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Logica locks down £20m canal deal
News The government-run business changed its asset management strategy three years ago and has started a £300m regeneration programme to turn some of its property and land assets into commercial money-spinners, such as marina complexes and luxury flats. [21 May 2002]
Dot-com domain control up for grabs
News A vote will be held about who controls the master database of these top level domains. At issue is whether one single company - Verisign - will be allowed both to manage the registry and act as a registrar by selling the dot-com addresses on it. [02 Apr 2001]
Cerf named as 'names' boss
News As the keeper of top level internet domain addresses, Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has considerable political and business influence. Recently, the committee has been repeatedly accused of focussing too heavily on... [19 Nov 2000]
Database vendors rally against Microsoft standard
News But Marina Steadman, Microsoft UK's server product manager, expressed surprise at the announcement. Five of the world's leading software vendors - including IBM, NCR and Oracle - have joined forces to develop a rival metadata standard to Microsoft... [29 Sep 1999]
Gates claims victory in $1m bet with Ellison
News But Marina Stedman, SQL server product manager for Microsoft, said: "Customers can now get the benefits of searching a database quickly - they are interested in what they can do, not the technical stuff behind it. [19 Mar 1999]
Yahoo snaps up Web community GeoCities
News GeoCities, based in Marina del Ray, California, is one of the world's most popular Internet sites, with over 19 million users. In the latest multi-billion dollar Internet deal, portal giant Yahoo has bought Web community host GeoCities. [28 Jan 1999]
Nortel/Bay deal good news for users
News Marina Smith, analyst at Datapro, said: "It's a very good product fit and users will get a very good deal out of it. Networking analysts have welcomed Nortel's $9bn (£5.6bn) acquisition of Bay Networks, saying users will benefit from increased... [26 Jun 1998]
