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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]
Microtune Doubles Damages Against Rival Chipmaker
News Chipmaker Microtune announced that it has won double the damages it sought in a patent infringement case against rival Broadcom. A jury found that a Broadcom tuner chip infringed on a patent owned by Microtune.
[August 18, 2003, 14:30]
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]
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]
US Report: Netscape Gives Rival IE A TuneUp
News Netscape plans to unveil Netscape TuneUp for IE -- a new software product that offers the features of its Communicator browser to users of rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Fighting back from a report that says its browser share might be...
[October 2, 1998, 6:57]
Jupitermedia Launches Comdex Rival
News Jupitermedia has announced plans to launch a rival technology show in Las Vegas, just a day after Comdex's parent company filed for bankruptcy. Jupitermedia has booked the Mandalay Bay Convention Center for the new trade show, dubbed Computer...
[February 4, 2003, 15:43]
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]
Ellison Relaxes Stance On Rival Software
News Asked about the company's ongoing contest to acquire rival PeopleSoft, Ellison had little to offer. Relaxing his purist stance on one-stop-shop software, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said on Wednesday that it's alright for companies to use...
[January 29, 2004, 8:05]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Wikipedia Rival Takes To The Web
News A new rival to Wikipedia launched its public beta on Monday. Citizendium, a self-proclaimed "citizens' compendium" of general knowledge, works much like Wikipedia in that anyone can submit information.
[March 27, 2007, 15:00]
Caere Buys OCR Rival Recognita
News Caere, which bought its nearest rival Calera at the beginning of 1995, will pay about $4.7 million for Budapest-headquartered Recognita, one of a handful of Eastern European companies who have made it to the world IT stage.
[December 4, 1996, 13:07]
PayPal Rival On The Way From Google?
News Google could be about to launch its own Internet payments service to rival eBay-owned PayPal. According to a report in the New York Times , speculation about the new payment service arose following discussion at a conference held by analyst house...
[June 20, 2005, 14:55]
Google Develops Wikipedia Rival
News Search and advertising giant Google is developing a user-generated online encyclopaedia that could rival Wikipedia. Google has named the scheme the "knol project", a knol being a "unit of knowledge", according to a blog post by Google engineering...
[December 14, 2007, 14:40]
Rival Involved In Harris Email Blockade
News Major polling firm Harris Interactive is suing several ISPs that subscribe to an anti-spam organisation's "black hole list", claiming the companies have been duped by a rival into blocking millions of Harris emails.
[August 3, 2000, 11:04]
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]
Pioneer Weighs In With Rival DVD Format
News The battle between manufacturers over rival DVD formats has stepped up a notch with the announcement of a brand new format from electronics giant Pioneer. The format, DVD-R/W, was unveiled at the Internationale Funkausstellung 99 show in Germany...
[September 7, 1999, 16:28]
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]
