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Intel gets behind 'Wi-Fi on steroids'
News It's good that HSxPA techs are progressing, but if you look at where they are in terms of bandwidth and cost per bit, we believe WiMax has a significant advantage in both those areas, and also in terms of quality of service and reliability.
[July 24, 2006, 13:00]
Gartner: Avoid long-term services deals
News In general, the economic downturn is giving buyers more scope to negotiate the terms of supplier deals, including pricing. As a result, the firm recommends that customers periodically re-evaluate the health of major providers, and look at...
[June 16, 2009, 17:31]
Bogus report boosts Internet stock
News s terms-of-use agreement. While the fake Bloomberg page was posted on Angelfire, a free Web page service, the poster took the trouble to disguise its URL (http://204.238.155.37/biz2/headlines/topfin.html) with authentic-seeming directory names, and...
[April 8, 1999, 9:09]
Adobe launches competitor to Google Docs
News Google Wave will make a big splash, [but] it's a complex idea, and I don't think complex ideas work in terms of collaboration," said Larsen. However, Larsen added that it is possible to send email from the service using other email services...
[June 15, 2009, 11:53]
Analyst: 3.5G laptops may choke mobile networks
News Mobile data traffic — generated by USB sticks and dongles and PC cards — already exceeds mobile voice traffic in terms of volumes in advanced markets, such as Sweden, according to Berg. Tobias Ryberg, senior analyst at Berg Insight, said in a...
[June 23, 2008, 9:43]
US Report: DoJ could threaten Windows 98 launch
News Microsoft's contracts with Internet service providers, in terms of the extent to which they limit the browser choices that ISPs can offer their customers; The company's lawyers have "gone to the bargaining table" with the DOJ over Windows 98...
[April 7, 1998, 14:01]
iPass gives green light to Wi-Fi roaming
News With 2,500 hot spots, it brings iPass on par with competitor Boingo Wireless in terms of the number of public locations with Wi-Fi access. iPass is offering a new Wi-Fi roaming service, designed for wireless carriers and service providers that want...
[September 23, 2003, 9:30]
Large firms dissatisfied with advanced data services
News That said, satisfaction levels were still much higher in terms of choice when it came to fixed line and mobile services. The low opinion of advanced data services continued when it came to customer service and account management — 60 percent of...
[October 23, 2006, 16:30]
HP strives for recognition as major software player
News In general, from an industry perspective, we think we've made huge progress but there's still further room for growth in terms of brand and awareness," Hogan said on Wednesday, during a dialogue with Asia-Pacific journalists in Vienna at the...
[December 11, 2008, 12:24]
Kudos to the Cloud Crowd for Re-Inventing the Wheel!
Talkback Both terms are bogus. A good example is all the latest buzz about "Cloud Computing" in general and "SaaS" (software as a service) in particular: http://tinyurl.com/6let8x Its first application in IT was (and for many still is) known as the "service...
[August 22, 2008, 14:38]
Unrest at BBC shows need for better outsourcing management
News Service providers should aim to manage the relationship with unions during outsourcing deals and seek innovative approaches to the terms of agreements that involve a transfer of staff. Poor handling of people and organisations with an interest in...
[August 23, 2004, 12:10]
Ofcom revises Openreach rules
News Ofcom's Thursday statement on the matter noted: "Openreach should not provide services to other parts of the BT Group on more favourable terms or practices". The telecoms regulator Ofcom has launcheD a new package of "incentives" for Openreach to...
[March 20, 2008, 16:51]
SAP users angry at 30 percent price rise
News The company announced last month that it was moving from what it called Standard Support to Enterprise Support, which it said would offer more benefits to customers in terms of better support. In real terms this is a 29.4 percent increase in costs...
[July 25, 2008, 17:18]
India to train thousands more cyberpolice
News Mittal said: "We are putting together terms of best practice and sharing those answers to ensure that what we deliver in terms of service is as secure as possible. Training centres for thousands more cyberpolice are planned in India as the country...
[February 7, 2008, 9:41]
Hotmail users out in the cold again
News because it's much better in terms of mail access. The site -- among Microsoft's most popular Web properties -- has been plagued by inconsistent service, lost email, sluggish delivery and customer complaints for months.
[January 25, 2001, 14:56]
Yahoo! to launch paid Net video service
News However, company executives have also couched these predictions by saying the SBC deal will be one of a kind in terms of the depth of their relationship. has been in discussions with television networks to become content partners in the new service...
[February 10, 2003, 8:38]
E-envoy calls for end to broadband deadlock
News But while Britain now has genuine unmetered narrowband access, it trails far behind Germany, the US and Asian regions such as South Korea in terms of the accessibility of high-speed services. Pinder, who coordinates the e-business efforts of...
[June 26, 2001, 15:55]
Hard for file swappers to hide identity
News Popular peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa, where the lion's share of online trading of music and other files takes place, are designed so that participants who wish to remain completely anonymous must pay a severe price in terms of convenience...
[July 14, 2003, 7:58]
More cloud tales - what happens on rainy days?
Blog These concepts will be essential to the cloud community, both in terms of what happens if a company goes away completely, or if it finds it has lost client data. Even if all of them had been in a position to log on and tried to download their data...
[November 26, 2008, 21:33]
Napster clones toe music industry line
News It has also changed its terms of service to bar people from deliberately trying to evade the filters, the company said. The company's capitulation marks a significant -- if not wholly unexpected -- blow to the beleaguered file-swapping world...
[April 9, 2001, 7:50]
