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Microsoft On Trial: AOL Given Offer It Couldn't Refuse
News The biggest one: Microsoft's offer to create an online folder on the Windows 95 desktop that would contain AOL. Released late yesterday by the US Justice Department, the statement read: "AOL would not have been willing to negotiate a browser...
[October 28, 1998, 9:35]
GPT Planner
Downloads GPT Planner keeps track of the trial offers that you create, including payment status, offer cancellation status, and warns you of offers that are about to expire. Never forget to cancel a trial offer again.
[March 3, 2008, 20:31]
BT Stretches ADSL To Reach A Million More
News BT plans to launch services with longer reach later this year if the Milton Keynes trial is successful, but it may decide not to establish an official new maximum distance over which it will guarantee to offer ADSL.
[April 19, 2004, 12:55]
Microsoft Offer Considered Inadequate
News Sceptical government lawyers consider an 11th-hour offer from Microsoft to settle its antitrust trial so inadequate in important areas that there were no immediate plans to resume negotiations in Chicago, people close to the case said Saturday.
[March 27, 2000, 7:35]
Manchester City FC Kicks Off Mobile-ticket Trial
News Manchester City Football Club has launched a trial with Orange to allow fans to use their mobiles to enter the stadium instead of producing a ticket, following a similar trial with wave-and-pay smartcards.
[October 23, 2007, 10:30]
New ADSL Trial - NTL Teams With Alcatel
News The trial will include the UK's first implementation of cable modem to ADSL modem links. The company also plans to trial an ADSL package for teleworkers. This will offer direct access via cable modems to their ADSL linked company's office network.
[November 29, 1999, 12:28]
Where Will PeopleSoft's Posturing In Court Get It?
News An unusual form of high-stakes corporate courtship is taking place in a courtroom in Delaware, where top executives from Oracle and PeopleSoft have spent the last two weeks publicly manoeuvring for a negotiating edge while ostensibly testifying in...
[October 18, 2004, 12:00]
Price War Looming Over Faster ADSL
News Plusnet, for example, is currently accepting pre-registrations of interest in the 1Mbps trial from its existing customers, but hasn't revealed firm details of the services that it will offer. This price cut will begin on 6 October, the day the...
[September 4, 2003, 15:15]
BT Breaks £20 Threshold For ADSL - With Limits
Talkback Example: I noticed in the Sunday Times Magazine an offer of 1 month free trial with "No ties" after this trial you can cancel without entering into a 12 month contract. The cost difference between the Sunday Times Offer and BT's £19.99/month offer...
[March 2, 2004, 9:59]
BT Plans Trial For Broadband Fixed Wireless Bid
News A BT spokesman told ZDNet UK News that the telco was planning to launch a trial early next year, to see if it would be economically viable to use 28GHz to provide high-speed Internet access in rural areas.
[November 7, 2001, 14:28]
Early Acceptance Runs Risks For PeopleSoft Shareholders
News But in the past two days, as the Oracle-Justice Department trial got under way, PeopleSoft's share price has risen 10 percent to close at $19.03 on Tuesday -- narrowing the gap between Oracle's offer price.
[June 10, 2004, 12:05]
Free Internet -- What You Actually Get, A ZDNet Guide
News Not to left out of the party, Virgin Net has promised that it is to offer a 'competitive' subscription based service, with a trial beginning in April. In December it began a trial of 24/7 access. CallNet was the first ISP to offer totally free...
[March 8, 2000, 11:22]
Symantec Takes Online Services Plunge
News The security and storage management software maker plans to launch a trial version of a new online backup service called Symantec Protection Network — Online Backup Service. A second trial service is scheduled to be launched over the summer.
[April 17, 2007, 11:35]
Dial 'O' For Oracle
News But the trial taking place in Delaware's Chancery Court ended unceremoniously Monday morning with a brief hearing featuring wisecracks from the presiding judge and holiday season well-wishes from a handful of adversaries turned instant allies.
[December 14, 2004, 7:25]
BT To Begin Public Trial Of 256Kbps ADSL
News The telco will begin testing a wholesale 256 kilobits-per-second ADSL broadband product called IPStream Home 250 next month, in a trial involving at least 10 Internet service providers and 200 end users.
[June 22, 2004, 17:35]
PeopleSoft Shells Out $70m Fighting Oracle
News Oracle, fighting to lift PeopleSoft's antitakeover "poison pill" policy, is scheduled to go to trial on 27 September in the Delaware Chancery Court, according to PeopleSoft's regulatory filing. That trial is scheduled to begin on 1 November.
[August 10, 2004, 9:45]
Sources: No Microsoft Ruling Tuesday
News During the trial, the government alleged that PC makers that went along with Microsoft got lower prices while those that offered competing software on new PCs were forced to pay higher fees for Windows.
[March 28, 2000, 0:25]
MS Backs Off, DoJ Wants More
News While much of the trial focused on products that are already largely obsolete, a settlement also would place limits on Microsoft's most important new product line, Windows 2000 and its successors. During the trial, the government alleged that PC...
[March 27, 2000, 14:02]
Microsoft On Trial: DOJ Gives Heavy Memo Fire
News Again, Boies produced corroboration -- this time a videotape of Clark himself being deposed by Microsoft attorneys months before the trial began. Microsoft has argued throughout the course of the trial that the companies' warm relationship prior to...
[October 28, 1998, 9:19]
Satellite Broadband Goes Nationwide
News VAT paid by the companies taking part in the trial. During last year's trial, BT worked with regional development agencies -- and plans to continue this policy. BT will offer a home user satellite package, and also a version designed for businesses.
[March 26, 2002, 17:47]
