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Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini
News Steel manufacturer Corus has extended its IT outsourcing deal to manage its mainframe computers with Capgemini through a number of contracts totalling £26m. Under the terms of the new contracts Capgemini will retain... [17 Apr 2008]
UK passports face massive price hike
News To meet the US Visa Waiver deadline the UK's Identity and Passport Service was forced to accept a manufacturer's guarantee of only a two-year lifetime for the chips, even though passports are issued for 10 years. [10 Oct 2007]
RFID boost for IBM as scooter co gets on board
News US-based Pliant will sell a new RFID-embedded plastic wrap to consumer-goods companies that want to detect any tampering of their products in transit from manufacturer to distributor. Honda Italia Industriale, which sold... [10 Jan 2007]
iPods shipped with Windows virus
News Joswiak said it was traced to a particular Windows machine in the manufacturing lines of a contract manufacturer that builds the iPods for Apple. Apple has warned video iPod users that some of its most... [18 Oct 2006]
Motorola cuts off Razr copycat
News Motorola has won a court case against a Korean handset manufacturer whose devices bore a little too striking a resemblance to the iconic Razr. According to Motorola, the handset manufacturer was first... [11 May 2006]
RFID makeover: Getting smaller, more plasticy
News The manufacturer has unveiled what it is claiming is the tiniest tag on the market. This tiniest of chips could also have potential cost implications for RFID - the smaller a chip, the greater the economies of scale in... [07 Feb 2006]
Dell warns of third-quarter revenue slip
News The computer manufacturer said it expects revenue to be about $13.9bn versus its previous forecast of $14.1bn to $14.5bn, a difference of more than four per cent. At the time analysts interpreted the move as an... [01 Nov 2005]
Samsung forced to pay $300m over price fixing
News Hynix, another South Korean memory manufacturer, earlier pleaded guilty and paid a $185m fine. In addition, a glut of manufacturers and manufacturing capacity has often forced memory makers to sell their... [14 Oct 2005]
Gateway PCs: Back in the UK
News Four years after leaving the UK, US PC manufacturer Gateway is back. IBM, for example, has recently moved out of PC manufacturing altogether. The company announced on Monday that its machines will soon... [13 Sep 2005]
Intel set to build $400m testing plant in India
News No major manufacturer has a fab in the country, although a Korean entrepreneur has laid plans to create a foundry in Hyderabad, according to sources. To help build India's chip-manufacturing industry,... [15 Jun 2005]
AT&T lands $8.5m deal with manufacturer
News Multinational manufacturing firm Saint Gobain has signed up AT&T in a three-year networking contract worth $8.5m. AT&T will provide the company with an IP-VPN across 250 sites in three countries - Japan, Korea and the US. [06 Apr 2005]
Ericsson and Sendo in patent dispute
News Ericsson's litigation, filed in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK, accuses small manufacturer Sendo of making handsets that unlawfully use GSM technology that Ericsson patented. Sendo has admitted that it is... [24 Mar 2005]
Security vendors are "bullshitting" users
News A responsible vendor should be able to back up any claim they make, but IT directors should also be extensively testing the claims of the manufacturer for themselves," he continued. The head of information security... [22 Sep 2004]
Intel to spend $2bn on new Irish chip-making facilities
News Moving to the 65-nanometer process will not be an easy jump for any manufacturer because of the small size of the transistors and the power the chips will consume. Intel is to invest $2bn in building next generation... [20 May 2004]
Siemens in billion dollar China boost
News Earlier this month, Siemens appointed local handset manufacturer Ningbo Bird as the main distributor of its phones in China, and the two companies also agreed to jointly develop products for domestic and international... [19 May 2004]
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