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Dell Video Chat - A Coup For SightSpeed
Blog Dell made several announcements today. The one which caught my eye was "Dell Video Chat powered by SightSpeed". The newly announced Studio line of laptop and desktop computers will have Dell Video Chat preloaded - which will apparently be a custom...
[June 26, 2008, 14:07]
Hayes Plans Free, Cheap 56K Modem Coup
News Recent buyers of Hayes Optima or Accura 28.8kbits/sec or 33.6kbits/sec modems will receive a free upgrade while owners of earlier devices will be entitled to a low-priced upgrade. A competitive upgrade to lure owners of other brands will also be...
[February 5, 1997, 10:30]
Kewney: Dell Win A Coup For Psion Dacom
News The move is a triumphant culmination of several months of Psion Dacom manoeuvering and negotiations aimed at convincing Dell that it was a truly global company. It involved establishing new marketing and public relations contacts in several...
[December 15, 1997, 13:27]
AMD Coup Pushes Shares To 52-week High
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) shares hustled up 5 13/16, or 14 percent, to a 52-week high of 47 5/16 on Monday after rolling out the first 1GHz microprocessor, a chip capable of executing one billion instructions a second.
[March 6, 2000, 16:43]
CA Rules Out More Acquisitions
News Sanjay Kumar, Computer Associates' chief executive, kicked off this year's CA World in bullish mood -- dismissing competition in the on-demand market, defending his company's acquisition strategy and drawing a line under the management coup which...
[July 14, 2003, 11:25]
Changing Market Puts Pressure On Graphics Software Makers
News While such Web-based offerings have yet to challenge Macromedia's dominance in this space, Adobe's major online coup has been Acrobat's cornering of the online document delivery market. For Adobe, one major coup was that of making PDFs core to the...
[July 5, 2002, 9:36]
Wow, PC World!
Talkback So is this meant to be some sort of major coup for PC World? who did they beat to the punch here? Staples and a few other retailers you've probably never heard of, I mean they're the biggest PC retailer in the UK (by a mile), it should be expected.
[July 8, 2008, 10:07]
Great But A Word Of Warning
Talkback Congatulations to Codeweavers for a great coup. However, unless I'm mistaken, Flash and other video does not run in an otherwise rather clever program and, under Ubuntu anyway, there are some issues with fonts and text.
[September 17, 2008, 15:45]
Nuclear Science Group Develops Eclipse-Based App On Linux
White Papers In what appears to be a coup for the IBM-born Eclipse open source Java development framework, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Ansto) has started using it to build a Linux-based desktop application for controlling...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Barbu
Downloads Play this online trick taking card game that is similar to Guillotine or Coup D'etat. Everyone takes turns being the dealer and choosing the type of hand to be played. Avoid taking tricks to avoid taking money cards.
[November 4, 2005, 23:01]
ISO's OOXML Committee In ODF Takeover Bid?
Blog The standards world continues to surprise us - this time with what has been described as a "coup". Those in charge of XML are, we are told, actually trying to take over the rival ODF standard. It's all a bit opaque, but the OOXML standard from...
[October 5, 2008, 22:36]
Islamic Hackers Run Amok In Pakistan
News Islamic fundamentalist hackers have hijacked the official Web page of the Punjab Government following yesterday's military coup in Pakistan. The site now carries messages commending General Pervez Musharraf who led the military in overthrowing the...
[October 14, 1999, 7:15]
Project: Snowblind Demo
Downloads After a military coup leaves him stranded in hostile territory, cut off from command with only a handful of men, Frost must stop the militia's secret weapon that threatens to plunge the world into darkness.This demo for the sci-fi shooter Project...
[April 12, 2005, 18:01]
3 Claims Win In Soccer Highlights Clash
News Third-generation mobile phone operator 3 is claiming to have pulled off a coup by offering football highlights to its subscribers several hours ahead of the BBC's television coverage. Customers of 3 will be able to watch highlights of the goals in...
[August 3, 2004, 17:45]
IBM Challenges Sun And HP With Power6
News IBM today launched its Power6 processor, which the company said represented a new challenge to Sun and HP and a potential coup de grâce to Intel's Itanium processor. The new processor is available from Monday in two-, four-, eight- and 16-core...
[May 21, 2007, 17:41]
Tech Life Tips From David Brent
News In 2003, Microsoft UK's director of people and culture, Steve Harvey, achieved the coup of getting Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to produced two training videos for the company. Gervais and Merchant agreed, on the condition that the videos not...
[August 23, 2006, 10:20]
TV Pulls Rank Over Big Brother's Web Operation
News As Channel 4 executives congratulate themselves Friday on another huge viewing coup courtesy of 'Nasty Nick', questions are being asked about the company's decision to pull the plug on the site's Webcams early Thursday morning -- just when the...
[August 18, 2000, 12:53]
Bolzplatz 2006
Downloads Now, as the football world cup in Germany begins, another football project is finished: Bolzplatz 2006 (en: Slam Soccer 2006, fr: Coup de Foot 2006), the comic-style 3D-football-game, is available for download.
[June 1, 2006, 7:46]
Foiled £220m Heist Highlights Spyware Threat
News Thieves were plotting a high-tech coup, with the aid of spyware, to steal £220m from the London offices of Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui. The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has foiled the world's largest potential bank robbery.
[March 17, 2005, 9:25]
Guy Kewney's Christmas Diary
News You would think, in the email stakes, getting your surname as a domain was enough of a coup for anybody. Really, there isn't an easy way to explain this. Well, no. In the case of kewney.com, it's too easy; there just aren't enough Kewneys in the...
[January 3, 1998, 7:00]
