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Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale: Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the company as part of a deal that will let Skype carry on using its core peer-to-peer technology. Skype's founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis are to regain some of their control over the...; Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Peer To Peer (P2P), Operational Accounting, Telecommunications, Internet, Finance, Skype, eBay, David Meyer ZDNet UK; News items 2009-11-06
Intel investigating Windows 7 iPhone sync flaw: Intel is investigating a flaw that affects people trying to sync their iPhone with a PC that has an Intel P55-based motherboard and the 64-bit version of Windows 7. Intel is investigating a flaw that affects people trying to sync their iPhone with a PC that has an Intel...; Tags: Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Intel, flaw, Windows 7, iPhone, David Meyer ZDNet UK; News items 2009-11-03

Windows 7: Arriving in a system near you Oct. 23?: Windows 7 may be arriving on systems Oct. 23, according to an Acer exec that provided a fine slip up at a press conference in Europe just as Windows 7 RC 1 was overheating download servers. ZDNet UK's Rupert Goodwins reports the verbal gaffe heard around the blogosphere: ...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2009-04-30
The Mac turns 25. Let's look ahead another 25.: By now, you probably know that tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh computer, launched two days after the famous "1984" commercial aired during the Super Bowl that year. Clearly, we've come along way since then. My ZDNet colleagues in the UK have put together a...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Computer, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2009-01-23
Microsoft in a twist over SaaSy Office deal: A UK hosting company is offering Microsoft Office for Â£4.99 (around $10) a month with no contract commitment, and Microsoft doesn't like it â€" even though it seems Microsoft approved the arrangement. Launched last week by popular web hosting provider Fasthosts, the service uses streaming technology to...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, AppStream Inc., Statement, Microsoft Corp., Fasthosts, Software As A Service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-02-14

Could other ISPs follow BT's free Web biz-app offering, thus challenging Salesforce, others?: A scan of the RSS feeds I monitor (by no means the end-all, be-all sub list) reveals that hardly anyone may have noticed or cared that the UK telecom company BT took not just a natural step in what is now becoming a tradition of ISPs and telcos offering free...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Web, Telecommunications Company, British Telecommunications, Internet Service Provider, BT Business Builder, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-09-11
Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?: Two years ago, I pondered whether the bill cell phone companies were the next "big tobacco" after it had come to light that cellco's were over-meddling in the work of independent researchers at the University of Washington. Not only did cellco's look to discredit the research before it was...; Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Laser Printer, Laser, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-08-02
Is T-Mobile taking the smart out of smartphone and the I out of ISP?: Dana Blankenhorn (my fellow ZDNet blogger who one year ago saw promise in T-Mobile's Web N' Walk service), eat your heart out. The walled-garden is back. According to a ZDNet UK report, at the same time T-Mobile is rolling out super high bandwidth wireless broadband network,...; Tags: T-Mobile, smart phone; Blog posts 2006-05-12

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