EU: Adobe made no complaint against Microsoft over PDFs

The European Commission said Thursday that software company Adobe Systems Inc. has not made any complaints so far about Microsoft Corp.'s plans to ship its new Office software without Adobe's PDF file reader. Full Article

UK Court Project Farce Continues

A UK public-sector IT contract to install and link computers across the countrys courts is now going to cost more than three times the original price. The disastrous Libra project will now cost 487m ($899m) pounds, compared to the first bid from ICL, now Fujitsu Services, of 146m ($269m) back in 1998. Full Article

File Server With 970,000 Names Stolen From Insurance Giant

FOX News - Insurance provider American International Group has confirmed the theft of a file server and other hardware that held the after business hours in late March and walked off with a file server and other equipment, including several laptop computers Full Article

Where To Click To Modify PC Settings

Hartford Courant - Barbie - or maybe it was Ken, since guys seem more prone to messing up computers than do gals - seems to have changed some settings in your Windows Media Player. Specifically, changes were made to a feature called "hardware acceleration" that is Full Article

World of Colbertcraft

1UP got their hands on Stephen Colbert's announcement of his new game, World of Colbertcraft, originally scheduled for the Mi6 Conference in San Francisco next week. They edited it down to 15 seconds... Full Article

License to thrill?

CNN Money - tasks on the Palm Treo, in part because the Treo has a touch-screen, while the Q does not, relying instead on hardware it's a very good mobile phone, unlike earlier generations of Windows-based smartphones that were more like handheld computers Full Article

Glitches foil state election computer; federal sanctions possible

Aurora Sentinel - He blamed the state for key delays, including decisions on software and hardware and giving Accenture access to information. It was to update computers automatically from all state agencies involved in elections, from county clerks to the Department Full Article

Oracle Europe, Middle East & Africa Reports Strong Performance for the

WebWire - Fujitsu Siemens Computers; and Equilybra of Italy. Oracle in the Community. Oracle provided $820 million USD in software Clusters will enable round-the-clock, uninterrupted availability of business applications and efficient use of hardware Full Article

EU: Adobe made no complaint against Microsoft over PDFs

The European Commission said Thursday that software company Adobe Systems Inc. has not made any complaints so far about Microsoft Corp.'s plans to ship its new Office software without Adobe's PDF file reader. Full Article

Another Record Prime

Science News - Users have identified hardware problems of various kinds in more than 3 percent of the personal computers that have run his prime-finding software. Woltman is looking for more volunteers to join in the GIMPS project. Not every Mersenne number between Full Article

The latest news & announcements about Windows based embedded applications ...

The latest news & announcements about Windows based embedded applications ... Keywords: Match: Sort by: Jun. 14, 2006 Thin client specialist Wyse Technology has introduced a major update to its "Wyse-enhanced" Windows CE 5.0 platform supporting its extensive line of thin client devices. Full Article

Physics May Take Video Games to Next Lev

In a June 21 version of this story, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of Ageia Technologies Inc.'s co-founder, chairman and CEO. His name is Manju Hegde, not Hedge. Full Article

Stanford, tech execs unveil science centre

The centre aims to tackle problems such as climate change by throwing computational power at analysis, simulation and prediction of earth systems Full Article