Topic: COMPUTER - on November 24, 2006 at 9:57:00 AM CET
Microsoft files new antitrust documents with EU
Microsoft filed revised documents with the European Commission on Thursday aimed at complying with a landmark antitrust decision from 2004, the European Commission said.
Microsoft met a deadline set by Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, but it will be months before it is clear whether the submission is sufficient to avoid a fine that could be as high as 3 million euros ($3.9 million) a day.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 22, 2006 at 11:44:00 AM CET
Ten Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever
As the market for acquiring fledgling Internet companies heats up, it's worth taking a look at all those acquisitions that didn't quite work out. For every Internet acquisition that's successful there seems to be dozens that die on the vine.
So what makes for a really bad Internet acquisition? First, it has to be expensive. No one's going to rake a company over the coals over a few blown $50 million acquisitions. That might sound like a lot of money to you and me, but that's a rounding error to Google.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 21, 2006 at 3:33:00 PM CET
Novell disputes claim by Microsoft on patents
Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. say that they have "agreed to disagree" on a key issue dividing their respective parts of the technology world, but that it won't jeopardize their sweeping business deal and patent truce. In a twist that underscored the unlikely nature of their alliance, Novell Chief Executive Ron Hovsepian publicly distanced his company Monday from Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's statement last week that the open-source Linux operating system contains patented Microsoft technology.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 19, 2006 at 11:27:00 AM CET
PCI cards the next haven for rootkits?
SecurityFocus has an interesting article about a paper published on the possibility of hiding a rootkit in different PCI cards and having the rootkit survive a reboot or cleansing of the hard disk. It seems though that the author of the article doesn't think this would be abused frequently.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 18, 2006 at 2:38:00 PM CET
Microsoft Windows Comes Of Age - Happy 21st Birthday!
Believe it or not Windows is 21 years old on Monday. When it was launched in 1985 the PC market was barely out of it’s infancy, and whatever you may think of Microsoft it is amazing what they Bill Gates & Co have built in such a relatively short time.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 18, 2006 at 1:59:00 PM CET
eBayer bids $89m for PS3
Someone - fool, twit, dunderheard, call them what you will - has apparently agreed to pay more than $89m for a 60GB PlayStation 3. At least he or she doesn't have to pay the shipping cost - the seller is generously including UPS delivery in the price.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 17, 2006 at 12:07:00 PM CET
Linux users owe Microsoft Microsoft CEO says Linux "uses our intellectual property"
In a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Seattle, Ballmer said Microsoft was motivated to sign a deal with SUSE Linux distributor Novell earlier this month because Linux "uses our intellectual property" and Microsoft wanted to "get the appropriate economic return for our shareholders from our innovation."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 17, 2006 at 12:00:00 PM CET
Sun can solve global warming
Scott McNealy may no longer be leading the charge at Sun Microsystems but he still knows a good Sun sales opportunity when he sees it.
The company’s former CEO used the recording of a US TV chat show on "Going Green" to showcase Sun's Niagara chip, T1000 servers, Project Blackbox and Sun Rays as potential planet savers. He probably lost he TV audience when he started getting into the number of threads on a Niagara chip, though.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 17, 2006 at 11:40:00 AM CET
Microsoft could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions with a few lines of computer code
It is estimated there are 660 million computers in use worldwide, the majority of which run some iteration of a Microsoft operating system. Generating the electricity needed to power those computers requires hundreds of power plants that produce billions of tons of CO2 emissions. Many of those machines sit idle for 12 to 16 hours per day, burning electricity, but not doing any work, because businesses habitually leave their computers running overnight.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 16, 2006 at 5:01:00 PM CET
Malware goes to the movies
Online attackers have started to experiment with embedding malicious code or links to such code in different video formats.
On Tuesday, anti-virus firm McAfee warned Windows users that the company had discovered a worm, dubbed W32/Realor, actively infecting Real Media files. The infected video files do not contain an exploit for the RealOne or Real players, but a hyperlink that points to a malicious website. When infected files are opened, the victim is referred to the web ite, which attempts to compromise their computer using a previously patched flaw in Internet Explorer.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 15, 2006 at 6:42:00 PM CET
FCC Meets to Investigate Cookie Abuse
Online advertisers have a sweet tooth for cookies. Not the kind you bake, but the digital kind—those tiny files that embed themselves on a PC and keep tabs on what Web sites are visited on which machines. They're useful because they help marketers tailor which ads are served to which users.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 14, 2006 at 10:24:00 AM CET
Ten Spammers Create 80 Percent Of Spam
Email users in North America and Europe who find themselves plagued with the incessant bombardment of spam can blame ten spammers singled out by junk mail fighter Spamhaus for the unwanted messages.
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