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Microsoft Offers Choice of Browsers to Appease EC

The European Commission confirms that Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, in a good-faith effort to resolve a nagging antitrust case, has offered to change its upcoming Windows 7 operating system to provide European users for the first time with a choice of Web browsers. The special edition of Windows 7 will be called the E version.
– Some international lawyers now might have to start looking for another case
to keep them busy.

The protracted European Commission-versus-Microsoft antitrust case, a thorn in
both parties’ sides since the Clinton
administration, may soon be coming to a resolution.

The EC
confirmed July 24…


Likewise Offers Cross-Platform File Sharing

Software company Likewise announces open source software to share files among Linux, Mac, and Windows computers.

Integration and identity
management solutions provider Likewise announced it would offer open source
software to share files among Linux, Mac, and Windows computers by using Server
Message Block, the networking protocol for file and print services known as SMB
and CIFS. The file …


Cash for Clunkers: Chrysler Campaign Offers More Than Government

Array Networks Offers Application Delivery Controller

Array Networks launches the Array APV900 Application Delivery Controller (ADC), a load balancing and traffic management offering aimed at cost-conscious businesses.

Secure application delivery
firm Array Networks the launch of the Array APV900 Application Delivery
Controller (ADC), a load balancing and traffic management offering aimed at
cost-conscious businesses. Arrays ADC solution delivers layer 2-7 server load
balancing, high availabili…


Lobbyist Offers Off-The-Record Breakfast With Treasury Official

So you can’t get inside the government to see top officials and discuss the important issues of the day. But even though you can’t darken the door of the White House — and, with some exceptions, lobbyists are barred from working for the admin…

Sony Pictures ‘offers $50m for footage of MJ’s final days’

Sony Pictures have reportedly offered 50million dollars to AEG Live for the video footage of Michael Jackson’s final days.
The promoters of the King of Pop for his O2 concerts, Aeg Live, reportedly own 80 hours of the legend’s footage from the rehearsals of ‘This is it’ concert.
They have been in touch with film studios to [...]

RingCentral Offers Web-Based Phone Platform for SMBs

RingCentral leverages the cloud computing model to offer a Web-based phone system for SMBs as an alternative to traditional phone carriers such as AT T and newcomers such as Google Voice or Ifbyphone. RingCentral Office costs $99.99 per month for up to four users and includes several of the bells and whistles business users have come to associate with traditional phone and fax services.
– Much is made about Skype and Google Voice, applications that let consumers use the
Web as a medium for voice communications, but you don’t tend to hear a lot
about business phone systems living entirely in the cloud.
RingCentral aims to change that with the introduction of RingCentral Office, a …


Cheap housing offers lifeline to Indian developers

“No frills, Simple homes” reads the banner hanging in the Delhi headquarters of Unitech, India’s leading property developer. It’s a mantra that has been taken up by realtors across the country with a new-found passion for affordable housing that owes little to their social conscience and

Brad Balfour: Q&A: Master Director Tony Scott Offers One Helluva Ride With The Taking of Pelham 123

It seems everyday, some controversy about the subway makes it in the papers, whether it’s about good new leadership or bad old leadership; whether it’s…

Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Offers New Features to Counter iPhone, Pre

Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5, the newest version of its operating system for mobile devices, includes improved touch capabilities and several screens specifically designed to answer similar features available on Apple’s iPhone, the Palm Pre and other smartphones. In addition, Microsoft plans on rolling out Windows Marketplace for Mobile, which will allow developers to submit applications for use in the Windows Mobile ecosystem.
– Microsoft’s
Windows Mobile 6.5, its upcoming operating system for mobile devices, includes
a number of new features seemingly tailor-made to counter similar offerings
from Apple’s iPhone, the Palm Pre and other attention-grabbing smartphones.
The new features include improved touch capabilities…


Siemens Offers Unified Communications to Cost-Conscious Businesses

Studies show adopting unified communications (UC) technologies can help cost-conscious businesses save money, and Siemens OpenScape Office UC Application suite is designed to do just that.

Siemens Enterprise Communications Group announced that the
OpenScape Office Unified Communications (UC) Application suite is now available
on its HiPath 3000 converged voice system, complete with integrated,
presence-enabled contact center functionality. The suite is targeted at s…


Promise Technology Offers Digital Media Server

Promise’s NAS media server offers cost-conscious businesses and home office users power and performance while reducing the amount of power needed to run it.
– Promise Technology, known as the originator of SATA/ATA redundant
array of inexpensive disks (RAID) products, announced a digital media server
aimed at small business and home office users, the SmartStor NS4600. The
server, priced at $399.00 and available through retail and reseller channels,
of…


Promise Technology Offers Digital Media Server

Promise’s NAS media server offers cost-conscious businesses and home office users power and performance while reducing the amount of power needed to run it.
– Promise Technology, known as the originator of SATA/ATA redundant
array of inexpensive disks (RAID) products, announced a digital media server
aimed at small business and home office users, the SmartStor NS4600. The
server, priced at $399 and available through retail and reseller channels,
offer…


Honduras lifts curfew, offers amnesty to ousted leader

Honduran interim leader Roberto Micheletti said on Sunday ousted president Manuel Zelaya would not be allowed to return to power under any circumstances but could be granted an amnesty if he comes home quietly to face justice. Micheletti’s overture was the first conciliatory offer from the