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RSS openingBlackBerry users warned over malicious images
News Opening a malicious image, sent via an email, on a BlackBerry mobile device could disable a user's capability to view attachments, BlackBerry maker RIM said on Tuesday. The problem occurs because of a software flaw in the BlackBerry Enterprise... [04 Jan 2006]
Stockwatch Daily: Europe follows Nasdaq plunge
News Nortel's profit warning yesterday added to the list of corporate woes that have pummelled indexes across the world. Technology and telecoms stocks bore the brunt with Marconi, Alcatel and Nokia all hitting red territory. [29 Mar 2001]
PeopleSoft farce: Larry - what were you thinking?
Comment Is Oracle's hostile bid to buy PeopleSoft smart or just silly? CNET News.com's Charles Cooper looks at the challenges ahead for Ellison and co.not the least of which is winning over Europe. I don't know whether Larry Ellison's completely lost it or... [19 Jul 2004]
London markets follow US fall
News While announcing a widely expected cut in interest rates yesterday, the US reserve commented that weakening business and consumer sales are serious enough to prompt a "rapid and forceful response of monetary policy". [01 Feb 2001]
AOL does video search
News AOL quietly launched a new video-on-demand search service on Thursday, opening the doors for millions of internet users to view music videos, news segments and other content from parent company Time Warner, whose mountain of media holdings gives... [04 Jul 2005]
Microsoft to make patches automatic
News Microsoft is considering changing the way that Windows updates security patches, making the update process automatic by default, following the latest round of security problems for Windows users. A Microsoft spokeswoman said the company is "giving... [21 Aug 2003]
DataCore steps up its Europe efforts
News The US company develops storage management software for SAN (Storage Area Network) systems. It launched its flagship SANsymphony product earlier this year. George Teixeira, president and CEO of DataCore, said the company was very pleased with the... [15 Dec 2000]
"Siebel meets Google"
News Siebel launched its hosted CRM service in Europe and announced version 7.7 of its CRM application suite at the Siebel User Week conference in Cannes, France, on Wednesday CRM OnDemand, which was launched in the US late last year, allows companies... [22 Apr 2004]
Leader: Who will enterprises crown the winners in wireless?
Leader Are user organisations any closer to figuring out where to place their bets in mobile? The major platforms are now fairly defined - and in the long-term they centre on operating systems from Microsoft, PalmSource, Symbian and arguably a couple of... [26 Feb 2004]
Google wants to Talk to you
News Google is doing its bit to open up the world of instant messaging by making Google Talk interoperable with other IM services that use the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). XMPP is an open XML protocol - sometimes referred to as the... [20 Jan 2006]
Tim Berners-Lee finally a jolly good fellow
News Berners-Lee invented the internet's address system and layout in Switzerland in 1990, opening up access to the revolutionary communication and information system we use today. The British wiz is working in the US these days, based at the... [15 May 2001]
Labour launches online centres
News Education and employment secretary David Blunkett announced yesterday that 1,200 UK online centres were launched yesterday, with a further 1,050 planned in the near future. The centres have been and will be set up via £252m investment from the... [09 Mar 2001]
European exchanges suffer as Nasdaq slips
News By 09:00 (GMT) the TechMARK index was down more than one per cent. The fall in stocks on the London Stock Exchange was led by telecoms companies, many of which have suffered analyst downgrades recently. [28 Feb 2001]
HCL flies high with Smiths development deal
News HCL Technologies has entered into a relationship with Smiths Aerospace to run a development centre in India, opening today. The Indian IT services company will provide Smiths with engineering and IT services from a dedicated team of 60 staff, soon... [01 Mar 2007]
The Search Wars have begun as Yahoo! turns on Google
News will drop search partner Google during the first quarter of 2004 in favour of its own technology, opening a new phase in the battle for web search supremacy. Yahoo! The announcement from Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel caps more than a year of speculation... [15 Jan 2004]
