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Dot-com Rebranding Makes A Tiny Comeback
News Tiny Computers has rebranded itself Tiny.com, which makes it one of the first companies to change its name to include the Web suffix since the boom years. Tiny Computers, sister company of Time Group, will launch its new Web site on 20 February in...
[February 6, 2004, 16:00]
Time Collapse Support Site Forced Offline
News A Web site set up last week to act as a forum for ex-employees of Time and Tiny Computers and as an unofficial help desk for customers of the company closed down in mysterious circumstances on Monday afternoon.
[August 1, 2005, 17:50]
Time Crisis: Will Customers Get Their Goods?
News The seriousness of the situation at Granville Technology - which owns Time Computers, Tiny and The Computer Shop retail chain -became clearer on Wednesday when the administrators were called in. If any computers were purchased on hire purchase...
[July 27, 2005, 15:35]
Asset Sale Brings Some Hope To Tiny Customers
News Watford Electronics said on Tuesday that it had bought the assets of Tiny Computers, following the collapse of Granville Technology. However, there was no word from administrators Grant Thornton on the fate of the outstanding assets of Granville...
[September 27, 2005, 17:35]
MP Demands Inquiry Into Time Computers Collapse
News A Lancashire Conservative MP has called for a Government inquiry into the collapse of Granville Technology Group, the owners of Time and Tiny Computers. Evans joins a growing list of those who have called for an inquiry, including the GMB union and...
[August 4, 2005, 13:05]
Tiny PC Owners Hit By Warranty Row
News Owners of Tiny PCs who bought a technical support warranty on their credit card have been urged to contact their credit card company to obtain a refund, after news emerged of a row between the credit card industry, Trading Standards officials and...
[March 27, 2002, 15:02]
Tiny Free Offer Nosedives
News A spokesman from rival company Time Computers is at a loss as to why Tiny's offer nose-dived. A representative from Tiny Computers, however, maintains that the decision to stop the free PC offer is entirely down to public demand.
[August 20, 1999, 14:34]
Time Computers Denies Tales Of Woe
Talkback I am in unique position as I have worked for during Time computers as a Technician between 1998-2000.and at 2000-2003 at Tiny computers as a salesman before the company went into administration and was acquired by Time.
[July 28, 2005, 3:15]
Microsoft Tries Again With Ultramobile PCs
News Next month, at CES, Microsoft will be back with another round of the tiny computers. Microsoft chief Bill Gates is expected to mention some of the new devices in his CES keynote as part of a broader discussion of the new types of computers that...
[December 22, 2006, 8:00]
Tiny Pipes Deliver The Big Chill
News A researcher at Sandia National Laboratories says he has created technology to disperse the heat generated within laptop computers more efficiently than today's cooling systems. This development could lead to smaller and more efficient notebook...
[January 23, 2003, 9:26]
Time Computers Back In Business
News Another asset of GTG was the Tiny Computers name, which was sold to Watford Electronics in November. Tiny Computers had been acquired by GTG after it had first gone into administration some years previously.
[January 23, 2006, 16:05]
Time Collapse: Debts Could Hit £70m
News It was reported this week that the administrators had sold the assets of Tiny Computers and Tiny.com to Watford Electronics for an undisclosed sum. Grant Thornton said in its statement that there was no point in holding a meeting of unsecured...
[September 29, 2005, 12:50]
PC Makers Consider Child-friendly Computers
News Everyone needs to get onboard with this -- it is up to PC manufacturers to offer some mandatory software on computers sold," said a spokesperson at PC maker Tiny. Leading PC manufacturers have accepted a Home Office proposal to support efforts in...
[April 2, 2001, 15:33]
W3C Approves Mobile Graphics Standard
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday recommended Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and two subsets of the recommendation for mobile phones and handheld computers. SVG Basic is for handheld computers.
[January 15, 2003, 8:37]
NEC To Launch Water-cooled Notebooks
News This product is suitable not only for use in notebook PCs, but also in servers and desktop computers," said the statement. In January this year, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories said he had created technology to disperse the heat...
[July 1, 2003, 7:49]
Sun Dials Up Java For PC Security
News Sun has been successful in spreading its Java technology to servers and mobile phones, but has had a harder time with desktop computers, where Microsoft's technology is dominant. That changed in 2003, when the company won deals with Dell, Hewlett...
[February 24, 2004, 10:10]
Samsung Developing 2cm Hard Drives
News To date, Samsung sells hard drives for use in desktop machines and laptop computers. After focusing for years on products for personal computers and the larger computers that run in data centres, drive makers are now targeting consumer devices as...
[September 30, 2004, 11:05]
Conserving Energy In An Automated Home - Part 1
Blog For years computers have had the ability to reduce their power use by shutting down hard drives or going to sleep automatically. So if you combine all these features, you can save a good deal of power even for computers that must stay on most of...
[December 7, 2007, 20:26]
Tiny's Big Plans Won't Fall Into Escom Trap
News UK PC maker and retailer Tiny Computers plans to double its number of UK stores to around 50 by the end of the year, claiming it will not suffer the same fate as Escom. Tiny has expanded rapidly this year on the back of low-priced PC kit and...
[June 20, 1997, 12:37]
Tiny Denies Takeover Rumours
News The information printed in The Register and Microscope magazine about Tiny Computers is completely untrue. Tiny responds to rumours it is about to be bought by Dixons with a vehement denial, accusing rivals of spreading the gossip.
[December 5, 2000, 16:26]
