acceptance in news
China's Linux growing steadily
News This is due to various factors that hinder market development, including shortage of expertise in the OS and a low acceptance of Linux among the general population. While Linux grew steadily in China last year, the open-source operating system... [10 Apr 2006]
Bluetooth to be boosted by marriage to UWB
News One of the key components in the agreement between the Bluetooth SIG and the WiMedia Alliance is a common goal to help UWB achieve global regulatory acceptance. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has said it will combine WiMedia Alliance's... [31 Mar 2006]
The end of the affair: RIM cuts $612m BlackBerry deal
News The judge's ready acceptance of the parties' settlement and dismissal of their case on Friday "is indicative of the fact that he was sitting on an injunction, ready to go," said Paul Andre, an intellectual property partner at Perkins Coie in... [06 Mar 2006]
Cash to become a thing of the past?
News The challenge the payments industry faces is increasing both merchant acceptance and the level of consumer comfort with using debit for lower value transactions, to the point where people don't need to carry cash. [10 Feb 2006]
2006: Mature offshoring, mainstream open source and more
News Mainstream acceptance of open source will also expand in the coming year, as it sheds its geeky image, according to Deloitte. Public sector acceptance of open source software in countries such as China and France is also creating momentum for... [02 Feb 2006]
Skype to show off new wares at CES
News They have to offer more universal services in order to build awareness and acceptance of their services. Skype is making a play for the mainstream IP telephony market with a series of new products being announced at the Consumer Electronics Show... [04 Jan 2006]
Qualcomm: We are not chipset bad guys
News The widespread market acceptance of Qualcomm's licensing programme conclusively demonstrates that Qualcomm's licensing practices are fair, reasonable and pro-competitive. Qualcomm has hit back at claims by rival tech heavyweights it has been acting... [31 Oct 2005]
Broadband expectations ramping up
News The acceptance of lower speed connections has dipped, too, with two per cent of readers in the most recent poll saying 150Kbps should be considered broadband, compared to nearly 10 per cent in 2004. People expect faster speeds from a broadband... [25 Oct 2005]
Retiring at 65 an 'unrealistic dream' for techies
News There is a growing acceptance that the average worker is going to stay at work beyond 65. IT executives have unrealistic dreams of retiring at 65, as most are likely to have to work well past that. And to compound the problem for older workers, age... [24 Oct 2005]
Mobile industry will bet on 3.5G
News HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) is already on the shopping list of several major operators around the world in the GSM camp, including Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone, and has gained widespread acceptance with a thumbs-up from the GSMA... [28 Sep 2005]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Linus Torvalds
News The past year has been a prosperous one for Torvalds' creation, with Linux migrations continuing in the public sector, new uses of the OS for voice over IP installations appearing, and an increasing acceptance of Linux in the mainstream corporate... [09 Sep 2005]
Banks battle with cost of creaking legacy IT systems
News He said there is an increasing acceptance by banks that inflexible, old IT systems are holding them back in the fiercely competitive financial services sector and that replacing them is the only option. [06 Sep 2005]
Liverpool Victoria signs £26m deal with EDS
News This will mean faster acceptance of applications - immediate in many cases. Financial services company Liverpool Victoria is boosting its online application capabilities through a £26m deal with EDS. The deal is an extension to the existing life... [06 Sep 2005]
VoIP muscles in on telcos' traditional business
News This is due to increased confidence in the technology and more mainstream acceptance. Evidence continues to mount that internet telephony will alter the telecoms landscape - and is no longer an upstart technology but a market worth serious money. [25 Aug 2005]
End of the road for IBM's OS/2
News OS/2, which debuted in April 1987, struggled to gain the wide acceptance that Microsoft's Windows enjoyed. IBM will stop selling the OS/2 operating system at year's end, marking an end of an era for Big Blue. [18 Jul 2005]
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