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Novell: No end to OOXML disputes
News There's no end in sight to the ongoing disputes between the two camps," said de Icaza, speaking at XML 2007, a Microsoft-sponsored event, on Tuesday. Novell has said there is no end in sight to the continuing feud between supporters of OpenDocument...
[December 5, 2007, 15:56]
Nominet defies WIPO over domain disputes
News Nominet, the registry for UK Internet names, is considering whether to defy the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on methods for settle disputes over domain names. A consultation on the draft code, Best Practices for the Prevention...
[March 3, 2001, 6:50]
E-envoy disputes 800,000 job-loss quote
News Pinder now disputes these reports, according to the publication Government Computing. The e-envoy, Andrew Pinder, has said that comments he made about job losses from putting government services online were taken out of context.
[May 15, 2002, 17:06]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback With the researchers focus explained, and considering that all Linux softwares have direct counterparts (with same codebase even) on Windows, it somewhat makes sense: since all users and all apps have admin rights by default on a Windows system...
[February 23, 2006, 16:03]
Nominet calls in experts to resolve disputes
News The UK national domain name registry Nominet has announced plans to recruit up to 30 dispute resolution experts, to settle cases where mediation has failed to bring about a resolution. The initiative follows a recent revision to the body's dispute...
[July 17, 2001, 15:07]
Bank software firm disputes hacking claims
News Banking software firm Fiserv has denied claims by the Observer newspaper that data accessed through one of its Web sites gave a UK security expert access to thousands of genuine bank accounts. Fiserv says security engineer Ralph Dressel actually...
[September 25, 2000, 16:20]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback "Windows alone accounted for more than 25% of all computer security vulnerabilities found among the more than 100 operating systems available in the previous year," would be another way of writing the headline or would Big Bill pull the...
[January 10, 2006, 14:29]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback I would like to comment on misleading tems used in this article. Please use the term Linux only in cojunction with the kernel of the OS. If you talk about the whole OS (including other programs required to make the system usable) use the term GNU...
[January 9, 2006, 7:31]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback "Which two major OS platforms would those be? Last I checked, Mac OS X had at least twice the share of all *nix put together. Unless you wanna count it as another *nix. Counting is hard. Mac OS X was lumped in with the other Unix-type OSs, so...
[January 8, 2006, 14:47]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback "The two figures are not representative of today's two major operating system platforms. One figure represents the vulnerabilities found in Windows operating systems: XP, NT, 98, and so on. The other represents a total figure not just for Solaris...
[January 6, 2006, 23:03]
The low-down on domain name disputes
News A report published in August by a professor of law specialising in Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa found that in domain name disputes, the odds are stacked overwhelmingly in favour of the complainant.
[December 28, 2001, 6:31]
Database to resolve Internet adoption disputes
News Internet adoption rows could be resolved by the launch of a nationwide computer system, which will help to link adoptive families with suitable children in England and Wales. The Department of Health (DH) on Tuesday announced funding for an online...
[August 7, 2001, 16:58]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
News Open source experts have hit back at a study published by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) that said more vulnerabilities were found in Linux/Unix than in Windows in 2005, labelling the report misleading and confusing.
[January 6, 2006, 13:45]
Digital Economy Bill: Industry disputes gov't claims
News ISPs have strongly disagreed with government claims that they back the anti-copyright-infringement measures proposed in the Digital Economy Bill, and UK-based registries have expressed outrage at the idea of the government seizing control of...
[November 20, 2009, 16:06]
FSF disputes anti-GPLv3 arguments
News The Free Software Foundation is seeking to counter recent claims of prominent Linux programmers who have argued vehemently against new features in an update of the widely used General Public License (GPL).
[September 27, 2006, 9:40]
US Report: DoJ disputes senators over Microsoft
News The U.S. Justice Department denied charges by three United States senators that it had divulged confidential information to foreign governments or encouraged them to take or threaten legal action against Microsoft.
[July 16, 1998, 10:14]
Sun disputes claims OpenOffice is a fading project
News Far from a project that is fading into oblivion, OpenOffice.org is still thriving under the support of a vibrant developer community and plans for further performance improvements, says its primary sponsor and owner Sun.
[March 6, 2009, 8:56]
Ten IT flame wars that refuse to die down
Comment Anyone who expected professional camaraderie from IT people might be surprised at the bitter and protracted disputes that have gripped the technology industry, says Jack Wallen. Chances are, you have been caught up in at least one of these disputes.
[September 4, 2009, 15:44]
Ericsson and Qualcomm settle standards dispute
News Swedish mobile phone giant Ericsson and U.S.wireless phone maker Qualcomm settled their intellectual property disputes and worked out a technology sharing and cross-licensing deal that could pave the way for a worldwide standard for third...
[March 26, 1999, 10:44]
