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Vendors tackle high telepresence costs
News Faced with tough internal sales targets but stuttering revenues, the five major telepresence vendors are trying to encourage more companies to adopt the high-end videoconferencing technology. While keen to bolster these sales figures, vendors had...
[April 1, 2008, 15:20]
Vendors, not developers, to blame for poor code
News Many ZDNet UK readers seem to agree with Schneier, and put the blame for security problems squarely with the vendors selling the software. The results of a ZDNet UK online poll, which attracted more than a respondents, showed that 53 percent of...
[October 20, 2005, 17:05]
Vendors urged to end open-source confusion
News Confusion will reign if software vendors continue to muddy the waters about what open-source software is and how it should be used. The open-source user community is increasingly worried about how vendors are supplying and supporting the software...
[May 21, 2007, 13:36]
Vendors 'slow to fix' hyperthreading flaw
News Operating system vendors were given two months notice before a serious security flaw was made public but some have yet to resolve the issue, a security researcher has claimed. However, Linux vendors Red Hat, Novell and Mandriva as well as Microsoft...
[May 27, 2005, 9:30]
Mozilla: Vendors still at mercy of bug hunters
News Vendors have a real responsibility to respond to what's reported to them," said Snyder, who previously worked at Microsoft. Responsible disclosure plays into the hands of Microsoft and other big vendors.they are trying to control the process.
[March 26, 2007, 9:19]
Forrester: Vendors showing more price flexibility
News Software vendors are becoming more accommodating on pricing with their customers as a result of the economic crisis, according to a report from Forrester Research. The Enterprise Software Licensing And Pricing Update, Q2 2009 study, published on...
[June 4, 2009, 12:26]
Vendors, not developers, to blame for poor code
Talkback I agree there is no economic incentive on the vendors to produce decent products which is why, in my opinion, unix and its derivatives is so much better than Windows. There are two issues here: Software engineering as a practice is not professional.
[October 21, 2005, 11:04]
Storage vendors clash in green debate
News Storage vendors are split over whether the main technologies used to cut down on waste in data centres are a real long-term solution to the problem or simply a short-term fix. Despite the disagreement over how best to solve the problem, the vendors...
[October 19, 2007, 15:28]
Microsoft takes swipe at Linux vendors' legal story
Talkback IP lawsuits are mounting against PROPRIETARY Vendors and NOT on open source vendors. The latest case was Kodak suing Sun Microsystems for Java IP infringements. Next to be sued is Microsoft for its use and implementation of it's own Java.
[November 5, 2004, 15:58]
Survey: 30 percent feel 'trapped' by by IT vendors
News Among the vendors Walker ranked in its "loyalty limbo and laggards" grouping were some big-name providers, including 3Com, Apple Computer, Computer Associates, EDS, Intel, McAfee, Nortel Networks, Novell, PeopleSoft, Symantec and Sun Microsystems.
[September 20, 2004, 16:40]
Analysis on Global Top 5 Handset Vendors
White Papers The Global Top 5 handset vendors announced their 2006 year-end results during January, and as usual, the row of announcements was completed by Nokia on January 25th. This white paper provides a brief analysis on the performance of leading mobile...
[September 20, 2007, 10:03]
PC vendors snub antitrust altered Windows
News The four largest PC vendors have no plans to sell the media player-free version of Windows which Microsoft was ordered to offer by Europe's competition commissioner. Microsoft will make an updated version of Window XP N available on Wednesday, but...
[June 15, 2005, 14:35]
Home Office reveals early ID vendors
News The other vendors are 3M SP&SL, which will receive about £700,000, plus a fee for each card, to design and produce the cards, issued initially to staff at two airports later this year. The Home Office has listed 3M and nCipher as providers to the...
[March 25, 2009, 7:47]
Watching Your Vendors
White Papers Best practices always include measurement, and that means tracking the vendors. The hidden costs are shown on average to be between 60% to 75% of cost per page. Many proactive corporations have begun to address out-of-control printing costs by...
[July 27, 2006, 0:00]
The Endpoint Security Shootout: How the Biggest Vendors Measure Up
White Papers The report allows you to see how the industry's biggest vendors measure up in terms of impact on system start-up, on-demand scans, and common office programs like Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe Photoshop.
[July 1, 2009, 11:53]
Opening the Door for Suppliers and Vendors
White Papers Most retailers exchange sales figures with their key vendors, and recently they have started to share forecasts and promotional plans to improve their stock positions and generate more sales for both parties.
[November 15, 2006, 0:00]
PC vendors sing NT 4.0 September Song
News UK PC vendors say they expect to be able to deliver pre-installed Windows NT 4.0 on systems by as early as mid-September as reports grow that Microsoft is targeting an end-of-July deadline for final bug squashing.
[July 24, 1996, 17:34]
Direct vendors respond to non-Intel chip demands
News AMD marketing planning manager Rana Mainee denied that vendors are completely changing their strategy to adopt alternatives to Intel. The pricing is one of the alternative features to Intel but if it was just about pricing, I'm sure vendors could...
[August 15, 1997, 15:08]
Security vendors warn of the tricks of the trade
News A panel of security experts warned IT managers that they must go into their negotiations with security vendors with their eyes very wide open. Many companies selling security products are guilty of hyping their offerings and scaring customers with...
[October 14, 2004, 17:35]
Linux vendors move to standard platform
News Several Linux vendors have moved to standardise their customised operating environments on a single platform, the companies announced on Thursday. Major software vendors such as Borland, Computer Associates, IBM and SAP, as well as hardware vendors...
[May 30, 2002, 9:43]
