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News What's more likely is the biggest PC vendors - like HP and possibly Dell - with their their scale and reach into a broad variety of markets, will just get bigger. Already beginning to feel the effects of sagging average... [17 Nov 2008]
Are you the new Q? MoD wants to hear from you
News Vendors can make requests for research contracts through the Centre's site - science.mod.uk - through which the MoD has awarded £1.7m of contracts to date. The Ministry of Defence is on the hunt for "budding Qs" to keep... [14 Nov 2008]
Software EV SSL: The next weapon against malware?
News The plans are being discussed by the Certification Authority Browser Forum, a voluntary organisation of certification authorities and vendors of internet browser software, including Microsoft, that helped develop the EV... [13 Nov 2008]
'Downturn? What downturn?' say SMEs
News While UK small businesses may be expecting an increased IT budget, they're intending to spend it cautiously: 58 per cent of small businesses will only buy kit from vendors they already use. While the credit crunch has... [11 Nov 2008]
VMware gets into mobile virtualisation game
News According to VMware, the platform will "help handset vendors reduce development time and get mobile phones with value-added services to market faster" through the use of virtual machines. The company's president and... [11 Nov 2008]
Credit crunch could drive banks to SaaS security
News You know the cost is x amount regardless and you do not have to buy any hardware that will need continual patching and maintenance.Saas vendors] can do it better and more efficiently, they have the expertise," he said. [10 Nov 2008]
Apple storms past RIM in smartphone race
News Apple's blowout quarter for iPhone 3G sales lifted it into second place among all smartphone vendors worldwide. Symbian is the market leader, due to its close association with Nokia, but Apple and RIM are the second- and... [07 Nov 2008]
'Microsoft, SAP just don't get cloud computing'
News We love everyone, we love vendors. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has accused SAP of failing to understand cloud computing and slammed Microsoft's internet-based operating system, Azure. Speaking at Salesforce's... [04 Nov 2008]
SAS CEO: "Teradata merger? They couldn't afford me"
News You take vendors like HP, Sun, Dell, IBM, there's just lots of hardware that we need to run on and some of our alliances are very strong. SAS CEO Dr Jim Goodnight has poured cold water on speculation that the business... [03 Nov 2008]
Apple: 'Third biggest mobile maker'
News Total iPhone revenue of $4.6bn would have represented 39 per cent of Apple's overall adjusted revenue of $11.7bn, and would have ranked it third among all mobile phone vendors as measured by revenue after just 15 months... [22 Oct 2008]
Connaught cedes control of 6,500-strong mobile estate
News To be honest, the direct relationship we had with the [mobile] vendors - they just didn't seem to provide a service. Housing services company Connaught has expanded a £5.5m voice and data contract with managed services... [16 Oct 2008]
Acer topples HP from Europe top spot
News Ranjit Atwal, a principal analyst for client computing markets, said: "The PC market in EMEA was largely dictated by vendors that shipped mini-notebooks and those that did not, resulting in significant movements in the... [16 Oct 2008]
Steve Jobs: No Apple netbook, no touchscreen laptop
News We're seeing some vendors using touchscreens but it's typically on the desktop form factor not on a laptop," he said. Three of them are some of the most oft-repeated rumours of future Apple products but touchscreens,... [15 Oct 2008]
Top 10 strategic techs for 2009
News This means formerly distinct markets and vendors will converge - so organisations must plan to take account of comms functions being replaced or converged and adjust their own admin teams accordingly. [15 Oct 2008]
Schools get new route to cheaper software shopping
News Under the deal, schools will be able to choose from 12 software vendors - both proprietary and open source - for operating systems; office productivity software; network and security programs; as well as ERP and other... [13 Oct 2008]
