Bij C|Net lezen we dat het Amerikaanse telecombedrijf Qwest Communications International heeft toegegeven dat het drie jaar lang heeft gesjoemeld met de boekhouding. De oprichter van onder andere het omstreden KPNQwest zal de resultaten van 1999 tot en met 2001 dan ook gaan bijstellen, waarbij het om een bedrag van 1,16 miljard dollar (1,18 miljard euro) gaat. Beurswaakhond SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) was reeds bezig met een onderzoek naar het bedrijf, dat nu ook de financiële vooruitzichten voor 2002 ingetrokken heeft:
The Denver-based company, which also faces a criminal probe by the U.S. Justice Department, said it improperly accounted for about $1.16 billion in sales of optical capacity on its network, as well as sales of communications equipment. The company said it is reviewing the accounting practices and may be required to restate all optical capacity sales. Qwest said its new auditor, KPMG, will not be able to finalize its review of the second-quarter financial report. Qwest is one of several telecommunications companies, including bankrupt carriers Global Crossing and WorldCom, to come under scrutiny by federal regulators.
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"I think you can see OpenOffice running solid on OS X by the end of this calendar year," said Tony Siress, Sun's senior director of desktop marketing solutions. "It certainly gives Sun a better cross-platform story, because they don't support a major platform," said Gartner analyst Michael Silver. Sun executives, however, say Apple knows what it's doing. "Historically, Apple was a little bit worried about working with us because of their relationship with Microsoft," Siress said. Now, "Microsoft is mad, and Apple's coming at them hardcore."
However, the PC maker has been seen heading into a number of new markets to help fuel further growth. Dell executives have said the company is likely to enter the printer market later this year, and its has already launched itself into other new areas, such as projectors.
Meanwhile, Newisys wants to recruit a stack of jobs including BIOS developers, diagnostic design, FPGA prototypes, and other posts. From the context it is clear these jobs refer to the Hammer Opteron family.
Naast de grootte van de schijf is de marketing voor het product ook opvallend, hiervoor heeft WD de naam 'Drivezilla' verzonnen, compleet met een cartoondinosaurus. Bij de harde schijf wordt een Promise Ultra ATA 100 kaartje geleverd, om zo PC's die last hebben van de 137GB barrière toch van deze drive te kunnen voorzien. Daarnaast heeft de harddisk een 2MB buffer, een gemiddelde seektime van 8,9ms en waar eerder werd gerept over Serial ATA, is er voorlopig geen bevestiging terug te vinden dat deze nieuwe techniek snel zal worden toegepast op dit model.
"There is no truth in this rumor," Allen Nieman, the Lead Technical Product Manager for Licensing Technologies at Microsoft told me Thursday. "We are not changing the way volume licensing customers install or deploy Windows XP. We are not issuing volume licensing customers new product keys. Volume licensing customers are not impacted by any of the changes we are making to activation in SP1. The only folks impacted by the changes we are making in SP1 are people with illegal copies of Windows."