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Firefox Fan Owns IE 7 Domain Name
Talkback This has been a running joke on forums for many months now, appearing in peoples signatures, or general joke posts.
[September 5, 2006, 10:58]
Five Years Ago: Intel Owns Up To Chip Bug
News First published 12 May, 1997. The chip giant kept to its promise of a quick investigation and explanation by posting the confession on its Web site on Friday. It said that the anonymous discoverer of the bug was right in spotting a flaw in the way...
[May 10, 2002, 7:01]
Who Owns Your Old Email Messages?
Blog Over in our Forums section, a member named The Chief has asked for clarification on this: "if a member of staff leaves a company, is the email address that he was using (eg joebloggs@mycompany.com) owned by him or the company?
[April 10, 2007, 17:58]
Adobe Owns Up
Talkback Adobe has responded to me and told me that their LiveDocs information was wrong, and since I have posted this comment on the first fifty news items I could find on Google, I think I should follow up with the information they sent me:
[April 10, 2008, 10:11]
Qualcomm Owns Up To Faulty Chips
News Qualcomm said on Thursday it found problems in a "small portion" of the chips it created for higher speed mobile phones. The company confirmed the problems alluded to earlier Thursday by phone maker Audiovox.
[April 5, 2002, 11:31]
Excite Owns Up To Gaping EWS Security Hole
News The EWS system is available from Excite as unsupported software that Web site adminstrators can install on their sites to provide local search facilities. EWS has gained widespread acceptance due to its ease of installation and the powerful search...
[January 15, 1998, 10:48]
Who Owns Whom?
Talkback Well done for spotting that I had referred to the "VMware owned EMC" when it is so obviously the other way around. By now the mistake will have been corrected, this sparing my blushes. Still, some may argue that this could only be a matter of time...
[September 12, 2007, 8:31]
MS Owns Up To IE Problems, Plans For Future
News The firm said that it had noted complaints regarding the installation, security and accessibility for sensory impaired users, and claimed it had fixed the first and last of those problems with the IE 4.01 release.
[December 18, 1997, 16:04]
Firefox Fan Owns IE 7 Domain Name
News Microsoft may be on the verge of releasing the latest version of its Internet Explorer Web browser but it has been beaten by a competitor to the use of the IE 7 domain name. Online users who key in www.ie7.com expecting to locate information on the...
[September 5, 2006, 9:05]
Intel Owns Up To Chip Bug
News The chip giant kept to its promise of a quick investigation and explanation by posting the confession on its Web site on Friday. It said that the anonymous discoverer of the bug was right in spotting a flaw in the way the chips flag an error when...
[May 12, 1997, 12:27]
One Year Ago: Intel Owns Up To Chip Bug
News Intel has owned up to the Dan-0411 bug that affects Pentium Pro and Pentium II processors. The chip giant kept to its promise of a quick investigation and explanation by posting the confession on its Web site on Friday.
[May 11, 1998, 6:00]
Unix Copyrights Emerge From Shadows
Talkback SCO tells Novell that SCO owns the copyrights, but won't tell IBM. If, as Stowell said, SCO did not specify any copyrights that it owns in Linux, then either it is not claiming to own any such copyrights, or it has not complied with the court order.
[January 20, 2004, 14:16]
Red Hat: Walking The Linux Tightrope
Talkback Whoever owns the Desktop, owns the SMB market. Red Hat have made a massive mistake. Red Hat have laid the foundations for their own decline.
[August 21, 2004, 6:04]
Messy Overlaps Everywhere!
Talkback Google owns a stake in AOL, they wouldn't be too happy with that. Not so fast; Microsoft owns a stake in Facebook, does it make sense to have Myspace, a competitor, as part of the partnership? Say AOL merges with Yahoo, then what?
[April 11, 2008, 9:22]
Microsoft Moves To Integrate Windows With BIOS
Talkback The only difference I see between Apple doing this and MS is that apple owns both the hardware and software (and the rights to them) MS owns the rights to Windows and ? what pc ? I truly think that if ms wants to have an operating system that...
[October 5, 2003, 3:52]
Cameroon Registry Typo-squats .com
Talkback Seems like a typical "America owns the world" type of comment. The Cameroon government owns the .cm, I cannot see any objection to this at all. The widespraed use of .com / .org etc by companies (especially US) with no 'international' presence is...
[August 9, 2006, 11:29]
Missing GPL Detail May Make It Harder To Enforce
News The GPL may be difficult to enforce due to a lack of clarity over who owns the copyright to the software, according to a legal expert on Monday. The copyright of the actual text of the GPL is owned by the Free Software Foundation, but the author...
[June 1, 2005, 15:35]
A Pipe That Makes Buildings Phat
News The building tenant owns the customer relationship. Companies like Allied Riser and Broadband Office have come in and basically said to the real estate: 'We will buy your customer relationship for a 5 percent return on revenue,' We are saying that...
[April 18, 2000, 18:21]
BT To Press Ahead On Hyperlink Case
News BT has insisted that it will not be put off by the bad publicity surrounding its attempts to claim that it owns the patent for the hyperlink. The case has attracted ridicule from those who find the idea that BT owns a patent on the basic method of...
[February 7, 2002, 16:50]
Doubt Cast Over Web Standard's Ownership
News A company claims that a popular Web technology infringes on a patent it owns. Vancouver-based UFIL Unified Data Technologies, a private company, claims that it owns US patent 5,684,985, a "method and apparatus utilising bond identifiers executed...
[January 4, 2002, 9:38]
