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SCO puts limit on its legal payments
News The SCO Group, committed to an expensive legal attack against Linux, said on Tuesday that it has removed some financial uncertainty from its future by working out an agreement to cap payments to its law firm.
[September 1, 2004, 9:25]
RIAA apologises for more mistaken warnings
News In a second incident, Speakeasy, a national broadband provider, said Tuesday that the RIAA had apologised for sending it a cease-and-desist letter alleging illegal activity on a subscriber's FTP site devoted to the Commodore Amiga computer.
[May 14, 2003, 7:33]
Salesforce: Downtime is inevitable
News Salesforce.com's chief executive, Marc Benioff, said on Tuesday that a recent site outage was an embarrassment for his company, but that new technology will soon make its systems more resilient. Benioff said during a speech on Tuesday the company...
[January 18, 2006, 8:25]
RIM picks Intel for future BlackBerrys
News Ending months of speculation, Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device, said on Tuesday that it will use Intel processors in its future designs. Maloney said he wouldn't speculate on Hermon's success in the market.
[September 28, 2005, 9:45]
Nokia opens lines for wireless banking
News Nokia's networks division said Tuesday that it has developed new software to enable people to conduct banking transactions on mobile phones, and the company is peddling the software to banks and financial institutions.
[March 28, 2001, 8:31]
AMD touts importance of 'balanced' platform
News The future of computing is visual, AMD executives said on Tuesday. Chris Hook, AMD's head of desktop platform and performance communications, said the simplistic way of looking at things would be that users should be spending the same amount on...
[April 30, 2008, 9:18]
Analysts forecast layoffs at Sun
News Sun Microsystems could cut as many as 8,000 jobs, or 20 percent of its workforce, a Merrill Lynch analyst said on Tuesday. Additional layoffs would bring it in line with rivals such as EMC, which has had two rounds of layoffs of 23 percent and 7...
[October 15, 2002, 15:33]
Intel admits Itanium failings
News In a rare admission, an Intel executive said on Tuesday that the company's high-end Itanium chip family still isn't living up to popularity expectations. Intel was forced to announce EM64T earlier than it hoped, because rival Advanced Micro Devices...
[September 8, 2004, 9:20]
Microsoft: Patching problems are over
News After fixing some initial glitches, Microsoft said the patches released on Tuesday are now being delivered to users of its automated services. Microsoft said last week to expect 11 patches, but a company representative on Tuesday said that one of...
[October 12, 2006, 10:55]
Sun ropes in Oracle to push high-end servers
News In a bid to compete better against IBM and HP, Sun said on Tuesday it will bundle Oracle's database with higher-end Unix servers and partially subsidise the fees customers would otherwise have to pay to use the software.
[January 11, 2006, 13:30]
Vista launch pushed back to 2007
News Allchin also said on Tuesday that Microsoft still plans to launch a broader test version of Vista next quarter, with the new version to be tested by about two million people. Microsoft on Tuesday announced a delay of Windows Vista that will mean...
[March 22, 2006, 8:00]
Oracle, Siebel see trouble ahead
News Software executives from Siebel Systems and Oracle said on Tuesday that they don't expect businesses to be much more eager to buy software in 2003 than they are today. On Tuesday he said the outlook is unclear beyond Oracle's second quarter, which...
[October 30, 2002, 11:08]
HP acquires Mercury Interactive
News HP announced on Tuesday that it will acquire management software company Mercury Interactive for $52 a share, or $4.5bn in cash. HP itself is in a much stronger position these days, having regained some of its momentum over a year after Hurd was...
[July 26, 2006, 9:20]
IE bug masks spoofed sites
News Microsoft on Tuesday said it was looking into reports of a potential bug in its Web browser that could help malicious hackers design convincing Web site spoofs. That alert links to a demonstration of the exploit, and says Microsoft was informed of...
[December 11, 2003, 7:40]
Companies escape Sasser infection
News The Sasser worms continued to wriggle into computers on Tuesday, hitting home users hard while affecting companies to a lesser degree than previous attacks, security experts said. Nearly 1.5 million customers visited Microsoft.com and used the...
[May 5, 2004, 8:40]
US 'making progress' on cybersecurity
News Progress has been made on the US government's strategy for protecting the Internet and securing information systems, but the work is not done, a panel of experts said on Tuesday. We're much stronger today than we have been ever in the past," Howard...
[February 15, 2006, 13:15]
Microsoft suffers patch problems
News The patches, which include critical fixes for both Office and Windows, can be manually downloaded from Microsoft's Web site, and the company said it hopes its more automated tools will have the patch available later on Tuesday.
[October 11, 2006, 9:40]
Lindows looks for new name
News Embattled Linux seller Lindows will adopt a separate name for operations outside the US, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday. In a statement posted on the Lindows Web site on Tuesday, company founder Michael Robertson said ongoing...
[April 8, 2004, 13:00]
Government slammed for ID database 'shambles'
News The government said on Tuesday that it had no fixed plans for the form and structure of the database that will underpin its proposed ID card scheme, sparking more criticism from experts and critics of the plan.
[February 15, 2006, 16:20]
Apple launches iPhone in the UK
News Apple launched the iPhone in the UK on Tuesday, and said the device will be available to buy on 9 November. The company said on Tuesday that it sold its one millionth iPhone just 74 days after the device first went on sale in the US on 29 June.
[September 18, 2007, 13:27]
