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2001: The News Schmooze In Review
News The UK supposedly got GPRS in 2001, but you'd have been hard-pressed to notice, even if you were one of those corporate types supposedly gagging for fast, always-on wireless access. At its GPRS launch in May BT said, "the mobile Internet has become...
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
News Burst: Oftel Launches Review Of Mobile Phone Charges
News The review will consider how competitive the mobile market is, and will decide what level of regulation is appropriate for the mobile industry. The current controls on mobile phone charges run out in 2002.
[February 20, 2001, 10:18]
News Roundup: IR35 In The High Court
News IR35 could cost companies billions in benefits IR35 came into force in April 2000, and increases the tax liabilities of a consultant's personal services company by taxing turnover as income. Lawyers for The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) have...
[March 16, 2001, 10:50]
Oracle's Embattled Bid Likely To Drag On
News US antitrust officials may wait until January to weigh in on Oracle's embattled bid to acquire PeopleSoft, and European regulators are likely to initiate a more in-depth review of the deal, an Oracle executive said on Wednesday.
[November 13, 2003, 10:30]
Daily Mail Snaps Up Cut-price Loot
News Shares in Scoot rose almost 30 percent -- from 2p to the heady heights of 2.9p -- when investors heard the news, bringing little cheer to anyone who invested in the company when its share value topped 300p back in spring 2000.
[August 17, 2001, 12:50]
Google Talk Gets Mixed Reception
News Missing are the many encumbrances that bog down the competing IM experiences," blogger Brad Hill said in a review at the Unofficial Google Weblog. Ken Fisher, a PhD student, wrote in a mini-review at PC resource site Ars Technica.
[August 25, 2005, 8:55]
Is The New Mac OS X Worth The Price Tag?
News The full review can be found in ZDNet UK's Reviews channel. Apple's new operating system, OS X 10.2 -- known as "Jaguar" -- lives up to its sports-car nickname, according to ZDNet UK's review. Apple took the controversial decision to offer...
[August 23, 2002, 15:31]
More Government Eyes On Qwest
News The General Services Administration, the buying and procurement arm of the federal government, said in a statement that it was "conducting a review of all Qwest's government contracts and other related information for purposes of determining...
[July 15, 2002, 7:57]
Microsoft .Net Goes Back To The Drawing Board
News However, later during the cross-examination, Allchin said of the entire .Net My Services plan: "Frankly, it's in the middle of a fairly significant analysis and review. During cross-examination of his testimony Tuesday, Jim Allchin, Microsoft's...
[May 13, 2002, 9:25]
FTC Approves AOL, Time Warner Merger
News The FTC put open access front and center in its review. The FCC also examines competition in a merger review, but under the broader mandate of whether the merger serves the public interest. In a 5-0 decision, the vote means AOL and Time Warner have...
[December 14, 2000, 16:51]
Thursday
Blog But today's duvet-disturbing news takes longer to sink in than most. The company is -- wait for it -- really excited by the news, as it shows the importance of software in mobile phones. Thursday 7/11/2002Wireless changes your life in all sorts of...
[November 8, 2002, 16:51]
PeopleSoft: And The Bid Goes On
News CNET News.com recently caught up with Conway, who explained why he believes Oracle has purposely prolonged an antitrust review of the proposed merger in order to buy itself some time. The good news is that customers aren't buying it.
[November 28, 2003, 13:40]
Court Orders ICANN To Open Books
News ICANN board member Karl Auerbach, a veteran Internet engineer now working at a start-up, sued the organisation in March after being rebuffed in his request to review records, first made in November 2000.
[July 30, 2002, 9:40]
NY Accuses Software Maker Of Censorship
News The suit, filed with the state Supreme Court in New York, cites a case in which Network Associates allegedly used the "censorship clause" to try to force online and print magazine Network World to retract a negative review of McAfee's Gauntlet...
[February 8, 2002, 13:32]
Carnivore Review: A 'stacked Deck?'
News By selecting people with extensive government ties for what is supposedly an independent review, the Executive Branch has shown once again that it cannot be trusted with carte blanche authority to conduct searches," ACLU associate director Barry...
[October 5, 2000, 8:19]
Gartner Says 'ditch Microsoft Passport'
News Perhaps more radically, the article says "more vulnerabilities will likely surface in Passport," and even calls for an open-source review of the code. Recommendations in an article published by analysis heavyweight Gartner urging its customers to...
[May 19, 2003, 9:21]
Experts: Carnivore Review Had No Teeth
News The researchers said that while a previous review completed by a team at the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute (Iitri) appeared to have been conducted in good faith, the results were incomplete.
[December 5, 2000, 8:52]
Sony Ericsson Smartphone: Worth The Wait?
News We expect Sony Ericsson to release important updates in the coming months, as it has done for the T68," the review said. The P800 has a built-in camera, a pen-operated touch-screen, media player, Web browser, organiser functions, PC synchronisation...
[January 29, 2003, 13:31]
RSA Weighs In On Teen's 'breakthrough'
News The good news is that it sounds like she knows her stuff -- we have another bright person interested in encryption. The bad news is that this will probably not make it unscathed through the review process," he said.
[January 20, 1999, 13:33]
Lindows To Hit Retail Shelves
News In the UK, Evesham sells a PC with Lindows pre-installed for as low as £249.99 (see ZDNet UK's review of the Evesham PC here). Prices to retailers are low enough that companies such as Nova Computech is selling the operating system bundled with a...
[December 16, 2002, 16:15]
