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Feds go after Sars spammers
News The commission said it's found 48 sites touting products that claim to protect people against the disease, by offering products such as oregano oil dietary supplements or Sars prevention kits that include things like disinfectant wipes, gloves and...
[May 12, 2003, 9:12]
Is Linux pushing Microsoft into a corner?
News Instead of a straightforward sales pitch touting more features, better ease-of-use and a lower price, Ballmer said, Microsoft has now been forced to focus on the concept of total cost of ownership (TCO).
[July 17, 2002, 11:40]
Microsoft fires up the Vista marketing machine
News Microsoft is focusing much of its efforts on touting Vista as better-equipped to handle some of the key tasks that computers don't tackle as well today. On the small-business front, Microsoft is pitching Vista as the key to better backup and...
[March 8, 2006, 9:25]
Sun starts pay-as-you-go supercomputing
News Sun is touting its financial industry ties at the event. Sun has been touting its Opteron servers, such as the four-processor V40z it announced in July, but its bread and butter remains UltraSparc products.
[September 21, 2004, 7:45]
Sony's super-thin, super-light VAIO X
Blog Sony is touting the VAIO X as the world's thinnest, lightest notebook — and it probably is. Weighing as little as 655g and only 13.9mm thick, it beats the Apple MacBook Air's 1.36kg and 19.4mm, and is aimed at the style-conscious business user.
[October 8, 2009, 18:06]
Netscape updates browser despite Andreessen's gloom
News Netscape Communications on Monday updated its browser, touting improvements in navigation and spam control -- days after Netscape's founder pronounced browser innovation moribund. Netscape also is touting the browser's controls over pop-up ads...
[July 2, 2003, 8:35]
Microsoft's new Visual Basic - a .Not?
News Microsoft is touting the Visual Studio.Net suite as key to the Microsoft .Net vision of software as an Internet-based service. The three million software developers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language will face some tough choices when the...
[January 19, 2001, 8:16]
private cloud
Talkback Canonical is touting private cloud capabilities in an upgrade to its Ubuntu Linux OS being announced on Tuesday. PC World has an article concerning Ubuntu and private cloud. Available for free download on October 29, Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition...
[October 22, 2009, 2:27]
New RIM BlackBerry Better Than iPhone?
Blog Comment Everson is more interested in touting his own company than dealing with any facts. Mr. He does not even bother to hide the fact that he is a Blackberry user who has never even seen an iPhone. He is just like the worst of the PC users I have...
[July 31, 2007, 18:03]
Bleeding-edge
Talkback "The company has been touting the ability of the new server operating system to be configured for certain functions, or "roles", such as web server or directory server. Innovate, innovate, innovate.
[May 18, 2007, 15:58]
Microsoft: 'We'd have been dead a long time ago without Windows APIs'
Talkback So while MS was touting the benefits of its OS, telling everyone how wonderful it is, etc.they were really selling a system that contained a product in it that literally "addicted" its buyers because changing was too cost prohibitive.
[April 23, 2004, 9:28]
MS-BS Quotient Off the top of the Charts.
Talkback Those numbers touting an 11 second boot time are from HIBERNATION files. Not from a cold start. As a result, they are total crap. I did my own "tests" on Win 7. Assuming you haven't loaded ANY software at all, like MS Office 2007 say, yes you can...
[September 7, 2009, 11:32]
An Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture
White Papers Software vendors, systems integrators and consultants are increasingly touting Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the panacea for the challenges of integrating disparate, distributed, IT systems. Vendors started marketing SOA as the new...
[July 21, 2005, 6:00]
Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g Release 2: Technical Comparison With Microsoft SQL Server 2005
White Papers The cluster database market is rife with competing marketing claims, with each vendor touting the benefits of its own architecture. The buyer has to make the choice of a mission-critical software platform while sifting through a mass of rapidly...
[August 4, 2005, 6:00]
Microsoft rolls out IE 5.5 browser
News Microsoft is touting IE 5.5's advances in three areas: platform, printing and performance. Microsoft will post the first public beta of its next version of Internet Explorer browser on its Web site Friday so testers can experiment.
[December 3, 1999, 9:09]
EBay denies any blame for Glastonbury fiasco
News After tickets sold out in record time in 2003 -- many finding their way onto eBay priced at many times their value -- the music festival's organisers discussed plans to overhaul the ticket-sales procedure for this year's event in order to prevent...
[April 2, 2004, 14:55]
Dark Reign 2 gameply movie 1
Downloads This AVI is a little over a minute long and features in-game scenes from the forthcoming Dark Reign sequel which pandemic is touting as "the new look of real-time strategy".
[October 23, 2003, 12:30]
Five steps to a safer e-Britain
Talkback Perhaps we need to dig a little deeper before touting 'solutions' that might very well turn out to be needed (or not) temporary fixes. Ofcourse, fighting symptoms rather then causes is the formula to have to repeat yourself.
[December 1, 2005, 21:55]
How Green Is My Vendor?
White Papers One can tell this because just about every other supplier is touting their green credentials. Environmental issues are becoming a big concern for those involved in managing IT and communications. Often they have only reduced their power consumption...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
Slammer worm claims victim Down Under
Talkback I'm just wondering if things like this ever get added to the TCO Microsoft is always touting as being so low for Windows. So, how much is the estimated COST of this problem? In this case, it could even be that having a windows machine just simply...
[January 19, 2005, 17:00]
