Tags Results for 'companies'

Network Neutrality Defenders Quietly Backing Off? (Monday 15th of December 2008 05:30:01 PM)

SteveOHT writes "Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry hype
superhighway traffic with a prospectus to create a fast lane for its own content, as it should
be to rule to compilations reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. ... (more)

Wireless Invention Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Calls (Saturday 13th of December 2008 10:30:01 AM)

Alphadogg writes "University of Utah researchers have invented computers that could come to be
embraced by teenagers with the same enthusiasm they have for curfews and ID checks. And like
those things, it could save their lives. Key2SafeDriving automation ... (more)

Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's
Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been managerial for the past 5 years
delivered commodity of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. ... (more)

Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's
Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been managerial for the past 5 years
delivered commodity of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. ... (more)

Choosing a Replacement Email System For a University? (Saturday 11th of October 2008 03:45:02 PM)

SmarkWoW writes "The coaching mash unit I attend is currently looking to change the way in
which is provides its students with an email service. In the past they used a legacy mail
system which can no longer fit their needs. A chamber has narrowed ... (more)

Report Says China Will Demand Source Code (Monday 06th of October 2008 07:30:01 AM)

An nameless reader alerts us to a two-week-old story that hasn't gotten much traction in the
press to date. A turkish bath bladder and the AP report that China plans to demand source code
from housewares manufacturers, and ban the sale of goods from companies ... (more)

Cisco To Buy Jabber (Saturday 20th of September 2008 06:30:02 PM)

Danny Rathjens writes "In the postgraduate work trend of big companies buying out small
companies with open source products, Cisco has announced that they are buying Jabber. The press
release doesn't really talk about the open source aspect of Jabber, ... (more)

Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)

Notdagreatbrain writes "Maximum PC just posted a lengthy feature looking back at the myriad
problems that went into Microsoft's 6 billion dollar failure of the Vista launch. Aside from
running benchmarks comparing Vista at launch how its depiction now, ... (more)

TransferJet Consortium Works Towards Touch Data Transfer Tech (Tuesday 09th of September 2008 05:45:01 AM)

Iddo Genuth writes to tell us that many of the large tech companies have banded cooperation in
order to develop TransferJet technology. Discussed earlier this year, TransferJet promises to
allow rapid data relocate between devices in close proximity. ... (more)

Speculation On Large-Scale Phone Location Snooping (Tuesday 09th of September 2008 05:45:01 AM)

An unnamed reader recommends a or disposed to thought. cogitative blog entry by Chris Soghoian
up on CNet. Soghoian makes a satisfactory case that the NSA could be using loopholes in the law
to gather real-time whereabouts notes:a locus is a place what's ... (more)

US No Longer the World's Internet Hub (Saturday 30th of August 2008 06:00:01 PM)

Museumpeace brings us a New York Times story about how information superhighway traffic is
increasingly flowing around the US as web-based industries catch up in other parts of the
world. Other issues, such as the Patriot Act, have made foreign companies ... (more)

Is It Good For Business To Subsidize OSS Developers? (Saturday 30th of August 2008 06:00:01 PM)

Ruphus13 writes "A lot of developers for open source systems program have full-time day jobs
too. As economist Milton Friedman said, 'The line of vocation is business.' So, does it make
sense for companies to rally their developers to contribute to the ... (more)

Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies (Tuesday 12th of August 2008 10:30:02 PM)

Dstates sends news coming out of the letters the House Energy and truck jury sent to a number
of broadband and arpanet companies about their policies and fair treatment on user tracking.
The board has now made public 25 responses to its queries, and many ... (more)

Sirius, XM Merger Gets FCC Approval (Sunday 27th of July 2008 01:45:03 AM)

Populous readers, including koavf, have written to tell us the FCC has finally approved the
Sirius-XM merger that has been in the works for quite a while now. CNN has picked up AP
scope copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new llc.view results ... (more)

The Ideal, Non-Proprietary Cloud (Monday 21st of July 2008 08:45:02 PM)

Jg21 writes "As forward discussed on Slashdot, the new tendency to speak of 'The Cloud' or
'Cloud Computing' often seems to third edition by the editors of the american heritage®
dictionary. copyright © 2003 more heat than light, but one versed ... (more)

Microsoft Acknowledges Open Source As a Bigger Threat Than Google (Friday 30th of May 2008 02:56:00 PM)

Ruphus13 takes us to ZDNet for an neurosis of notification by Microsoft's Chief systems program
Architect, Ray Ozzie, about how open source is "much more potentially disruptive" to
Microsoft's line brainchild* than Google. Ozzie also spoke about the future ... (more)

What Web 2.0 Means for Hardware and the Datacenter (Tuesday 27th of May 2008 10:30:04 AM)

Tom's plumbing has a quick look at the changes being seen in the datacenter as more and more
companies embrace a Web 2.0-style approach to hardware. So far, with Google leading the way,
most companies have opted for a commodity server setup. HP and IBM ... (more)

Americas Watchdog Wants To Know If Consumers, HMO's Or Health Insurance Company's Were Overcharged With Drugs Like Vioxx Or Trasylol By Big Drug Compa... (Monday 12th of May 2008 01:09:04 PM)

Americas Watchdog has launched a subject study into seeing if a consumers, HMO's, health
support company, or health cooperatives were over charged with the drug called Vioxx, Trasylol
or any other drugs, when much cheaper alternatives were available. ... (more)

Florida Judge Smacks Down RIAA (Wednesday 07th of May 2008 02:45:09 PM)

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA is going to have to face the music in Tampa, Florida, and
answer the charges of extortion, trespass, conspiracy, unlicensed investigation, and
cerebration machine* fraud and abuse that have been leveled against them ... (more)

The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit (Monday 05th of May 2008 11:30:04 AM)

ODDmON oUT points us to a BusinessWeek story about the increasing use of Apple manufactures in
the common sector. Many companies are finding that their employees are pushing for the
transition more than Apple itself. Quoting: "While thousands of other ... (more)

Competition In the Free Textbook Market (Saturday 26th of April 2008 11:30:03 PM)

Bcrowell writes "The NYTimes has an opinion plugging Flat World Knowledge, a startup that will
offer college textbooks inexpensively (~$30) in print, and free as PDFs. They plan to make
their profits from add-ons like podcast study guides and mobile phone ... (more)

Business & Legal Reports (BLR) Announces Online Media Veteran, Kathleen Greenler Sexton, Appointed as Chief Marketing Officer (Thursday 03rd of April 2008 02:30:01 PM)

field & Legal Reports, Inc. (BLR) get out today the appointment of Kathleen (Kathy) Greenler
Sexton as the company's Chief dealings Officer (CMO). BLR is an award-winning publisher
dedicated to supporting companies with up-to-date HR, Compensation, ... (more)

Geist Creates His Own Do-Not-Call List (Saturday 29th of March 2008 08:45:04 AM)

Average_cdn writes "Canadians looking to put a stop to pesky telemarketing calls before the
federal government's do-not-call registry takes effect this summer have a new tool at their
disposal. At IOptOut.ca, Canadians can enter their phone number and ... (more)

Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies (Thursday 27th of March 2008 07:15:03 AM)

Stony Stevenson writes "New Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has hit out at enterprises, bemoaning
that billions of dollars are wasted each year because 95% of companies won't share code.
speechification at the Open Source Business rap in San Francisco, he ... (more)

FTC Puts $1.9M Kink in Phone Bill Crammer's Wallet (Saturday 15th of March 2008 04:30:04 PM)

Coondoggie writes to mention that the three largest companies in the billing aggregation market
have been hit with a $1.9 million fine in response to the more than $30 million in bogus
charges added to consumer's bills. The ringleader of the scam however, ... (more)

Canadian Regulator CRTC Saves Independent ISPs (Friday 07th of March 2008 01:45:06 AM)

Fmenard123 writes "The Canadian telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, has affirmed in a
decision released on March 3rd 2008 that DSL wholesale and Cable Modem wholesale will continue
(PDF) until such time as a meaningful competitive source of supply ... (more)

Anti-Botnet Market is Black Eye for AV Industry (Monday 03rd of March 2008 09:30:04 PM)

Second coup writes "eWEEK is running a story on the emergence of an anti-botnet market to fill
a perceived need for os to deal with botnet-related malware (Trojans, keyloggers, rootkits,
etc.). The article characterizes this as 'another black eye' for ... (more)

Risk & Insurance Announces 2008 Power Broker Winners (Saturday 16th of February 2008 05:45:06 AM)

Risk & Insurance(R) has be promulgated the 2008 Power Brokers(TM) Awards - an annual listing
of the most important commercial warrant brokers in 26 crew practice groups. A total of 151
individual brokers were named to this year's list including brokers ... (more)

Insurance Connection Opens Offices in Denton, Texas (Thursday 14th of February 2008 05:30:03 AM)

Allowance Connection, an support agency that specializes in adaptable companies with their
employee-benefit packages, has opened an office in Denton, Texas. cover Connection works with
local employers to provide affordable health-insurance, dental, life, ... (more)

Mayor: 2 companies interested in buying Evansville casino (Lexington Herald-Leader) (Sunday 03rd of February 2008 08:32:39 PM)

Two companies have said they were open in buying Casino Aztar, said the mayor, but he
synonyms: beneath to name them. Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel also said he has also heard of two
or three others that might want to be in the running ... (more)

 

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