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Update: CallNet Being Wound Up As Creditors Form Queue
News A former spokesman for the company says "CallNet is being wound up by Mulberry [its former PR agency] because no assurances had been given that our bills would be paid. Other creditors are also lining up to get their money back.
[September 14, 2000, 9:55]
Hacker Mitnick's Happy New Year
News A former fugitive from justice who wound up serving a five-year prison term for computer crimes against companies including Sun Microsystems and Motorola, Mitnick is enjoying a midlife renaissance. His illegal activities include the interception of...
[December 27, 2002, 9:34]
£3m Online Holiday Scam Exposed
News The six companies involved in the scam have now been wound up by the High Court following a Department of Trade and Industry investigation, but not before up to £3m had gone into the coffers of the conmen.
[December 13, 2002, 13:43]
MikeRoweSoft Bids Fail To Make The Grade
News Rowe refused, and the conflict wound up before WIPO, which arbitrates in domain name disputes. Rowe wound up settling for a Microsoft Xbox and other considerations from the software giant. Mike Rowe, the Canadian teen whose MikeRoweSoft.com Web...
[February 3, 2004, 7:30]
EMC: Beware The Storage Virtualisation Quick Fix
News But they wound up with products that couldn't work with the reality of the market. Some of the most vocal vendors ultimately wound up not even being competitors. There were some vendors who jumped in before the standard, stirring things up, and I...
[April 10, 2006, 14:40]
Marketing Mush
Blog Comment The thing that really wound me up about windows 7 was one particular rumor. What a wind up! The excitment of the stripped down min win kernal of just 25MBs.
[October 18, 2008, 22:19]
The Treasure On Bing Bong Island
Downloads They've set out to find a mysterious treasure and wound up stranded on the exotic Bing Bong Island. Note: This is a very large (51.6MB) file and may take several hours to download via dial-up modem. Moop and Dreadly need your help.
[October 22, 2003, 4:46]
Microsoft Locks Down Office Documents
Talkback I dont know why your all getting so wound up, just dont buy it, tell your bosses, tell your IT depts, tell your wife and kids, but please dont tell me. I will, as you guys should, make the right purchase for me given my needs and what is available...
[January 10, 2004, 13:45]
I Tried To Defrag!
Forum I had the same problem back in 2001, and downloaded a 3rd.defragger and wound up re-installing XP. Be careful of some of these 3rd.party solutions. Now, using Linux, I no longer have to defrag.
[August 4, 2008, 14:00]
Version Control Server Ported From Java To C# In Less Than One Man-Month
White Papers SourceGear considered several options, but wound up porting the server from Java to C#, which turned out to be surprisingly fast and easy. SourceGear's very successful add-on to Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS), SourceOffSite, allows VSS to be...
[October 29, 2003, 23:00]
Linux Hackers Miss IPO Boat
News Instead, they wound up fuming -- and flaming -- as the stock of Linux software vendor Red Hat soared sixfold in its first three days of trading last week, from an offering price of $14 (£8.7)a share to $85.25.
[August 19, 1999, 12:05]
MS Trial: Legal Eagles' Meeting Bears No Fruit
News When the meeting wound up, the attorneys general were uncharacteristically close-mouthed: "The defendant has the right to have none of the [settlement] facts disclosed," Miller said. Miller is heading up the Microsoft case on behalf of the states...
[March 26, 1999, 10:19]
A Month In The Life Of An Unmetered ISP
News CallNet being wound up as creditors form queue Fri, 01 Sep No unmetered round up would be complete without the dulcet tones of Jane Wakefield to tell us exactly how it is. The numbers involved are complicated, and it may be that they were simply...
[September 19, 2000, 14:20]
Special Report: IBM's Team Remembers The Task
News IBM opted to build its system using off-the-shelf parts, a radical departure from the way things traditionally got done at Big Blue, recalled Noel Fallwell, one of the original dozen members of the project, which ultimately wound up headquartered...
[August 12, 2001, 8:30]
Making 1GB Downloads Easier To Swallow
News He wound up the company on 10 September, 2001, and on his first day of unemployment, pedalling an exercise bike in the gym, he watched the 11 September attacks unfold. The start-up last week kicked off a public beta of its service, a peer-to-peer...
[June 2, 2006, 15:15]
Chip-and-bin Plan Launched
News While their chip-and-bin scheme may well have wound up in the waste paper basket at other authorities, the government certainly didn't rubbish the idea: the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has agreed to part-fund the scheme.
[September 19, 2005, 9:35]
PCs Get More Reliable
News Manufacturers eventually realised that a penny saved up front wound up being dollars at the back end in warranty costs, plus annoying customers," Fiering said. It also found that notebooks have seen a significant improvement, even if they haven't...
[June 27, 2006, 12:45]
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: "IT's Like This..."
News Not only did Spry not go anywhere after that merger, but CompuServe itself wound up in the arms of AOL. But AOL has a history of messing up Internet-related acquisitions. Expect to hear the normal assurances that Netscape will be free to build up...
[November 25, 1998, 9:55]
Nvidia Warns Of Revenue Slump
News The company also wound up with an excess of nForce products -- integrated chipsets that combine a PC chipset with a low-end graphics processor -- after Intel dumped a load of Celeron processors on the market.
[July 31, 2002, 8:20]
Web Standards Group To Tackle Spam
News Filtering techniques have also wound up overblocking, angering some Net customers, who say they have lost significant amounts of genuine mail. According to spam-fighter Brightmail, unsolicited bulk mail volumes skyrocketed last year, now accounting...
[March 6, 2003, 14:01]
