portability in news
Intel's Atom cracks into PC World
News The accessibility to the internet and portability of netbooks has seen extremely strong pre-sales through PC World online. The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a netbook using Intel... [08 Jul 2008]
LiMo Foundation launches Linux Android rival
News Broader application portability will be accomplished with Release 2, expected out in early 2009, Shikiar said. Google's Android may get all the attention, but there's more than one industry consortium working to unify Linux development for mobile... [31 Mar 2008]
Cambridge calls for new voice network
News VoIP gives us the ability to operate number portability. Cambridgeshire County Council has awarded a seven-figure contract for an Avaya converged IP network for its 4,000 workers. The network should save the council £1.2m over the next two years... [19 Oct 2007]
Watchdog sinks teeth into VoIP
News Among the details VoIP vendors will have to cough up are whether they offer emergency services calls; what number portability they offer; whether they provide services such as directory enquiries; and how much the VoIP system is dependent on the... [29 Mar 2007]
Flexi display tech factory 'to boost RFID, e-paper'
News He claimed that displays are one of the key initiatives for the technology, as current displays are power-hungry and so eat into the battery life of mobile devices, and use heavy materials, limiting portability. [04 Jan 2007]
Google's search for mobile goes east
News All these moves come as the Japanese government is moving to adopt a so-called "number portability" rule later this year. Google is providing its search engine and advertising to mobile phones in Japan. [19 May 2006]
Small businesses nonplussed by VoIP
News Previous research from Savatar also showed SMEs only want basic VoIP features - such as consistent dial tone, number portability, voicemail and conference calling - and are turned off by vendors pushing VoIP services laden with bells and whistles. [15 Mar 2006]
Ofcom wants your take on VoIP
News Ofcom also wants to consult the issue about number portability. Telecommunications regulator Ofcom has issued a proposal outlining how it plans to regulate the UK's internet telephony market. Ofcom is proposing that operators offering voice over IP... [24 Feb 2006]
Is Google Desktop 3 a threat to data security?
News Any amount of time that data is stored on an outside server is too long for institutions that must comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which provide strict... [16 Feb 2006]
'Linux 40 per cent cheaper than Windows'
News Factors taken into consideration when calculating the figures included not only "raw cost" but also administrator skill-set transferability, hardware architecture portability and vendor diversity, according to the report. [02 Sep 2005]
Intel's Otellini announces new chip design
News These combined the performance of PCs with the portability of handsets, Otellini said, with all-day batteries and always-connected wireless. At the opening keynote at Intel's autumn 2005 developer forum on Tuesday, chief executive Paul Otellini... [24 Aug 2005]
Microsoft faces up to SOX challenge
News The shift is just one of several trends the software giant is labelling part of a "new world of work" that its next generation Office software will address, in order to step up to the challenge posed by federal record-keeping regulations such as... [25 May 2005]
Child porn downloads ignored by firms
News Because of the portability of devices companies provide to employees sometimes people forget they are using work equipment when they visit these illegal sites," he said. Three-quarters of companies would not report employees caught downloading... [11 May 2005]
Mac mini won't be big with business
News The portability and small size of the form factor of the Mac mini will likely appeal to business users.and [it] will likely keep the Mac interesting to those few businesses that do use them," Reynolds added. [14 Jan 2005]
Techs see gold at end of compliance rainbow
News On the face of it, there seems to be little for the security industry in Sarbanes-Oxley, which aims to make corporate accounting more transparent, or in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which deals with health care... [25 Nov 2004]
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