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Dell and HP find ways to keep Windows XP alive

News Kevin Kutz, a director in Microsoft's Windows unit, said the downgrade-rights option meets customer needs. HP said it plans to continue selling the "pre-downgraded" desktops, notebooks and workstations to its business customers until 30 July 2009.

Tags: xp, vista, hp, dell

[28 Apr 2008]

Stories of the month - July 2007

News Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director at publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK, expressed particular admiration for Ubuntu Linux. Perhaps it's obvious but the quality of open source desktop software has come on no end since I last reviewed it.

Tags: mac, vista

[30 Jul 2007]

Amnesty: ISPs must safeguard free speech

News Speaking at the annual awards dinner held last week by the Internet Service Providers' Association (Ispa), Amnesty's campaigns director, Tim Hancock, told delegates: "Web users and service providers alike have a responsibility to keep alive the...

Tags: free speech, amnesty, amnesty international, isps

[20 Feb 2007]

'The end is nigh'... for email viruses

'The end is nigh'... for email viruses

News Dan Hubbard, senior director of Websense Security Labs, told silicon.com the number of email-borne viruses is falling and will continue to do so, while David Perry, global director of education at Trend Micro, said these things come in ages and...

Tags: email viruses, spyware

[28 Apr 2005]

UK is scam haven, says Office of Fair Trading

UK is scam haven, says Office of Fair Trading

News Christine Wade, director of consumer regulation, said the international nature of the internet made it a prime hunting ground for scammers. Internet sites offering 'too good to be true' deals are alive and well, and happily doing business in...

[02 Apr 2004]

Intel to replace silicon

News Ken David, director of components research in Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group, said: "We'd love to continue with silicon dioxide, but we can't do it because of leakage. Moore's Law is alive and well, but Intel is changing its basic...

[05 Nov 2003]

Will Harry Potter's wizard touch boost BT broadband?

Will Harry Potter's wizard touch boost BT broadband?

News Angus Porter, managing director of BT Consumer, said in a statement: "The internet is obviously the best place to share a once-in-a-lifetime event like this. The webcast is a fabulous way to showcase how broadband can bring the imagination alive...

[05 Jun 2003]

Apple postpones developer conference

Apple postpones developer conference

News Another new director will also be named in the relatively near future. It has been a busy week for Apple. Released in 1998, the all-in-one computer is widely credited for keeping the company alive during a tumultuous period.

[24 Mar 2003]

SETI@home passes round hat for funding

SETI@home passes round hat for funding

News The director of SETI@home - a high-profile distributed computing experiment to find extraterrestrial life - has made a plea to his users for funding after denying late last month that the project was facing a funding crisis.

[14 Nov 2002]

Sun and Intel go head-to-head over Itanium

Sun and Intel go head-to-head over Itanium

News Tom Yates, director of high performance systems EMEA at Compaq, said this is an attempt by Sun to create uncertainty, doubt and mischief in the market place to catch some business, because it is "unable to articulate any movement in its own...

[30 Aug 2001]

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