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Rival Wi-Fi standard claims more speed
News TGn Sync announced on Monday that, like rival consortium WWiSE, it has filed a presentation proposal with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 802.11n task group, known as Task Group N (TGn).
[August 17, 2004, 15:50]
Sun middleware embraces rival operating systems
News While adding support for rival operating systems, Sun also sees momentum for its own Solaris 10. System server software now supports the Windows and HP-UX operating systems. JES — a suite of enterprise middleware — already supports Sun's
[October 26, 2005, 9:20]
Rambus benefits from rival's woes
News Shares of memory maker Rambus continued to rise on Wednesday as investors reacted to reports of a possible plea deal between rival Micron Technology and federal investigators. Rambus shares rose $3.27 (£1.93), or more than 12 percent, to close at...
[January 2, 2004, 7:35]
Open-source rival to MP3 released
News Ogg Vorbis creators are hoping their technology's size and quality puts it on par with software such as MPEG-4 -- a rival set of audio and video technologies designed in part to condense large digital packages into small files so they can be sent...
[July 22, 2002, 9:25]
Adobe quashes Office-rival rumours
News Adobe has quashed rumours that it will create an office productivity suite to rival Microsoft Office. AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) would allow start-up companies to develop their own web-based applications which could rival Microsoft Office.
[August 20, 2007, 15:17]
Linux considered for GPS rival
News Infrastructure for the European rival to the US military Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system could include systems based around open-source software, including Linux, according to one of the project's main contractors.
[February 6, 2004, 12:00]
Novell opens up NDS for rival OSes
News Novell is to offer its Novell Directory Services (NDS) code free to rival operating system vendors in a bid to make it the de facto standard directory service for networks and the Internet. SunSoft will next week announce that it is the first taker...
[November 13, 1996, 10:23]
Orange trials 3G rival to WiMax
News It could also rival HSDPA, which has been labelled Super 3G. Orange has begun testing a wireless technology that could allow 3G operators to operate much faster data services. The mobile firm announced this week that it is trialling IPWireless...
[March 31, 2005, 16:50]
MSN blocks email from rival ISPs
News Microsoft's MSN said its email services had blocked some incoming messages from rival Internet service providers earlier this week, after their networks were mistakenly banned as sources of junk mail.
[March 3, 2003, 8:10]
Microsoft bails out rival Corel
News Corel's alliance with a former rival -- the company got burned in 1997 after it bought WordPerfect and pitted it against Microsoft's Word software, a fight that left Corel bloodied and battered -- comes during a troubled year for the company and...
[October 3, 2000, 8:15]
Germany exits pan-European Google rival
News Quaero, the pan-European search effort intended to rival Google, has seen the German government withdraw its support, while Brussels has promised €8.5m to a rival local search project, Pharos. The German government has cited differences over the...
[January 9, 2007, 8:33]
BlackBerry maker hits rival with lawsuit
News He added that the announcements from RIM open the door to the possibility that RIM's technology will be used in rival products. Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry email pager, has lashed out at one of its competitors, saying it is...
[May 18, 2001, 15:07]
LogicaCMG bids for IT services rival
News LogicaCMG is bidding to acquire Scandinavian rival WM-data in a deal that will make the UK IT services company a major European player. The perception is that LogicaCMG has overbid for its rival. LogicaCMG announced on Monday morning that it has...
[August 21, 2006, 17:15]
Rival Ball
Downloads Rival Ball features: four difficulty levels randomize the order that boards appear in loop through a single board-set up to ten times race the clock using the optional timer NETWORK PLAY A lobby server will soon be added to make finding opponents...
[April 2, 2002, 8:00]
Microsoft agrees to rival browsers in Windows
News The software maker is offering to put a way in Windows for users to easily install a rival browser to its own Internet Explorer. PC makers could choose to install a rival browser — as they can today — and could also choose to disable IE.
[July 24, 2009, 21:19]
Microsoft said to be developing iPod rival
News Microsoft is developing a music and video device to compete with Apple's iPod and creating its own music service to rival Apple's iTunes, sources familiar with the plans said on Friday. Robbie Bach, a rising star at Microsoft who headed development...
[June 19, 2006, 13:50]
Ballmer: Microsoft sees Google as desktop OS rival
News Microsoft is preparing to square up to Google as a rival in the desktop operating-system market, chief executive Steve Ballmer said in an analyst call on Tuesday. Ballmer said Microsoft assumed it would see Android-based laptops as well as mobile...
[February 26, 2009, 16:05]
BT rival welcomes broadband price cuts
News Bulldog believes that any further cut in the price of wholesale ADSL would make it impossible for rival operators to compete. Tele2, which sells wireless broadband services in several of Britain's urban areas, has welcomed the news that BT is...
[February 11, 2002, 14:12]
Microsoft tests Google News UK rival
News But unlike rival periodical searches on the Web, Microsoft said the service is designed to deliver personalised news to visitors, using tracking technology and consumer data from users of Passport, Microsoft's e-wallet system.
[November 18, 2003, 8:50]
Open source InfoCard rival gets heavyweight support
News Yet, the Higgins Project is more than a rival to InfoCard, Nadalin said. IBM and Novell on Monday are expected to announce an open source response to Microsoft's forthcoming InfoCard identity management technology.
[February 27, 2006, 15:50]
