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Microsoft dashes Yahoo!'s hopes of higher bid
News He was echoing a public threat made by chief executive Steve Ballmer at a conference near Milan on Wednesday that Microsoft would withdraw its cash-and-stock offer, originally for $31 a share, if Yahoo! [25 Apr 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Microsoft prepared to walk away
News Speaking at a technology conference near Milan, Ballmer said Yahoo! Microsoft is prepared to walk away from its $43.6bn bid for Yahoo! if the two sides can't agree on a price, chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday. [24 Apr 2008]
Microsoft still tinkering with Surface
News Originally code-named Milan, Surface looks a bit like a 1980s sit-down Ms Pac Man machine but uses infrared cameras and a projector to create a touchscreen that can respond to multiple users' hand gestures, as well as interact with other objects. [09 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: Underwater Google Earth, Microsoft's Milan and BlackBerrys
News Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past week and explains why they matter. [05 Jun 2007]
Microsoft unveils touchscreen-PC-cum-tabletop
News Microsoft is taking the wraps off 'Milan' - a secret project five years in the making and the first in what the company hopes will be a long line of "surface computers". As a result, Microsoft isn't targeting homes initially, though it hopes... [30 May 2007]
Vodafone sues Telecom Italia for €525m
News Vodafone Italia has now filed a complaint in a Milan court, suing Telecom Italia for €525.2m in damages. Vodafone is suing its main competitor in Italy, Telecom Italia, for several hundred million euros, claiming the operator abused its market... [17 Jul 2006]
'Super Mario' joins investment bank
News Monti, also known for his hard line on the merger between AOL and Time Warner, is currently chairman of the Board of the Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (Bruegel) and president of the Bocconi University in Milan, where he... [14 Dec 2005]
EU turns down Microsoft's antitrust remedy
News Carlo Piana, a partner at Milan law firm Tamos Piana & Partners, which represents the Free Software Foundation Europe, said the Commission has echoed the FSF's concerns on the matter. The European Commission has rejected Microsoft's proposed server... [21 Mar 2005]
US government goes on open source bender
News For example, in Italy, the Green Party has introduced motions in Florence, Milan, Torino and four other cities to start or expand the use of open-source software. US governmental bodies have approved at least 90 initiatives involving open-source... [03 Sep 2004]
European WLAN boom leaves security behind
News Of Europe's financial centres, Frankfurt and Milan trail with 198 and 148 respectively. But users are failing to pay attention to security, especially in Milan. According to research from RSA Security, one in three networks in Milan use the new... [22 Jun 2004]
Legal war against file-sharers spills over US borders
News The public prosecutor in Milan has charged 30 people and ordered raids to seize computers, hard disks, storage systems and 50,000 files. The recording industry has taken its legal battle against file-sharing over US borders and across the Atlantic... [31 Mar 2004]
Mozilla start-up looks to Safari for inspiration
News Gritti, a 25-year-old philosophy and literature student at Milan University, said his specialisation in the humanities, rather than computer sciences, influenced his view of software design. A small band of software developers tired of code and... [20 Feb 2003]
Fashionista! Siemens launches trendy handsets
News IBM is working on an earring phone, and Motorola is opening a design centre in Milan, Italy, to capture the perfect fashionable look. Siemens yesterday became the latest mobile phone maker to directly target fashion conscious users. [28 Jan 2003]
Wi-Fi comes to the Holiday Inn
News Megabeam already has hotspots in several European business centres, including London, Milan, Rome, Munich, Zurich and Amsterdam. Wireless internet access will soon be available in a handful of Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotels in south east England. [03 Dec 2002]
Will you try WiFi before you fly?
News A network at Brussels airport goes live today, with Liverpool John Lennon, London City, Oslo Gardermoen, Milan Malpensa, Rome Ciampino, Turin and Venice airports all being switched on to the Megabeam network within the coming weeks. [29 Oct 2002]
