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On balance, it's hard to see how this isn't a runaway success for Sun. After all, the company got everything it wanted, plus $1,950,000,000 in found money. But, somehow, most of the press managed to see it as McNealy surrendering to Microsoft. Rationally, I don't see how anyone could read even just the press release and believe this, but then I don't believe in sharks with unmet emotional needs either...

Figueroa said she believes the program is a "Faustian bargain" that underminesthe expectation of privacy in communication. In a press release on the issue, thesenator compared the practice to letting the phone company listen in on calls andinterrupt at any time for an advertisement...

Commenting on the latest settlement in a press release, Intergraph president and CEO Halsey Wise said: "We are pleased to have resolved our patent issues with AMD. We believe this agreement is in the best interests of our shareholders based on all of the circumstances, including the scope of AMD's alleged infringement and damage base."

Google has said the idea for Gmail stemmed from complaints by a Google user about existing Web e-mail programs. In a press release announcing the service, Google co-founder Larry Page noted that the user complained about difficulty in staying under the usual four-megabyte limit. The company claims it will offer nearly unlimited storage -- up to a gigabyte -- for average users...

The tone and timing of the press release, dated April 1st, initially sparked speculation that it could be an elaborate April Fool's Day hoax. But the release pointed to an extensive frequently asked questions (FAQ) page about the service, whose launch was first reported Wednesday.

The tone and timing of the press release, dated April 1st, led some to speculate that it could be an elaborate April Fool's Day hoax. But the release pointed to an extensive FAQ (frequently asked questions) page about the service, whose launch was first reported Wednesday, and such a prank might be risky for a company said to be biding its time before an initial public offering.

The announcement follows last summer's news that Yahoo had partnered with BT to offer a service called Yahoo! UK Plus, delivering Internet "essentials" to BT Broadband customers. Those offerings included an award-winning junk e-mail control feature, instant messaging service, multiple e-mail accounts, parental controls, digital photo storage and antivirus software. According to a BT press release, the Yahoo Network reaches 42 percent of the UK Internet population...

Itanium codesigner HP expressed its support for the Xeon 64-bit extensions in a concurrent press release issued Tuesday. In that statement, HP pledged support for Intel's stated technology road map and announced plans to offer servers based on what it called two complementary architectures -- both Itanium and Xeon...

In another example of homegrown Linux adoption, a Hong Kong company called Culturecom Holdings introduced a new CPU known as the V-Dragon in July 2003. According to a July 17, 2003, press release, the V-Dragon has what the company labeled a "V-Dragon Midori Linux embedded architecture," including an embedded Chinese character-generating engine and integration with Midori Linux. IBM is listed as a codeveloper of the V-Dragon chip...

Thus last year's federal tort reform package focused on medical liability in the press releases but tried to trim off both extremes in the law: limiting liability, raising the bar for compensation and clarifying assumptions about the relative power and expertise of players in the provider-customer relationship...

Napster, which on Thursday announced a deal with Penn State University to deliver its premium service to students there, called its first week's results "strong" at 300,000 songs sold. However, Apple broke out the "five times" claim with a press release on its iTunes progress the same day...

As an example of just how serious Oracle is about Linux, DiDio cited the company's US$100 million campaign launched earlier this year to encourage third-party developers to create Oracle applications that run under Linux. "This is real," she said. "It's not just a me-too, lip-service press release."

While the word "Neanderthal" isn't included in U.S. Department of Education press releases, Secretary of Education Ron Paige made a similar point earlier this year. When introducing the department's latest technology plan, Paige noted, "Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology" -- which might be government-speak for, "If your boss questioned your need for a laptop, wouldn't you call him a Neanderthal?"...

According to Amazon's press release, Cyebye and Amazon also have reached an agreement compelling Cyebye to pay Amazon punitive damages and prohibiting Cyebye from sending any e-mail that includes the Amazon.com name in any form unless it receives express permission from Amazon...

In separate press releases, Apple announced that the Mac OS X user base has grown to 7 million and that the number of applications designed to run natively on the OS has topped 6,000 The company also revealed that its iTunes Music Store has reached the 5 million downloads mark...

AOL claims to be coming to the rescue of its members' delicate sensibilities. The company's press release announcing the lawsuits cited the "offensive and unwanted" messages that AOL members face on a daily basis. Roland Vogl, a trademark lawyer and director of the Law, Scien...

Clever hardware Apple can do; it's the software that's the problem. Not that Apple's Mac OS X is bad code, mind you. With its Unix underpinnings and its ease of use, the operating system can make a claim to being both reliable and extremely easy to manage -- someday. The software currently doesn't have the demonstrated "five 9's" reliability of the enterprise computer players; for that, OS X probably needs a few more years, not to mention a few more powerful press releases.

Brandt also finds fault with the Google News service, saying that the company lists press releases on its news site without labeling them appropriately. "What if Google started accepting corporate press releases for Google News and the relevance ranking was based on how much the corporation paid Google?" he said...

To that end, Microsoft's press release identifies Windows Server 2003 as akey operating system on which to run Office System. Windows Server 2003 is scheduled to launch April 24th Microsoft also is pointing up its Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), aninformation-sharing enviro...

Meanwhile, Microsoft was apparently the target of a fake press release Monday, which claimed that the software giant had acquired the video game assets of media conglomerate Vivendi Universal. The page was reportedly traced to Purdue University in Indiana. "Any purported pres...