Previous DaySiebel and BT target e-government services
News Siebel and BT are extending their customer relationship management products to tap the £1.7bn market for local authority e-government systems
AMD puts a number on job cuts
News AMD has announced it will slash 2000 jobs, or 15 percent, of its workforce early next year across the US, Europe and Asia
Online holiday sales appear bright
News The Grinch apparently won't steal the upcoming shopping season from Web retailers: Consumers should spend more money online than ever before, market research shows
New iPaqs take high road, low road
News Hewlett-Packard plans to debut two iPaqs next week: A slim model that will take on Dell at the low end of the market and a double-duty Wi-Fi and Bluetooth model for the high end
IBM bullish on new year
News After a massive cost cutting exercise which included the loss of 15,000 jobs, Big Blue is expecting to see favourable results return next year
US considers jailing hackers for life
News Malicious computer hackers may get life imprisonment in the US if a new bill is passed by the Senate
Cray's king-of-the-hill supercomputer
News The X1 supercomputer will leave its fastest counterparts in the dust by offering up to 52.4 trillion mathematical calculations per second
IBM broadens on-demand software push
News Big Blue to thrust on-demand computing forward with the release of a program intended to help software developers lease applications to companies
Blade technology could be your best new server solution
Feature Blades remain a solution that fills certain needs and can help managers who are looking to cut operating costs and save space.
OracleWorld: Oracle comes out swinging
News Oracle kicked off its annual conference with plans to discontinue support for version 10.7 of its business apps. It also left a strong message for IBM and Micrsoft with upgraded collaboration...
Comdex: It's a wireless thing
News Wireless networking, particularly Wi-Fi, along with the home and office devices that take advantage of these connections, looks to be a dominant theme at the weeklong tech show
Oracle's Jarvis: Unplugged - but not unarmed
News Oracle's marketing chief managed to critique most of the competition, saying that Ariba, Commerce One, I2, and Siebel are all history; IBM is a copycat; and, Microsoft is vulnerable. But wait,...
Oracle says bleeding will stop
News Oracle has predicted the end of its revenue decline is in sight
FAQs for the memory
FAQ All you ever wanted (or needed) to know about memory
Intel banks on 3GHz chip
News Hyper-threading - the key feature of Intel's new processors - should give applications an extra boost, and Intel is hoping that it will revive a flagging market
Brother m-PRINT
Review If you need a printed record of information on your Pocket PC handheld, this is a lightweight and portable way to get one wherever you are.
Microsoft hires national security advisor
News Hoping to play a larger role in homeland security, Microsoft has tapped former US political adviser Thomas Richey for a new position counselling policymakers on IT issues
New flaws expose Net to attacks
News A security firm has found three new flaws in the software on which the Internet's domain name system relies, which means new attacks could be around the corner
US approves billion-dollar cybersecurity bill
News US Congress has agreed to a massive spending programme that will allocate nearly a billion dollars for computer security research. It now just needs the president's signature
Gassy batteries pump up the power
News Researchers and the electronics industry are racing to create smaller, longer-lasting batteries and are using sources such as hydrogen gas and decaying isotopes
PCI standard doubles speed
News An industry group says it is working on a new PCI connection standard that will double the speed of data transfer between PC components such as network cards
