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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]
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]
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]
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]
Ex-Googler launches rival Cuil search engine
News A rival to Google's search engine launched on Monday. Developed and run by the husband-and-wife team of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, Cuil is pitched as being bigger, faster and better than...
[July 28, 2008, 11:14]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Siebel sues executive who went to rival
News Siebel Systems has filed suit against a former executive who resigned to join rival Salesforce.com, claiming he disclosed confidential information to his new employer while still at Siebel. Salesforce offers a rival service but does not sell software.
[November 21, 2003, 16:00]
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]
Apple will support rival DVD format
News After years of backing only one format in the recordable DVD format war, Apple Computer is adding limited support of a rival format into its operating system. A fierce battle between the two rival formats has been raging for years.
[October 14, 2003, 14:30]
