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IBM Attempts To Poach EMC Customers
News IBM has a new plan to snag customers who are using data-storage gear from rival EMC. The customer-poaching effort, slated to be announced on Wednesday, includes a patent-pending hardware device that lets organisations shift data from EMC boxes to...
[December 3, 2003, 9:10]
Salesforce.com Expands Poaching Plan
News Salesforce.com is making a cheeky attempt to poach top staff from In an email sent to his staff last week, Salesforce.com chairman and chief executive Marc Benioff outlined a plan to poach talent from
[October 4, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft Admits .Net Skills Shortage
Talkback They just want to poach already skilled people from other businesses. One of the factors is that management is just too short term obessed. IT workers can reskill themselves with .Net (via study)but that counts for little in employers eyes.
[June 13, 2006, 13:27]
Microsoft To Expand Its Web Services For Businesses
News Microsoft, faced with web rivals looking to poach its business customers, said on Sunday it plans to broaden the availability of its online services for email and collaboration software. Last year, Microsoft started subscription-based online...
[March 3, 2008, 7:16]
Search Engines Get 'Gatored'
News The Gator online advertising network is testing a new paid search product that lets rivals poach on each other's territory in one of the Net's hottest new marketing venues. Search Scout, launched in December, triggers a pop-under window when Gator...
[January 15, 2003, 7:42]
MS To Palm Developers: Bill G. Wants You!
News On the eve of Palm's annual developer's conference, Microsoft is planning a concerted effort to poach talent from its rival. The PalmSource conference, which opens Wednesday in Santa Clara, California, is a venue at which Palm offers a glimpse at...
[December 8, 2000, 7:55]
Google Australia Wants Techies Home From UK
News Now he's heading to the UK to poach senior engineers from the ex-pat community. There's nothing wrong with senior Australian engineers, they just lack "world-class experience", according to Google Australia's head of engineering, Alan Noble.
[February 6, 2008, 8:12]
Why Safari On Windows
Talkback Is the browser aiming at what the average user does Browses the Internet and Listens to Music in an attempt to poach users. Lol David i like that. What i don't understand is why Apple want windows users to use Safari, hell i don't even use it as my...
[March 25, 2008, 12:02]
Zhirinovsky: 'I'll Celebrate By Hacking'
News We now work on computers, we use computers to send viruses to the West and then we poach your money. Russia's maverick politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whose ultra-nationalist bloc looks set to do well in a parliamentary election, said on Monday he...
[December 20, 1999, 9:36]
.Net Developers Can Write For Linux Using Mono
Talkback Chairman Bill risked the empire to make sure that these efforts to poach on the Windows platform, cannabolizing and pillaging the Win32 API franchise, would at best result in the uncertainties of developers having to hit a moving target.
[May 7, 2004, 23:48]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Or it could just be a straight poach - eight years on Itanium will probably make designing a five transistor medium wave radio seem attractive. Thursday 30/3/2006 Despite Intel's best efforts to exorcise it with large wodges of cash, the Curse of...
[March 31, 2006, 19:30]
Climb Aboard The Free ISP Bandwagon!
News Click+, the company's penny-per-minute service, was launched last year and caused controversy after BT admitted that a member of staff had abused customer records in a bid to poach Net customers. Last week it was Tesco, yesterday it was UK football...
[February 9, 1999, 16:08]
Mozilla May Develop Instant-messaging Software
News Ascher does not plan to poach developers from Mozilla's Firefox web-browser project, but will welcome any who wish to work on Thunderbird. Mozilla Messaging, the newly launched subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, is "interested" in developing...
[February 19, 2008, 17:43]
A Year Ago: Climb Aboard The Free ISP Bandwagon!
News Click+, the company's penny-per-minute service, was launched last year and caused controversy after BT admitted that a member of staff had abused customer records in a bid to poach Net customers. The wave of free Internet providers is turning into...
[February 9, 2000, 6:02]
Playboy, Netscape Reach Trademark Settlement
News But advertisers also can use the system to prey on rivals' trademarked terms and poach their traffic. Netscape has settled a five-year-old lawsuit brought by Playboy Enterprises, a week after a federal appeals court ruled that the Web company could...
[January 26, 2004, 9:55]
Forrester: Consider Unorthodox Sources For IT Staff
News The Forrester analyst said that targeting existing IT professionals by trying to poach them from other organisations was only a short-term solution to the IT recruitment problem. Poaching IT staff from other organisations is a short-term solution...
[July 26, 2007, 14:02]
Web Publishers Settle With Gator
News The Gator online advertising network recently started testing a new paid search product that lets rivals poach on each other's territory. A group of top newspaper publishers has reached a legal settlement with Gator over the uninvited display of...
[February 10, 2003, 10:05]
Icann Swamped By Net Name Chaos
News Apart from cases where cybersquatters poach domain names in order to extort money or steal a company's good name, there is the problem of ensuring that legitimate organisations use names that are independent of each other, as trademarks are...
[April 11, 2001, 15:55]
Big Brother In The Black Box
News We now work on computers, we use computers to send viruses to the West and then we poach your money. Governments world wide are attempting to increase surveillance powers in an effort to crack down on Internet-related crimes.
[July 13, 2000, 9:56]
Case Threatens Search Engines' Use Of Trademarks
News But advertisers also can use the system to prey on rivals' trademarked terms and poach their traffic. Dealing a potential setback to the Web search advertising market, a federal appeals court has reopened a lawsuit challenging the unauthorised use...
[January 16, 2004, 8:25]
