Microsoft Extends Deadline For License Change
News Bowing to customer pressure, Microsoft has extended the deadline for business customers to sign up for a licensing program, just days after backing off a controversial provision that forced some to pay twice for software they purchased.
[October 8, 2001, 11:00]
US Extends Europe's E-passport Deadline
Talkback This story is a bit more than a bit stale. See Financial Times (news.ft.com/cms/s/0102e7c0-d855-11d9-8fa7-00000e2511c8.html) which reported on 9 June 2005, however, that neither France nor Italy uses digital photographs in their passports and...
[June 16, 2005, 13:25]
Yahoo Extends Deadline For Board Nominations
News Yahoo has extended a deadline to nominate board directors, buying the company time to pursue alternatives to Microsoft's $41.7bn offer, while giving Yahoo room to negotiate a friendly deal with Microsoft.
[March 6, 2008, 8:43]
Oracle Extends PeopleSoft Deadline - Again
News Oracle has extended the deadline for PeopleSoft investors to tender their shares in its hostile bid to acquire its business software rival -- the eleventh extension of the offer since Oracle launched the bid more than 15 months ago.
[September 24, 2004, 9:10]
Oracle Extends PeopleSoft Investor Deadline
News Oracle extended the deadline on Thursday for PeopleSoft investors to tender their shares in its hostile bid to acquire its business software rival. The offer, which was set to expire on Friday, is valid until 10 September.
[August 27, 2004, 10:25]
Oracle Extends PeopleSoft Share Deadline
News Oracle announced on Monday that it has extended the deadline for PeopleSoft investors to tender their shares in its hostile bid to acquire PeopleSoft. Oracle has extended the deadline to 27 August from 16 July.
[July 14, 2004, 9:10]
Judge Extends Microsoft-DOJ Deadline
News A federal judge on Thursday extended the deadline for a joint status report that Microsoft and the government have been drafting for the next phase of the landmark antitrust trial. The software giant, Justice Department and 18 states had been...
[September 14, 2001, 10:24]
Apple Extends .Mac Sign-up Deadline
News Apple said it is extending the deadline until 14 October for users of the free email, Web hosting and online storage service to subscribe to Apple's new .Mac service, which was launched in July. In order to make sure that every iTools customer has...
[September 30, 2002, 10:45]
Regulators Seek Deeper Probe Of Oracle-Siebel Deal
News Antitrust regulators on Monday extended the deadline for reviewing the Oracle and Siebel merger, as Department of Justice requested additional information in connection with the deal. Improvements Act, had faced a deadline of midnight Monday to...
[October 25, 2005, 9:10]
Oracle Courts Reluctant PeopleSoft
News Deadline extended for selling PeopleSoft shares Oracle approaches antitrust deadline Ellison extends support promise in PeopleSoft bid NEWS: Ellison unsure on next move in PeopleSoft battle Mon 7 July Oracle's chairman says he does not know if he...
[June 23, 2003, 12:23]
Unix Decline Extends SCO Revenue Drop
Talkback The limited discovery order expired when SCOG declined to file for a preliminary injunction by the deadline. A truer picture is in http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp? id=2660: "SCO over the first six months of this fiscal year the company has...
[June 2, 2005, 19:06]
Spam Inquiry To Focus On International Laws
News The APIG is currently calling for interested parties to present written evidence to the inquiry -- the deadline is 25 June, and the sessions will be held in the House of Commons on 3 and 10 July. The directive, which is in line to be made UK law...
[June 16, 2003, 11:20]
HMRC Extends Late-fee Amnesty After Site Crash
News The HMRC self-assessment tax website was unavailable for a large part of the day on 31 January, which was the deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns online. As a result of the problem, the deadline was initially extended by 24 hours to the...
[February 6, 2008, 8:30]
Oracle Again Extends PeopleSoft Bid
News Oracle announced on Thursday that it has extended to mid-October its deadline for tendering shares in its hostile $7.25bn (£4.59bn) bid for PeopleSoft. Oracle pushed its tender offer deadline to midnight on 17 October following a presentation by...
[September 5, 2003, 8:30]
Oracle Extends Support For 10.7
News Although Oracle has supported 10.7 for seven years and has extended support for the version before, the impending upgrade deadline had drawn criticism because of a confluence of three unusual circumstances: initial problems with the newer version...
[January 23, 2003, 10:43]
QXL Extends Charity Auction For 'Full Stop'
News QXL is extending the deadline for its charity auction in aid of the NSPCC's Full Stop campaign -- which seeks to stamp out child abuse in one generation. The auction will now run until the end of this week, closing on Friday the 24th.
[September 20, 1999, 16:43]
Intel Updates VPro
News The new Fast Call for Help feature is designed for use in a crisis, such as a rapidly approaching deadline: make a single keystroke on your PC, and your IT helpdesk is instantly alerted. Intel has announced the next generation of vPro, its business...
[September 22, 2008, 17:31]
A Deadline And Budget Constrained Cost-Time Optimisation Algorithm For Scheduling Task Farming Applications On Global Grids
White Papers This paper proposes a new scheduling algorithm, called DBC cost-time optimisation, which extends the DBC cost-optimisation algorithm to optimise for time, keeping the cost of computation at the minimum.
[November 11, 2004, 2:00]
Faltering For Weeks
Talkback I tried to submit my SA over a week before the deadline and had some serious problems. I would get part way through the sequence of screens, hit next and get an error page. I then had to try and start all over again, double checking the saved pages...
[February 6, 2008, 17:04]
