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IEEE Infighting May Derail Ethernet Development
News Squabbling within the international IT standards body IEEE looks set to derail efforts to clarify the next Ethernet standard. A group within the standards body, which was set up to define the evolution of Ethernet, has succumbed to infighting, and...
[June 19, 2007, 18:07]
Protests Derail Software Patents Vote
Talkback My impression is that one of the motivating factors behind this clarification of the patent situation (which is a dubious description of the potential result of this directive, especially if various claims are correct with respect to exemptions...
[September 2, 2003, 12:23]
Driver Shortage Could Derail 64-bit
Talkback It has now been a year since this article came out and little has improved. I recently needed a new system (I build my own) and could only find 64-bit parts at a reasonable price. Figuring that it made no sense to have a 64-bit system and a 32-bit...
[September 30, 2006, 7:04]
Protests Derail Software Patents Vote
Talkback If you get down to the nuts and bolts of it, and ignore the politics, patents favour those who have the money to register them and to defend them. I'll leave it to others more qualified to argue the social justice of this.
[September 3, 2003, 18:09]
Protests Derail Software Patents Vote
Talkback The position of the left is generally, as I understand it, to promote better conditions for the populace, including the poor, while business-oriented interests promote better conditions for business, which are presented as being incidentally...
[September 3, 2003, 15:11]
Protests Derail Software Patents Vote
Talkback I'm not sure that "America has become that which it once opposed". The ultimate goal of capitalism is to establish yourself as the single, dominant supplier of goods and/or services. This might be contrary to the belief that the aim of capitalism...
[September 3, 2003, 10:59]
Driver Shortage Could Derail 64-bit
Talkback I switched to Windows X64 in August 2005. I did not realize that it will be hell using devices. Even now I cannot find a Webcam that will install under Windows 64. It took more than a year for HP to come up with a driver for my two year old HP...
[September 17, 2006, 2:27]
Driver Shortage Could Derail 64-bit
Talkback I have a k8vse delux board and run XP (32) on a SATA drive. The drives are on the ASUS website. I think mine is using the promise controller. Couldn't get the free download XP64 copy to work though.
[May 11, 2005, 15:20]
Driver Shortage Could Derail 64-bit
Talkback I realy think both Microsoft and hardware manufacurers ought to sort out the mess we have with the present system. At the moment I have a 64 bit AMD chip running on an Asus K8 motherboard that is still running Windows Millenium because Windows XP...
[May 11, 2005, 13:00]
Billionaire Seeks To Derail AOL-Google Deal
Talkback Many suggest that AOL got the best of Google in their recent $1 billion (USD) deal. Here at Live Phone we contend that our original idea for Google is now progressing. Google VoIP and Google’s involvement in the Gizmo Project suggests Google wants...
[December 20, 2005, 16:30]
Billionaire Seeks To Derail AOL-Google Deal
Talkback Mr, Ichon appears to be correct and it would be a bad move for AOL; a premium at least. Google does not present a balanced or objective color in it's news articles - they are of a liberal slant and I am debating on changing my home page from AOL to...
[December 20, 2005, 16:27]
Billionaire Seeks To Derail AOL-Google Deal
Talkback The big fish know how the small ones taste. And adding another venture; though dead would enliven the repute to buy, its the purchaing power that seems to be competing here in the middle.
[December 20, 2005, 12:46]
Billionaire Seeks To Derail AOL-Google Deal
Talkback I don't know why anyone would be interested in AOL;they're losing subscribers, they are the most expensive dial-up out there, and people are moving over to DSL and Cable anyway
[December 20, 2005, 12:02]
Protests Derail Software Patents Vote
Talkback The craziest thing in all this is that the (by definition) anti- free market capitalist patents are being opposed by the nominally "socialist" parties! Tis a strange times, indeed, when socialists uphold capitalist prinicples, and american (!
[September 2, 2003, 11:58]
Amazon Email Can't Derail Segway
News Amazon customers who signed up to be notified of the availability of the scooter-like Segway device received a disappointing email message on Thursday: "The Segway Human Transporter will not be available in the foreseeable future.
[September 16, 2002, 7:58]
The Day Ahead: DSL Woes Could Derail Telco Growth
News There are so many DSL hoops to jump through, you have to wonder if broadband is worth the trouble. However, the companies that make DSL service easy will be on to something big. One of those winners won't be Bell Atlantic, especially if my...
[May 24, 2000, 11:34]
Canadian Ruling Won't Derail Lawsuits
News A ruling in Canada declaring downloading music through peer-to-peer services legal, but uploading illegal, may do little to prevent the music industry from taking its own action against file swappers.
[December 17, 2003, 9:20]
People Power May Derail Oracle's Ambitions
News Oracle's biggest obstacle to acquiring rival PeopleSoft may be thousands of customers who fear their multimillion-dollar software investments are in jeopardy. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison sent shockwaves through the industry last month when...
[July 11, 2003, 8:42]
Driver Shortage Could Derail 64-bit
News Companies who make the move to 64-bit computing could be hit by a lack of compatible hardware drivers, representative from some of the world's largest IT companies warned on Tuesday. Attendees at The CTO Mandate event in London heard evidence that...
[May 10, 2005, 19:10]
Net Patent Could Derail Tech Titans
News A patent held by a little-known programmer from New Jersey in the US may complicate -- at least temporarily -- the grand visions of Web services touted by titans such as IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
[October 30, 2001, 9:01]
