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Marriott Moscow Wi-Fi Security Concerns Well-Founded
Talkback Security concerns are well-founded. In an article recently published here: http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html? forumID=102&threadID=220684&start=0 the problem is described in some detail. The main point of the article is that Russia's...
[May 13, 2007, 7:13]
Founded in 1958, not 1977...
Talkback Jack started Commodore in 1958. The PET was released in 1977. Some might consider that year the time Commodore as we knew it was born, but the company had been around two decades prior.
[December 13, 2007, 19:17]
Innovative Business Value Founded On New Server Technology
White Papers The London Stock Exchange (the Exchange) is Europe's leading equities exchange and one of the largest exchanges in the world. Roughly, 40 percent of the London Stock Exchange's revenues are generated by sales of real-time information about stock...
[December 15, 2003, 5:47]
An Ontologically Well-Founded Profile for UML Conceptual Models
White Papers UML class diagrams can be used as a language for expressing a conceptual model of a domain. This paper focuses on the UML metaconcepts of classes and objects from an ontological point of view. The paper proposes a design pattern based on this...
[July 23, 2004, 3:00]
Novell exec's start-up goes bust
News Tilion, a business software company founded by Novell's number two executive, has ceased operations. Stone founded Tilion in early 2000 and ran it until his return to Novell. Shields said Tilion was founded on the premise that Application Service...
[June 18, 2002, 14:44]
Debian founder joins Sun
News Sun has hired Ian Murdock, who founded the Debian version of Linux and who has held various posts involving the open source operating system. He founded one of the earlier versions of Linux, Debian. At Sun, Murdock now holds the title of chief...
[March 20, 2007, 8:40]
Perens campaigns to protect open source
News Bruce Perens, who coined the term "open source", is campaigning to get onto the board of the body he founded, the Open Source Initiative, in order, he says, to protect the movement from domination by vendors.
[March 20, 2008, 13:53]
BIBLE: Best of British
News A major competitor is Soccernet (www.soccernet.com), founded by 12-year-old entrepreneur Tom Hadfield and recently brought into the Walt Disney family of Web sites. Founded last year by technical consultant Struan Bartlett and Nick Gilbert, a film...
[November 10, 1999, 13:40]
EC seeks views on future regulation of VoIP
Talkback Skype is a new company that was founded by the same guys that founded (and later sold) Kazaa. Skype is not from Kazaa. The author of this article has the facts wrong. There is no further relationship with Kazaa.
[July 28, 2004, 16:50]
Google invests in biotech start-up
News Google has invested $3.9m (£1.9m) in 23andMe, a biotech start-up co-founded by the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. With its investment, Google will hold a minority...
[May 23, 2007, 10:20]
Sun co-founder returns to fold
News Nine years after leaving the server maker he co-founded in 1982, Andy Bechtolsheim is returning to Sun Microsystems. Although Bechtolsheim co-founded Kealia in 2001, he didn't formally join it until December, when he left Cisco Systems.
[February 18, 2004, 10:55]
Beowulf cluster man becomes a Penguin
News Penguin Computing, a server maker specialising in machines running Linux, has signed an agreement to acquire Scyld Computing, the company founded by a pioneer of "Beowulf" Linux supercomputers. Scyld was founded by Donald Becker, who will become...
[June 10, 2003, 12:44]
Dell looks back at 25 years of the PC
News The man who founded the world's largest PC company thinks the best is still to come after a quarter-century of the IBM PC. More than 20 years after he founded PC's Limited, he admits his parents never quite embraced his decision to leave the...
[August 7, 2006, 15:15]
Sites bow to Microsoft's browser king
News When he co-founded Netscape Communications in 1994, Jim Clark introduced a Web browser that promised computer users a way around the Microsoft juggernaut. Now online photo print shop Shutterfly, another Clark-founded venture, has a succinct warning...
[July 8, 2002, 11:31]
BT creates nationwide Wi-Fi sharing community
News FON was founded in Spain in early 2006. With BT FON, those beliefs have proved to be well-founded. BT and FON have finally confirmed their long-expected tie-in, thus creating the largest Wi-Fi community in the world.
[October 4, 2007, 10:49]
OpenOffice nears download milestone
News The open source productivity application OpenOffice.org has been downloaded almost 50 million times since the project was started, according to the company that founded the project, Sun. Erwin Tenhumberg, a product marketing manager in Sun's client...
[October 19, 2005, 13:20]
Putting your brain on a microchip
News Hawkins himself founded a company called Numenta in March 2005 after writing a book called "On Intelligence", which outlined his theories on the brain. When the mobile company he co-founded, Palm Computing, was getting off the ground in 1992, the...
[May 12, 2006, 11:35]
Microsoft settles Google lawsuit over executive hire
News Microsoft has settled its lawsuit with rival Google over the hiring of Kai-Fu Lee, an expert in speech recognition technology and the man who founded Microsoft's China research lab in the late 1990s. Lee originally joined Microsoft in Asia in 1998...
[December 23, 2005, 9:50]
Will Yahoo's board also get a makeover?
News After months of criticism, Terry Semel is gone from the corner office at Yahoo, and Jerry Yang is finally back to running the company he co-founded. Kern has been with Yahoo's board since the company was founded in 1995.
[June 25, 2007, 15:42]
WebTV founder's next act unfolding
News Following his stint at Microsoft, Perlman founded Rearden Steel, named after a character in Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged. Steve Perlman, who founded WebTV, will show off the technology behind his two-year-old company, Rearden Steel, at next...
[January 2, 2002, 12:18]
