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News RIM has peppered its smart phones, already popular with executives, with video cameras and music players to lure more retail customers, and now about 40 per cent of its 16 million users are either small and medium businesses or consumers. [16 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News and Microsoft - but that collectively the smaller players offer more alternatives, Raghavan said. has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the internet company's technology. [10 Jul 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News This could be music to the ears of those who have criticised Redmond's approach of putting everything into Windows so other players offering services didn't get a look in. What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy... [07 Jul 2008]
Email: The tip of the cloud iceberg?
News Matthew Cain, a research VP at Gartner, said the past few years have created the environment for cloud based technology with big players such as Dell, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! The use of internet hosted email services - such as Microsoft's... [03 Jul 2008]
Game over for Mobile Linux standards forum
News The sense of urgency in the industry has to do with the feeling that other players are breathing down their necks. The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it... [27 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now has almost 900 illegal tracks each on their MP3 players. Young people are getting almost half of their music collection through... [16 Jun 2008]
HP rolls out mass overhaul of PCs
News That really separates the major players from the minor players, since only the big guys can afford to do this kind of thing. HP, the world's largest PC manufacturer, rolled out 50 new products on Tuesday at a conference in Berlin, the largest such... [11 Jun 2008]
Broadband speed: ISPs accept 'code of practice'
News Broadband's biggest players - including BT, TalkTalk, Tiscali and Virgin - have all signed up to the code, along with a range of smaller players - from Dark Group to Zen Internet. A spokeswoman for Ofcom said it does not have a list of ISPs who... [05 Jun 2008]
Mobile broadband ushers in Blue day
News The company's CEO Sulim Malook met with silicon.com at the Capital Club in the heart of the City of London to explain how a dedicated mobile service giving global financial information could shake up the established information players and help to... [03 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News Software giant SAP has its only UK research facility in the region while BT, Cisco, Citigroup and Nortel are other big players with a presence. Northern Ireland is making a name for itself as an emerging UK tech hub. [02 Jun 2008]
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin to retire
News But Sarin also warned operators they must not get complacent in this brave new world of mobile data - as new players such as Apple and Google arrive on the mobile scene - saying: "We must not allow ourselves to become bitpipes and let somebody... [27 May 2008]
Credit crunch not hitting IT spend
News Claudio Da Rold, Gartner research vice president, said yesterday: "The very large, visible players, like Microsoft and Google and so on, have started to invest and they are leading the way. The IT services market is set to shrug off any talk of... [21 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News The announcement has already drawn praise from some of the same players in the open source community who, little more than a year ago, criticised Becta for being too closely aligned with Microsoft. Becta, the organisation that advises the UK... [14 May 2008]
Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost
News But keeping up with other UK broadband players such as O2 - which Fogg said has recently started heavily marketing its ADSL2+ product - the company will need to upgrade equipment in exchanges and boost line capacity to cope with demand for higher... [09 May 2008]
Nationwide WiMax in next two years?
News On Wednesday, a joint venture in the US was announced, involving Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, with $1bn in funding from Intel and similarly large amounts from other players like Comcast, Google and Time Warner. [09 May 2008]
