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The Court of First Instance in Luxembourg upheld penalties imposed in March by the European Commission when it found that Microsoft had abused the virtual monopoly of its computer operating system Windows. Microsoft is now required to sell a version of Windows without the Media Player audio visual ... |
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Santy Worm penetrates phpBB websites. |
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Apple Computer (AAPL) announces plans for its next-generation iMac desktop computer, but says it won't ship until September, missing its original internal schedule. |
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To help EMC contend with increased competition from large companies such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, EMC announces that Samsung will sell EMC Clarion-class storage systems under its own StorageMax brand name. |
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A computer crash in one of Britain's main air traffic control centers grounded many of the country's flights and cancelled others. |
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The internationally sponsored Cassini space probe that carries the European-built Huygens probe nears to within 9.9 million miles of Saturn and officials confirm that all systems are go with the $3 billion mission. |
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The world's second largest chip maker, Advanced Micro Devices, launches its four new processors based on the Athlon 64 architecture at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan. The new models include the 3500+, 3700+, 3800+, and FX-53 |
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In a move to compete with IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) announces that it's servers will support open-source software products JBoss MySQL. JBoss provides a Java-based application server software and MySQL is the most popular open spurce database management system. |
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NASA chief Sean O'Keefe announces that the space agency is seeking proposals for robotic missions to save the Hubble Space Telescope. |
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Yahoo Inc. unveiled a feature for its Web browser toolbar which facilitates the removal of unwanted "spyware" programs. |
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Russia successfully launches a cargo spacecraft loaded with fuel and food for the Russian-American crew of the International Space Station. |
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Apple Computer takes the unusual step of of issuing a statement announcing the release of a security patch for Mac OS X, in contrast to prior policy refusing to comment on security issues. |
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The two giant software database rivals; Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. announce an agreement that will provide integration of Oracle's products with Visual Studio .NET 2003 |
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Designed by Burt Rhutan, funded by Paul Allen, and piloted by Mike Melvill , SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded vehicle to break through earth's atmosphere. It soared to 211,400 feet ( 40 mi ) above the Mojave desert, and is a contender for the $10 million Ansari X Prize, |
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Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows OS could succumb to hackers taking control of a computer by luring users to a Web site and coaxing them into clicking a malicious link. |
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Boeing announces it will launch in-flight WI-FI internet access. |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will join a computer chip development project at an IBM technology center in New York. |
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EIGroup releases a biographical article on Alan Turing, who defeated the German UBoats in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. |
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The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to relax rules limiting ownership of TV stations, radio stations and newspapers. |
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Air France's streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport in a final commercial flight home, ending two and a half decades of supersonic travel between New York and Paris. |
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An internet "worm" slows down web and email traffic. |
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Scientists report thier progress in understanding how eating less leads to longer life. |
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London's new Millenium Bridge is closed for safety checks after large crowds of crossing pedestrians cause it to sway violently. |
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STS 87 (Columbia 24) lands |
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The Confederation Bridge spanning Northumberland Strait and linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick, Canada opens. At 12.9 kilometres, it is the longest bridge over waters that freeze in the world. |
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Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer created by IBM, defeats Garry Kasparov becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player. |
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IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov. He would later play to a draw in February 2003 to avoid a similar fate.
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Sun Microsystems announces the release of the JAVA programming language that was created by James Gosling and other engineers in 1991 as part of the Green Project launched by Sun. |
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Elizabeth II and François Mitterrand open the Chunnel, a tunnel under the English Channel linking England and France. |
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The top quark subatomic particle is discovered. Quarks had never been found free and were always bound into baryons or mesons by the strong force. |
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