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Siebel tries again to rent out CRM
News After spinning the unprofitable unit out as a separate company, Siebel later folded it back into the company and eventually shut it down in 2001. Siebel Systems and IBM are developing a hosting service for customer relationship management software...
[July 21, 2003, 9:00]
IBM rents out supercomputer brawn
News IBM has begun a new programme to rent out processing power on its own supercomputers, signing up a petrochemical company as a first customer. PGS is using IBM servers containing Intel processors, but Big Blue also will rent out Unix servers, Turek...
[January 9, 2003, 8:10]
Sun has its head in the clouds
Leader In the near future, we're likely to see large companies rent out processing power to their trusted business partners, but a world where we all share each other's computing power with confidence is still a long way off.
[September 22, 2004, 12:25]
Sun starts pay-as-you-go supercomputing
News Although IBM and Hewlett-Packard offer competing rent-a-supercomputer programmes, Sun is trying to make itself stand out with a pricing strategy it argues is different and very competitive. Sun Microsystems plans to announce a plan on Tuesday to...
[September 21, 2004, 7:45]
Process of renting DVDs online granted patent
News Netflix charges a monthly subscription fee for people to rent a specified number of movies on DVD. The retail giant charges $15.54 (£9.34) a month to rent two movies at a time, $18.76 to rent three and $21.94 to rent four at a time.
[June 25, 2003, 14:09]
First handheld Trojan emerges
News Those buyers could in turn rent the systems out to malicious hackers to use in attacks or to spammers, who could use them to send out junk email. Such rent-a-zombie schemes have surfaced before, with Scotland Yard investigating one just last month.
[August 6, 2004, 8:40]
AltaVista rejects unmetered, industry reacts
News The row centres around the need for a wholesale product that will enable ISPs to rent BT's lines at an unmetered rate. BT dismisses claims that it is to blame for the breakdown of AltaVista's services as "absolute nonsense" and says it is already...
[August 22, 2000, 12:34]
ADSL only suitable for BT, says research firm
News As well as having to pay costs in order to get equipment installed in BT's local exchanges -- for example, every company must pay the telco to undertake a survey of the exchanges it wishes to use -- rival telcos will also continue to pay BT rent...
[September 27, 2000, 14:18]
Comdex: Will the penguin go hand in hand with Bill?
News Microsoft's vision for rent-as-you-go software, .Net, is regarded by some commentators as a threat to Linux, but Hall, executive director of Linux International, is typically scathing. I'd admit there are times when people need to rent software but...
[November 14, 2000, 8:49]
Win XP to launch .Net on grand scale
News Peter Osbourne had a simple idea: He and his team of 10 programmers at Dollar Rent A Car Systems created software code that made it possible for people to rent autos through the Web sites of Southwest Airlines and other partners.
[October 19, 2001, 8:58]
MP3? WMA? We don't care says music industry
News A future where we will be able to choose to rent, lease or buy music as best suits our purposes. I've got around 20,000 albums at home, about 30 percent of which I've never opened and probably only 10 percent that I listen to regularly," he says...
[January 27, 2000, 8:41]
Hollywood Net horror gets sequel
News Film88 runs on a video-store model, letting people "rent" movies for three days in return for a payment of $1 to $1.50. Consumers can buy and rent movies over the Internet for viewing on a computer from a handful of legal commercial services...
[June 6, 2002, 11:32]
Citrix CEO: We're at the front of the grid
News Microsoft's strategy is to own the real estate or property and then allow companies like Citrix to come along and build buildings that generate rent. Some of the rent goes to the property owner and the rest goes to the landlord -- that's how they...
[October 28, 2003, 16:10]
Resolving to advance
News Check out my 2002 TechRepublic article, "Rent Cisco practice racks from online providers," for more information. One of the most popular options for CCIE candidates is to rent a rack of CCIE lab equipment, connect to that rack over the Internet...
[January 5, 2006, 14:50]
Microsoft admits targeting Wine users
Talkback So is what M$ tried to do to people who bought (i.e.rent" - "lease") there software the proper way. I have paid my fair share to "rent" there piece of crap swiss cheese OS, and also supported the billion dollar software world that has to produce...
[February 27, 2005, 8:40]
Jane Wakefield: Microsoft's broadband renaissance
News As Microsoft prepares to become a global version of BlockBusters (with the obvious exception that the prospect of renting Excel is not quite as exciting as the latest Hollywood blockbuster -- and you don't get popcorn) the question is will people...
[July 14, 2000, 14:51]
Microsoft to rent software at Net cafes
News Software giant Microsoft announced that it will rent its Office 2000 software to customers on an hourly basis through the easyEverything chain of Internet cafes Monday. This is the first time that Microsoft has allowed customers to rent software...
[October 31, 2000, 9:22]
Start-up shows off quantum computer
News It plans to begin to rent out time on its computers to corporate customers in the first quarter of next year, said chief executive Herb Martin. About a year from now, banks, pharmaceutical companies and other large institutions will be able to rent...
[February 15, 2007, 8:02]
EII: A database of databases
Talkback Wish to know if you rent them? or service them yourselves by sending out the invites as an additional service? am seeking email database for professional singles (ages 25-40) in central London. Please inform me if you can help me.
[August 10, 2004, 16:17]
MiniPolis London Add-on
Downloads This add-on requires the installation of MiniPolis How about collecting rent for Whitehall? Install the London Add-on for MiniPolis and find out! Now you can play MiniPolis in London! To install this add-on:1.
[November 16, 2001, 7:00]
