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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Its Agentware internet search tools are used by enterprises including Barclays Bank and Unilever and sold as shrink-wrapped software through retail outlets.

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The Youngest Female Billionaire, College Dropout and Medical Genius

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Elizabeth Holmes decided in 2003 at Stanford University to drop out of college and pursue her dream: revolutionizing healthcare. Holmes has created hardware and software that allow for blood tests to be done by pricking someone’s finger and storing the blood in a tiny vial called a nanotainer. By Katie Kennedy.

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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

The Verge

That's why AVC, the predecessor to HEVC, still remains the more dominant standard, despite first releasing back in 2003. This autumn Fraunhofer HHI will publish the first software (for both encoder and decoder) to support H.266/VVC,”

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Former Microsoft exec Ed Fries shares behind-the-scenes stories from the original Xbox project

GeekWire

The four generations of Xbox hardware, as of 2020. The Xbox project was a money sink on both the hardware and software sides, with Fries estimating it lost $1 billion per year for Microsoft until he left the company. The original Xbox is in the back left. GeekWire Photo/Thomas Wilde). Madness in retrospect!

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This could be the next big game for Microsoft’s Xbox platform

GeekWire

Bethesda Game Studios has primarily worked on games in the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series since it was spun off into its own division in 2001; its first project as Bethesda Game Studios was 2003’s Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. That’s the sort of thing that sells Game Pass subscriptions, and maybe even Xbox hardware.

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Why I Might Leave OS X

Scott Lowe

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. For the most part, OS X has delivered that over the years.

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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

CIO Business Intelligence

When CEO Plinio Ayala joined Per Scholas in 2003, he noticed there weren’t enough skilled technicians to fix the hardware the organization collected. Getting a fast — and free — head start Marie Cari, a software engineer at Bank of America, graduated from the Per Scholas software engineering program in September 2022.

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