Monthly Archives: January 2004
Hard Disk Makers Seek Profits, Price Stability
Has stability returned to the disk-drive market? For the most part, according to analysts, but they warn that companies like Seagate and other storage...
IBM: Who Says Penguins Cant Fly?
NEW YORK—"Who says penguins cant fly?" IBMs Ross Mauri asked a packed LinuxWorld audience Thursday. During his keynote speech at the show here, Mauri,...
Ariba to Acquire FreeMarkets
Squashing long-held rumors that Ariba Inc. would be acquired—propagated by Chairman and CEO Robert Calderoni in a televised interview last year—Ariba announced on Friday...
Playboy Settles Netscape Search Engine Advertising Case
A week after an appeals court ruling revived a Playboy Enterprises Inc. trademark infringement lawsuit against Netscape Communications Inc., the companies have reached a...
DVD Decoding: Trade Secret No More
In a move that has big implications for both the distribution and sharing of entertainment content and freedom of speech online, a group of...
Microsoft Eases Licensing Terms under Court Pressure
WASHINGTON—To make it easier for rivals to license its communications protocols, Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it will make several changes to the licensing...
ISS, Nokia Dissolving Partnership
Internet Security Systems Inc. has decided to dissolve its relationship with Nokia Corp., one of the companys oldest and most important partners. The partnership...
RFID? Theyre Already Following You
It isnt very often that Europeans suspect Americans of being pioneers in anything to do with wireless, but the growth of "contactless" credit cards...
UnitedLinux, RIP
Without ceremony, fanfare or even an announcement, UnitedLinux, an industry consortium of The SCO Group Inc. (formerly Caldera International Inc.); Conectiva S.A; SuSE Linux...
Microsoft Exec Slams Linux Noise in E-Mail to Staff
Microsoft Corp. is ratcheting up the rhetoric in its battle to contain the fallout from dissatisfied customers moving to the open-source Linux operating system.
Earlier...