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Korean business hoping for ID cards in the UK
News Samsung Data Systems, the software subsidiary of the giant Korean manufacturer, has set up business in Europe, aiming at small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as well as at the public sector. One of its biggest opportunities could be a national ID...
[March 8, 2002, 17:55]
techTrader: W H Smith hoping everything clicks
News W H Smith Group, the bookstore chain, says it is after 30 percent of the online book sales market, and will launch a new bookstore with online and traditional sales to help get it. The first "clicks and mortar" store, called WHSmith books.co, will...
[October 29, 1999, 12:25]
Disaster Recovery Intro Eguide: Planning for the Worst - Hoping for the Best
White Papers The definition for disaster recovery can range from restoring data from a backup to restarting operations at an alternative business continuance site. Windows Server applications are often mission? critical.
[July 18, 2009, 1:19]
Exchange Server Disaster Recovery: Planning for the Worst, Hoping for the Best
White Papers Email has evolved from a convenience to a business necessity. The impact of natural, random, and man-made disasters on email and the subsequent disruption in mail-flow can cripple an organization's ability to deliver messages.
[July 18, 2009, 1:19]
IBM printing unit hoping for MAGIC
News IBM has signed a deal for access to a technology it says could one day make its heavy-duty printers more cost-effective. Big Blue's Printing Systems division, which serves the business market, announced on Thursday that it has invested an...
[April 5, 2002, 11:49]
Opteron hoping to light up Sun's Galaxy
News Sun plans to announce on 12 September its "Galaxy" line of AMD Opteron-based servers, a product family developed by hardware guru Andy Bechtolsheim that's a central part of the company's recovery plan.
[September 5, 2005, 8:30]
Apple wants programmers, offers iPods
News Apple is hoping the possibility of winning a free iPod will prompt developers to start writing widgets -- small Mac programs that will run in the next version of OS X. Apple is hoping that the prospect of creating widgets will appeal to more than...
[December 10, 2004, 15:20]
Rivals rubbish the new Symantec's prospects
News Looking for a cloud in Symantec's latest silver lining, competitors are hoping the company's acquisition of Veritas Software will be a stumbling block for the security company. While Symantec has successfully integrated nearly a dozen acquisitions...
[December 17, 2004, 14:55]
Windows XP Embedded Standard 2009 CTP#1 & CTP#2
Blog Comment I was hoping to have the current work project finished and in testing. I'm hoping that the integration into VS2008 doesn't slow it down. I don't know yet. Still haven't gotten to test it. Unfortunately I have to work for a living and I don't get to...
[August 22, 2008, 4:53]
Sun puts the pressure on Windows with $25 Java Desktop
News Sun is hoping to increase the penetration of Linux on the enterprise desktop by slashing the price of its Java Desktop System, which is designed to replace Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office suite.
[December 4, 2003, 11:15]
Google enrols users in fight against malware
News Google is hoping users of its search engine will report "bad sites" to help the company fight criminals exploiting the company's infrastructure to distribute malware. According to the Google security blog, the search giant already knows about...
[December 4, 2007, 8:35]
Standards spat could cause MPLS downtime
News Enterprises will be hoping that two warring standards bodies can next week sort out a problem with the widely used MPLS protocol that threatens to cause widespread disruption in companies' wide area networks.
[September 6, 2007, 13:30]
BT lures consumers with free Wi-Fi
News BT is hoping to tempt more people into using its Wi-Fi services by reducing the cost of setting up a hot spot and offering free Wi-Fi access during the last week of January. The telco, which currently runs around 1,700 hotspots in the UK under its...
[January 5, 2004, 13:55]
FreeBSD 6.0 will target wireless devices
News FreeBSD is hoping to move beyond the server and desktop market by tackling wireless devices. Developers were initially hoping to release FreeBSD 6.0 by the end of August, but it has been delayed another month to ensure that the final release is as...
[August 19, 2005, 14:00]
Chip implant aims to replace cashcards
News ADS chief executive Scott Silverman, in a speech at the ID World 2003 conference in Paris last Friday, said his company had developed a "VeriPay" RFID technology and was hoping to find partners in financial services firms.
[November 28, 2003, 14:45]
Christmas.co.uk put up for sale
News A British businessman is hoping to raise a six-figure sum by selling www.christmas.co.uk . He has set a reserve price of £100,000, but is hoping to raise more. Stephen Bottomley announced this week that he is prepared to sell the domain, which he...
[November 29, 2005, 16:25]
Oracle remains mum on support issue
News Oracle intends to focus on its latest software at its upcoming AppsWorld conference, but many customers are hoping the database giant will spend some time explaining its plans for supporting an ageing product.
[January 6, 2003, 8:22]
Gates admits IE failings, looks to an AJAX future
News Now, it's hoping to prove that it understands the growing popularity of Web technologies beyond its own operating system. Overall, Microsoft is hoping to prove to developers that it understands the new realities of online development, ranging from...
[March 21, 2006, 7:55]
Banks fear ID cards have lost useful features
News While the Home Office is hoping ID cards will one day be used for everything from claiming benefits to opening bank accounts, the UK financial services industry has its doubts over how useful the cards will prove.
[February 2, 2009, 7:33]
Norway piracy case brings activists hope
News Internet and technology activists are hoping the acquittal of Norwegian programmer Jon Johansen in a digital piracy case signals a change in attitudes about copyright in the digital age. The Norwegian judges' ruling protects intellectual freedom by...
[January 9, 2003, 9:02]
