Stories about: Plan B

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    Sun was close to licensing Java patents to Google for $28M 18/10/2011 07:26:00

    Google and Sun Microsystems' discussions to co-develop Android ultimately broke down because of disagreements over control of the platform, Google wrote in a trial brief late last week related to its dispute with Oracle.
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    Nokia's interim CTO gets permanent status 22/09/2011 21:20:29

    Nokia's acting Chief Technology Officer Henry Tirri is to stay on in the role, after his predecessor Rich Green left the company on Thursday following three months leave to deal with a "personal matter."
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    With Rustock, a new twist on fighting Internet crime 18/03/2011 21:00:23

    For more than 24 hours this week, it was a question that very few security experts could answer: Who had knocked the world's worst spam botnet offline?
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    Managing the cloud's security risks 23/09/2010 06:00:00

    Cloud computing is all the rage these days. CIOs seem to be diving into cloud-based solutions with reckless abandon despite the fact that a mistake in planning or execution can have career-limiting effects. So, let's take a moment to balance the benefits against the potential security pitfalls that lie in the clouds.
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    Q&A with Mount & Blade creative team 21/05/2010 14:20:00

    Mount & Blade is definitely not the prettiest game out there. But if we were to judge titles on aesthetics alone, Avatar: The Game would have been the best thing since sliced bread.
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    Bill calls for NASA to continue push to Moon 05/03/2010 08:14:00

    President Barack Obama's plan to push NASA to scrap the contract with commercial companies to build space taxis is meeting with some resistance in Congress.
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    Dark Void film rights purchased, Brad Pitt rumoured to star 20/11/2009 09:55:00

    Capcom's upcoming flight-shooter Dark Void isn't even out yet (it's due January 12) but it's already attracted the attention of Hollywood elite. Capcom announced earlier today that they had reached an agreement with Brad Pitt's film production company, Plan B Entertainment.
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    Covert operation floats network-sniffing balloon 11/08/2008 08:04:28

    Rick Hill won't say where he launched his "wardriving" balloon on Friday, but he will tell you that it got a pretty good look at about 370 wireless networks, while scanning up and down the Las Vegas Strip.
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    Seven secure USB drives 04/03/2008 11:16:49

    USB flash drives are very small, very portable, very convenient -- and very easy to lose. In fact, the question to ask these days isn't how to avoid losing your flash drive, but how to make sure your data is safe when you do. As a result, Computerworld decided it was time to look at seven USB flash drives that are outfitted with security features to keep your data safe.
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    AMD's best is yet to come 28/08/2006 15:33:08

    A reader recently shot me a note saying that after studying some of my work related to Advanced Micro Devices, he has spotted a pattern: I always side with the underdog. This reader crystallized the prevalent viewpoint, one expressed by most of my colleagues, that AMD achieved its market success by dumb luck, with the "dumb" supplied by Intel. Intel discovered too late that NetBurst was, well, everything I've always said it is, and hubris born of market domination left Intel without a Plan B.
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    Antitrust concerns delay future Windows OS 07/08/2001 08:09:00

    Microsoft plans to push back the next major release of its operating system, codenamed "Blackcomb," to 2005, because it fears that technology it plans to include in the release could bring it further into conflict with antitrust regulators, various industry analysts said.
 
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