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• Microsoft offers insurance Linux can't, Ballmer says
  Thursday 28 October 2004 – 07:00
  An e-mail Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sent to customers around the world yesterday highlighted a new thrust in Microsoft's campaign against Linux.
• Strong smartphone sales cannot prevent decline of profits at Palm
  Friday 29 June 2007 – 01:06
  Palm today reported financial results for its fiscal Q4 (FQ4) and fiscal year 2007 (FY 2007), which ended on May 31 of this year
• Apple can't fill G4 demand
  Tuesday 21 September 1999 – 09:25
  Apple Computer is blaming a shortage of G4 processors for its projection of lower than expected fourth quarter earnings.
• Logitech Says Europeans Can't Type the Euro Symbol
  Thursday 20 December 2001 – 07:07
  I have to admit that this bit of news from keyboard and desktop peripheral retailer Logitech is news to me.
• Blind people still can't read Flash
  Wednesday 19 June 2002 – 04:02
  The RNIB - the UK charity that helps people with sight problems - has described as "disappointing" Macromedia's attempts to make its Web design software accessible to people with disabilities.

• Sorry, I Can't Hear You: I'm an iPod User*
  Monday 17 April 2006 – 10:47
  Question: Is a loud MP3 player or your choice to self inflict damage by cranking the device up responsible for making you go deaf? Aaron McKenna looks at the iPod and hearing loss controversy and asks whether or not we really want to open that can of worms.
• Coral Consortium: Can't all our DRM systems just get along?*
  Saturday 4 March 2006 – 12:28
  The Coral Consortium's goal is to develop a system of interoperability for digital rights management systems around the world - not to make them all alike, but to create some way for them to talk to each other. This way, when you download something from one service, it can be played using devices built for another service. But is this what content publishers and providers want?
• IGA: Hackers Can't Touch Our In-Game Ads*
  Wednesday 31 May 2006 – 01:20
  IGA recently signed a deal with Atari to put ads in its upcoming Test Drive Unlimited title. But is Justin Townsend, CEO of IGA, concerned about disgruntled gamers trying to hack out his ads? No, because Townsend said hackers can't mess with IGA's software. Townsend talks advertising, gaming and big business with TwitchGuru.
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