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[2005-05-31] Microsoft's Hour is Drawing Near
Microsoft has until midnight tonight to comply with the European Commission's business guidelines, or it will have to pay fines of up to $5 million per day.
[2005-05-30] Chinese Textile Rebellion Begins To Heat Up
China announced they would remove the self imposed export tariffs on their textile industries claiming their products couldn't be put under a second layer of pressures after the U.S. and the E.U. announced plans for protective trade actions against the textile industry of the most heavily populated nation on the planet.
[2005-05-25] Moscow Loses Power, Putin Loses Temper
Power outages strained Moscow today and Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the state run Unified Electricity Systems (RAO UES) citing them as the reason why.
[2005-05-24] EU's Deadline Draws Near For Microsoft
Microsoft has until the end of May to comply with the European Commission's business guidelines, or it will have to pay fines of up to $5 million per day.
[2005-05-15] Bloggers May Be Targets in Massive German Spam Attack
Many bloggers are saying they are getting bombed with right-wing German spam today. I am one of them.
[2005-05-13] French Blogger Arrested Then Sued
I've said before (twice) that it's all happening in France. What I meant was the way in which so many people and businesses have embraced new media tools like blogs.
[2005-05-13] Light Sweet Crude Makes Nice Sweet Drop
Light sweet crude dropped briefly below the $48 mark to 47.95 before heading back up $48.20 this morning. Brent North Sea crude is up 12 cents in London to $48.40 a barrel and gasoline futures down slightly at just over a penny a gallon.
[2005-05-13] Bill Gates: Billionaire Scavenger
Bill Gates is the wealthiest man on the planet earth and he's a first rate scavenger. He's preparing to release the new Xbox. Longhorn comes out next year and he's currently taking pot shots at IPod. Bill Gates is a scavenger, but for that matter, all the great powers are.
[2005-05-13] New Research Says Czech Republic Magnet for Growth and Investment
Prague has topped an international survey ranking 223 regions across Europe based on economic growth and market size. In the index, Prague has been named the most attractive investment region in Europe. Another international report has named the Czech Republic as one of the top three outsourcing destinations worldwide.
[2005-05-13] Microsoft Shuts Windows XP on Homes With Older PCs.
Microsoft announced a new slimmed down version of Windows XP. They call it Eiger. Its shrunken version of XP will be usable on older PCS, at least some of them.
[2005-05-12] Cornell Takes Next Robotic Leap
Robots can now build more robots, at least on a simplistic level. Hod Lipson and his team at Cornell University developed a group of robots that can replicate themselves. It's considered a major breakthrough in robotics and while it may seem simple now, the future certainly looks bright.
[2005-05-12] 2 Megapixels of Phone Fun From Samsung and Sprint
Sprint and Samsung announced a new breakthrough for the camera/phone market today so now when Little Richard shows up at your local bowling alley and complains about the attire, you can get the image in 2 megapixels of detail and hand 4"x6"s to your friends.
[2005-05-12] Oil Futures Tank Amid Rising Inventories and Lower Demand
Light sweet crude plummets this morning after reports from the IEA yesterday that demand worldwide was down substantially from last year. The price of light sweet crude in New York went down as low as $49.10, over a dollar less from the close yesterday.
[2005-05-12] Investing in Central and East Europe
The brief global recession of the early years of this decade - which was neither prolonged, nor trenchant and all-pervasive, as widely predicted - had little effect on Central and Eastern Europe's traditional export markets.
[2005-05-12] Glazer Aims To Put United in The Goal
Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers began his bid for ownership of the Manchester United football (soccer) team. The $1.48 billion deal will give him complete ownership of the team.
[2005-05-12] Travelocity Parent Company To Purchase Lastminute.com
Travelocity's parent company, Sabre Holdings Corp. is purchasing British rival company Lastminute.com for about 577 million pounds ($1.1 billion).
[2005-05-12] The Holes Are Going To Go! Go Go Mozilla
Mozilla put out the updated version of Firefox version 1.0.4 and with it corrected two recently found flaws. Mozilla worked quickly to fix the problems and released the new version this week.
[2005-05-11] OASIS Works on Reliable Messaging Specs
OASIS continues its work in developing universal standards with another breakthrough announcement. The massive consortium that is OASIS said their member groups have agreed to work toward a web services reliable messaging (WS-RM).
[2005-05-10] Google Local Mobile Launches For UK
The United Kingdom has become the latest country to receive benefits from an upgrade being offered by Google search.
[2005-05-10] Gmail Becomes Google Mail In Germany
A naming rights issue has forced Google to change the name of their German email service. Because another party owns the rights to "G-Mail," Google will now call the German service "Google Mail".
[2005-05-09] Mozilla’s FireFox Full of Lead: Secunia Says Holes Exist
Internet security firm Secunia found holes in internet browser Firefox from the Mozilla company. The problems present two of the first big security problems for the browser that continues to grow in popularity.
[2005-05-06] PDAs: Climbing Back Out
PDA sales grew by a substantial 25% in the last quarter according to a new report from the Gartner research firm. Blackberry led the way growing exponentially in Western European sales, beating out traditional PDA frontrunner PalmOne and HP.
[2005-05-06] OpenOffice Is Open Season on MSOffice
Sun Microsystems and some volunteer programmers have done something wonderful. They come up with a FREE office suite program. It's got a word processing program called Writer that reads documents from Word and WordPerfect. It's got a spreadsheet program called Calc that will open will open Excel files.
[2005-05-05] Blackberry Jams Other PDAs Into A Cobbler
Blackberry climbs to the top of the heap in PDA sales over the head of palmOne in sales worldwide of the PDAs. The extraordinary increase is attributed to Western European sales, which grew a whopping 84.3%.
[2005-05-04] OASIS Plans Open Standards Day In Amsterdam
The open standards consortium OASIS plans a one-day conference on May 24th in Amsterdam. The OASIS Open Standards Day will be held in conjunction with the IDEAlliance XTech 2005 Conference & Exhibition (formerly XML Europe).
[2005-05-04] Bloggin’ Longhorn? Microsoft Wants You!
Microsoft has put out the word via Robert Scoble that Microsoft is looking for a few good bloggers to help critique there new version of Windows in the coming months before its release. Team 99 as it is being called needs folks who know Windows and know how to blog.
[2005-05-03] ASA 5500 From Cisco Systems At Interop Helps Security
Networking juggernaut Cisco Systems Inc. will unveil their newest offering in the world of networking technology during Cisco CEO John Chambers' keynote address at Interop this morning. The ASA 5500 combines many new features in a sleek new device for organizations that like to one stop shop.
[2005-05-03] OASIS Takes Another Step on SOA
OASIS, the consortium of electronic business mega corporations, takes another step in its goal of international standards for the internet world. They announced the development of a committee to create a reference model for service-oriented-architectures (SOA-RM).
[2005-05-02] Rockets End an Era: SkyLarks and Titans
Britain ended an era with the launch of the 441st and final Skylark rocket. The rocket launched from Sweden and contains several experiments for the European Space Agency. This marks the end of nearly 50 years of British contributions to the exploration of space.
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