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Mobile wallets to bulk out m-payments' future
News Mobile money transfers and contactless NFC (near field communications) will make up half of the overall payment mobile market globally in five years' time, according to a new report. NFC is a short range wireless... [30 Oct 2008]
Acer topples HP from Europe top spot
News Globally, Acer remained in third place, with Dell in second place. HP has been toppled from the top spot in the Europe, Middle East and Africa PC-selling league by Acer, partly as a result of Acer's success in the... [16 Oct 2008]
Specsavers takes IT service model to pastures new
News A year ago, it pledged to expand to 2,000 stores globally by 2011. High street optician chain Specsavers has extended a service agreement with Fujitsu Siemens Computer Services (FSC) to support its expansion... [15 Oct 2008]
Symantec to take Europe into the cloud
News He added: "Whatever we deliver as on-premises software we want to deliver as SaaS and want to do that globally. Symantec will begin rolling out cloud-based security within Europe next year, according to CEO John Thompson. [07 Oct 2008]
Sony Ericsson: 'Studying the Android possibility'
News The storm Sony Ericsson has been weathering is not only the slowing down of consumer confidence globally, according to Komiyama, but is also specifically down to "the change of replacement cycles" in Japan as consumers... [25 Sep 2008]
Wanted: Techies with mobile skills
News Neil Bamberger, IT manager for mobility solutions at Cisco Systems, said the network equipment vendor has seen a "massive increase globally" in the number of customers - from 9,000 to 24,000 within four years - using... [22 Sep 2008]
US, Europe tighten IT spend as India, China boom
News Meanwhile IT spending for 2008 in China, Russia and India is surging forward at 18 per cent growth, far ahead of the 5.2 per cent increase globally, says market research institute Eito. IT budgets are being slashed in... [11 Sep 2008]
HP reports strong third quarter
News HP chairman and CEO Mark Hurd batted away reporters' repeated questions about whether he saw any weakening demand for PCs in the US or globally, saying: "We didn't see much of a change from Q2 to Q3. HP beat Wall Street... [20 Aug 2008]
Citrix hikes prices by 10 per cent
News The letter stated that the adjustment was a result of what Citrix said was the "rising costs of doing business globally" and was based on the inflation of various currencies in comparison to the US dollar. [15 Aug 2008]
HSBC dreaming on the iPhone?
News HSBC's Australia and New Zealand chief information officer Brenton Hush told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.com.au yesterday: "We are actually reviewing iPhones from a HSBC Group perspective.and when I say that, I mean... [14 Aug 2008]
Indian outsourcing giant builds £154m site
News The state government has worked at enhancing infrastructure facilities at Hyderabad to make it a premier IT destination globally. Indian IT outsourcing giant Infosys is building a £154m campus in Hyderabad that will... [11 Aug 2008]
Dell hits carbon neutral target
News He added: "The way energy costs are they are just not sustainable, so for business to be competitive in the future we need constant supplies of green energy and so we are trying to enable that everywhere we can globally. [06 Aug 2008]
Wireless broadband to be cellular feast
News Telecoms analyst Analysys Mason predicts there will be a total of 2.1 billion wireless broadband customers globally generating $784bn in service revenue by 2015 - an increase of some 2,400 per cent. The analyst predicts... [05 Aug 2008]
Intel: PC market won't suffer credit crunch blows
News Referring to the European Union's recent antitrust charges against Intel, Barrett said price reductions for microprocessors and computers have an "anti-inflationary nature" while prices are rising globally and also said... [31 Jul 2008]
NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News The analyst forecasts the gross transaction value of relatively low value purchases - such as refreshments, tickets and food - made via NFC will exceed $75bn globally by 2013, with the lion's share of contactless... [18 Jul 2008]
