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RSS 118Nokia tops mobile sales charts
News Handset maker Nokia shipped 51.4 million units in the third quarter of 2004 to retain its top position in the global cell phone market, a study by In-Stat/MDR has shown. A total of 165 million cell phones shipped in the quarter, inching... [04 Nov 2004]
Leader: 118 - not so great?
Leader When the UK takes the lead in deregulating a market you can be sure to get an interesting and - let's face it - often uncertain ride. It's happened in areas such as digital TV, in telecoms in general and specifically in the world of... [24 Aug 2004]
Cisco in $200m acquisition of P-Cube
News Cisco has bought IP service control vendor P-Cube of Sunnyvale, California, in a cash deal worth about $200m. The company says the deal should allow its customers to run advanced IP services such as voice over IP (VoIP), interactive... [24 Aug 2004]
Watchdog to investigate 'cheaper' 118 calls
News The National Audit Office is to investigate Ofcom predecessor Oftel's introduction of directory enquiry competition to see if customers are getting a good deal. In the meantime, BT and The Number are engaging in a slanging match over... [24 Aug 2004]
Tech acquisitions hit dot-com boom levels
News Acquisitions in the technology sector have reached levels not seen since the heady days of the dot-com boom in 2000 but there is still no sign of the predicted consolidation among enterprise software vendors, according to new research... [02 Aug 2004]
MSN, servers and Xbox lead Microsoft's storming quarter
News Amid a strong PC market, Microsoft reported quarterly revenue well ahead of analysts' estimates, though earnings fell short of what some investors were hoping for. The software giant said it earned $2.69bn, or 25 cents per share, on... [23 Jul 2004]
Directory enquiries: They're better but they're worse
News Communications watchdog Ofcom and premium rate regulator Icstis have published the results of their study into the deregulated directory enquiries market - and they're a bit of a mixed bag. The reliability of the main providers has... [18 Jun 2004]
Redstone makes its first profit
News Dot-com crash survivor Redstone has turned in its first pre-tax profit despite its revenues sliding by 11.8 per cent to £60.7m. The £13,000 profit represents an achievement for a company that was rescued from liquidation... [03 Jun 2004]
Oracle to be Linux shop by end of year
News Oracle will finish switching its 9,000-person in-house programming staff to Linux by the end of 2004, the database powerhouse said Wednesday. In October, the company finished the Linux transition for the 5,000 programmers of its Oracle... [27 May 2004]
Microsoft beats the Street - but can't escape legal bills
News Microsoft reported on Thursday fiscal third quarter revenue above expectations but saw its earnings dented by the costs of a fine by the European Union and its settlement with Sun Microsystems. The software maker said it earned $1.32bn,... [23 Apr 2004]
BT cuts residential voice calls
News BT has announced price cuts which it says will make bills easy to compare and mean savings as compared to rival services. The telco is getting rid of its standard rate for residential customers and lowering prices on its three BT... [24 Mar 2004]
The secret email the Microsoft VP wrote Buffett
News An email message that may become part of a Minnesota antitrust case is providing a rare glimpse into the way a top Microsoft executive tried to persuade an iconic investor to buy into the company's software business. [18 Mar 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.03.04
Round-Up The kerfuffle surrounding the advertising campaign of directory enquiries operator The Number this week turned into a brouhaha. The Number was rapped on the knuckles by Ofcom in January when the regulator asserted that the moustachioed... [12 Mar 2004]
Microsoft Passport to Trouble, Revision 1.1.8
White Paper Microsoft is attempting to position their Passport single sign on authentication service as the one single identity that an Internet user should need to perform all their online activities. Currently, Passport isn't very widely deployed... [25 Feb 2004]
The Cost of Lost Data
White Paper Available evidence suggests that six percent of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year. Given the number of PCs used in US businesses in 1998, that translates to approximately 4.6 million data loss episodes. [25 Feb 2004]
