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Ballmer wants shorter wait for Windows
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer wrapped up a meeting with financial analysts on Thursday by promising that the company would make sure it releases new Windows versions more quickly. We will never have a five-year gap between releases of...
28 July 2006, 10:31
New plans for P2P commerce, despite court wait
News As the file-swapping world waits for a verdict on its future from the Supreme Court, a handful of entrepreneurs are pushing ahead with plans to harness the anarchic networks for commerce. On Wednesday, a new service called Gnutelligence launched...
23 June 2005, 10:16
eBay: Let's wait and see on tighter security
News eBay and its customers must accept that fraud goes with the territory of online transactions, a top executive at the auction giant said. Paul Kilmartin, director of performance engineering and availability at eBay, said the company could introduce...
5 May 2005, 10:27
Apple to iTunes users: Don't install Vista
News Apple has warned Windows users running its iTunes software that they should wait for its next update before upgrading their PCs to Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system. According to a company statement provided by Apple spokesman Derick...
5 February 2007, 10:23
Will next-gen sink small game publishers?
News But other analysts note that many publishers decided that it would be better to wait to develop games for the new consoles because they didn't have the wherewithal to produce titles Microsoft would want with the initial launch and decided instead...
21 November 2005, 9:51
Apologetic Virgin takes a battering
News Readers of CNET.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com, have been posting angry feedback on a recent article about Virgin Media's customer service strategy, criticising the cable broadband giant for everything from poor up-time of its Internet service...
26 March 2007, 10:40
Bracing for the Xbox 360 stampede
News At that point, the reality is that consumers will have to wait to buy one of the new consoles. It seems like if I don't get it on day one, I might have to wait a while," said Nelson. But Microsoft hopes they won't have to wait long.
21 November 2005, 9:31
News.blog: 'WoW' expansion delayed
News That sound you hear is tens of thousands of hard-core WoW players simultaneously groaning at the fact that they'll have to wait a few more weeks to attempt to raise their level from the maximum 60 in the current WoW to the maximum 70 in the...
25 October 2006, 10:19
Games still not part of the Apple fun
News Now Apple's entire lineup has moved over to Intel, and Mac users are still forced to wait for the best games. Apple users often have to wait several months for new PC game titles to be ported over to Mac OS X, said Glenda Adams, director of...
16 February 2007, 10:26
iPhones plentiful, queuing pointless
News Ninety minutes after Apple started ringing up sales of the iPhone at its 24-hour flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York, anyone could just walk into the store and pick up a device with a minimal wait.
30 June 2007, 17:43
Xbox buzz runs the gamut
News My gut says Microsoft might have a real problem on its hands if people decide the current generation is 'good enough' and/or want to wait for Sony to respond with their feature set. I can't wait to learn more at E3.
16 May 2005, 12:06
UK gamers queue for PS3
News I was devastated when Sony turned around and said that Europe would have to wait after first saying there would be a worldwide launch in November. I can't wait! A small group of people were yesterday already queueing for Thursday evening's...
22 March 2007, 10:01
Has SpiralFrog taken too big a leap?
News The other was that SpiralFrog said customers would have to wait 90 seconds for each song to download. They didn't think people would want to wait a minute for every song," said one music executive. Few at the digital music company were exactly sure...
25 January 2007, 9:07
Bridge widens between next-gen DVDs
News PriceWaterhouseCoopers also expects to wait several years for a winner to emerge and give large numbers of consumers confidence to buy. In the long wait for a winner, studios that chose one format could find that they're leaving money on the table...
5 September 2007, 10:02
US braces itself for iPhone sell-out
News The iPhone is expected to launch in Europe in late 2007, while Asia will have to wait until 2008. Early sales are likely to come from hardcore Apple enthusiasts, but there is also likely to be a second wave consisting of people who will wait to...
7 June 2007, 11:12


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