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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]
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]
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]
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]
Avici Aims At Cisco With New Device
News High-end equipment-maker Avici Systems is hoping to produce bigger profits by expanding into the hot metropolitan networking market. But with service providers spending less during the economic slowdown, Avici is hoping to generate more revenue by...
[October 9, 2001, 11:31]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
PlusNet Plans Flotation On AIM
News UK Internet service provider PlusNet is hoping to raise millions of pounds by floating itself on the London stock market. By going for a cash injection now, PlusNet may be hoping to be a hunter rather than the prey when the consolidation game heats...
[June 7, 2004, 13:30]
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]
Premiership Football Kicks Off On Broadband TV
News A broadband digital TV service provider is hoping to boost demand for its services in London by giving users the chance to watch top English football matches on demand. The company is hoping to extend its customer base across the country, as BT...
[August 14, 2001, 16:28]
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]
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]
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]
