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2001: The News Schmooze in review
News The News Schmooze is ZDNet UK's irreverent take on the week's news. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet news forum. The UK supposedly got GPRS in 2001, but you'd have been hard-pressed to notice, even if you were one of those...
[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. Telecoms watchdog Oftel today launched a consultation into the current controls on mobile phone charges...
[February 20, 2001, 10:18]
Government launches investigation into BBC
News The government is considering launching an investigation into the commercial activities of the BBC that would include a review of its news Web site BBC Online, following complaints from companies that the public service broadcaster is competing...
[February 12, 2001, 8:41]
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]
2003 World Almanac - Year in Review '02
Downloads Get the Year in Review '02 Database plus THREE more World Almanac products for only $9.95 in the 2003 World Almanac - Media Bundle! Town CompassŪ presents The 2003 World Almanac - 2002 Year in Review.Whether you are an educator, student...
[February 4, 2003, 7:00]
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]
RSA weighs in on teen's 'breakthrough'
News The bad news is that this will probably not make it unscathed through the review process," he said. The good news is that it sounds like she knows her stuff -- we have another bright person interested in encryption.
[January 20, 1999, 13:33]
Is the new Mac OS X worth the price tag?
News 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. The full review can be found in ZDNet UK's Reviews channel. Apple took the controversial decision to offer...
[August 23, 2002, 15:31]
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]
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. There is no splash panel with news; no stock tabs or online radio.
[August 25, 2005, 8:55]
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]
Yahoo! mail filters out Java-related words
News But an independent test by CNET News.com showed that the terms "eval" and "mocha" and "expression" were replaced with "review," "espresso" and "statement," respectively. s filter changes the term "eval" -- a JavaScript command used to evaluate a...
[July 17, 2002, 13:40]
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]
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. Microsoft can reduce this impact and regain market confidence by submitting Passport's code to a...
[May 19, 2003, 9:21]
Sony Ericsson smartphone: Worth the wait?
News After a year of virtual stagnancy, the P800 is a big step forward for Sony Ericsson," the review found, citing its large, sharp 4,096-colour display, decent battery life and the simplicity with which functions such as Web browsing and snapping...
[January 29, 2003, 13:31]
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. The FCC traditionally votes after the FTC or the...
[December 14, 2000, 16:51]
Thursday
Blog That's a bit bland by way of explanation for killing your flagship product after years of development, two weeks after launch and having sent out review phones. But today's duvet-disturbing news takes longer to sink in than most.
[November 8, 2002, 16:51]
Handspring speeds up Treo software
News For ZDNet UK's review of the Treo 180, click here. For ZDNet UK's review of the Treo 270, click here. To see the latest news on the next generation of mobile communications, see the GPRS/3G News Section.
[October 1, 2002, 16:23]
Microsoft .Net goes back to the drawing board
News Allchin said a plan to offer .Net My Services as a set of tools for big companies is under review. During cross-examination of his testimony Tuesday, Jim Allchin, Microsoft's senior vice president for Windows, reiterated that the company's .Net My...
[May 13, 2002, 9:25]
Publishers want online ad guidelines
News If information is coming from a trusted news provider, I'm going to evaluate it differently than information coming from an advertiser," Yelvington said. I don't mean to suggest that news Web sites shouldn't work with commercial Web sites.
[February 5, 1999, 15:03]
