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Symantec asks court to brand Hotbar.com 'adware'
News An IT lawyer who wished to remain anonymous told silicon.com: "Part of the difficulty in defining concepts is there is no common understanding of what constitutes adware or spyware. Symantec has argued that the programs are a threat to the internet... [08 Jun 2005]
Ofcom panel slammed over 'tech-illiterate' claims
News But that is hardly surprising when it focuses on a limited number of small businesses and quizzes them on technical concepts such as 3G and Wi-Fi," he said in a statement. Small businesses have slammed the independent consumer panel set up by... [23 May 2005]
Symantec: Mac OS X a hacker target
News You don't see Macintosh viruses in mass outbreaks but you do see them in the labs as proof of concepts. Security vendor Symantec is warning that Apple's OS X operating system is increasingly becoming a target for hackers and malware authors. [21 Mar 2005]
Apple pioneer dies at 61
News In later years, Raskin worked on The Humane Environment, a system incorporating his interface concepts with open-source elements within a Zooming User Interface. Raskin was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a... [28 Feb 2005]
'Free' Solaris set for release
News And it points out that open-source programmers don't like it when proprietary software companies employ open-source concepts just for marketing purposes. It's not a totally free lunch, though: Sun will provide security updates in the free version... [15 Nov 2004]
Microsoft staking claim to internet protocols?
News The 'Server Software' requirement and definition, including such amorphous concepts as how software is 'marketed', would likely exclude many open-source and embedded software implementations. Larry Blunk, a developer and researcher for Merit... [11 Nov 2004]
Salesforce.com offers Supportforce.com
News While Benioff acknowledges the concepts of customer service and support with call centres and help desks are not new, he said few companies put those tasks in an on-demand environment. Supportforce.com is designed to allow a company's support staff... [30 Sep 2004]
CA sued (again): This time for $800m
News NI Group, Scienton Technologies and Secure-IT claim CA stole concepts and software as well as failing to honour a contract to pay up for development and implementation work carried out for a number of CA customers. [06 Jul 2004]
Sun: Solaris will be open source
News There is one Linux company in the world today that's confusing the two concepts and that is Red Hat. We need to now take the model with Java and bring it to Solaris," he said. So said Sun Microsystems' president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz at an Asia... [02 Jun 2004]
CA set for more open-source loving
News Even Microsoft has borrowed concepts from the open-source world to improve its developer relations programs and its Shared Source Initiative. One big reason for the trend is cost: companies can offset some of their internal development expenses... [06 May 2004]
Tech heavyweights launch rival grid alliance
News So far, explanations of the grid idea and of related concepts, such as transforming computing into a utilitylike service, have been a bit murky. We're in the process of evaluating the goals and mission of the organisation," an IBM spokesman said... [21 Apr 2004]
Gateway closes its doors
News The driving force behind many of these concepts was to create tighter bonds - and recurring revenue streams - with its customers. Gateway announced late Thursday that it will close its retail stores next week and lay off about 2,500 employees... [02 Apr 2004]
PARC working on device-to-device software
News Deliverable software is not yet available but the concepts are mature, Calabria said. The Palo Alto Research Center, a subsidiary of Xerox, on Tuesday will announce Obje, a software architecture meant to establish a common language to tackle one of... [02 Mar 2004]
Lotus betting on Linux for messaging
News IBM has been increasingly shifting the emphasis on development within Domino towards a J2EE framework - a move which led Microsoft to last year woo existing users by arguing that a migration from LotusScript to Visual Basic would be easier than... [02 Feb 2004]
Microsoft: 'We're simple'
News Gates said he wants it so users can "see the same concepts as you navigate different types of information" but admitted that the there is still a long way to go. Speaking today at the Microsoft Developers Conference, the Redmond behemoth's head man... [26 Jan 2004]
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