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News: AEG, America Online, XM Satellite Create New Company
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 12:15 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Network Live, a joint venture of AEG, America Online, and XM Satellite Radio, is the first multi-platform digital entertainment company committed to delivering live entertainment programming through the Internet, satellite and other third party global media platforms...
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News: AMD Files Antitrust Suit Against Intel
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 01:08 AM PST |
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Sunnyvale, CA - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ("AMD") announced yesterday that it has filed an antitrust complaint against Intel Corporation ("Intel") on Monday...
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News: Manchester United to Stop Trading
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 03:04 AM PST |
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London, ENGLAND - The American football's Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner, Malcolm Glazer, will delist Manchester United after 14 years of trading on the stock market...
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News: Microsoft Files More Lawsuits Against Pirates
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 02:22 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Earlier this week, Microsoft filed suits against four separate companies found to be selling counterfeit and/or illicit software and software components...
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News: Ford and Sirius Extend Exclusive Relationship
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, June 09, 2005 - 12:01 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - On Monday, the Ford Motor Company and SIRIUS Satellite Radio announced an agreement extending their exclusive agreement through 2011...
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News: Microsoft Praises Joint Effort by Law Enforcement
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, September 24, 2004 - 12:02 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corp. yesterday applauded the FBI in Los Angeles for its leadership following a two-year investigation undertaken in a significant partnership with Microsoft and other industry investigators...
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News: Network Associates is No More
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 03:05 AM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - Network Associates, the parent of the popular McAfee antivirus line of products and many other utilties has changes its name...
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Editorial: IT in the Age of Commoditization
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Posted by: Stanislav Fritz on Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 04:06 AM PST |
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Nicholas Carr, in his article to Harvard Business Review, makes some fairly sweeping and strong statements as to the vanishing strategic advantage of IT in the business place The crux of his argument is that IT is now fundamentally an infrastructure technology - which provides no strategic advantage.. Carr has it only partially right.
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News: Citigroup Faces Large Penalty
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 12:07 AM PST |
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New York, NY - Last Thursday, the Federal Reserve announced that Citigroup Inc. and a subsidiary would be facing a $70 million penalty related to their practices...
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News: DVDXCopy Battle Hits Retailers
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 12:10 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Technology One, a California-based online retailer, has been sued by two Hollywood movie studios over the recently banned software published by 321 Studios...
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News: Intel Sued by Canadian Company
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Sunnyvale, CA - All Computers, a Toronto-based computer company, filed suit against Intel Corp. for allegedly violating a patent they were issued...
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News: Intel Investing in Innovation
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, May 21, 2004 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - Intel Corporation announced Wednesday that it plans to invest an additional $2 billion in its Ireland-based facilities...
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News: Ex-Fox Employees Charged with Piracy
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, May 17, 2004 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - On Friday of last week, six individuals were charged with conspiring to distribute pirated movies...
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News: RIAA Rampage Still Continues
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 12:02 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - The Recording Industry of America (RIAA) is at it again, this time filing 41 new lawsuits against internet music traders...
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News: S. 877 Anti-spam Bill - Bill Gates Applauds
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 12:11 AM PST |
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Washington, D.C. - Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., issued the following statement on Saturday, in support of the House's passage of the S. 877 anti-spam bill...
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News: Palm Not At Hand
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 12:07 AM PST |
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Milpitas, CA - Palm, Inc. announced yesterday the new name it will adopt following the proposed spin-off this fall of PalmSource, Inc., makers of Palm OS platform software...
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News: MSN and eBay to Combine Forces
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 12:07 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - MSN, owned by Microsoft, and eBay today announced plans to expand their current relationship to assist consumers with a better online experience...
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News: Intel Corp. Ships 1 Billionth CPU
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, June 11, 2003 - 02:15 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - As Intel, the world's largest computer processor maker, approaches it's 25th anniversary, it has just reached it's 1 billionth CPU milestone...
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News: AOL Time Warner and Microsoft Forge Partnership
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 02:08 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - Microsoft Corp. and AOL Time Warner Inc. announced Thursday an agreement to collaborate on long-term digital media initiatives that will accelerate the adoption of digital content, and to settle the pending litigation between their companies.
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News: Microsoft Hardware Team Turns Twenty
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, May 05, 2003 - 12:09 AM PST |
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Redmond, WA - On Friday, Microsoft's hardware team, developers of the IntelliMouse technology and the Sidewinder line of gaming products, celebrated twenty years of innovation...
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News: Intel And Via Technologies, Inc. Settle Patent Infringement Cases
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, April 10, 2003 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - On Monday, Intel Corporation and VIA Technologies, Inc. reached a settlement agreement in a series of pending patent lawsuits related to chipsets and microprocessors. The agreement encompasses 11 pending cases in five countries involving 27 patents...
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News: Microsoft Teams Up with University of Leeds Students
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 02:28 AM PST |
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London, England - On Friday, Microsoft announced it would be joining forces with the University of Leeds to develop the United Kingdom's first undergraduate computer security module to focus on the skills that developers need to prevent security vulnerabilities and write secure code...
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News: SONICblue Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 12:07 AM PST |
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Santa Clara, CA - SONICblue™ Incorporated announced yesterday that it and three of its subsidiaries will file voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of California, San Jose Division...
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News: Flat Panel Chip Makers Combine Efforts
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 12:12 AM PST |
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San Jose, CA - Genesis Microchip Inc. and Pixelworks, Inc. announced yesterday the execution of a definitive merger agreement...
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News: Microsoft Acquires Connectix VM Technology
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 12:03 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it has acquired the virtual machine solutions of privately held Connectix Corp., a leading provider of virtualization software for Windows®- and Macintosh-based computing...
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News: California to Sue Spammers
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 02:39 AM PST |
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Sacramento, CA - Unsolicited commercial e-mail, also known as SPAM, has begun to more than annoy some, and now a bill has been introduced making it a crime to send SPAM to anyone in the state of California...
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News: Xbox Game Causing More Trouble
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, February 16, 2003 - 12:15 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Dave Mirra, pro BMX bike rider, is taking Acclaim Entertainment Inc., creator of "BMX XXX" to court...
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News: Former Microsoft Employee Dies While Out On Bail
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 03:23 AM PST |
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Seattle, WA - An ex-Microsoft Corp. manager died last Friday due to multiple organ failure, while the cause remains under investigation...
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News: Microsoft Rethinks Xbox Construction Strategy
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 05:17 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - After the release of the quarter-end sales, Microsoft asked suppliers of components for its Xbox console to make "applicable adjustments" to their shipments...
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News: Microsoft Reports Quarter End Details
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 12:12 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Microsoft Corporation, the largest operating system vendor, posted its quarter-end results for all divisions today, with the Office division being most profitable...
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News: ISP Termination Fees Under Battle
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 05:34 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Court papers released Friday stated that a California consumers rights group sued several Internet service providers for the return of what the group says were illegally forced termination fees...
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News: Digital Audio Battle Escalates
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 03:05 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has become a major proponent of digital rights, and has even resorted to hacking to obtain results, but, now face a counter-suit by one of their targets...
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News: Latest From Bill Gates
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 12:06 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - Bill Gates issued his latest address to the public regarding the future of security in a digital world...
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News: Microsoft To Unveil Family Secret
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 12:13 AM PST |
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Thousand Oaks, CA - Microsoft Corporation, known for closely guarding its source code, will finally let a global power take a peek...
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News: Microsoft Stocks Finally Bring In Cash
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, January 20, 2003 - 01:30 AM PST |
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Seattle, WA - With the recent 2-1 split, Microsoft will also be paying out its first dividend, which will reel in nearly $100 million for the chairman...
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News: Microsoft Settles Class Action Suit
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Posted by: MCW Team on Saturday, January 11, 2003 - 04:04 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - The San Francisco law firm of Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, lead counsel for two certified classes of California consumers, and Microsoft Corp. jointly announced today that a $1.1 billion settlement has been reached in a series of coordinated class action lawsuits alleging that Microsoft violated California's antitrust and unfair competition laws. Trial was scheduled to commence in San Francisco before California Superior Court Judge Paul H. Alvarado on Feb. 24, 2003...
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News: Gateway Inc. Headed Downhill
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 01:34 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - Gateway Inc., manufacturer of personal computers, announced greater than expected loss for the quarter end, blaming losses to an increased overhead...
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News: ".Biz" Class-Action Suit Settled
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, January 03, 2003 - 03:25 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - Accused of handing out wanted ".Biz" domain names through what could be considered an illegal lottery, the managers of the ".Biz" domains will be paying $1.2 million to settle the charges...
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News: Sun vs. Microsoft, Sun Wins
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, December 23, 2002 - 10:19 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - A federal judge ordered Microsoft to distribute Sun's Java, instead of Microsoft's own, in its Windows operating systems...
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News: Yahoo to Buy Inktomi
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, December 23, 2002 - 09:44 PM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Yahoo Inc., a leading web portal, said Monday that it would pay $235 million to purchase Inktomi Corp., a maker of Internet search software...
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News: AOL Lays Off 300 Employees
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 07:42 PM PST |
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New York, NY - America Online, the internet subdivision of AOL Time Warner, Inc., confirmed that it cut 300 jobs on Wednesday in what is expected to be just the beginning in a wave of layoffs...
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News: AOL to Cut Expenses in Online Unit
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 08:17 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - AOL Time Warner Inc. plans to eliminate about $100 million in operating costs due to lower revenues from advertising, and a change in strategy...
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News: Massachusetts versus Microsoft
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 06:07 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - A shout from one of the smallest states in the United States was heard Friday, as Massachusetts appealed the settlement in the Microsoft Corporation antitrust case, going against the company alone...
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News: Copyright Case Against ElcomSoft Approaches
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 04:04 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - In the first criminal prosecution for alleged violations of the four-year old Digital Millennium Copyright Act, jury selection has been set to begin on Monday...
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News: Sony Pictures Entertainment Forms Digital Policy Group
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 06:09 PM PST |
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Culver City, CA - Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony Corporation, said Tuesday that it formed a digital policy group to handle the issues and opportunities associated with the digital distribution of entertainment products...
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News: AOL Loses Battle to Protect Identity of Client
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - 08:27 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - The Virginia Supreme Court ruled in favor of Nam Tai Electronics Inc., whose request to subpoena the identity of an AOL user had been won in a lower California court earlier...
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News: Sun Microsystems Inc. to Continue Fight Against Microsoft
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, November 04, 2002 - 09:03 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - Following the ruling on Friday, Sun Microsystems, Inc., vowed to continue the battle with Microsoft, and urged the other nine states to appeal the judgement...
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News: Canadian Internet Registry Facing Serious Charges
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 06:26 AM PST |
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Ottawa, Canada - The Internet Registry of Canada was charged with deceptive practices by Canada's Competition Bureau in a case similar to that against the United States' Verisign...
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News: Antitrust Fine to Hit Nintendo
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, October 28, 2002 - 12:31 AM PST |
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London, England - Japanese video game maker Nintendo and a number of its distributors will face a fine by European antitrust regulators for sales practices it employed in the mid-90s...
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News: Enron's Former Chief Energy Trader Pleads Guilty
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 06:02 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Enron Corp.'s former chief energy trader agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with others to commit fraud in a scheme to manipulate and drive up electricity prices during California's energy crisis, the Justice Department said on Thursday...
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News: Seagate Technology Inc. to go Public Again
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, October 14, 2002 - 12:04 AM PST |
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San Francisco, CA - Seagate Technology Inc. on Friday filed to raise as much as $1 billion in a proposed initial stock offering that would partially reverse the deal two years ago which took the company private...
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News: Verizon vs. The Music Industry
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Posted by: MCW Team on Sunday, October 06, 2002 - 06:40 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - Verizon Communications was in court on Friday, accused of harboring and condoning illegal activity by the music industry...
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News: Free MP3 Downloads from Music Industry
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, October 03, 2002 - 04:09 PM PST |
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London, England - In an effort to bring back MP3 downloaders to the light side, the music industry, beginning today, is allowing folks to download a variety of songs from 6,000 different artists...
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News: Nintendo Sells Its Share of Rare to Microsoft
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 12:51 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - Nintendo, well known for its gaming consoles, has sold its shares of 49 percent stake in Rare, formerly one of Nintendo's top game developers, to Microsoft, the multi-billion dollar software company...
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Editorial: Rivals Complain Microsoft Violated Anti-Trust Deal
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 03:06 PM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - ProComp, and various other organizations that target Microsoft as a threat, complained Wednesday to the U.S. Justice Department stating that Microsoft violated its agreement to make it easy to use non-Microsoft products...
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News: Inventor of Microsoft Word and Excel Leaves Microsoft
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 08:04 AM PST |
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Seattle, WA - Charles Simonyi, a member of the Microsoft staff since 1981, and original programmer and architect of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, said Tuesday that he is leaving after 21 years to start a new company...
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Editorial: Action Against the RIAA and Others
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 12:55 PM PST |
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Oxnard, CA - In the wake of Napster's ultimate demise, more studies have been completed showing that file sharing contributes to the purchase of CDs and other media. But if the RIAA continues to eliminate sources of file sharing, should action be taken by consumers...?
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News: 75,000 Digital Cameras Recalled
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 04:16 AM PST |
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Washington, DC - Many of Kodak's DC5000 Digital Camera's have been recalled due to shock hazard...
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News: Napster Naps Eternally
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, September 06, 2002 - 07:42 AM PST |
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London, England - Napster was laid to rest, as announcement of a Chapter 7 filing was revealed on Thursday...
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News: Ford Stops Electric Car Production
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, September 02, 2002 - 12:34 AM PST |
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Detroit, MI - Ford Motor Company announced Friday that it will stop production of its electric car...
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News: Ford Fights F***edCompany
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, August 28, 2002 - 04:42 AM PST |
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New York, NY - Ford Motor Company was able to get the F***edCompany.com website shutdown temporarily due to trademark infringements...
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Editorial: RIAA Complains of Falling Record Sales
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Posted by: Jas Batra on Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 05:34 AM PST |
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Newbury Park, CA - The Recording Industry Association of America issued a study by Peter D. Hart Research Associates showing that those who download music are less likely to purchase albums, contrary to what has happened in the past...
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News: AMD Will Produce at 90 Nanometers
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, August 26, 2002 - 12:02 PM PST |
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Penang, Malaysia - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced today that it will partner with Taiwanese United Microelectronics Corp to produce 90 nanometer wafers...
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News: ATI Gains Advantage Against NVidia
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:06 AM PST |
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Los Angeles, CA - NVidia has suffered another blow on Thursday by losing out to ATI on contracts with manufacturers such as Apple and Hewlett-Packard...
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News: RIAA After Verizon
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 10:22 PM PST |
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New York, NY - The Recording Industry Association of America has filed a suit against Verizon, one of the largest telecommunications firms, forcing them to turn over information on an unnamed client...
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News: AOL To Grow...
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Posted by: MCW Team on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 - 12:27 PM PST |
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New York, NY - AT&T plans to sell its stake in Time Warner Entertainment, which is now part of the AOL giant, giving AOL complete control...
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News: Expanding EBay
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 05:22 PM PST |
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New York, NY - EBay, the world's largest online auction site has been cleared to buy out PayPal...
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News: Palm Not Colorful
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Posted by: MCW Team on Monday, August 19, 2002 - 09:55 PM PST |
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New York, NY - Palm, Inc., one of the leading handheld PDA (personal digital assistant) manufacturers, announced today that the m130 handheld can't display as many colors as advertised...
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News: AOL Under Investigation by SEC
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Posted by: MCW Team on Friday, August 16, 2002 - 02:35 PM PST |
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New York, NY - AOL has fallen into the growing chain of corporations making false filings, and now, the SEC is taking no prisoners...
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News: IBM to Cut Almost 16,000 Jobs
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Posted by: MCW Team on Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 09:57 PM PST |
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New York, NY - International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has announced that they will be cutting 15,600 people from their workforce...
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News: Microsoft Passport Technology Case is Settled
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Posted by: MCW Team on Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 03:07 PM PST |
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Washington, DC - Over the past two years, Microsoft has transitioned to their "Passport" security technology, claiming it's much more secure than anything else...
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