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Gameplay In Take-over Talks
News Its shares, which started Monday morning at 14.25p, initially rose by over 20 percent on the news of the possible take-over and later settled at 15.5p. Other companies who could be in the frame to take over Gamplay include BT, Dixons and BSkyB, all...
[May 1, 2001, 10:36]
Widescreen Laptops To Take Over The World
Talkback Laptops aren't the only thing thats gonna take over the world. I hope Laptops do take over the world as they would come useful for everything more than most PC 98/95. I'm half way down that line of taking over the world already.
[October 29, 2005, 0:54]
Old Economy Lines Up To Take Over Dotcoms
News John Lewis claims that the move will allow it to take a leading presence online, something it has been slow to do to date. UK High Street retailer John Lewis confirmed Tuesday that it will purchase the UK operations of troubled e-tailer Buy.com, as...
[February 6, 2001, 9:18]
ARM Design To Take Mobile Chips Over 1GHz
News ARM11 will help take ARM out of the shadow of Intel, bringing the performance boost to other licencees. ARM Holdings is to give handheld devices a speed boost with its next-generation "Jaguar" processor microarchitecture, dubbed ARM11, which will...
[April 29, 2002, 13:55]
MSN To Take Over WebTV
News Confirming a long-running rumour, Microsoft said Thursday it is shifting management of its WebTV service to its MSN unit. MSN will assume responsibility for the WebTV Internet-on-TV service and will become the Internet service for WebTV's products...
[March 2, 2001, 11:48]
SSL VPNs To Take Over Remote Access
News End-users all over the world are moving from a model of centralised Internet connectivity to distributed connectivity," said Wilson. Virtual private networks built on the Web's secure sockets layer (SSL) are tipped as the hottest way to give...
[January 24, 2003, 16:52]
Gartner: Open Source Will Quietly Take Over
News In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service. Open-source promoters have welcomed the...
[April 4, 2008, 14:53]
Widescreen Laptops To Take Over The World
News How big is your laptop? Fifteen inches? Seventeen inches? How about a massive 19- or 20-inch wide-screen LCD model? With so many DVDs featuring wide-screen versions of films, consumers' fascination with larger screen sizes is changing the size and...
[October 25, 2005, 10:05]
Chinese Lawyer To Take Symantec To Court Over XP File Deletion
Blog A Chinese lawyer has begun court proceedings against Symantec, alleging that a faulty antivirus update caused his computer to collapse. According to China View, Liu Shihui, a lawyer with the Hongmian Law Firm in southern Guangdong Province, is...
[June 4, 2007, 15:19]
Voice Over IP And Multimedia Services Take Root In The U.S. Enterprise, Igniting Global Commerce And Enhancing Employee Interaction
White Papers Recent Nortel primary market research shows Voice over IP (VoIP) has become firmly established in the mainstream of enterprise telephony. Along with the rapid advancement of VoIP, there is growing recognition among business decision makers that...
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
Strike Fears Over BT Outsourcing Plan
Talkback I fear that BT is taking the road which will eventually lead to its demise througha take over bid by another big player. The fault appeared to lay in a lack of a cohesive change over policy from one service to another.
[January 11, 2004, 12:55]
US Report: IBM To Stop Making Cyrix Chips
News The companies will announce, perhaps within the next month, that Nat Semi will take over all Cyrix chip manufacturing from IBM sources said. Citing several problems, Nat Semi last month reported a loss of over $69m (£42m) for its fiscal fourth...
[September 2, 1998, 16:48]
SuSE Linux Names New Chief Exec
News Gerhard Burtscher, a longtime computer executive, will take over as chief executive of German Linux seller SuSE on Saturday as part of a reorganisation expected to bring profitability in 2002. Burtscher will take over from Johannes Nussbickel, who...
[November 29, 2001, 11:55]
Palmisano Takes The Reins At IBM Server Group
News IBM Global Services chief Sam Palmisano will take over as head of Big Blue's server division, replacing Robert Stephenson, who is retiring. He is also considered by some to be the leading candidate to take over the top spot at IBM when CEO Lou...
[September 21, 1999, 16:03]
BT Faces Legal Action Over Unbundling
News A consortium of businesses is to take legal action against BT over its slow roll out of broadband, ZDNet News has learnt. We want to take over the local copper and get rolling. There may be a group clubbing together to take legal action but it is...
[July 25, 2000, 16:56]
.Org Front Runner Named
News The Internet's governing body has recommended that the Virginia-based Internet Society (ISOC) take over the .org domain. The proposal for ISOC to take over .org is still open for public input. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...
[August 21, 2002, 9:51]
NTL Hush Hush Over C&W Deal
News Sources at NTL refuse to confirm that the much-anticipated take-over of the residential arm of Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC) will go ahead this week. Despite persistant rumour-mongering in the national press concerning NTL's supposed £8bn...
[July 20, 1999, 13:17]
Dell Launches Remote Tech Support
News Having an unknown individual take over your computer and make changes to your system is traditionally the preserve of hackers. Instead of having PC users make calls to support staff over the phone, Dell has launched a new service called DellConnect...
[September 21, 2006, 13:15]
BT To Snap Up Scoot For A Snip
News BT announced on Thursday that it has offered to take over Scoot.com for £8m -- some 0.3 percent of the Internet directory service's value at the peak of the dot-com boom. As well as paying £5m, BT is also offering to take a further £3m of liabilities.
[June 27, 2002, 16:05]
New Information Commissioner Named
News A top lawyer from City law firm Clifford Chance has been named to take over as information commissioner when Elizabeth France steps down later this year. Richard Thomas, director of public policy at Clifford Chance, will take up the post in November.
[July 26, 2002, 9:58]
