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Telecoms 'dominated innovation' in 2003
News Having been three of the best-utilised new technologies of the year, BT Exact is predicting that they will spawn a surge of useful applications during this decade.has seen big strides forward for a number of technologies that have been on the...
[December 18, 2003, 16:50]
BEA joins Eclipse Foundation
News The foundation was started by IBM and has enjoyed a surge in membership and usage among developers over the past two years. Back-end software makers BEA Systems and Sybase have joined the Eclipse open source foundation, lending two more established...
[February 23, 2005, 8:10]
HP sets up Indian call centre
Talkback I had to re-check my electrical connection, re-check my surge suppressor, both of which I had already done before calling. I only have a story to tell about HP, not a rant or rave. My motherboard in my computer went out, which I knew was the...
[October 18, 2006, 8:47]
Palm stays atop handheld market
News Palm, the market leader worldwide and in the United States, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the sales surge. Handheld manufacturers had a far better holiday season than expected, although sales were still slightly down from 2000.
[January 25, 2002, 12:36]
Oftel issues Christmas warning to mobile operators
News The surge of demand in 1998 left the mobile phone companies struggling to cope with demand at peak times. The Oftel Director General last night announced that he has demanded to see the plans the four UK mobile phone companies have put in place to...
[October 29, 1999, 15:19]
Workplace surveillance boosts stress levels
News Privacy advocates say the surge in cyber-snooping by bosses will land an increasing number of employers in court defending breaches of the Human Rights Act. 'Big Brother'-style IT systems are now watching half of the UK's employees, fuelling fear...
[January 9, 2008, 7:36]
Bin Laden tape draws Net viewers
News Shortly after it was posted, however, a surge of traffic made the video inaccessible. Web sites on Thursday raced to post a grainy and virtually inaudible video allegedly linking Osama bin Laden to the 11 September terror attacks.
[December 14, 2001, 10:32]
A democratic mobile revolution
News Committee, is one of the first in the United States to take the surge of political activity that has emerged around email and the Web and move it wholly to the mobile phones that are appearing in more and more pockets.
[October 20, 2005, 20:00]
What are the hot IT jobs for 2003?
News PeopleSoft services director, Steven Bool, claimed that a recent surge in sales is behind a shortage of staff skilled with its products, placing the company under pressure to produce human resources to fulfil its clients' needs.
[January 15, 2003, 13:31]
Is the Wi-Fi bandwagon safe?
News Such deals signal a potential windfall for companies such as T-Mobile, Toshiba and Intel, who are hoping to capitalise on a surge in demand for fast on-the-go Internet access. Companies are racing to set up commercial wireless Internet hot spots...
[March 12, 2003, 13:16]
Chat 'bots' may be hacker tool
News The traffic surge relates to an increase in the use of IRC bots by the file-sharing community to swap files and pirated software across the Internet. An international network monitoring group has alerted corporate Australia to a growing file...
[May 10, 2002, 10:55]
Flood of England and Wales successfully simulated
News Emergency services were faced with the imaginary scenario of a tidal surge from the North Sea breaching defences from the Humber estuary southwards. The technology in a national flood simulation exercise "passed expectations", says the Environment...
[June 21, 2004, 14:00]
No security flaws in the ASN.1 standard
Talkback Around the year 2002 there was a surge in the level of public concern and in the number of security vulnerability reports on certain implementations of communications protocols specified in ASN.1. The statements about ASN.1 in the article above are...
[April 24, 2008, 21:28]
Another thing to worry about - summer lightning
Talkback For about 4 years now, all of my equipment has been protected by circuit breakers and surge protectors. This story was in a tab on my browser ready to read yesterday evening when a thunderstorm rolled in.
[August 13, 2004, 7:28]
PeopleSoft profits higher than expected
News That growth came from a surge in maintenance revenue, which increased 36 percent to $320m from $235m in the same quarter a year ago. In its takeover dance with Oracle, PeopleSoft pulled out some fancy footwork on Thursday, reporting third-quarter...
[October 22, 2004, 9:40]
Yahoo!, Intel earnings on deck
News We're also seeing a surge in enterprise software makers such as SAP and PeopleSoft , showing the market is rotating into some of the beaten down sectors. But after investors cashed in their profits, the bull market regained its momentum Friday.
[January 10, 2000, 8:50]
SSL VPNs to take over remote access
News The SSL VPN market will surge to $871m in 2005," said Jeff Wilson, executive director of analyst firm Infonetics Research. Virtual private networks built on the Web's secure sockets layer (SSL) are tipped as the hottest way to give employees and...
[January 24, 2003, 16:52]
Microsoft launches massive antipiracy campaign
News Microsoft claims to be responding to a surge in software piracy on the Web that cost the industry an estimated £2.38bn last year in Western Europe alone. A Web search engine that trolls the Internet 24 hours a day for pirated software is helping...
[August 3, 2000, 10:44]
Intel grapples with Pentium supplies
News At the time Intel chalked up the problems to an unusual surge in demand for PCs, which, along with increased competition from AMD, caused Intel to release some new chips before it had reached historically sufficient levels of supply.
[March 31, 2000, 16:19]
The unexpected Linux IPO
News Besides counting on Linux's popularity surge, Cobalt is trusting the validity of Dataquest's predictions that the server market will grow from 1999's $2.2bn (£1.36bn) to $15.8bn by 2003. The smart money had been expecting VA Research to be the...
[September 10, 1999, 11:53]
