on demand patterns in news
Viacom vs Google: YouTube privacy fears
News Viacom responded in a statement that it needs the data to demonstrate video piracy patterns that are the heart of its case against YouTube. A lawyer said: "We are disappointed the court granted Viacom's overreaching demand for viewing history. [04 Jul 2008]
Microsoft extends Windows XP's lifeline
News Kutz said Microsoft had seen similar demand patterns with past releases and noted that in the past, old operating systems remained available for around 18 months after the release of a new operating system. [28 Sep 2007]
Norfolk police consolidate data
News Norfolk Constabulary is consolidating 4,500 data repositories into one integrated database - with an initial infrastructure investment of £295,000 - to help it better predict crime patterns. Thompson told silicon.com that by allowing the force to... [17 Sep 2007]
Apple profits surge on iPod sales boom
News But that's not expected to last - normal seasonal patterns mean iPod shipments will decline in Apple's second quarter, the first calendar quarter of the year. Cook said: "iPod demand was extraordinary. [18 Jan 2007]
Intel to open PC design centres for developing world
News To this end, the company has retained a number of anthropologists and demographers to help it understand local usage patterns and demand. Intel India, meanwhile, is working on PCs that are more impervious to dust and can run on car batteries. [01 Aug 2005]
My first computer: The Acorn Electron
News Simple programming in BBC basic could be achieved through a cursory reading of the ring bound manual and within hours of starting to mess about with the language you could be writing your own mini-programs - though these were no more complex than... [14 Jan 2005]
Microsoft rakes in larger-than-expected pile of cash
News They clearly do use the renewal period to hold out for discounting," Connors said, but added that the company is not seeing any "unnatural" discounting patterns nor are they giving different guidelines to the sales force than in the past. [22 Oct 2004]
Business Objects pays $820m for rival
News Business Objects, a French maker of software that finds patterns and trends about companies by pulling information from its databases, and Crystal Decisions announced the deal on Friday. A prolonged decline in corporate demand for information... [21 Jul 2003]
IBM supercomputer brews up a storm
News In addition to accuracy, the agency hopes the system will let it warn about hurricanes and other weather patterns sooner - five days in advance, as opposed to three. Although IBM has been pushing an on-demand computing initiative in which companies... [06 Jun 2003]
Dell and HP slug it out for top spot in PCs
News With shipments coming in just a hair ahead of its predictions on a year-over-year basis, the market appears to be returning to its normal seasonal patterns. Still, demand is far from robust. Some of the increased demand, however, came from price cuts. [22 Apr 2003]
Can IT save us from Big Brother?
News Shopping patterns are being tracked via "club cards", video surveillance has increased and embedded sensors could eventually track any product or person. Although consumer demand for privacy products has never really taken off, expanding privacy... [11 Apr 2003]
IBM fleshes out autonomic software plans
News The software can study traffic patterns to predict changes in computing demand and then automatically bring more resources online to handle the changes in computing workload. Typically, companies buy an excess of servers, software and storage to... [07 Mar 2003]
Will congestion charging change the way we work?
News But he claims the growth in demand for conferencing and declining peak time traffic in London already points to changes in commuting and work patterns. There are signs that London's impending congestion charge could alter the way we do business... [11 Feb 2003]
PC market totters towards a recovery
News Karine Paoli, IDC's EMEA personal computing expertise centre manager, said in a statement: "A gradual recovery in corporate investments will contribute to driving a return to healthier growth patterns for 2003. [21 Oct 2002]
IT managers say: 'Don't blame us for the lack of flexible working'
News However, when an employee requested flexible working patterns, the IT department was blamed for not delivering the technology to make it happen! You can demand away and come up with the theoretical solutions but will business pay for a workable... [16 Apr 2002]
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