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The software giant has just unveiled a change to its Corporate Governance Guidelines, targeted at independent directors. Those outside members will now have "an average tenure of 10 years or less".

Florin Bodnarescu · Jul 13, 2017 with 0 comments

A few days ago Neowin reported that Time Warner Cable would be expanding bandwidth cap testing to more regions. The extremely limiting bandwidth cap, surprisingly, isn't sitting well with consumers and TWC is having...

Brad Sams · Apr 16, 2009 · Hot! with 76 comments

Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts a blog on the Internet every now and then "to basically keep my friends and family up to date" back home. It just got tougher...

Michael Stanclift · May 14, 2007 · Hot! with 6 comments

Vietnam will soon impose a play time quota of a maximum five hours daily as well as other restrictions in an effort to deter people, especially children, from playing online computer games. The Ministries of...

giga · Jun 5, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Researchers are working on technology that could offer seven times as much storage. Researchers in Japan have reported success in an advanced data-storage technology that could help yield hard drives with capacities...

· Jun 29, 2005 with -1 comments

The United States should remove visa limits to allow more skilled foreign citizens to work at U.S. companies if it wants to remain a leader in technology, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday....

· Apr 27, 2005 with 1 comment

Congress and federal regulators should avoid imposing restrictions on ways consumers use computers and other devices to listen to digital music and watch movies, the chief executive of the largest U.S. computer-maker said Wednesday. The...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Mar 3, 2005 with -1 comments

Bandwidth limits are a growing an inevitability with ISPs; NTL introduced them a while ago, and now BT appears to be doing the same thing. BT Broadband, who have seen massive customer growth in the...

· Jul 6, 2004 with -1 comments

Several radio broadcasters that offer CD-quality music over the airwaves could actually be copied if certain precautions are not taken. This warning comes Friday by the record industry. Apparently without copy protections on...

· Jun 11, 2004 with -1 comments

A representative from AOL confirmed my earlier suspicion that the company is dropping Real Audio format for its free Netscape Radio service, and switching instead to Ultravox servers, developed by its Nullsoft subsidiary. Spokeswoman Ann...

· May 1, 2004 with -1 comments

WE SPOKE with some folk that that really really know how graphic semiconductor works and how far 0.13Âµ chips can go. Apparently you can get to 600 MHz maximum if you are skilled and lucky...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Mar 9, 2004 with -1 comments

While originally Intel planned to offer 3.60GHz processors for PGA478 platforms, some sources now report about absence of such chips in the firm's plans. The last and final play for Socket 478 will be 3.40GHz...

· Jan 24, 2004 with -1 comments

Amazon.com has disabled the printing feature of its recently introduced "Search inside the book" service after an authors' group voiced concern that it could erode sales of some types of works. The service lets users...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Nov 3, 2003 with -1 comments

Users can now run Office XP on Linux, but if they have problems they will get little sympathy from Microsoft technical support Microsoft said on Thursday it would not offer full technical...

· Apr 24, 2003 with -1 comments

A distinction that Microsoft is making between professional and standard versions of Office 2003 means that many customers may not get all the features they've been expecting, including broad support for Web services. ...

Tom Warren · Apr 11, 2003 with -1 comments

The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to slap restrictions on a controversial Pentagon data-mining program that critics say would amount to a domestic spying apparatus. The vote represents an unusual triumph...

Michael Stanclift · Jan 24, 2003 with -1 comments

READERS USING CABLEVISION'S "Optimum" broadband connections have received a message in a bottle from the firm warning them that using a list of peer-to-peer file services could mean the firm might restrict access to its...

· Dec 19, 2002 with -1 comments

It has been reported that cable companies AT&T Broadband, Charter Communications, and Cox Communications are considering moves which could see the end of cheap bandwidth as they look towards limiting users and forcing them to...

· Jun 13, 2002 with -1 comments