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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Satyam to sell controlling stake in business
News The company is hoping that the move will finally quell any doubts over its future. The government is hoping that the sale of a controlling stake in the company, which has lost around 80 percent of its market value since January, will restore...
[March 9, 2009, 14:33]
Tesco.com launches music service
News Supermarket giant Tesco is hoping to take a slice of Apple's pie with the launch of a new music download service. The iPod may have 50 percent of the music player market but I don't think it will stay that way," he said, adding that Tesco was...
[November 8, 2004, 13:08]
DVD makers head for home video
News DVD drive manufacturers are hoping that some of the magic that has made recordable CDs a big hit with consumers will rub off on their efforts to make recordable DVDs a mainstream technology. And now DVD manufacturers are hoping that copying video...
[April 24, 2001, 8:58]
Mobile operators reap savings from Ofcom
News Regulator Ofcom has saved the UK's mobile operators hundreds of millions of pounds per year — and the watchdog is hoping some of the cash will find its way back into consumers' pockets. Now Ofcom has reduced the amount operators can charge another...
[March 28, 2007, 10:14]
Mozilla eyes world record with Firefox 3
News Mozilla is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for the most number of downloads of an application in a day, on the release of its Firefox 3 web browser. During the first 24 hours of Firefox 3's release, Mozilla is aiming for over 1.6 million...
[May 29, 2008, 13:37]
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]
Fujitsu ICL first to bundle MS Word 97
News The deal is the first of its kind in Europe and Fujitsu ICL is hoping to win over any wavering PC buyers with the promise of free software and a reduced-price upgrade to the full Office 97 suite. Winfried Hoffmann, Fujitsu's Chief Operating Officer...
[December 5, 1997, 13:32]
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]
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]
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]
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]
The kitchen gets connected
News The Internet Home Alliance, a group hoping to expand the market for connected devices into the home, is set to unveil a prototype of a Web-connected kitchen that lets people control their appliances remotely.
[March 27, 2003, 8:03]
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]
New top-level domain goes .pro
News RegistryPro is hoping doctors, lawyers and accountants will get with its .pro program. The company is hoping to lure qualified professionals to the domain by offering a combination of a specialised domain name and a digital certificate designed to...
[August 8, 2003, 12:05]
