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One2One trials video emails on mobiles
News Last November GEO entered an agreement with Samsung Electronics - the fourth-largest and fastest-growing manufacturer of phone handsets, according to the latest Dataquest figures - to incorporate its Emblaze technology using ASIC chips into CDMA... [08 Feb 2000]
BT and Intel create mobile "superchip"
News Intel is already in talks with Finland's Sonera and a Taiwan manufacturer. The superchip, based on the company's Personal Internet Client Architecture, known as Intel PCA, is just the start of a collaboration between the two companies to be... [17 May 2001]
Apple unleashes souped-up Panther
News Please contact your drive manufacturer for more information. Apple has released an updated version of its "Panther" operating system designed to address several early criticisms of the latest iteration of Mac OS X. [11 Nov 2003]
Are laptop bags to blame for rising thefts?
News Criminals are looking for easy targets and a straight choice between a laptop bag, boasting a manufacturer's logo, or a backpack which could contain nothing more exciting than a gym kit or lunchbox, makes the person with the laptop bag more likely... [18 May 2007]
Tiny drops free PC offer
News Paoli added: "It could be because you didn't get a monitor - maybe that was the problem," and said she expected another manufacturer to take up the offer. Tiny computers is pulling the plug on its "free PC" offer, which it launched only a month ago. [20 Aug 1999]
Computer heal thyself, says IBM
News There, its job will be to develop open standards, creating an autonomic computing architecture that will allow autonomic computers and software to interact, regardless of their manufacturer. IBM is stepping up its efforts to create computers that... [21 Oct 2002]
Cisco brings caching technology into mainstream
News Next week, Novell will announce a partnership with Legend Computer - the largest PC manufacturer in China - in which Legend will build caching appliances based on Novell's technology. Cisco has announced plans to incorporate recently acquired... [04 Nov 1999]
Sema focuses on business outsourcing
News The IT service manager of a major UK manufacturer agreed: "Our SLA's are currently based on IT goals, but we hope to define them by business value in future. IT services group, Sema, is expecting business outsourcing - not pure IT - to drive over... [20 May 1999]
Lufthansa sticks by broadband in the sky goals
News Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is a major investor in Tenzing, which develops in-flight messaging services. Lufthansa sees "no reason whatsoever" to ground plans to offer high-speed web access to passengers in 2004, an executive close to the company... [25 Apr 2003]
Big Brother's best intentions are open to abuse
Comment To repeat, CA's hands are clean - this isn't even the gun manufacturer analogy which some people have been tempted to draw. This week Computer Associates unveiled a technology which may well revolutionise office security - both physical and digital... [16 Jul 2003]
Server sales grow 10 per cent in 2003
News Dell moved 248,227 servers for a 20.2 per cent share of the market, making it the world's second largest manufacturer of servers. Computer manufacturers saw unit sales of servers jump by just over 10 per cent worldwide during the first quarter... [28 Apr 2003]
SIM could spell the end for smartcards
News Simon Morgan, VP of the American Biometric Company, a smartcard and biomteric reader manufacturer, said secure SIM technology is not ready yet: The mobile phone can function as a smartcard reader and the SIM, which contains the user's digital... [24 Jan 2001]
Why printers matter
Comment Ron Jones, CEO of inkjet cartridge manufacturer, Colossal Graphics, filed a lawsuit against HP, claiming it was monopolising the market (other vendors' cartridges don't work with HP printers) and charging exorbitant prices for its cartridges. [07 May 1999]
Dell and HP slug it out for top spot in PCs
News Toshiba was the only other major manufacturer beside Dell to experience double-digit growth. Dell Computer wrestled the top rank in worldwide PC shipments away from Hewlett-Packard in the first quarter of 2003 in a market that managed to grow a... [22 Apr 2003]
Microsoft & co flesh out mobility vision
News One user, described as an early "poster child" by Whitson, is truck manufacturer BT Industries, which has removed paper-based processes using a mobile version of SAP applications for 1,200 staff. Microsoft has teamed up with systems integrators... [20 Nov 2002]
