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RSS gear topChina to adopt own Wi-Fi security standard
News Chinese government agencies are prohibiting the import, manufacture and sale of Wi-Fi gear that does not use China's new security specification, which is incompatible with standards technology industry groups developed. [03 Dec 2003]
Sun pounces on HP stumble
News The program began in July in the US and was expanded to Europe, and now Sun has expanded it to Asia as well and signed up six new business partners to help customers switch to Sun gear. Terry Shannon, author of the... [11 Nov 2003]
Leader: silicon.com - stepping up a gear
Leader And if you want to know what makes those at the top of their profession tick, to know about their favourite tipple as much as their favourite supplier, then look out for our upcoming series of reports. [21 Oct 2003]
HP and Disney extend technology deal
News The two companies are also partnering in a sweepstakes that will allow one winner to spend New Year's on Mars, or at least Disney's earthbound equivalent, as well as filling the winner's homes with a variety of tech gear. [09 Oct 2003]
Computer prices will crash: McNealy
News If cars were as complicated and custom-built as today's computing gear, there would be vastly more mechanics, car painters, tow truck drivers, car designers and other support workers needed to deal with the chaos and... [17 Sep 2003]
Services mega-deals not quite so mega
Comment Businesses can use mega-deals to cut costs, and may see outsourcing as an attractive option as they look to upgrade their computer gear, he said. IBM is taking on about 780 ABB workers, on top of 510 ABB... [05 Sep 2003]
Sun goes back to its high-performance roots
News Part of Sun's effort is aimed at stealing customers away from SGI, which has been ailing financially for years despite specialised gear that excels at heavy-duty graphics tasks such as aerial combat simulators. [28 Apr 2003]
Palm's spring collection launched with cameras and Wi-Fi
News Some experts have questioned whether businesses want to invest in PDAs, which are often seen on a second level of 'nice-to-have' technology behind laptops and other gear. While Palm handily remains in the... [24 Apr 2003]
$600m Irish bank deal completes HP mega-deal hat-trick
News The Irish bank is already a big HP customer, having purchased a NonStop system, high-end Alpha systems, ProLiant servers as well as desktops and storage gear from the Palo Alto, California-based company. [15 Apr 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Forget 'think different' - think 'non-linear'...
Comment If we were designing an automobile and wanted to make the drive chain as efficient as possible we could work independently on the gear box to reduce the friction and optimise the gear ratios for... [09 Apr 2003]
Revealed: The link between the world's smallest combination lock and IT
News Using microelectromechanical system (MEMS) design, the Recodable Locking Device has six notched gear wheels each the size of a full stop to replicate a traditional locking mechanism on a silicon chip. [05 Mar 2003]
Dell - the company that wants it all
Comment Dell is also very much a provider of servers, storage, services and some networking gear. Well, the company may already sell over two-fifths of the world's business PCs, and 15.7 per cent of all PCs worldwide in 2002's... [29 Jan 2003]
September: Microsoft sells networking gear. October: Microsoft issues fixes
News Microsoft has released a software update to correct connection problems with network gear it unveiled in mid-September. For the first nine months of the year, Linksys held a 57.8 per cent share of the market for network... [12 Nov 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Services carve up, Vodafone and SFR, ARM's lay-offs
Comment Having tackled the real world scenarios, IDC shifts up a gear into speculation mode and attempts to assess the effects of some of the year's acquisitions from the rumour mill. According to IDC, Microsoft would get itself... [21 Oct 2002]
Xbox gamers left frustrated by Microsoft hack crackdown
News Lik Sang offered a variety of specialty and grey-market game gear, including mod chips for Xbox, Sony's PlayStation 2 and consoles with mod chips already installed by Lik Sang technicians. Lik Sang was one of the... [10 Oct 2002]
