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Is the Wi-Fi bandwagon safe?
News Companies are racing to set up commercial wireless Internet hot spots, but high start-up costs, as well as uncertainties in demand and pricing, are threatening to put a chill on profits. Such deals signal a potential windfall for companies such as...
[March 12, 2003, 13:16]
Microsoft backs away from Alpha
News Microsoft is committed to developing Windows on the platforms that customers demand. In recent years, Microsoft has dropped support for NT on MIPS and the PowerPC processors, citing lack of demand. While Microsoft is committing to support existing...
[August 25, 1999, 15:45]
Singapore to offer commercial grid computing
News The three service-provider groups appointed by Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) will activate on-demand access to computing power and software applications, as well as storage and archiving, from 1 November, the companies told...
[October 30, 2008, 13:02]
AnMed Health Saves Money and Improves Business Continuity With IBM TotalStorage Solutions
White Papers The company wanted on demand availability of data for caregivers and administrators to support delivery of high-quality patient care and HIPAA compliance. The solution provides caregivers and administrators with efficient and cost-effective on...
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
A Year Ago: Oftel - consumers hungry for new broadband services
News Over a third of consumers said they would be interested in broadband services such as video on demand, Web TV or fast Internet access, prompting an Oftel spokesman to comment: "As near as dammit [consumers] had an equal desire for all three services.
[September 11, 2000, 7:01]
US Report: Intel to cut 675 jobs at Massachusetts plant
News The job cuts are the latest instalment in the chipmaker's plan to eliminate 3,000 positions, or 4.4 percent, of its total workforce to deal with the slowdown on demand for PCs and computer chips. A downturn in demand for PCs and a market slump in...
[September 23, 1998, 16:17]
Invisible Attackers: Stop the Bot
White Papers This 60-minute TechWiseTV video on demand from Cisco will show you how botnets work, how attackers hide in plain sight, and how to flush them out. Tune in for a new topic each month and watch previous episodes on demand at your convenience.
[January 30, 2008, 18:21]
Intel blames Europe for weak Q2
News Intel last night announced that its revenues for the April-June second financial quarter were markedly down on the first quarter, confirming weak demand for PCs, particular in the consumer sector in Europe.
[July 16, 1997, 9:27]
Forrester: Key Improvements in Midsize ERP Applications You Can't Afford to Ignore
White Papers According to this Forrester report, it's increasingly clear that midsized businesses demand full capabilities with a quick return-on-investment. What's more, they demand these results with no tolerance for the risk and complexity that can sometimes...
[May 12, 2009, 9:07]
Music store experiments with floating prices
News A little known online music store is experimenting with a new pricing system in which most songs start out costing 10 cents, and their prices fluctuate from there based on customer demand. MusicRebellion, a site that has gone largely unnoticed in...
[January 9, 2004, 7:35]
Huge demand for Windows 7 pre-orders in Europe
News In addition to an apparent sell-out on some Amazon sites and at spots in Germany, Microsoft's European online store was apparently overwhelmed by demand, meaning that those who turned up to buy the software were instead greeted with a multilingual...
[July 16, 2009, 9:52]
Dubai Men's College Gets a World-Class Learning Environment to Attract the Best and Brightest Students
White Papers Aside from a comprehensive IT overhaul, two major goals of the school's ambitious initiative included the power to support widespread and secure use of wireless laptops, and a Video-On-Demand (VOD) solution that would enable new ways of learning...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft: Don't be so quick to attack OOXML
News Ahead of this month's International Organization for Standardization decision in Geneva on the status of the software giant's contentious Office Open XML format, a visiting executive from Microsoft has said its persistence with the format has been...
[February 7, 2008, 8:29]
Brokerage scheme to help close broadband divide
News The EEDA announced on Tuesday that this brokerage service had identified its first two areas of unserved broadband demand. The number of registrations on the demand broadband site shows the level of enthusiasm for these technologies among both...
[February 25, 2003, 13:28]
Fujitsu's IaaS keeps data in the UK
News The new service, announced on Monday, will provide businesses with on-demand, weekly access to a development platform, storage and servers hosted within 'highly secure' datacentres in the UK, Fujitsu said.
[July 28, 2009, 16:42]
New Environment Enables Dynamic Field Service When and How the Customer Wants
White Papers Vidus wanted to enhance its taskforce solution to help customers respond on demand to their customers' service requests and preferences, and to take advantage of expanded revenue opportunities. Microsoft .NET software and the Microsoft Dynamic...
[July 3, 2007, 1:00]
IBM offers supercomputers for hire
News Big Blue launched its Deep Computing Capacity on Demand project in 2003 to let customers pay for short-term use of IBM's machines rather than buy their own. In comparison, the on-demand program charges about $10,000 per week to use one-eighth of a...
[March 11, 2005, 8:10]
SugarCRM adds mobile, collaboration tools
News SugarCRM 5.5, announced on Thursday, can be hosted on-site or bought as an on-demand offering called the Sugar Open Cloud, a line of business the company said it is trying to expand. In the area of on-demand CRM, Sugar competes with proprietary...
[June 2, 2009, 12:55]
Unisys adds server expansion option
News The idea, called capacity on demand, generally means a server ships with more processors than a customer pays for. The capacity for on-demand technology has been available in Unix servers from IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems as well as...
[June 8, 2005, 16:40]
Intel plans flash memory price hike
News Intel plans to raise prices for processors that contain flash memory technology by as much as 40 percent on 1 January in response to increased demand. The Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker said Monday that demand for processors with flash...
[November 26, 2002, 8:26]
