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HSBC commits to increased tech investment
News We increasingly employ technology to create better products which we can deliver globally at lower cost. HSBC will continue to increase investment in technology, despite its profits being hit by a $17.2bn (£8.7bn) writedown on bad debts from its US...
[March 5, 2008, 9:01]
Time the law was applied!
Talkback I'll bet if end-users were allowed to select what countries they would accept eMail from, you'd see frantic activity on the part of the most troublesome sources to "clean up their act", to avoid being globally black-listed!
[August 22, 2008, 9:02]
Symantec warns of spike in job-related spam
News With the economic downturn spreading globally, spam beating the recession drum has also been noticed in a variety of languages from English to Chinese, noted the report. Riding the coat-tails of the worsening global economy, spammers are using...
[March 23, 2009, 8:43]
Microsoft's Web sites go down
News We've heard some customers in Europe are having problems as well," said Sohn, who added that the outage may affect customers globally. Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that a number of its online sites are currently unavailable and have been down...
[January 24, 2001, 14:38]
Blackouts showed Internet's weak spots
News According to Renesys' estimates, on 14 August -- when the North American blackout hit -- there were over 9,700 globally advertised customer networks in the affected area, belonging to over 3,500 organisations.
[November 25, 2003, 13:30]
Dell sets sights on PC-maker crown in Asia
News Year on year, the Asia-Pacific and Japan region reported a 31 percent jump in unit shipments for the first quarter, compared to 22 percent globally. Dell's path towards the top spot in Asia is now "clearer", according to its president for the Asia...
[June 2, 2008, 11:14]
Novell expands Netline alliance
News Novell will move from SLOX to Open-Xchange and will resell it globally instead of just in Germany, he said. Netline's software, an open-source package called Open-Xchange, has server modules to host email, calendars, discussion groups, document...
[December 10, 2004, 14:00]
Another Trojan on the attack
News MessageLabs' technical director, David Banes said the company had to date only detected just over 4,000 affected machines globally. Antivirus companies said they intercepted several copies of a new password-stealing Trojan over the weekend.
[June 8, 2004, 9:15]
Corporates plough cash into nanotech
News This year, governments will pour $4.6bn into nanotechnology research while corporations will sink $3.8m globally. Corporations, governments, universities and others will spend an estimated $8.6bn ($4.7bn) on nanotechnology research and development...
[August 16, 2004, 9:30]
DTI funds UK technology development
News According to the DTI, the information storage and display market is already worth £50bn globally, and is likely to be worth more than £100bn by the end of the decade. The e-commerce minister, Douglas Alexander, has pledged £24m to a new IT...
[January 21, 2002, 13:43]
Tech firms diversify to survive slump
News Additionally, US companies are expanding globally. Amid the tech slowdown of the past few years, the largest so-called "localisation" firms have started adapting non-tech products for foreign markets and helping a range of corporations with...
[March 28, 2003, 14:49]
Mobile mushrooms for the masses
Blog Well, we’re moving to a point where globally we will see over three billion mobile units in peoples’ hands and this is contrast to a mere one billion PCs. I blogged recently on the subject of the infuriating ‘downward scrolling’ ad that makes the...
[November 30, 2007, 9:23]
The Day Ahead: AT&T revs AWE inspiring IPO
News The company is offering 360 million shares globally in what is expected to be the largest US IPO ever. AT&T Wireless couldn't have picked a better ticker to describe its business and initial public offering this week.
[April 25, 2000, 12:39]
Microsoft set to appeal EC ruling
News Smith revealed that Microsoft had offered to ship globally the Windows desktop operating system with both its own media player software and that of a rival. Microsoft will appeal the European Commission's record €497m fine and ask the courts to...
[March 24, 2004, 15:55]
Nokia launches multi-user mobile chat service
News According to the latest figures, about eight billion SMS messages are sent globally each month, and Nokia believes that mobile text chatting will become a similarly popular application. SMS messaging has taken a leap forward into group instant...
[September 4, 2000, 8:45]
Palm reinvents the PDA
News The consumer model will be launched globally on 7 October, and the high-end models will launch three weeks later on 28 October. Palm is taking a fresh look at the PDA, with a major design overhaul for new consumer and professional versions of its...
[September 19, 2002, 16:01]
Dell sets off on overseas sales blitz
News Addressing this global imbalance.is one of our top three strategic initiatives globally this year. Dell Computer is aggressively expanding into new geographic markets, as it seeks a counterbalance to slowing US sales.
[April 6, 2001, 8:08]
Don't monkey around with new ideas
Leader By the time the first album was commercially released last week, every note had been globally available, for free, for months. It is always sad to report abuses of technology, especially when they threaten an industry.
[January 30, 2006, 14:30]
UK collaboration firm gets worldwide HP deal
News The plan is that this will go out across about 25 million machines globally over the next couple of years," McLoughlin said. HP has unveiled new desktop PCs that come with bundled software from UK-based online collaboration company Huddle.
[November 10, 2009, 15:34]
'No danger' of Internet-address shortage
News It provides allocation and registration services which support the operation of the Internet globally. The idea that there is an Internet-address shortage looming in Asia or any part of the world is "misinformation", according to a senior executive...
[June 24, 2003, 14:22]
