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RSS capsMicrosoft analyst is the very breast at being bad
News The paragraph that scooped the Microsoft man his trophy was: "As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburettors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of... [29 Jul 2005]
Assessing the Administration's Five-Year Appropriation "Caps": Administration's Five-Year Caps on Appropriations Would Lead to Substantial Reductions in Important Domestic Programs
White Paper The President's budget proposes that statutory caps be established for each of the next five years on both funding levels and expenditure levels for annually appropriated ("discretionary") programs. The caps would be set at the levels of funding... [20 May 2005]
Hensarling Entitlement Cap Amendment Would Require Deep Cuts in Entitlement Programs
White Paper The Congressional Budget Office issues entitlement-cost projections and related data that enable analysts to compute what the entitlement caps would be under the Hensarling proposal. The CBO projections and data indicate that over the next ten... [20 May 2005]
Google plans 'bottomless' storage for Gmail
News Lifting pre-defined storage caps for web-based email could have broader ripple effects, Harik said, changing the way people think about quotas from something that is set in advance to something that grows with the user. [01 Apr 2005]
Sir Tim gets 'best Brit' gong
News The award caps a spectacular 12 months for Berners-Lee; he was knighted during 2004 as well as collecting a lifetime achievement gong at the CNET UK awards. Father of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has scooped an award for 'Best Briton 2004... [28 Jan 2005]
Offshoring an unstoppable force in IT
News Any attempt by a national government to control the exporting of jobs to countries where costs are low with legislation or job caps would put the nation "at a competitive disadvantage to companies based in nations without such laws", says the report. [11 Jan 2005]
SCO quarterly revenue falls 58 per cent
News Through a new agreement that caps payments to law firm Boies Schiller & Flexner, the company expects to pay $3m in legal fees. The SCO Group reported another quarter of financial losses on Tuesday, spurred by dwindling software and licensing revenue. [22 Dec 2004]
'Rolex' spam taps into bling-bling culture
News Staley said: "These products are appealing to the kind of people who buy fake Burberry caps. Rolex watches have long been seen as a must-have product among the aspiring nouveau riche - but a brand built upon high standards of quality and... [25 Oct 2004]
5 years ago: Globalstar unveils satellite phones
News The company promises widespread coverage across the globe - everywhere but the polar ice caps. 12.10.99: Globalstar launches its mobile satellite phone service at the Telecom 99 show in Geneva. Globalstar chairman and CEO Bernard Schwartz... [12 Oct 2004]
PeopleSoft farce: Larry - what were you thinking?
Comment His idea of diplomacy is to put a couple of caps into Craig Conway's dog and then give his former underling a hotfoot at the signing ceremony. Is Oracle's hostile bid to buy PeopleSoft smart or just silly? [19 Jul 2004]
5 years ago: Terms of Y2K bill agreed upon
News The legislation gives IT firms 90 days to fix millennium bug-related problems before customers are allowed to file suit and imposes caps on how much injured parties can be awarded. 30.06.99: The US government and consumer groups agree on terms of a... [30 Jun 2004]
BT slashes home broadband prices - and download limits
News Although these bandwidth caps are being added to BT's terms and conditions and will come into force 28 days later, they won't actually be enforced until next year. BT has announced that it is slashing its retail broadband prices by as much as £10... [30 Jun 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.05.04
Round-Up Then there is all the vendor-wear - lanyards, caps and bags. How long does a person have to wait around in Las Vegas for the chance to marry Britney Spears? The Round-Up has been here all week and hasn't even seen the elusive Ms Spears, let alone... [28 May 2004]
Google files for £2.7bn IPO
News The filing caps months of speculation over a deal that many expect could signal a resurgence of Silicon Valley, after three lean years. Internet search leader Google filed to go public on Thursday, seeking to raise $2.7bn in an unusual auction... [30 Apr 2004]
iTunes loses 95 million songs
News Customers with winning bottle caps have until Friday to redeem their free music tracks. Apple said last fall that it hoped to distribute 100 million tracks in its first year, but when that figure was calculated, it was expected that more winning... [29 Apr 2004]
