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LiMo targets the business mobile

News Ovum analyst Adam Leach expressed surprise at the news when he spoke to ZDNet.co.uk this week, saying the largest opportunity for the mobile Linux initiative was generally seen as being in the consumer space.

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

Skills slump eroding UK's top tech talent

News It predicted growth in the technology industry at one to three per cent above UK GDP saying that a slowdown was expected in consumer electronics and telecoms but there was a more positive outlook in the electronics sector.

Tags: intellect, technology, skills

[14 May 2008]

BlackBerry goes Bold with super-3G

News It's not necessarily a consumer push but something that will appeal to consumers, as well as enterprise. The consumer, 'prosumer' and enterprise segments are now really blurring together. RIM has launched the first of its BlackBerry smart phones to...

Tags: rim, blackberry, 3g

[13 May 2008]

BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News BT is talking convergence again - the telco has added a smart phone option to its consumer broadband package. This is not the telco's first foray into the world of consumer mobility. The new service - BT Total Broadband Anywhere - furnishes...

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 May 2008]

Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps

News Every Blu-ray disc player - the consumer and industry standard for high-definition content delivery - includes Java technology. Sun officially started its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco this week with a series of keynote...

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal

News Mike Fairman, head of O2 broadband, told silicon.com: "As with our consumer products, all of our customer service is 24/7 UK-based and free to call and that's the same for business. Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service...

Tags: broadband, smes, o2

[01 May 2008]

iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...

News While the BlackBerry has traditionally focused on the enterprise market and the iPhone was initially marketed as a consumer device - analyst Gartner recently dubbed the latter 'ready for business', following moves by Apple to license Microsoft's...

Tags: smart phone, blackberry, iphone

[30 Apr 2008]

Dell and HP find ways to keep Windows XP alive

News Only the Business and Ultimate flavours of Vista come with downgrade rights, meaning consumer machines can't be sold in a similar fashion. Facing a 30 June deadline to stop selling PCs with Windows XP, the world's largest computer makers are...

Tags: xp, vista, hp, dell

[28 Apr 2008]

Apple profits up thanks to Mac, iPhone and iPod

News Apples sold 2.3 million Macs in the quarter, topping the two million to 2.2 million units forecast by five analysts, who saw sales being spurred by new designs, the halo effect from iPods and iPhones, and consumer complaints about Microsoft's...

Tags: ipod, iphone, mac, apple

[24 Apr 2008]

UK online spend up 50 per cent this year

News Capgemini UK Consumer products and retail team VP Anthoula Madden told silicon.com the rise in online spend, especially in beers, wines and spirits could be affected by seasonal, weather and economic factors.

Tags: consumer electronics, alcohol, online retail

[22 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product profitably.

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

Mobile banking set for boom time

News The greater uptake will also be driven by greater consumer confidence due to improved security measures. The number of people accessing banking services via their mobile phones will increase tenfold over the next four years according to Juniper...

Tags: security, consumer, payment, mobile

[16 Apr 2008]

Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future

News Speaking at a briefing in Singapore to unveil Gartner's top 10 predictions for 2008, Gutberlet pointed out there are greater demands for consumer-type technologies from increasingly tech-savvy generations of workers.

Tags: it, laptop, internet, smart phones

[14 Apr 2008]

PayPal wages war on phishing

News I think we probably have another decade of consumer education ahead of us. Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer, outlined the company's strategy for dealing...

Tags: certification, education, isps, paypal

[11 Apr 2008]

WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?

News When you consider that companies such as Intel are very much backing WiMax, it is not a stretch to imagine that many PCs or consumer electronics devices will drive the deployment of WiMax in developed urban areas too," he said.

Tags: 4g, 3g, wimax

[11 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News We would point to the many important and valuable consumer internet services such as Gmail or spam filters where data from one side of the 'communication' is analysed for the purpose of showing ads or blocking spam.

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

Male-targeted mobiles hog market

News Monica Basso, research VP at Gartner, said in a statement: "Mobile products will have to address gender diversity and demographics, evolving and differentiating into a range of consumer products. Mobile phones are designed by men for men, with...

Tags: gender, gartner, mobile

[10 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! tests the Google route to advertising bliss

News In a statement, Herb Kohl, chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, said: "We will be following closely the results of the short-term test alliance between Yahoo!

Tags: yahoo, google

[10 Apr 2008]

Tesco Mobile users hungry for ads

News Tesco said the user-base of the portal has a strong segment of female household budget owners with an average age of 36 - a demographic it said is particularly valuable for fast-moving consumer goods such as toiletries and cleaning products.

Tags: mobile advertising, mvno, tesco mobile

[09 Apr 2008]

Microsoft touches the Surface of AT&T

News And, although Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said he wants the consumer version of Surface speeded up, Thompson said he also wants to make sure the company doesn't disappoint its earliest customers, who are all large businesses.

Tags: at&t, surface, microsoft

[02 Apr 2008]

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