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News Corp cleared to purchase Intermix
News Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has been given the green light by US antitrust authorities to go ahead with its acquisition of Intermix Media. The Federal Trade Commission on Monday said it would not raise any objection to News Corporation's...
[August 23, 2005, 16:10]
Murdoch warns of disruptive effects of technology
News But in August 2005 News Corporation announced a major expansion into the online space. Later that month, News Corporation was given clearance to buy Intermix Media for $580m (£322m), giving it control of the MySpace social networking site.
[March 14, 2006, 14:10]
Chinese developers place confidence in open source
News Following news from Beijing that China wants to develop a Windows clone operating system, Evans Data Corporation's first survey of the People's Republic of China indicates that its infant software industry is highly enthusiastic about open source.
[July 25, 2002, 7:53]
IBM's Web analyser gives image boost
News IBM said it is developing an application to analyse how discussions on blogs and other Web sites are affecting a given corporation's image. But it found that some customers were keen on learning what outsiders were saying on the Web about a given...
[November 10, 2005, 9:10]
MPAA launches software snooping tool
Talkback An amicus brief was also filed in the case on behalf of the Internet Commerce Coalition, a trade association which includes AT&T, BellSouth Corporation, eBay Inc. Contact: Jim FOSBINDER of FOSBINDER & FOSBINDER A LAW CORPORATION for comments or...
[December 2, 2004, 20:57]
Kashmiri hackers attack BBC news service
News The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has confirmed that hackers supporting the liberation of Kashmir have attempted to break into a server used to provide information to BBC staff around the world.
[April 30, 2001, 16:07]
Web erupts with Mozilla revenue speculation
News The Mozilla Corporation, the commercial arm of the Mozilla Foundation, claims that despite the success of its various online applications, it is not focused on making profits but creating strong products.
[March 10, 2006, 12:15]
IBM calls for global identity management solution
Talkback So the difference between communistic regimes like China and the "free market" western societies is that in the former "government is responsible" for the corporation, whereas in the latter, the corporation has a carte blanche?
[November 10, 2005, 18:44]
.Org domain to get new guardian
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is poring over 11 applications to decide who will take over the .org registry from VeriSign. ICANN, a nonprofit, private-sector corporation, was formed in 1998 with the mandate to...
[July 17, 2002, 15:05]
Sony's mod chip battle heats up
News Sony Corporation Entertainment has accused the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission of using rhetoric and misleading information in a courtroom dispute between the two over the use of modification chips in PlayStation2 consoles.
[February 14, 2002, 10:12]
Motorola mobiles get 3D games engine
News On Tuesday, Motorola announced that its developers will be able to use Tokyo-based Hi Corporation's Mascot Capsule Engine -- which allows real-time 3D graphics rendering -- to develop new applications and games.
[July 23, 2003, 17:10]
Cobalt: There will be no Apple Cube lawsuit
News It was first registered by NeXT Computer, the company founded by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs in the late 1980s, but subsequently fell into misuse with the discontinuation of the NeXT Cube, allowing it to be picked up by Cube Computer...
[April 25, 2001, 18:00]
News Burst: Sega raided over price fixing
News Shares in the Sega corporation fell 5 percent following news of the raids. Sega remain unsurprisingly tight-lipped over the affair with a spokesman saying, "The offices have been raided and it is in connection with price fixing allegations, but...
[November 12, 1999, 10:17]
News Burst: BT says show me the money
News BT's attempt to claim a patent on a hyperlink is just one of many bits of nostalgia which the corporation is trying to get credit for inventing. Go to AnchorDesk UK for the news comment. A day after it was announced that BT would pursue its claim...
[June 21, 2000, 10:45]
News Burst: Brief filed to reveal identity of Netizen
News message board that an AK Steel Corporation (formerly Armco Steel) executive said were disparaging, threatening, and defamatory. To have your say online click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum.
[October 17, 2000, 11:50]
News Roundup: Domain name plans under scrutiny
News Fri, 2 Feb The US Congress investigates the procedure used by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers to select seven additional generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) NEWS: Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum.
[March 12, 2001, 11:46]
HarperCollins Publishers Use SQL Server to Reduce Costs and Improve Responsiveness
White Papers HarperCollins Publishers, one of the largest English-language publishers in the world and a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation with 1998 revenues of $1.09 billion, was founded in New York City in 1817 by brothers James and John Harper.
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
Delivering a Superior Customer Experience and Gaining a Competitive Advantage With Progress OpenEdge
White Papers The Kenosha News, a United Communications Corporation paper, is a growing daily newspaper with a weekday circulation of 26,000 and a Sunday edition that reaches 28,500. The Kenosha News needed to replace its legacy circulation management system and...
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
Delivering a Superior Customer Experience and Gaining a Competitive Advantage With Progress OpenEdge.
White Papers The Kenosha News, a United Communications Corporation paper, is a growing daily newspaper with a weekday circulation of 26,000 and a Sunday edition that reaches 28,500. They needed to replace its legacy circulation management system and also...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
It’s always the quiet ones isn’t it?
Blog In a muted show of publicity from a quiet corner of the open source development community, comes news this week that security appliance vendor Astaro Corporation has been recognised as the ninth most active employer for changesets produced in the...
[May 1, 2008, 21:09]
