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Failed HP-Compaq merger would be painful
News There's a lot of second-guessing after a failed deal. Most deals failed because of early regulatory concerns or because one company backed out shortly after the proposal. It's hard to say exactly what would happen if the HP-Compaq deal were to fall...
[November 12, 2001, 12:50]
Failed dot-commers move into porn
News Courses for budding porn site operators are attracting failed US dot-commers in their droves, and Australians are showing signs of getting in on the action. ZDNet Australia reported yesterday on the growing trend of dot-com has-beens to cash in on...
[September 6, 2001, 10:02]
Failed to update firmware
Member Review It failed to update firmare correctly and now won't fully boot. I needed to update my WRT54G firmware because its Web-page server kept crashing. Linksys support seemed to to think I wasn't worth their time.
[April 29, 2004, 12:29]
SCO: IBM has 'failed to comply'
Talkback For example, in this filing, SCO is claiming that IBM has failed to comply with discovery, but then mentions things that IBM was never ordered to provide. It's silly of you to print SCO press releases, and especially silly to print extracts from...
[July 13, 2004, 18:38]
SCO: IBM has 'failed to comply'
Talkback of course this article doesn't mention that SCO has failed to comply with two - TWO - court orders to provide its own discovery, which includes which lines, with specificity, they say were stolen. This was even supposed to take place before IBM had...
[July 13, 2004, 6:43]
Burn: NPfIT has 'failed so far'
Blog There have been plenty of successes right across the board in the health sector, but I would say [NPfIT] has failed [so far]," Burn added. At last month's Government UK IT Summit, Andy Burn, head of information management and technology planning...
[June 1, 2007, 17:13]
Small firms 'failed' by patent law
News Small businesses are being failed by the patent system, according to Andrew Gowers, the man leading an independent review into intellectual property law in the UK. SMEs are a disadvantage when applying for patents because of the expense of having a...
[March 2, 2006, 16:45]
Recovering a Failed Exchange 2003 Member Server Using the Disaster Recovery Switch
White Papers In order to restore a failed Exchange 2003 Server, a person can install a "New" one using the Disaster Recovery switch, but there are several steps to it, and they need to be performed in the correct order.
[October 20, 2006, 1:00]
Company cuts staff after failed Palm deal
News Simpson said in a statement, on Thursday, that the amount of time and effort spent on the failed Palm merger has affected the company's business and will influence results for the next two quarters. Extended Systems said on Thursday that it would...
[June 1, 2001, 10:18]
UK failed to protect privacy over Phorm, says EC
News The UK government has failed to implement adequate communications privacy legislation and must take steps to strengthen privacy safeguards, the European Commission has found. The Commission said the UK had failed to comply with both the European e...
[October 29, 2009, 16:54]
SCO: IBM has 'failed to comply'
News IBM has failed to comply with its discovery obligations and the court's order," attorneys for the company said in the filing. The SCO Group, which is suing IBM over its treatment of the Unix and Linux operating systems, has accused Big Blue of...
[July 12, 2004, 9:25]
Windows 7 to 'rescue' apps that failed to run in Vista
News Microsoft has sought to "rescue" certain types of programs for use in Windows 7 that were rendered incompatible by the move to Vista. Previously, the rule of thumb was that if a program runs in Vista, it will run in Windows 7 and, in general...
[March 12, 2009, 15:51]
Failed on Earth? Try orbit
Blog Comment I wanted to correct important factual errors in your article. Specifically, the inaccuracies stated in this sentence: “Iridium, that splendid folly of a public satellite phone system, has only survived because the US State Department picked it up...
[February 3, 2009, 8:35]
Failed on Earth? Try orbit
Blog Comment Thanks for that! Delighted to be put right - although I should point out that at the time, the DoD was fingered as an investor. This is from 2001:: This capability ensued from the Defense Department’s $72 million investment in Iridium Satellite LLC...
[February 3, 2009, 11:39]
Five years ago: Psion adds up cost of failed Amstrad buy
News Declaring its latest financial results, Psion said pre-tax profits would have been £8 million rather than £6.5 million, had it not been for the cost of a lengthy spell of due diligence, the legal process by which companies involved in acquisitions...
[August 7, 2001, 8:00]
Matalan writes off £20m over failed IT system
News Retailer Matalan is threatening to sue an IT consultancy after spending £20m on an unfinished new computer system that has now been scrapped. The £20m write-off has hit Matalan's profits, which fell from £86.3m last year to £36.3m for the financial...
[May 5, 2006, 9:45]
Small firms 'failed' by patent law
Talkback Just look at the mess that "more accessible" patents have created in the US. The Blackberry mess, the JPG fiasco and there is Balthauser and the AJAX/Flash/PDF/Javascript patent. The absurd thing is that the patent holders can screw millions of...
[March 2, 2006, 21:03]
Governments failed to foresee IT skills gap
News UK governments have let slip opportunities to narrow the shortage in IT skills, according to a prominent Labour peer. Lord David Triesman, parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, also said...
[October 26, 2007, 17:00]
How Sony failed to Connect, again
News Early in 2005, more than a dozen Sony employees from the company's consumer electronics divisions gathered for an unusual meeting in the tiny Palo Alto, California headquarters of digital media start-up Kinoma.
[June 1, 2006, 11:00]
Small firms 'failed' by patent law
Talkback IP Patents should be dropped all together to allow easier access for all involved. This route has allowed stupid patent aplications to proceed which merely inhibit freemarket competition.http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html
[March 4, 2006, 0:21]
