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The Day Ahead: Selectica hopes to repeat FirePond's IPO success
News Selectica, an e-commerce software vendor, is hoping to strike IPO gold this week just like its two main rivals have. The company is offering four million shares expected to price between $9 and $11 (£5 and £6).
[March 6, 2000, 11:24]
VIA goes embedded with motherboard division
News VIA Technologies is hoping to exploit the vast market for embedded devices like digital video recorders and set-top Internet boxes with its new motherboard division, which was announced at the beginning of this week.
[October 18, 2001, 15:31]
Intel's Xeon arrives this Summer
News The Xeon still isn't the eight-way parallel Corollary multi-processor which the industry was hoping for but it will be the fastest Pentium II system for transaction processing applications, effectively replacing the Pentium Pro as the ideal server...
[May 20, 1998, 7:00]
Microsoft apologises for goofed fix
News System administrators who rely on Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server software are hoping the third time's a charm for the software giant. Microsoft contritely acknowledged Wednesday that its second attempt to fix an Exchange security hole went awry.
[June 14, 2001, 9:16]
IBM woos Microsoft developers with new tools
News IBM is hoping to woo software developers away from Microsoft. The company on Wednesday announced Lotus Expeditor, software tools designed to let developers create Web 2.0-based applications from reusable components.
[November 3, 2006, 14:45]
Hotmail wants your credit card details
News Less than two months after its embarrassing security blunder Hotmail, is hoping users will entrust their credit card details to its servers. Microsoft has come up with e-commerce solution it believes will help protect millions of current Hotmail...
[October 5, 1999, 15:35]
Waiting list wins ICANN approval
News Anyone hoping to buy expiring Internet domain names that end in .com and .net may be able to place their names on a wait list, according to a preliminary decision that must be approved by the US Department of Commerce before it becomes official.
[March 10, 2004, 8:20]
Google Base to transform e-tailing?
News Google is hoping to take on the huge task of moving a significant portion of the European retail sector online. The company is extending Google Base, its system for advertising and selling goods and services, into a full retail operation, it...
[March 17, 2006, 17:20]
One Year Ago: HP bashes clones with SoHo PCs from £763
News Hewlett-Packard (HP) is hoping to build on its PC resurrection by adding clone-bashing low-cost systems to its SoHo-targeted Vectra 500 Series. Prices start at £763 + VAT for an AMD K5-PR133-based model 320 5/133 with 16Mb RAM and 1.2Gb hard drive...
[April 30, 1998, 6:00]
Comdex 2001: Intel funnels PC advances into motherboard
News A host of chipmakers are hoping to catch a ride on Intel's coattails by being included in designs for a future PC motherboard code-named Hannacroix. Intel's Hannacroix , on display at the Comdex Fall 2001 trade show this week, is a next-generation...
[November 13, 2001, 9:42]
BT plans universal broadband coverage
News BT said its trials of radio broadband technology have gone so well, it is hoping to have rolled out a broadband service to 100 percent of the UK population by the end of 2005. BT, which has been trialling the new technology in Cornwall, Wales...
[February 5, 2004, 16:55]
Polese launches open-source software services firm
News A figure from the Web's mid-1990s heyday is hoping to commercialise another grass-roots technology trend: open source. Kim Polese, a former Sun Microsystems executive who was the original product manager for Java, is now at the helm of SpikeSource...
[October 11, 2004, 9:10]
"Jam Echelon Day" doomed to failure, say experts
News A group of Internet activists are hoping to bring attention to the US-led communications spy network, on 21 October, with a "Jam Echelon Day", but privacy experts are certain that the protests will have a minimal effect on the sophisticated...
[July 26, 2001, 16:21]
Virgin looks to cash in with SMS gaming
News Virtual mobile operator Virgin is hoping to boost the amount of money it makes from its younger subscribers by launching a phone that will let two people play games against each other wirelessly. The Sendo S230 supports interactive versions of...
[February 21, 2002, 14:07]
In games sequels, getting real is better
News This Christmas, the creators of action games are hoping to grab the attention of the PC player with virtual worlds that seem so real, they put the player in the middle of the action. Real-time action titles such as Quake 2, Tombraider 2, Half-Life...
[November 27, 1997, 13:22]
Nuggets: Takeaway TV from Olympus
News Camera giant Olympus is hoping to spawn a whole new species of TV viewer: the mobile couch potato. Its Eye-Trek Cordless TV gives you the dubious pleasure of being able to take the TV with you as you amble round the house or garden.
[October 22, 1999, 11:06]
FEI plans to feed VC cash to UK IT startups
News The Federation of the Electronics Industry (FEI) is hoping to inject some life into the moribund market for UK IT venture capitalism with a meet and greet two-day event. The idea of the event is for entrepreneurs and money men to discuss investment...
[January 29, 1998, 14:46]
Composers play with game tunes
News A new Web site is hoping to improve the quality of video game soundtracks by inviting fans to submit their own renditions of classics such as the theme to "Super Mario Bros. Launched last week, VGMix.com gives people a new venue to download and...
[February 26, 2002, 15:12]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
News The SCO Group, the company that's hoping to profit from its assertion that Linux violates its Unix intellectual property, has threatened legal action against two federal supercomputer users, letters released on Thursday show.
[March 22, 2004, 11:30]
Microsoft hits European antitrust deadline
News With the delivery of over 8,500 pages of legal documentation to the European Commission in Brussels, Microsoft is hoping that it is close to finally settling one of the most drawn out and expensive battles in European legal battles.
[November 23, 2006, 13:22]
