University to set up archive of bust dot com company business plans

Budding entrepreneurs and historians of the future will be able to look back on the madness of the dot com boom. The University of Maryland has received government and private grants to archive the business and marketing plans of those companies launched between 1996 and 2002 that thought having a domain name and venture capital backing meant they could retire at 25. The University of Maryland's Robert H. ...more

File sharing has no impact on CD sales - research

File sharing has had a negligible effect on the decline in CD sales over the past five years, according to a detailed study by two academics, Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard University and Koleman Strumpf of the University of Kansas. Their statistical analysis of file sharing activity in 2002 found that contrary to music industry claims, there is no evidence that sharers would have bought CDs containing the music that they had downloaded over p2p networks. According to p2p research firm Big Champagne, there were an average of 10 million simultaneously active file sharers in 2006. ...more

The Gates to the future

Bill Gates set CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2002 out of the traps yesterday with a keynote speech and demos of Microsoft's vision of the future. Microsoft's chief software architect was quick to point out that 2001 has been a good year for the company, having shifted 17 million copies of Windows XP in the two months since its launch and achieved record results on the launch of the Xbox, with an average 3.2 games sold with every one of the 1. ...more

Microsoft defends Exchange server from scripting attacks

Users of Microsoft's web based email service for Exchange Server are vulnerable to attack, it has emerged. Potential attackers can launch scripting attacks and manipulate web browser caches to include spoofed content. The details of the vulnerability, which has been classed as 'moderate' have been announced in the latest Microsoft security bulletin. ...more

Apple faces UK iPhone lawsuit

Apple has until 21 February to respond to Cisco's UK lawsuit alleging infringement of its iPhone trademark. Cisco filed the lawsuit in the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, in London on 12 January 2007, Apple revealed in its latest quarterly report. The suit seeks an injunction and unspecified damages. ...more