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was at a seminar the other day
Talkback attended by representatives of multinationals, ministries, universities, consultants, managers, decision makers, engineers, sales people, vendors, the usual. Vista wasn't even a topic. General verdict: thumbs down.
[May 11, 2007, 23:14]
Vera Finance (was: VPFinance)
Downloads VPFinance now renamed to Vera Finance, in honor to Vera Nardelli Campos, my mother, who left us in 2005.Contact me at "guich at superwaba.com.br" if you find any problems and i'll be glad to fix them.Version 5.2 (Oct 6, 2007) Fixed a bug in...
[April 20, 2002, 8:00]
Vera Finance (was: VPFinance) Symbian
Downloads VPFinance now renamed to Vera Finance, in honor to Vera Nardelli Campos, my mother, who left us in 2005.Contact me at "guich at superwaba.com.br" if you find any problems and i'll be glad to fix them.Version 5.2 (Oct 6, 2007) Fixed a bug in...
[April 29, 2007, 8:00]
Was FUD the aim of Oracle's PeopleSoft takeover talk?
News Three days before Oracle publicly announced its intention to buy PeopleSoft, the deal was already viewed as a way to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of PeopleSoft customers. Mark Jarvis, who was Oracle's chief marketing officer at the time...
[October 7, 2004, 8:50]
BlackBerry outage: Was it inevitable?
News RIM's massive BlackBerry email outage this week highlights how vulnerable the company's network has become as it tries to keep up with demand for its popular service. RIM did not provide details of what caused the outage, which left millions of...
[April 19, 2007, 10:35]
It was STOLEN from an employee
Talkback Laptops are not invariably 'lost', they are stolen from premises, cars, fancy bags and cases and the like. Just a few drunken young fools leave theirs under the table at the bar. The FSA lost dozens of laptops and mobile phones yet wasn't fined, why?
[February 16, 2007, 8:42]
SCO says threat to Linux creator was overstated
News SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride said a published report that his company may take legal action against Linux founder Linus Torvalds was overstated. Responding to a portion of a Wednesday story by CBS Marketwatch that has generated intense...
[May 30, 2003, 8:14]
Lost Standard Life CD was unencrypted
News A lost compact disc containing the personal pension details of 15,000 people was not encrypted. The CD was lost in transit between HM Revenue and Customs Service and financial services company Standard Life, and was unencrypted, HMRC revealed on...
[November 6, 2007, 11:03]
Apple: Fourth quarter was 'most profitable ever'
News Apple did not disappoint investors as it closed out its fiscal year. The company reported its earnings on Monday afternoon, calling the fiscal fourth quarter of 2009 its "most profitable ever". Apple recorded revenue of $9.87bn (£6bn) and earnings...
[October 20, 2009, 8:14]
Pretty Poor considering for a year it was the only OS available.
Talkback So this Vista was the only MS OS available on new laptops and desktops for nearly a year until users forced a climbdown and yet less than 50% of companies are using or evaluating it. Figures speak for themselves.
[January 17, 2008, 10:55]
How the 'Milan' table PC was born
News The notion of a table-like computer had garnered interest within Microsoft since at least 2001, but it wasn't until industrial designer Allan Han went to Ikea in January 2003 that the effort really kicked into high gear.
[May 30, 2007, 12:04]
Attorney: Naughton was sent 'unsolicited' child porn
News The trial of Patrick Naughton was delayed until December 7 during a routine pretrial hearing in US District Court Monday. The former Infoseek executive was set Tuesday to face charges that he crossed state lines to engage in sexual activity with a...
[November 30, 1999, 9:27]
Star Trek was full of them
Talkback If you are so inclined you could do a series of Android "lessons" based on Star Trek episodes! The first Android episode I thought of was the Harvey Mudd episode where the con-man has a planet full of "Barbie" doll androids to keep him company.
[November 2, 2008, 14:39]
Restitution was NOT removed
Talkback $5K of $67K was appealed, but the appeals court referred it back, and the trial court continued the same opinion, so there was no change. Please read the legal documents that you link a little more closely next time.
[March 5, 2007, 18:56]
A Year Ago: MS' Java letter was a 'publicity stunt'
News Saying he wanted to "cut through the rhetoric" that surrounds Java, Alan Baratz, president of Sun Microsystems Inc.s JavaSoft division, today unleashed a little of his own, accusing Microsoft Corp.of doing anything in its power to preserve its...
[September 24, 1998, 6:08]
Virus writers claim Blair's email account was hacked
News Cybercriminals claimed on Friday that the Prime Minister's email account has been hacked, in the latest attempt to attack PCs with malware. On the same day Tony Blair won a third term in government, a spam message was sent out stating that...
[May 6, 2005, 14:55]
Linux applet bug was false alarm
News A spokesperson from Bug Traq explains the error saying, "We have decided this was a false report. The only reason the vulnerability appeared to exist was because the user executed the program as root to begin with.
[October 21, 1999, 9:17]
'Halloween' - was it faked?
News But now that the post-"Halloween memo" revelry is subsiding, some pundits and industry officials are wondering aloud whether Microsoft possibly might have leaked the memos in order to prove to the US Department of Justice and the world at large...
[November 9, 1998, 9:46]
EDS says it was a victim
News Electronic Data Systems admitted on Wednesday that a group of con artists got their hands on "tens of millions of dollars" worth of computer audio and video equipment that was supposedly going to be used for a top-secret project abroad.
[March 10, 2000, 10:17]
Microsoft: IE8 interface was priority over speed
News The user interface was Microsoft's top priority when building its latest version of Internet Explorer, not performance benchmarking, according to a Microsoft executive. Stephane Kimmerlin, product marketing director, Windows client business group...
[September 10, 2008, 9:34]
