UK lags behind in open-source uptake
News The UK is fifth in terms of uptake, with 15 percent of businesses currently using open-source technology. UK businesses are lagging behind their European and US counterparts in adopting open-source software.
[July 15, 2008, 9:17]
Novell vows to fight Vista uptake
News Novell will continue its march against Microsoft and any uptake of Vista despite a recent alliance with the software giant. We're excited by the muted reaction to Vista," Ron Hovsepian, Novell president and chief executive, told the media at a...
[February 15, 2007, 7:33]
Safety concerns slow e-government uptake
News Between July and September this year, the Social and Government division of Taylor Nelson Sofres polled 29,077 people in 27 countries to gauge the uptake of Web-based government services. It is the first quantification of community uptake of online...
[November 5, 2001, 9:27]
Uptake of solar-charged mobile devices 'limited'
News For this reason, products such as the solar-powered mobile phone will probably see limited uptake in the near future," said Hines. Solar or photovoltaic technology in mobile computing devices is still impeded by performance and price issues, and is...
[August 18, 2009, 8:39]
Gartner: Hosted email to boost cloud-services uptake
News The use of internet-hosted email services, such as Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail, will fuel the business uptake of 'cloud services', according to Gartner. The analyst house has said IT applications provided over the internet will be...
[July 4, 2008, 9:04]
Dell: Microsoft warnings haven't hurt Linux uptake
News Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando on Thursday, Dell's chief executive officer said his company has seen Linux uptake for servers increase faster than Windows server products, despite Microsoft's claims.
[October 12, 2007, 13:58]
UK trails Europe in broadband uptake
News He added: "This summer we did see a lot of aggressive marketing of broadband, and there are signs that the uptake is rising, but it'll take more than just advertising to catch up with markets like Germany.
[September 9, 2002, 11:38]
Wal-Mart plays catalyst to RFID uptake
Talkback i would actually like to know the benefits disadvantages and see a chart or graph illustrating either thevolume of goods tagged or the variety of different items tagged by now in one of the companies like wal mart.can you help?
[May 31, 2005, 14:55]
RE: Broadband uptake
Talkback Broadband is a very broad spectrum, some of it little better than 56K dialup. I took a phone deal which includes Wireless ADSL and it's treacle slow compared to my cable access. It will only be used when as sometimes happens, the cable access is...
[March 21, 2008, 21:57]
XP uptake 'too slow' - Microsoft
Talkback to whom it may concern I have an XP, And i am having trouble with it to, is there somthing that i can do to get it to work better,I also have DSL, so it has to be my Microsft.thank you for any information you can give me.
[April 14, 2004, 5:05]
XP uptake 'too slow' - Microsoft
Talkback My company has spent a lot of time and money following the MS WindoZe bouncing ball. I've used 3, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, And now have 2000. Up til 2000, it seemed that when enough bugs were fixed, out came a new release.
[April 15, 2004, 19:46]
Dell optimistic about Vista uptake
News Dell's chief executive has predicted that most of his company's business customers will migrate to Vista by 2009. Speaking to journalists at Gartner's ITxpo Symposium in Orlando, Florida on Wednesday, Michael Dell said: "We have a number [of...
[October 15, 2007, 16:28]
AMD sees slow uptake for chip consortium
News "Producing the silicon isn't the difficult bit," said Richard Baker, regional marketing manager for AMD's PC products division. If the chip isn't compatible with existing [PC systems], it has to be out for a long time to be a competitor and get...
[December 19, 1996, 15:00]
Pure IP uptake slow, EU happy with hybrid
News On this side of the Atlantic, companies are increasingly using converged IT and communications systems; but pure IP telecoms infrastructure remains very rare. In the EMEA region, the latest figures show the purchase of 4.1 million telephone lines...
[June 13, 2003, 15:26]
Businesses to lead FMC uptake
News Fixed-mobile convergence will have racked up 170 million subscribers by 2012 but consumers will lag behind businesses to sign up to the technology. Almost nine percent of businesses will use fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) devices versus just less...
[June 5, 2007, 16:31]
A Year Ago: UK business Net uptake looking good
News UK business take-up of the Internet continues to grow apace.per cent of UK corporates have Net access, ahead of 47 per cent for small and medium-sized companies, and 31 per cent of SoHo businesses, according to research by Romtec.
[September 15, 1998, 7:19]
O2 reports 'very strong' SME uptake of iPhone 3G
News More iPhone 3Gs than expected have been sold to small and medium-sized businesses, but the corporate world is a tougher nut to crack, according to O2. Ben Dowd, head of business sales at O2, told ZDNet UK sister site silicon.com: "We have seen...
[December 3, 2008, 6:30]
NetSuite, Zoho see rising uptake of hosted apps
News Two on-demand business-software firms reported accelerating adoption of their suites on Tuesday. NetSuite reported second-quarter 2008 revenue of $36.6m (£18.7m), up 43 percent from the same period in 2007.
[August 6, 2008, 8:37]
YouTube generation key to mobile WiMax uptake
News Fledgling technology mobile WiMax could rack up 80 million subscribers within five years — despite having just two commercial networks to its name to date. But the technology must hook the YouTube generation, according to analyst house Juniper...
[December 12, 2007, 10:33]
Virtualisation is key to Windows Server uptake
News Virtualisation will be the key to the popularity of Microsoft's long-awaited server operating system, Windows Server 2008, analysts have predicted. The final version of the OS — formerly known as Longhorn Server — is due to be released at the...
[June 13, 2007, 9:39]



