BT-backed E-telco Launches Tuesday
News Quip, which is billed as the UK's first e-telco, is a joint venture between BT (quote: BT.A), Unisys and Bank of Scotland. Quip will not be providing local call rates or any form of Internet access package, claiming that BT's domination of the...
[January 31, 2000, 14:25]
PC Crashes More Stressful Than Queuing
News For those who find annoying rings on mobile phones as stressful as PC crashes, a separate survey from phone company Quip has good news. Quip may even become more effective than Blind Date when it comes to playing Cupid for the nation," comments...
[August 24, 2000, 12:01]
Blair's 'instability' Is Really Gates' 'aggression'
Talkback And I'll resist the obvious quip about evidence of "instability" being found in yet another of Mr Gates products. Where could Downing Street's "amusement" be coming from? Don't they believe that any of the attributes could reasonably be applied to...
[January 31, 2005, 12:26]
Oftel Gets Tough Over Prefix Charges
News Currently companies such as Quip promise cheaper overseas calls, but users must dial a three or four digit prefix when dialling from a BT line. Telco watchdog Oftel announced Tuesday that it will impose charges for permanent carrier pre-selection...
[October 11, 2000, 10:26]
Can Microsoft's Coders Crank It Up?
News Apocryphal or not, the quip underscores a widespread belief that when it comes to software development, bigger is not always better. Question: What's the perfect size for a software development team? Answer: The number of people you can cram inside...
[July 12, 2000, 13:43]
LineOne Goes Free(ish)
News Subscribers will have to commit to spending £5 a month on voice calls, register with telecomms company Quip and purchase a £20 telephone dialler -- a box that redirects calls via LineOne. The latest ISP to offer unmetered access is LineOne, which...
[March 10, 2000, 14:47]
LineOne Dumps Unmetered Access
News Existing members signed up to the service offered in conjunction with telco Quip will continue to get the service for three months before the plug is pulled. LineOne, the ISP part-owned by British Telecommunications (quote: BT) made a dramatic U...
[July 17, 2000, 9:19]
Tech Luminaries Bid Bill Gates Adieu
News They may do it with a crack at his dancing skills or a quip about him stealing their dates, but many will still give him credit for three decades spent changing business in the technology world. As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at...
[June 26, 2008, 16:07]
Microsoft: 'We Should Learn From Open Source'
Talkback The Microsoft Employee's quip on virusses shows quite worryingly what Microsoft's policies on safety are - since he's obviously never utilised Linux, he's unaware of the security measures implemented in most Linux Distributions that make virusses...
[November 12, 2003, 20:05]
Expert: User Passwords Getting Stronger
News We used to quip that 'password' is the most common password. A sample of login information from 34,000 MySpace.com members seems to indicate that internet users are getting better at picking more secure passwords, according to a prominent security...
[December 18, 2006, 15:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There are few such lapses this time, although the BT man is a new hire following 10 years at Microsoft and he lapses into a short spiel on "how Microsoft is doing so much to sort out spam in Outlook" before being brought back to reality by a...
[September 24, 2004, 18:15]
The Day Ahead: AMD's Quarter Puts Chief In Gloating Mode
News Sanders even had a good quip for his company's one problem in the quarter -- Duron sales were hampered by chipset availability. Commentary: The stars are lining up just right for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and the company is sounding downright...
[October 12, 2000, 12:13]
Oracle: The New Industry Bad Boy?
News Goffe's quip was in reference to Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison's admission that Oracle had hired a private detective firm to gather information about Microsoft's funding of third-party trade associations and think tanks.
[July 6, 2000, 9:26]
Get Some Laughs And VB.Net Info With VBTV
News At one point, while discussing the new ADO.Net data access library, the show's hosts quip, "Well, it's about time we got a new one, we had the last one for, what, one version? If you're one of these folks, you probably have lots of basic questions...
[September 27, 2002, 19:45]
Olivetti PC Boss Wants To Push Notebooks, Servers
News If you're familiar with what it costs to set up a new brand name like Bernie and Serafina's Computers [referring to himself UK PR Serafina Espie], you'd understand why we're keeping the Olivetti name," he said in a parting quip.
[March 4, 1997, 17:23]
Microsoft On Trial: Netscape 'imagined' Antitrust Case
News Warden asked, quoting a quip first attributed to Barksdale in the 1970s when he was an executive at Federal Express. Barksdale, at times as frustrated as his examiners, shot back with gusto. To win its case against the world's largest PC software...
[October 23, 1998, 10:48]
News Burst: BT-backed E-telco To Launch Tuesday
News Quip, which is billed as the UK's first e-telco, is a joint venture between BT, Unisys and Bank of Scotland. The company said that it would offer the cheapest international call rates on the market. The service will only be available via...
[January 31, 2000, 13:28]
