All aboard the PCI Express?
News A new technology for connecting PCs to peripherals and other computers will bear fruit in 2004, but it won't conquer the industry overnight. It is a foundation technology that will drive the industry.
[February 25, 2003, 15:51]
Surveys give conflicting accounts of IT in the UK
News A Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) study into ICT has lauded British businesses' use of technology, saying industry is using it more effectively -- while the World Economic Forum's Global Information Report has shown the UK's global ICT...
[December 12, 2003, 13:55]
Europe spared from Industry Standard job cuts
News The Industry Standard, the weekly magazine covering the high-tech industry, said Monday it will cut 36 jobs in the US, about 7 percent of its workforce, because of gloomier prospects for the coming year.
[January 9, 2001, 9:12]
EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
Talkback It should be "concerned that a second ISO standard will emerge later', and it should "urge industry players .to aim for one single format. Given that ODF has been developed by a consortium of industry players (OASIS) working together to create a...
[May 28, 2006, 11:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In France for 3GSM, the mobile phone industry bash. The first day of the show was a zoo -- imagine 30,000 phone industry people packed into a small French seaside town, all of them wandering around staring into their phones and bumping into passing...
[February 18, 2005, 16:50]
Big business fears e-crime communication breakdown
News The chief executive of tif, David Roberts, praised the NHTCU's previous efforts at encouraging information exchange, and said that the industry was finding it difficult to communicate with SOCA. SOCA said that it had made some efforts to...
[January 9, 2007, 11:48]
Government rejects Bletchley rescue petition
Blog Comment The IT industry is not short of cash, just look at the likes of Google, and those in the industry receive a good wage. The money is there within the industry to provide Bletchley Park with the money it requires, but it doesn't.
[August 28, 2009, 9:35]
What to expect from the Parallels Summit 2009
Blog Leaving a vapour trail of shelved IT events behind it, Parallels will be staging its fourth annual industry meeting of minds this week in Las Vegas. Parallels Summit 2009 looks to be the major event for the Service Provider industry.
[February 2, 2009, 3:06]
Ginger - believe the hype?
News It could build a multi-billion dollar industry and change the way we live our lives. It is an industry that runs on hype and if everyone can get a shot in the arm from it, then good," says. It is a mystery invention that could start a revolution...
[January 15, 2001, 15:50]
Another 41 file-swappers face suits
News The Recording Industry Association of America said on Wednesday that it had sued another 41 people in its ongoing legal campaign against file swappers who are trading copyrighted music online. The RIAA's legal campaign against individual file...
[December 4, 2003, 8:50]
A Year Ago: Oftel to take on new role, industry reacts
News Just when the industry wants Oftel to stay firm in its dealings with the telco giant, Oftel says it's about to loosen its leash Oftel has long been criticised for its slow reaction to government, industry and consumer calls for cheaper Internet...
[January 17, 2001, 6:02]
Why we WAP: The wireless Internet revolution
News Geoworks' patent on WAP has the industry guessing what it will mean to the standard The field is split between two camps: the industry giants who form the WAP Forum, and those who use their own methods for connecting wireless devices to the Net.
[May 31, 2000, 12:02]
New standard fine-tunes Web ad targeting
News A new standard for targeting and tracking digital ads is gaining industry support, but it still has a long way to go before it gets a collective nod from ad agencies, digital publishers, broadcasters and device makers.
[September 12, 2003, 12:00]
Performance Testing Guide for Windows
White Papers It provides guidelines for hardware and software industry professionals, Information Technology (IT) professionals, and technical users who run performance tests to ensure accurate, repeatable results.
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
India's IT services sector hits refresh
News The landscape is changing for India's IT-enabled services industry, which has been — and continues to be — a pillar for growth and employment in the country. While the Indian ITES-BPO industry remains highly dependent on external market conditions...
[September 19, 2008, 15:34]
MP3? WMA? We don't care says music industry
News Software companies may be fighting tooth and claw to establish a dominant format for digital music, but the message from the music industry is clear -- it just doesn't care. We've known since the first MP3 hit the Net that the music industry is set...
[January 27, 2000, 8:41]
Microsoft aims for open-source certification
News As the "flip side" of the licensing announcement, Rosenberg called on the OSI to change its structure to accept members from the IT industry who would be able to exert more control over the organisation's future.
[July 30, 2007, 18:13]
1GHz: The whole story
News AMD turned up the heat on sworn enemy Intel on Monday by breaking the 1GHz speed barrier ahead of its industry rival. AMD, Intel pushing beyond IGHz The gigahertz race may be over, but don't count on the PC industry stopping just there Thu, 09 Mar...
[March 7, 2000, 13:44]
Companies struggling to stop song swappers
Talkback The record industry has gone through many changes this century, and it seems none were welcomed. The way I see it, the record industry must either provide a service better than what we can already get for free, or drastically change the way records...
[September 9, 2003, 23:12]
Richard Barry: 'IT's Like This...'
News BT, one of the largest, most powerful organisations in the UK, says it's trying to grow the Internet by offering a plan that looks great: it's cheap - according to industry analyst Inteco it could work out cheaper for nearly 40 percent of the UK's...
[June 16, 1998, 14:47]



