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eBay to Drop Passport, .Net Support
Auction site eBay announced to members on its Web site Wednesday afternoon that it will drop support for Microsoft’s Passport and .NET Alerts by late January. Users were told that “once this takes place, the Microsoft Passport button that is currently displayed on Sign In pages will be replaced with links to a page with…
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Comair Blames Software Meltdown for Flight Delays
After troubles with its 32-year-old crew-scheduling software spawned huge holiday flight delays, Delta Airlines’ subsidiary Comair resumed its usual flight schedule in the middle of this week. But Comair is now under the glare of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Comair’s problems began on Christmas Day, when the failure of a…
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Microsoft: Single Sign-On Far from Dead
Microsoft on Thursday rushed to put the kibosh on talk that it was abandoning the single sign-on Passport identity management service. But even as company officials insist that Passport “will be around for a long time,” it has become increasingly clear that a series of security-related hiccups has ruined consumer trust in the Web-based tool.…
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Californians Face Deadline on Microsoft Antitrust Claims
Thousands of companies and California residents will turn their backs on a share of the $1.1 billion antitrust settlement against Microsoft Corp. if they don’t file simple claim forms by the Jan. 8, 2005 deadline. Last month the California Superior Court signed an order extending the deadline to Jan. 8 to give consumers more time…
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Oracle Takes Control of PeopleSoft
Oracle Corp. early Wednesday declared that it had won control of PeopleSoft Inc. after stockholders tendered about 75 percent of the outstanding shares of the Pleasanton, Calif. producer of enterprise application software. Oracle made the announcement after the initial offering period for Oracle’s $26.50 tender offer for all PeopleSoft shares expired at midnight EST Tuesday.…
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California Mounts Appeal of FCC’s VOIP Order
The state of California is mounting a legal challenge to a recent Federal Communications Commission ruling that VOIP phone services sold by Vonage Holdings Corp. were exempt from state and local regulations and tariffs. In a petition for review filed with the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, the Public Utilities Commission of…
