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RSS colossusDell CIO Randy Mott
Comment It's not quite what you'd expect from a man charged with running the IT infrastructure behind Dell's manufacturing colossus around the globe, and not only running it but applying the same rigorous approach to driving out... [09 Aug 2005]
Old devices turning on new smart phone converts
News Nokia is still the smart phone colossus, boosting its market share to 57 per cent. Even without a raft of whizz-bang new devices, smart phone makers are enjoying mushrooming sales. According to analyst house IDC,... [29 Jul 2005]
Ernie: The fastest premium bonds machine in the north-west relaunched
News Ernie 1 was built by the team behind the World War II code-breaking Colossus machine. Ernie - the venerable computer in charge of randomly picking premium bonds winners - has been overhauled. National Savings and... [17 Aug 2004]
Microsoft gears up for new IBM and Linux scrap
News The software colossus had been contending, through a series of Microsoft-funded studies and "Get the Facts" advertisements, that Microsoft products have a lower "total cost of ownership" than Linux and other open source... [04 Feb 2004]
Sun plans to get Java on PCs
News Microsoft has been variously adding and removing Java from Windows throughout the course of an antitrust suit Sun brought against the software colossus. Sun Microsystems is hopeful that the world's major PC makers will... [31 Mar 2003]
IBM to SCO: Our Unix licence is irrevocable
News IBM hasn't yet responded in court, but the computing colossus has begun criticising SCO's claims. IBM has poured scorn on a SCO Group threat to cancel Big Blue's licence to ship Unix products starting on June 13, saying... [11 Mar 2003]
AOL tries to sweet talk analysts
News Since AOL bought old media colossus Time Warner divisions handling film, music and TV have continued to contribute the bulk of revenues and, recently at least, good profits while AOL has slumped along with the whole... [03 Dec 2002]
Microsoft boss dismisses Sun as fading competitor
News Ballmer told US wires that Microsoft's main competitor is without a doubt internet colossus AOL. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, claims one-time arch rival Sun has fallen by the wayside on Microsoft's competitive... [18 Jun 2002]
Why Messier is living on borrowed time
Comment Today at the AGM of his Vivendi Universal colossus he will be facing angry shareholders, protesting Canal Plus workers - upset he recently ditched their boss - and even anti-globalisation protesters. Who'd be Jean-Marie... [24 Apr 2002]
BT network falls over again
News BT's national IP network, Colossus, fell over for a second time in a week on Friday afternoon, plunging weary customers into chaos. The network fell over at 14:55(GMT), a spokeswoman confirmed. It was fully restored by... [26 Nov 2001]
BT DSL network still fails to do the job
News A BT spokesman suggested that these were probably not linked to the outage on BT's Colossus IP backbone network. BT's IP backbone network is up and running after yesterday's massive outage which brought the nation's DSL... [21 Nov 2001]
BT suffers Colossal failure
News Thousands of internet users across the country have lost their connections following a massive failure in BT's national IP network, Colossus. A failure in BT's Colossus IP backbone was responsible, but... [20 Nov 2001]
AOL hackers get on Case's case
News Media colossus AOL Time Warner, which yesterday inked a deal to provide cable television in China, has yet to confirm or deny the reports which appeared on US newswire BetaNews.com. AOL's websites have been hit by... [23 Oct 2001]
EMI invests to protect digital downloads
News In April, EMI teamed up with BMG, part of media colossus Bertelsmann, and Warner Bros, part of AOL Time Warner, in a venture called MusicNet to develop digital music platforms. 'Big five' record label EMI has signed a... [05 Jun 2001]
AOL Time Warner in talks with NTL on European expansion
News The news, from press reports on Sunday, could see an alliance between the two firms that would use NTL's distribution capacity to deliver AOL Time Warner's wide-ranging internet content. AOL - part of AOL Time Warner - is the world's... [30 Apr 2001]
