out the Windows
News Major personal-computer makers are quietly working on a wave of products that won't use Microsoft's Windows PC-operating system, the source of the software giant's market power. Compaq hasn't decided what basic software to use in its Internet line...
[October 28, 1999, 13:20]
PC manufacturers feel pressure to recycle
News Altobell is the marketing manager of HP's Product Recycling Solutions unit in Roseville, California, which processes three million pounds of used computer machinery each month, transforming giant corporate printers and cast-off 386 consumer...
[July 7, 2003, 8:01]
Sony sneaking up on PC market
News Despite flopping in the PC market a few years ago, Japanese consumer-electronics giant Sony has finally stepped up to become one of the computer industry's big players. The company's worldwide computer shipments grew faster than those of any other...
[September 23, 2002, 13:32]
Single PC to adopt multiple OS
News Software giant Microsoft and start-up VMware are bringing closer to reality a technology for running multiple instances of an operating system on a single computer. BMC Software, Computer Associates International, Veritas Software, Hewlett-Packard...
[November 10, 2003, 10:00]
AOL deal boosts Microsoft media technology
News AOL Time Warner's settlement with Microsoft on Thursday brings the software giant a powerful ally in extending its digital media technology -- part of Microsoft's plan to keep Windows the world's dominant computer operating system and expand onto...
[May 30, 2003, 7:51]
Microsoft denies media-player monopoly
News Microsoft on Friday denied that it illegally used its desktop computer operating system monopoly to hurt digital media rivals, responding to civil antitrust charges brought by archrival RealNetworks. According to Internet researcher Nielsen...
[February 23, 2004, 9:20]
Q&A: Ray Lane on Oracle-PeopleSoft
Talkback Information traversed a giant loop until it found its home computer. He has applied this experience to a totally new and modern concept in computer utility service. It compares in computer space to Burt Rutan pushing his home built rocket ship into...
[July 1, 2004, 23:03]
Microsoft draws fire for EC appointment
News The controversial appointment will see Detlef Eckert take three years out from policy making along Europe's corridors of power to join Microsoft to work on improving the company's computer software security.
[December 2, 2002, 8:04]
Olympics fuels demand for IT contractors
News Giant group said significant numbers of software engineers with computer modelling skills are required to work on structural analysis of Olympic facilities and infrastructure — which are currently being designed.
[July 26, 2007, 17:19]
Microsoft 'solves' hacking mystery
News However, the software giant didn't explain why every computer attacked happened to be a Windows 2000 server. The most recent advisory warns that "successful compromises leave a distinctive pattern", including a modified security policy -- if the...
[September 10, 2002, 8:02]
It can pay to criticise Microsoft
News The report in the Financial Times indicated that Ed Black, head of the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), received almost half the $19.75m paid to his company by Microsoft following the CCIA's decision to withdraw its...
[November 25, 2004, 12:05]
Microsoft issues another two patches
News The flaw could allow for a denial-of-service attack or give an attacker access to information on the computer. Microsoft released patches for a score of flaws in mid-April, but the fixes did not prevent the Sasser computer worm, released to the...
[June 9, 2004, 8:40]
What small business can teach big business review
Reviews He told me that, technologically, many large firms are in the 'hospice business' of nursing old, out-of-date computer installations slowly into that good night. Look at the clunky, slow green-screen computer terminals that airline booking agents...
[March 31, 2005, 8:35]
Microsoft gears up for worm's blast
News Computers infected with the worm will start sending connection requests to the Windows Update service at midnight on Friday, according to the clock on a given user's computer. Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer for security software maker eEye...
[August 14, 2003, 8:40]
Intel 'done with Intergraph'
News The lawsuit centred on allegations the computer makers infringed on its Clipper system patents. Dell cited the 2002 settlement agreement reached between Intergraph and Intel and the indemnification that Intel had granted the computer maker.
[March 31, 2004, 8:25]
Gates vows better security to customers
News While we've accomplished a lot in the past year, there is still more to do--at Microsoft and across our industry," Gates wrote in the e-mail message, citing data from the Computer Security Institute and the FBI that estimated the damage from...
[January 24, 2003, 7:51]
