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Five Years Of Ballmer, And Still No Verdict
News In the five years since Bill Gates surprised the technology world by announcing he would give up his title as chief executive at Microsoft, has the company changed? The eventual shift of power to long-time friend and colleague Ballmer was expected...
[January 14, 2005, 14:40]
Five Years Ago: Videoconferencing Could Be 1997's Killer App
News US-based Sage Research says almost one in five US businesses already have desktop videoconferencing capabilities while another 47 per cent plan to deploy it within two years, taking the total to two-thirds of all businesses surveyed.
[December 3, 2001, 6:00]
Five Years Ago: IBM Plans First USB PC For October
News The format is all-new, offering five slots and five drive bays. The amazing thing is that we have been stuck with such an unwieldy, slow peripheral interface all these years while Mac users have had the USB-like Apple Desktop Bus.
[August 1, 2001, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: IBM To Push Networked PC Ticket
News The comments we get from customers is they were advised to take the client-server boat five years ago and it's turned out to be the Titanic. First published 2 July, 1997. Big Blue has had a formal relationship with Intel since October 1996 to...
[July 2, 2002, 7:27]
Five Years Ago: Hitachi: DVD, CD Will Sell Side By Side Till 2001
News The European DVD-ROM market will be five per cent - or 900,000 units - of the CD-ROM market by the end of the year, according to a report by Hitachi and market analyst IDC. For two to three years there will be a viable market for CD-ROM and DVD-ROM...
[January 25, 2002, 6:01]
Five Years Ago: Dell Number One In Declining Government Market
News Dell UK corporate managing director Mike Newton said that "nearly one in five PCs installed [in government] has a Dell badge on it". The accolade came from Kable, an IT researcher specialising in the public sector, which added that the government...
[April 10, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: Hacker Mitnick To Serve 22 Months
News To date, no hacker has served more than five years. At the time, the prosecutor stated Mitnick could be sentenced to a maximum of 200 years in prison. First published 20 June, 1997. Kevin Mitnick, once the FBI's most wanted hacker, is set to be...
[June 20, 2002, 7:02]
CA To Republish Five Years Of Financial Statements
News Computer Associates is being forced to republish five years worth of financial statements after it found 10 invalid contracts in its records. The news comes as a blow to CA, which was linked with an accounting scandal last year, and will now delay...
[June 3, 2005, 9:21]
Seagate Extends Consumer Warranty To Five Years
News Until now, Seagate has offered non-corporate users a two-year warranty on products of this type, but will now offer a full five-year warranty. A Seagate spokesman explained that this is in line with its standard five-year warranty on "raw drives...
[January 8, 2007, 15:10]
An Examination Of The Gramm Leach Bliley Act Five Years After Its Passage
White Papers The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) for over twenty five years has been a major tool in bringing capital and better banking services to the nation's underserved urban and rural communities. Two key changes to CRA would help to modernize the law...
[September 20, 2005, 3:00]
Leading British Retailer Recovers £15 Million (US$30 Million) In Five Years With Symantec
White Papers That's exactly what the leading British grocery retailer Somerfield has achieved in the last five years using Symantec Enterprise Vault software. Imagine unlocking £15 million (US$30 million) in unpaid supplier invoices.
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust Adopts E-Business Solution To Automate Key Processes, Sees Net Benefits Of £1.2 Million Over Five Years
White Papers As a first step, the trust is investing £2.3 million over five years on a selection of Oracle procurement, financial, and portal technologies designed to improve financial management, automate procurement, drive out maverick spending, reduce...
[March 7, 2006, 23:00]
Text Messaging Lorry Driver Gets Five Years
News The lorry driver accused of running down and killing a man while typing a text message was sentenced to five years imprisonment Wednesday for what was condemned as a "wickedly dangerous" activity. Sentencing Browning to five years imprisonment...
[February 15, 2001, 11:55]
Sex.com Conman Caught After Five Years Flight
News The man who stole top domain name sex.com has been arrested by Mexican police and handed over to US agents after five years on the run. Stephen Cohen stole the domain name from original owner Gary Kremen, who sued Cohen for fraud and forgery in...
[October 28, 2005, 18:25]
Europe Could Take Five Years To Catch US In E-commerce
News The question is an important one, because the one thing all the analysts agree on is that global e-business -- not just retail, but services, and business to business e-trade, is going to grow massively in the next five years.
[January 24, 2000, 17:21]
Delivering A 186 Percent Return On Investment Over Five Years With Symantec Information Foundation 2007
White Papers Symantec Enterprise Vault is helping to deliver a 186 percent return on investment over five years (according to independent research). The UZ Leuven IT helpdesk decided to re-evaluate its email and content archiving strategy as they reached one...
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
Gartner Should Look At Apple's Stock Growth Over The Last Five Years
Talkback If you go to any stock report for the last five years you will see massive growth for Apple, MS is flat-lining and Dell, well Dell's shares are just plain losing profit down the line. It's about the bottom line for the share holders and over the...
[November 21, 2006, 15:02]
Man Gets Five Years For £14m Computer Fraud
News A man who was found guilty of a £14m VAT fraud involving computer equipment was jailed this week for five years. Amiram Hashash, who was general manager of a company called Compulog Ltd from 1997 to 2000, had purchased large quantities of computer...
[July 19, 2002, 15:07]
US Hacker Gets Five Years In The Slammer
News A US man has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison after he was found guilty of illegally controlling around 400,000 third party PCs for the purposes of launching malware attacks. Jeanson James Ancheta, 21, from California, rented out space...
[May 9, 2006, 16:30]
Net Paedophile Gets Five Years
News A paedophile who used the Internet to stalk his victims has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl he met on the Web. His Honourable Judge Tyrer sentenced Green to a total of five years for multiple...
[October 24, 2000, 14:49]
