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Mobile OS Developer Seeks Commercially Minded Chief
News The departure on Friday of Symbian's chief executive Colly Myers has left the way open for a more commercially focused replacement. Industry experts, to whom the announcement of Myers' departure came as a surprise, believe that there is now an...
[February 18, 2002, 15:03]
OLPC To Make XO Laptop Commercially Available
News The One Laptop per Child scheme has announced that it will make its ruggedised laptops available in the US for a limited time period. The XO laptop, designed for use as an educational tool in developing countries, will be available under a scheme...
[September 24, 2007, 17:17]
LineOne Fails, What Future For Unmetered?
News In an embarrassing U-turn, high profile ISP LineOne Monday declares itself unable "financially or commercially" to sustain its unmetered Internet service. It is commercially and financially unviable," says a spokeswoman.
[July 17, 2000, 12:09]
Consuming Video On Mobile Devices
White Papers Mobile video is now an everyday possibility with a wide array of commercially available devices, services and content. Building upon earlier studies of mobile video, this paper reports on a study using diary techniques and ethnographic interviews...
[May 1, 2007, 0:00]
A Year Ago: MP3 Hits The Road
News Somerset developers create the world's first commercially available MP3 player for a car.and it runs on Linux Somerset could be home to the world's first commercially available in-car MP3 player thanks to fledgling electronics firm, Empeg which...
[January 28, 2000, 6:01]
Mozilla Releases Beta Of Open-source Eudora
News The Mozilla Foundation has released the first beta version, 8.0.0b1, of the revised Eudora email application since Qualcomm stopped developing it commercially and turned it over to the open-source community in 2006.
[September 7, 2007, 15:11]
Why Killing 80,000 Desktops Is Worse Than Careless
Talkback The real problem is that just about everyone considers themselves IT expert enough to make 'informed decisions' based on 'facts' presented by persons who are commercially motivated and consider themselves IT expert enough also.
[December 2, 2004, 21:42]
EDS: The Single Point Of Failure
Talkback The real problem is that just about everyone considers themselves IT expert enough to make 'informed decisions' based on 'facts' presented by persons who are commercially motivated and consider themselves IT expert enough also.
[December 2, 2004, 21:25]
Microsoft Upgrade Knocks Out 80,000 Government PCs
Talkback The real problem is that just about everyone considers themselves IT expert enough to make 'informed decisions' based on 'facts' presented by persons who are commercially motivated and consider themselves IT expert enough also.
[December 2, 2004, 21:27]
Corporate Keylogger Infections Up 50 Percent
Talkback Most of them basing their conclusions on commercially sponsored opinion, sales talk and what their peers are doing. Either way, by following the commercially preferred way in solving the latest security issues and then the next and then the next...
[May 16, 2006, 23:46]
Oracle Releases Database For Itanium
News A new, higher-performance version of the chip, called "McKinley", will start to appear in test systems soon and in commercially available systems by the middle of 2002. Itanium-based servers won't take off commercially until databases and other...
[December 4, 2001, 9:34]
BT Cellnet Picks Blackberry GPRS Handsets
News Cellnet will begin trials shortly and should be rolled out commercially to enterprises within the next six months. Cellnet launched its GPRS service commercially in July of last year and claims to have had full national coverage since October.
[February 26, 2001, 15:41]
GPRS: A Timeline
News Throughout 2001: Network operators launch GPRS services commercially UMTS becomes available commercially 1999: Trial and commercial contracts for GPRS infrastructure GPRS infrastructure installed in GSM networks
[July 7, 2000, 15:23]
BT: Businesses Falling Short On Data Disposal
News A study of second-hand disks by BT and universities in the UK, the US and Australia found "a surprisingly large range and quantity of information that could be potentially commercially damaging or a threat to the identity and privacy of the...
[September 24, 2007, 16:34]
Wireless Broadband Auction Kicks Off Amid Cherry-picking Fears
News An early flurry of activity on the auction floor saw heavyweight Hong Kong telco Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) start strongly by bidding for all the licences, but there is concern that operators may cherry-pick the most commercially attractive...
[June 6, 2003, 12:09]
Companies Fear Costly MPEG-4 Licences
News I don't think (the fees) are commercially viable," said Douglas McIntyre, chief executive of On2 Technologies, a video-compression provider. ISMA is very concerned that the specific royalty model MPEG LA has outlined.will not foster the development...
[February 11, 2002, 10:50]
Picking Apart RAID
News The remaining RAID levels either do not use parity or are not as commercially viable as these levels. RAID 2 is not commercially accepted. Anyone who has worked with RAID has heard the term "parity". While most IT pros understand the general...
[August 13, 2002, 10:18]
BT Targets Four-fifths Of UK For Broadband
News It has been criticised for not upgrading more, but has claimed in the past that it doesn't believe it would be commercially viable to do so. This exciting new scheme gives us the means to bring broadband Britain to every community where it is...
[June 18, 2002, 15:52]
Be Prepared To Pay For Security
Talkback It might become the case that suppliers will find out that not charging an extra "security insurance fee" is a commercially attractive business plan as long as they provide guidelines and support to their customers as to use what how.
[August 24, 2005, 21:36]
Ovonic Memory A Reality At Last?
News If the material can be used commercially, chips made of it could potentially replace DRAM, flash memory (employed in mobile phones for temporary and permanent storage) or hard drives, depending on how the final device works and gets incorporated...
[March 17, 2005, 9:05]
