Gates promotes Microsoft's case in TV ad
Bill Gates is taking Microsoft's case to the American public with a national television advertisement campaign.
Bill Gates is taking Microsoft's case to the American public with a national television advertisement campaign.
IBM last week announced a new family of smaller, sleek PCs, Internet access devices and thin clients, IBM said in a statement.
Apple Computer has gained the legal right to use the name "OS 9" in its current Macintosh operating system release.
Compaq yesterday named a new chief financial officer. The company hopes that the appointment will help it complete its turnaround in fortunes begun last April when the PC maker's top officers resigned following poorer-than-expected financial results.
Oracle, Sears, Roebuck & Co and French retailer Carrefour yesterday announced the formation of a business-to-business online purchasing exchange that they say will be the largest of its kind in the retail industry.
Despite concerns about the stability of Windows 2000, the new operating system will come into widespread use and should assure Microsoft's continued dominance of the client- and server-side environments, a senior International Data Corporation (IDC) analyst said last week.
Despite worries related to the year 2000 problem hampering sales growth, Unisys yesterday posted fourth-quarter 1999 earnings that beat Wall Street expectations by a penny.
Intel's inability to fill orders for Celeron microprocessors and motherboards from Gateway cost the computer vendor $US200 million to $250 million in the last quarter, Gateway's chief financial officer said.
Xerox said yesterday it has formed a business unit to emphasise its Web-based activities.
Intel last week demonstrated Bluetooth technology-based hardware and software products designed to enable PC manufacturers to add new wireless communications to notebooks and other PC products.
judge last week ordered three Computer Associates (CA) executives, including chairman and CEO Charles Wang, to return to the US software vendor about $US550 million out of the $1.1 billion in stocks they had received in a compensation package.
The growth of electronic commerce is in turn fuelling rapid expansion in the Web site development industry, which has reached $US10 billion this year, a research firm reported last week.
Microsoft has expanded its relationship with Data Return so that the pair can develop automatic install scripts for use by ASPs (application service providers), Microsoft said last week in a statement.
In a boost to the deployment of its forthcoming Universal Plug and Play technology, Microsoft last week said it will spearhead a committee of industry heavyweights to develop Internet-based standards for new devices that will interoperate with the technology.
Microsoft has expanded its relationship with Data Return so that the pair can develop automatic install scripts for use by ASPs (application service providers), Microsoft said yesterday in a statement.