Microsoft Announces Vista Purchase Options
Microsoft elaborated on its purchase options for the release of Windows Vista, to be released publicly in less than two weeks. Among the options are online upgrades to higher tiers, a family discount, or online purchase and direct download via Windows Marketplace.
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19.1.2007 Windows 7 in Europe will have no upgrade options and up to double the pricing
Windows 7 fans in Europe are in for a major disappointment. According to ComputerWorld, European customers will have to pay up to double the price for Windows 7 compared to the American counterparts.
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29.6.2009 MS pushes premium versions of Vista, download options
Microsoft wants to make sure consumers and small businesses know there are myriad ways they can acquire Windows Vista -- particularly in premium versions -- when it becomes generally available on Jan. 30.
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18.1.2007 Windows Registry Editor, Task Manager and Folder Options Disabled by New Infection
January 2008 comes with a new trend when talking about computer security because lots of worms, Trojan horses, viruses or other pieces of malware attempt to disable important Windows functions in order to hide their files.
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14.1.2008Broadcom Admits to Options Backdating, Executives Held Faultless
An independent audit committee
assembled by network
technology provider Broadcom
in the wake of the
industry-wide SEC options
backdating scandal, has found
that stock options granted to
executives and employees for a
nearly five-year period were
improperly accounted for...
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19.12.2006Jobs Options Grant Worth $20.3mn Comes Under Scrutiny
The Washington Post
broke the news this morning
that the US Securities and
Exchange Commission
investigation into Apple
Inc.’s practice of options
backdating is now focusing on
why the company’s accountants
waited until very late to
report CEO Steve Jobs’ receipt
of 7.5 million company stock
options in 2001...
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23.01.2007Apple shareholder stock options suit dismissed
One of Apple's legal headaches disappeared on Thursday as a judge threw out one of the lawsuits against the company over its options backdating
scandal...
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16.11.2007Microsoft Announces Vista Purchase Options
Microsoft elaborated on its
purchase options for the
release of Windows Vista.
Among the options are online
upgrades to higher tiers, a
family discount, or online
purchase and direct download
via Windows Marketplace...
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18.01.2007RIM settles options kerfuffle with SEC
An SEC inquiry into whether their options-granting practices were on the square has concluded for Research In Motion, which has -- jointly with four
of its senior executives -- entered into two settlements over the matter...
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18.02.2009Apple tries to put options scandal behind it with settlement
A shareholder lawsuit accusing Apple and its executives of improper accounting as a result of its stock options practices will yield a $14 million
payout to the plaintiffs...
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12.09.2008Former Apple counsel settles options backdating charges
Nancy Heinen will pay the US Securities and Exchange Commission some $2.2 million in fines to settle charges related to the Cupertino company's stock
options scandal...
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16.08.2008Sprint Offers New Frequent
Call Options
Sprint introduced new options
for its wireless subscribers
Wednesday, including two plans
that would allow the user to
make unlimited calls to a
pre-designated phone number
for an additional fee. These
calls would not be taken out
of the customer's monthly
minute allowance...
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08.03.2006Study highlights need for better mobile Web options
A JupiterResearch report Wednesday said better browser options would spur growth in the mobile Web. This after a survey yesterday indicated the iPhone
was already the leading mobile Web browsing tool...
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06.12.2007Dell asserts its commitment to AMD despite reduced options
Though there may be fewer consumer notebook and desktop computers with AMD processor options available online through Dell Direct today than there
were last week, an AMD spokesperson told BetaNews that Dell is not backing away...
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09.02.2008Sprint Mulls Future of WiMAX Business
Without an official CEO to succeed Gary Forsee, Sprint is weighing options regarding the rollout of its planned national WiMAX network. One of the
more favorable options discussed entails spinning off Sprint's WiMAX unit and merging it with Clearwire...
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02.11.2007Jobs Apologizes for Accounting Issues
In a report to the US
Securities and Exchange
Commission regarding
allegations that the company
may have failed to report
certain backdated options,
Apple today said its CEO,
Steve Jobs, knew something
about his company's options
backdating practices, but
never benefited from
backdating personally...
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05.10.2006Dell asserts its commitment to AMD despite reduced Direct options
Though there may be fewer consumer notebook and desktop computers with AMD processor options available online through Dell Direct today than there
were last week, an AMD spokesperson told BetaNews that Dell is not backing away...
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09.02.2008Napster Weighs Options,
Including Sale
Napster made moves to prepare
for a possible sale of the
company Monday, including
retaining an investment banker
to discuss its options. CEO
Chris Gorog cited
"third-party interest"
as the reason behind the move...
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19.09.2006Vista tips and tricks: changing boot options on the fly
There are a number of boot options that can be used in Vista and Windows Server 2008 that can be a pain to modify (or not possible if you are in a
bugcheck loop), that can be done on the fly at boot time. These options are invaluable for diagnosing some problems you may experience on the system,
and modifying them in the OS may involve figuring out the bcdedit syntax, the right BCD store to modify, or rebuilding and burning a new install DVD
(if the problem is happening during install from media).
Some example boot switches you might want to use are...
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23.04.2008Apple offers to re-price options for employees
In a filing Friday with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), Apple said
114,695 options issued between
1997 and 2002 were erroneously
assigned grant dates that
preceded the finalization of
those grants. As a result, the
exercise prices of these stock
options were lower than they
were supposed to be. Because
of the error, affected options
exercised after 2005 are
subject to federal income tax
plus a 20% penalty and
interest charges. Those who
elect to have their options
re-priced at a higher level
will avoid that tax liability,
Apple said. Employees have
until April 16 to ask for the
re-pricing, but Apple
directors and top executives
are not eligible to
participate in the offer.
Apple is one of more
than 100 U.S. companies
conducting stock options
internal reviews or being
investigated by the SEC for
options accounting
irregularities, or both. In
most cases, stock options were
backdated to a date when the
price was lower than on the
date they were actually
granted, giving the holders an
instant profit. SEC
regulations don't prohibit
backdating, but there are
rules for how backdating must
be accounted for and
disclosed. The SEC and the
U.S. Attorney's Office in San
Francisco continue to
investigate Apple's stock
options practices.
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17.03.2007Steve Jobs Subpoenaed in Apple Options Case
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to testify in a options case against his former general counsel
Nancy Heinen, sources say...
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21.09.2007Stock Options Scandal Claims RIM Chairman, Company to Restate Earnings
Finding itself amid a wave of
technology companies under
investigation in both the US
and Canada for granting
backdated options without
reporting their values as
charges, RIM announced this
morning it may have to restate
prior years' earnings up to
2003 to the tune of USD$220
million, with additional
restatement of perhaps $5
million per year thereafter...
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05.03.2007Apple Options Investigation May Implicate Steve Jobs
A report in this morning's
Financial Times
states that 7.5 million stock
options at an exercise price
of $18.30 USD per share were
granted to Apple CEO Steve
Jobs without authorization
from the company's Board of
Directors. The report states
that documents were later
falsified to make it appear as
though the Board did approve
of the grant...
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28.12.2006Google reprices 7.6 million employee stock options
Google Inc. has repriced 7.64 million stock options that had become less likely to enrich its employees given the sharp decline in the Internet search
leader's market value during the past 16 months.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said in a Tuesday regulatory filing
that 15,642 workers seized on the opportunity to wipe the slate clean by getting stock options with a lower exercise price that reduced their cost for
redeeming the reward.
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