Startup takes Reg's coveted 'Top FLOP' award
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SiCortex's supercomputing sauce SC06 SiCortex has bucked one of the more disturbing supercomputing trends - the disconnect between form and function.â¦
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Â· Judge says company fell seriously short of its duty  Â· Firm admits testing procedure badly flawed
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Company launches its IPO, with the highly anticipated offering soaring 15 percent in early morning trading, only to fall back to earth.
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It can be the hardest word Registration and web hosting company 123-Reg has again apologised to customers hit by hardware problems which meant some customers' websites fell offline.â¦
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Google drops its price and shares offered. Its magic: turning the hottest IPO in history into a disaster.
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Fools love this property and casualty reinsurer.
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By Larry Rulison, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 10--TROY -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute made a risky bet on an Internet startup, and it paid off to the tune of $3.3 million.
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A year on, and the company's $1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one virus writer. Is it a bust?
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(InfoWorld) - Earlier this month the Business Software Alliance (BSA) upped the ante from $200,000 to $1 million for anyone who turns in a company that is illegally circumventing software licensing agreements. BSA members include a who's who of the software and hardware industry, including Apple, Adobe, Dell, HP, Microsoft, SAP, and dozens more. The bounty for uncovering cheaters is not just a marketing ploy. The Association can, in fact, put some bite into uncovering cheaters, according to Kris Barker, CEO of Express Metrix. Express Metrix is a company that does hardware and software auditing to help companies keep in compliance with their software licenses. "Most software licensing agreements include a provision that allows a software vendor or its agent, which can be the BSA, to do an audit of end-user agreements," said Barker. The BSA increased the reward as software piracy continues to grow. According to IDC, U.S. software vendors lost $7.3 billion in 2006 as a result of piracy. However, turning in the man or woman in the cubicle next to you is not how an informer can earn the top reward. The BSA has 22 terms and conditions that must be met before the $1 million payoff is awarded. The rewards are based on sums received in out-of-court settlements, which is the most common way a company avoids any more punitive prosecution for piracy. In order to earn the $1 million, a company would have to settle out of court with the BSA for anywhere between $10,000,001 to $15,000,000. The terms and conditions also state, that "no reward is payable unless the BSA pursues a case and, as a direct result of the information provided by you, receives a monetary payment from the reported organization." A far more modest reward, up to $5,000, is given to anyone whose information leads to a settlement of $15,000 to $100,000. Despite many restrictions, BSA says that since 2005, out-of-court settlements have totaled $22 million. Another requirement of the terms and conditions states that an employee who has installed unlicensed software is not eligible for a reward unless "you were directed by your supervisor to do so." The rewards are part of a larger BSA campaign, which is appropriately titled, "Blow the Whistle."
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Storage technology vendors are traditionally too slow and too risk averse to take risks on advertising, but this commerical breaks the mold -- albiet an ugly one.
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Actual work remains top secret Comment The Green Grid has been flopping around for about two years and continues to flop.â¦
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Sunshine grabs the top Screen Actors Guild award and makes a bid for an Academy Award upset
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A troubled company in the troubled housing sector.
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Also: Start-up offers messages that self destruct. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Idiot 2.0 passes judgement on idiots This crock crock by CNET blogger Steve Tobak must take the award for 2007's most self-righteous, sanctimonious bollocks. Read on:â¦
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Slot manufacturer gets pummeled after releasing profit warning.
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Too bad Fortune's 2005 "Best Place to Work For" in America isn't a public company.