HP, Novell Do Desktop Linux Deal
News At the same time, Hewlett-Packard is expanding its own Novell relationship with a push into desktop computers. IBM rival Hewlett-Packard is already permitted to load SuSE Linux onto its servers but is now extending the deal to desktop computers...
[March 25, 2004, 8:25]
Elonex Falls Into Administration
News The last large UK PC supplier to go under was Time Computers/Granville Technology, which went into administration in July of last year with debts estimated at £50m. Prior to its demise, Time Computers had tries a similar strategy, without success.
[June 14, 2006, 12:55]
Microsoft Shifts Conference Calls To The Web
News For years, Office has been synonymous with the bundle of desktop applications such as Word or PowerPoint that comes with corporate computers. LiveMeeting also dovetails with the plans of Microsoft, Intel and various PC makers to absorb traditional...
[September 15, 2003, 9:25]
Novell Buys SuSE Linux
News It gives Novell a second chance to take on Microsoft, applying the lessons it learned a decade ago when its NetWare operating system for servers lost out to Windows -- and this time, Novell will also be able to sell an operating system for desktop...
[November 4, 2003, 12:45]
Administrators And Bankers Face Losses Over Time Collapse
News But a legal opinion suggests that the creditors, including thousands of Time and Tiny customers who have paid money for computers they are unlikely to see, may not be the only losers. Even the ownership of the Time and Tiny brands is under question.
[August 8, 2005, 18:05]
Novell Reveals Linux Philosophy
News And in 2003, it acquired Ximian, which specialises in Linux software for desktop computers, such as a connector that lets Linux computers retrieve email, contacts and calendar information from Microsoft's Exchange server software.
[January 22, 2004, 8:20]
Nuclear Shelter Turns To Email
News In addition, Iron Mountain offers to back up customers' data from server computers and PCs in case of a disaster. We have been big database operators for a long time, and we build most of that technology ourselves.
[June 1, 2004, 12:00]
Dell Foots Big Bills In Third Quarter
News Dell, whose direct-delivery model for years helped it grow faster than the overall PC market, said on Thursday that its quarterly profit fell amid repair costs for faulty parts in business computers and expenses for layoff severance and...
[November 11, 2005, 9:15]
Apple To Unleash Tiger On 29 April
News By contrast, chief rival Microsoft has shipped only one major desktop release - Windows XP - in that time, though it has also added specialised versions for media centres and tablet computers, as well as the Security Pack 2 security features.
[April 13, 2005, 9:45]
Rambus Slapped With FTC Antitrust Suit
News Intel's plans at the time dictated that all Pentium III and Pentium 4 computers, as well as many budget PCs, would contain Rambus memory, called RDRAM. Intel eventually veered from its Rambus-only plans and produced chipsets that let PC makers use...
[June 20, 2002, 9:40]
Dell Fudged Numbers To Meet Quarterly Targets
News In addition, Dell said inadequate resources in its accounting department were partly to blame, and — in a remarkable acknowledgment for a company that pioneered selling computers on the internet — that much of its accounting is done manually, with...
[August 17, 2007, 10:33]
IBM Takes On Sun's Server Dominance Pt II
News Making Linux a priority on the mainframe was a great idea for customers that would like to split a single mainframe into hundreds of different virtual Linux computers, IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky said. Sun just got out-consolidated by IBM," he added...
[March 20, 2001, 8:52]
Government Funds Handheld Police Computers
News Twenty-seven police forces will share £50m in government funding for police officers' handheld computers. The 10,000 computers have to be in operation by March 2009. Richard Earland, chief information officer at the NPIA, said: "Officers who have...
[May 27, 2008, 13:27]
Police To Get Thousands More Mobile Devices
News In May, policing minister Tony McNulty announced a £50m investment to furnish 27 police forces with 10,000 mobile computers. The new funding will pay for an additional 15,000 handheld computers by March 2010, bringing the total number to around 30...
[July 23, 2008, 9:25]
Virtual Courts To Cut Police Red Tape
News Virtual courts, handheld police computers and joined-up, crime-fighting computer systems will all be brought in under the review of policing by HM chief inspector of constabulary Sir Ronnie Flanagan. Allow police officers to input information...
[February 11, 2008, 8:34]
XP Uptake 'too Slow' - Microsoft
News We don't actively upgrade computers," said CTO Paul Clark, adding that PCs have a life of three to four years. The story inside large companies contrasts sharply with the strong overall sales of Windows XP, which has benefited from an upturn in the...
[April 13, 2004, 9:30]
Apple Does It Again In Q2
News Company officials said strong sales of its nifty iMac and Power Macintosh G3 computers were responsible for boosting overall unit growth by 27 percent compared to the year-ago quarter.iMac sales were especially strong in Japan.
[April 15, 1999, 7:42]
Novell Deepens Linux Commitment
News In related news, Novell announced a partnership with Fujitsu Siemens Computers to test and produce a customised version of Nterprise Linux Services 1.0 designed to interact with the hardware maker's Primecluster network server technology.
[December 16, 2003, 15:40]
Palm To Acquire Wireless Software Company
News See ZDNet UK's Mobile Technology News Section for the latest news, reviews and price checks on mobile phones, PDAs, notebook computers and anything else you can take away. For the second time this year, handheld giant Palm has announced an...
[December 12, 2001, 16:59]
Virus Writing: End Of An Era?
News The 26-year-old, self-taught programmer admitted to five counts of unauthorised access to computers to facilitate crime and five unauthorised modifications of computer software over a two-year period.
[December 10, 1999, 9:27]
