• So instead of getting IE bundled with the OS they were offered IE, Firefox, Opera and so on and were thus not locked in in any manner.

    FORBES: Microsoft To Be Fined By The EU Again? And The Problem With Governments Being Able To Fine Companies

  • She lasted through the company's downturn, precipitated by Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows, a move the Justice Department determined was illegal.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But the existence of that business and the turnover from it increases the potential fine that the EU might levy for playing around with Windows and IE.

    FORBES: The EU Could Fine Microsoft $7.4 Billion

  • Microsoft said it affected IE with Service Pack 1 installed but only if visiting websites that use data compression and the widely used version 1.1 of the HTTP web protocols.

    BBC: NEWS | Technology | Hackers target latest Windows fix

  • Post-6.1, WinMo will indeed have its app suite revamped, including a desktop-grade port of IE to Windows Mobile, which Microsoft is replacing pocket IE with and directly targeting mobile Safari.

    ENGADGET: Windows Mobile: more of what's going on in the next two versions

  • Thus Firefox rose to become the largest browser after IE, with almost 20% of the market.

    ECONOMIST: The world wide web: The second browser war | The

  • He has publicly questioned the loyalty of two cabinet members with dual nationality (ie, Turkish and Moroccan as well as Dutch).

    ECONOMIST: Islam in the Netherlands

  • This is the basis of the Balassa-Samuelson theory which holds that average prices will be higher in countries with higher productivity (ie, high GDP per head), because higher wages will push up prices in labour-intensive goods and services.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus: Burger-thy-neighbour policies | The

  • CDM's imaging system, it passes first through conventional optical elements, and then through a lens moulded into a shape of a cubic-like function (ie, with a surface which, instead of being spherical, is relatively flat in the centre but has scalloped edges).

    ECONOMIST: MONITOR

  • If the justices' questions are any guide (and it must be admitted they are often not), proponents of the law made a good job of arguing the first bit of their case, that fund-raising has got out of step with previous law (ie, that there are loopholes).

    ECONOMIST: A controversial old debate returns to the Supreme Court

  • The argument is that Mr Obama is more likely to replace departing "doves" on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors with other doves - ie, people who are more likely to support the current policy of pumping money into the economy for as it takes to bring down US unemployment.

    BBC: US election: Four more years... of what?

  • The banks with the worst assets (ie, those which have made the worst decisions) could receive the most help.

    ECONOMIST: Financial crisis

  • Those defendants had strong arguments that they neither controlled PwC India nor culpably participated in the fraud (ie, acted with scienter).

    FORBES: The Grand Illusion: PwC Settles Satyam U.S. Class Action Claims

  • Mr Brown could still use a legal loophole to force it on with a simple majority (ie, Democrats only), but that would look bad.

    ECONOMIST: The plan to fix California��s budget has run into problems

  • Cast as Romeo, she is smitten by Shakespeare himself, who has fallen in love with her as Viola (ie, as Juliet) at a party arranged to mark her engagement to the Earl of Wessex (ie, Paris).

    ECONOMIST: ��Shakespeare in Love��

  • If you have made a good genetic choice of partner (ie, someone with a significantly different MHC), then the theory suggests that you should not be able to choose something that smells nice to them based on your own preferences.

    ECONOMIST: Perfume science

  • Neowin speculates that the reason for this could be to start afresh: by confusing host websites with a new identifier, IE 11 might avoid having legacy CSS code thrown at it, dating back to the bad old days when web designers had to give Internet Explorer special treatment.

    ENGADGET

  • The US is one of the last places to not allow transmitting electronics in-flight. (And only recently the FAA is coming under pressure by the airlines themselves so they can turn a higher profit with these additional systems) But it has been happening for awhile now with the other authorities, ie- EASA, CAAS, so on.

    FORBES: Ready For Take-off? FAA Considering Rule Change On Personal Electronic Devices

  • "Our interest to have people move around the Internet without ie is perfectly aligned with Google's, " says Baker.

    FORBES: Web Warrior

  • In other words, the 2013 budget will be repeated in the following four years with no adjustment for inflation (ie 508m per year).

    BBC: Ariane 5

  • G8 meeting in Japan last month, to scrap its missile programme if other countries would provide it with space-launch facilities (ie, rockets it could use for its own purposes).

    ECONOMIST: The Koreas

  • Roughly 6% (660 people dead) of all violent crimes committed with guns are purchased legally. ie domestic disputes, crimes of passion, the occasional mass shooting, where a gun was present and used.

    FORBES: Alex Jones Spins 'Piers Morgan' Appearance: 'I Don't Respect That Show'

  • Another way in which regulators have tried to keep banks' heads above water is to force them to match a proportion of their risky assets (ie, loans) with capital, in the form of equity or retained earnings.

    ECONOMIST: The business of banking | The

  • For example, Britain's Conservatives, broadly pro-market and mildly Eurosceptic, sit in the EPP with continental Christian Democrats and Gaullists who are both more federalist (ie, favouring strong EU centre) and more comfortable with intervening in the economy.

    ECONOMIST: Unhappy voters send a message | The

  • This microscopic scale and sensitivity allows the sensor to map a high-resolution image of electrical charge that occurs over the surface of a source material (for example a human finger), when it makes contact with a thin insulating surface (ie a plastic surface).

    FORBES: Can Forensic Scientists Tell How Old A Fingerprint Is?

  • President Jose Manuel Barroso's call in the Financial Times for Europe to create a single banking regulation system and a financial backstop is highly significant: Germany is believed to support a move to create at least stage one of the union rapidly, ie common supervision, with 1 January 2013 mooted as the start date.

    BBC: Eurozone banking union: The big bazooka

  • Instead of trying to come up with a routine check-in (ie: once a week, every two weeks, etc.), just focus on reaching out when you have a timely, newsworthy story idea.

    FORBES: Almost-Famous: How One Blogger Got A Lucky Break

  • Downing Street, it seems, wanted some positive headlines out of the SDSR, which was largely an exercise in cutbacks, so it decided to back the idea of Britain getting a "grown up" aircraft carrier, ie one launching conventional aircraft with catapults rather than a very large replacement "Harrier Carrier".

    BBC: Why did coalition government change fighter plane plan?

  • At that time they said the most obvious solution would be an above-politics left-nationalist figure, a "Greek Kirchner" or "Greek Morales", and that the absence of such a figure would make it impossible to form what Marxists refer to as a "workers government" - ie a radical reforming government with the participation of the far left, but limited to parliamentary means.

    BBC: Greece: Trying to understand Syriza

  • IE's lack of compliance with web standards can make some webpages look very odd, he said.

    BBC: Firefox aims for download record

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