Google versus Microsoft: the battle is joined
Leader The battle is joined for our hearts, minds and wallets. For analysts and industry pundits, Christmas comes but four times a year with the release of quarterly figures. This quarter, the two names at the top of the list are Google and Microsoft.
[October 22, 2004, 12:55]
Tories plan to jettison joined-up gov't IT systems
News The Conservative shadow security minister has said that the government needs a less joined-up approach to information systems. Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, a former chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee, told the RSA Conference Europe 2008 in...
[October 31, 2008, 6:30]
Why MSN and Yahoo joined forces against Google
Talkback All the more reason to use Google then. Who knows how much more 'customer demand' MSN and Yahoo will suddenly find and act upon then. Besides, how about an OpenIM and OpenDirectory standard?
[October 20, 2005, 22:58]
Why MSN and Yahoo joined forces against Google
Talkback If you seriously think this deal was driven by anything announced in the market in the last six months, then you really have no understanding of how business deals like this work and shouldn't be writing articles about them.
[October 21, 2005, 8:48]
Why MSN and Yahoo joined forces against Google
Talkback It's called Trillian and has been around for ages. They already allow you to use any chat network in one client (although you still need accounts on each service). However i cant see MSN actually gaining much from this.i cant really say how many...
[October 26, 2005, 15:49]
So what has the new Skype CEO done since he joined Skype.
Blog Comment I couldn't agree with you more. The arrival of the new CEO has been the biggest "non-event" since.hmmm.well, I guess Skype "High Quality Video". All of the talk about Skype caring so deeply about their customers, and him wanting to help make sure...
[April 15, 2008, 8:08]
Sage 1000 Joined Up Thinking - Integrating information across the enterprise
White Papers Sharing information across a business by having staff re-key the same data into multiple systems is a perilous way of sourcing the data on which key decisions will be made. This paper examines the strategic drivers forcing companies to reconsider...
[March 2, 2007, 0:00]
So what has the new Skype CEO done since he joined Skype.
Blog Well it is over a month now since Josh Silverman joiner Skype as their new CEO and what has happened since then. Well as far as I can tell looking at the posts on the Skype Forum very little, in fact every thing seems to of got worse.
[April 15, 2008, 11:22]
Why MSN and Yahoo joined forces against Google
News At some point in the future, logging on to either MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger will enable a user to engage in IM sessions with registered users of both communities. Beta testing will commence later this year, with full rollout scheduled for...
[October 20, 2005, 20:05]
AOL joins safe Net standard
News AOL Time Warner has joined a coalition of technology companies creating a common online registration and identity system to counter Microsoft's ambitions with its Passport service, an AOL spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
[December 5, 2001, 10:10]
Alcatel-Lucent aims to lead 4G consortium
News Alcatel-Lucent said on Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it has joined with other companies to form a consortium to encourage the development of the next generation of wireless communications technology.
[February 17, 2009, 16:01]
Microsoft joins Bluetooth SIG
News Following much speculation , Microsoft has joined the Promoter Group of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), formed Wednesday. Microsoft is joined by other new entries, 3Com, Lucent and Motorola.
[December 1, 1999, 12:55]
Former Oracle executive Wookey joins SAP
News Longtime Oracle executive John Wookey joined SAP on Monday as executive vice president of Large Enterprise On Demand, in a move that will pit him directly against his former employer. Former Oracle executive John Wookey has joined SAP
[November 12, 2008, 9:41]
Texas Instruments backs mobile Linux
News Texas Instruments (TI) has joined the ranks of major players to throw its weight behind mobile Linux. Along with Telecom Italia and Chinese telecoms equipment giant ZTE, TI joined the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum on Monday.
[July 19, 2006, 11:10]
Microsoft joins server-messaging working group
News Microsoft said on Friday that it has joined an industry effort, initiated by several of its competitors, to establish a specification defining a standard way for business software to communicate. Novell, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Börse Systems...
[October 27, 2008, 9:52]
Microsoft muscles in on OpenDocument group
News Microsoft has joined a committee that has a key role in the ratification of OpenDocument as an international standard, leading to accusations that it intends to sabotage the process. Pamela Jones, who runs legal Web site Groklaw, speculated that...
[March 27, 2006, 9:30]
AmEx joins Microsoft Passport rivals
News American Express joined the Liberty Alliance Project on Wednesday, boosting Sun Microsystems' effort to counterbalance Microsoft's Passport authentication system. American Express, which is already allied with Sun because its Blue credit card uses...
[December 6, 2001, 9:26]
Science fiction to become science fact?
News When Bill Joy joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner earlier this year, it sounded at first like an odd coupling. Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun, recently joined a major venture capital firm.
[April 1, 2005, 12:55]
Big Brother needs sibling rivalry
Leader When the current government first came to power, it professed a policy of joined-up government. Our data belongs to us — a joined-up piece of thinking that should be clear to all. The years have not been kind to this notion — some dots are harder...
[January 15, 2007, 15:20]
BCS joins European e-skills push
News The British Computer Society has joined a body that promotes the development of e-skills in Europe. The British Computer Society (BCS) announced on Tuesday that it had joined the e-Skills Industry Leadership Board (e-Skills ILB), a body which works...
[May 28, 2008, 15:10]



