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Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
News The results, even after software price discounts, showed that the cost of proprietary software for developing markets is "enormous" in terms of relative purchasing power. This is particularly important in developing markets which often don't have a...
[November 14, 2005, 11:00]
Developing markets to get low-power PCs
News VIA president Wenchi Chen, fresh from the World Economic Forum in Davos, expounded his vision on Monday for a range of computing devices that would be suited to developing markets. VIA Technologies, manufacturer of chipsets, low-power processors...
[February 1, 2005, 15:50]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
Talkback You can ask every serious IT security expert to learn that it is not paranoid to be afraid of backdoors in closed source systems. For example, do you remember the NSA-key in Windows NT which could be interpreted as a backdoor?
[November 15, 2005, 5:41]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
Talkback F/OSS is pro-American. Where do you get this anti- Americanism from. MS is not the US -- yet -- as much as Gates would like you to think so. Gates has no respect for US laws whether traffic laws or trade laws.
[November 15, 2005, 9:19]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
Talkback Funny, I always thought Brazil was located in the western hemisphere. Oh wait! It is!
[November 14, 2005, 15:29]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
Talkback anti-Americanism ? Most of the major Linux distributions are American. So tell me again how using Linux is anti-Americanism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions
[November 14, 2005, 16:10]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
Talkback DO NOT click the Times of India link! It threw a bunch of popups right past my blocker, and started trying to install something(! When I tried to kill the installer, my whole system hung.
[November 14, 2005, 16:24]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
Talkback The link to the Times of India has been removed. Thanks for your feedback -- it seemed to work alright in testing earlier, so apologies for it causing problems.
[November 14, 2005, 16:35]
China and India set to lead global innovation
News The scales of economy are tipping in favour of developing nations, with countries like China and India poised to overtake established markets in areas of technology adoption and innovation. At the rate developing nations are churning out new...
[July 11, 2007, 15:36]
AMD revives Duron for budget push
News An AMD representative, however, emphasized that the new chips are available only in developing markets in limited quantities. The chipmaker confirmed on Monday that it has begun selling three new Duron chips -- running at 1.4GHz, 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz...
[August 27, 2003, 10:05]
Second-hand PC shipments tipped to boom
News Gartner estimates that for every two new PCs shipped to mature markets in 2005, one PC will be resold into developing markets. Unlike mature markets, operating system intellectual-property rights are rarely respected allowing lower resale values...
[September 28, 2005, 15:00]
Qualcomm develops low-cost PC alternative
News However, 3G networks are deployed throughout much of the world, and as a result it's becoming more common for people in developing markets to connect to the internet via a 3G-enabled smartphone rather than a PC.
[November 13, 2008, 14:29]
Nokia further reduces forecast
News While it's evident consumer spending has slowed down in the industrialised Western markets, Nokia executives also pointed to slower consumer spending in developing markets. The company had believed these developing markets would be relatively...
[December 5, 2008, 11:00]
Intel developing new integrated chip
News The company is developing processor technologies markets, ranging from low-cost, integrated PCs and set-top boxes to its Intel Exchange Architecture for communications devices. While Intel has been producing flash memory for some time, it also...
[October 29, 1999, 8:16]
Microsoft marches on Moscow to do battle with Linux
News Windows XP Starter Edition is Microsoft's attempt to gain more customers in the developing nations, the fastest growing markets in the world. One Intel executive said Russia and China will likely be two of the company's fastest-growing markets over...
[September 27, 2004, 16:20]
WiMax gathers steam
News On Monday, Sprint announced several new cities that will be part of the WiMax network, It also named which of its named infrastructure partners would be developing which markets. In developing markets, such as India, Malaysia or Pakistan, WiMax can...
[March 27, 2007, 10:57]
CE losing Palm arm wrestle
News NEC builds tablet-size CE devices for vertical markets, but the company scrapped plans for developing a palm-size CE device after building a prototype two years ago. The company markets CE as a platform for mininotebooks, pen tablets for vertical...
[November 1, 1999, 8:34]
IDC: Low-cost laptop no threat to PC
News Inexpensive, stripped-down notebook computers targeted at emerging markets are not likely to take off, but if they do, they will have no major impact on the "fully-fledged" PC market, predicts a senior executive at IDC.
[June 18, 2007, 9:56]
Palm OS Cobalt and Garnet: a first look review
Reviews Palm OS Cobalt: PalmSource's brand-new operating system (formerly known as Palm OS 6) is designed for devices in the communications, enterprise, education and entertainment markets. Garnet is expected to appear in traditional handhelds and in...
[February 24, 2004, 9:05]
Intel lays out consumer blueprints
News ARM chips, from a variety of manufacturers, are currently sold into the wider consumer electronics markets. Intel has used this method in the past to break into new markets. The company already markets an energy-efficient line of chips, called...
[November 4, 2004, 7:58]
