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Five Years Ago: Microsoft Resuscitates FoxPro
News Although Big Green paid big bucks for the product it bought three years ago, it has taken a back seat to Access and Visual Basic over the last 18 months. Microsoft's forgotten product will get a new breath of life with the news that a new version...
[August 26, 2001, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: IBM To Push Networked PC Ticket
News The comments we get from customers is they were advised to take the client-server boat five years ago and it's turned out to be the Titanic. First published 2 July, 1997. Big Blue has had a formal relationship with Intel since October 1996 to...
[July 2, 2002, 7:27]
Five Years Ago: McAfee Finds First Known Linux Virus
Talkback I think Mr. Veitch is a little behind the times. In the June 2004 of Linux Format magazine (LXF54)(www.linuxformat.co.uk) on page 51 is an insert discussing this same subject and they say that MacFee was about a year late in talking about the Bliss...
[August 3, 2004, 4:05]
Ten Years Ago: Switching On The World Wide Web
News It was at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) that particle physicist Paul Kunz wrote and posted the first American Web page 10 years ago today. It's hard to think about the last ten years and say there weren't any glitches.
[December 10, 2001, 16:37]
Five Years Ago: EC Rule Sends RAM Prices Up 30 Per Cent
News However, Boyle said he didn't expect prices to spiral in the way that they have on several occasions in the last two years: "Prices will stabilise because of market forces. First published 26 March, 1997
[March 26, 2002, 6:01]
Five Years Ago: Micronics Claims Fastest PII Board Crown
News Intel has been very successful in the last two and a half years but we're there for the niche market that really needs performance. First published 27 May, 1997. Aimed at high-end workstations and servers, the Californian firm's mini-ATX Stingray...
[May 27, 2002, 7:00]
Five Years Ago: Civil Service Will Spend £2.5b On IT This Year
News London-based Kable says IT spend has been on an eight per cent of total budget plateau for several years. First published 14 April, 1997. One interesting movement is towards outsourcing which accounted for just £23 million in 1993/94 but swelled to...
[April 13, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: Dell First Up With Pre-installed NT 4.0
News PCDN Comment: Nobody is pushing Pentium Pro with Windows NT 4.0 as hard as Dell, which is even recommending it for users of Windows 95 who plan to upgrade their OS at some point in the next four years.
[August 29, 2001, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: Hacker Mitnick To Serve 22 Months
News At the time, the prosecutor stated Mitnick could be sentenced to a maximum of 200 years in prison. To date, no hacker has served more than five years. First published 20 June, 1997. Kevin Mitnick, once the FBI's most wanted hacker, is set to be...
[June 20, 2002, 7:02]
Five Years Ago: Upgrade Breathes New Life Into Old Pentiums
News Accountants tend to write machines off after about four years, but now, after about 18 months, performance has gone down to the minimum needed so the concept of the chip upgrade has become more attractive," said Spencer Eccleston, sales and...
[May 25, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: IBM Revamps Aptiva Line
News In development for three years, this sleek black system was code-named the Stealth PC, and while it doesn't do away with bulky system units, it does have a six-feet cable between the base station and the mini-tower system unit that allows you to...
[February 26, 2002, 6:01]
Five Years Ago: Compaq Will Grow To $40bn Says Pfieffer
News Pfeiffer put Compaq's success down to its market focus: "Our business mix, roughly 85 per cent commercial and 15 per cent consumer, will probably stay that way for years to come. We beat it by two years.
[February 12, 2002, 6:31]
Five Years Ago: PC Server Vendors Close Out Clones
News Compaq said last week it had produced its one millionth server, scoring the achievement after just seven years in the PC server business. With clones clinging on in desktops and notebooks, Compaq, Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others are making a...
[November 30, 2001, 6:00]
Five Years Ago: Videoconferencing Could Be 1997's Killer App
News US-based Sage Research says almost one in five US businesses already have desktop videoconferencing capabilities while another 47 per cent plan to deploy it within two years, taking the total to two-thirds of all businesses surveyed.
[December 3, 2001, 6:00]
Five Years Ago: Acorn And BT Trial Consumer NC
News The deal with BT marks Acorn's continued thrust into the forefront of network computing and interactive television devices, a thrust which is expected to carry the company back into the black after years of red ink in its financial results.
[June 11, 2002, 7:02]
Five Years Ago: Jim Barksdale On Netscape Communicator 4.0
News In the simplest form, the gist of it is this: Netscape is dedicated to the intra-net and we believe that the great opportunities over the next few years will be for the sale of software to corporate and enterprise creators of intra-nets.
[October 15, 2001, 7:30]
Five Years Ago: $5.3m RSI Case Could Spur Ergo Keyboard Market
News I have expected this for 20 years," said Stephen Hobday, managing director of East Molsey, Surrey-based PCD Maltron. The huge sum, believed to be the largest of its type, was paid to victims of arm, wrist and hand injuries caused by Digital PC...
[December 8, 2001, 6:00]
Five Years Ago: IBM Plans First USB PC For October
News The amazing thing is that we have been stuck with such an unwieldy, slow peripheral interface all these years while Mac users have had the USB-like Apple Desktop Bus. USB, a common PC-to-peripheral interface, is widely tipped to become the standard...
[August 1, 2001, 8:00]
Five Years Ago: Dell Number One In Declining Government Market
News The accolade came from Kable, an IT researcher specialising in the public sector, which added that the government market has declined 17 per cent in two years thanks to budget trimming. First published 10 April, 1997.
[April 10, 2002, 7:01]
Five Years Ago: Novell Goes Back To School To Beat NT
News Over 370,000 students have completed Novell-badged training under NetWare 4 and the knowledge base the company has built up over the years is widely regarded as a beach-head to protect Novell's 55 million user base against the progress of Windows...
[August 2, 2001, 8:00]
