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June 23, 2004 23 Jun'04
Infineon and IBM broaden power-saving technology availability

Infineon Technologies and IBM have demonstrated a prototype 16Mbit Mram (magnetic Ram) chip, bringing the power-saving technology...
June 23, 2004 23 Jun'04
Fujitsu launches faster server with 90-nanometer chips

Fujitsu is the latest chip maker to introduce a 90-nanometer product with the launch of a faster version of its Sparc64 V...
June 22, 2004 22 Jun'04
Honours for IT leader

Hilary Cropper, former Xansa chief executive, was made a dame of the British Empire in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours...
June 22, 2004 22 Jun'04
Intel's Grantsdale chipset goes mainstream

Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Gateway will incorporate Intel's latest 915G/P and 925X Express chipsets into upcoming PCs for...

June 21, 2004 21 Jun'04
Mobile worm could be just the start, users told

Businesses have been urged to press mobile phone operators to disclose what steps they are taking to secure 3G phones and PDAs,...
June 21, 2004 21 Jun'04
Iris recognition at five UK airports

The government plans to roll out an iris recognition system to five UK airports to verify the identities of selected overseas...
June 21, 2004 21 Jun'04
New York plans huge wireless network

New York City plans to build a public safety wireless network of unprecedented scale and scope, including the capacity to provide...
June 21, 2004 21 Jun'04
Linux users under threat

A newly discovered security hole in Linux, published on an open source website, has raised questions about how Linux security...
June 21, 2004 21 Jun'04
Intel launches first surfboard PC

Intel has put a wireless-enabled Tablet PC in a surfboard.
June 21, 2004 21 Jun'04
Ask Jeeves enhances search features

Internet browser service AskJ eeves has enhanced its search engine to give users the ability to preview images of websites listed...

June 21, 2004 21 Jun'04
IBM looks at software for Blue Gene supercomputer build

IBM is now one year away from building the 65,000-node Blue Gene/L machine for Lawrence Livermore National Labs and two working...
June 18, 2004 18 Jun'04
Communication and leadership skills can help IT chiefs secure a place on the board

IT professionals need to acquire soft skills, such as communication, leadership and people management to ensure they stay in...
June 16, 2004 16 Jun'04
Toshiba and Samsung make progress in advanced chip project

Toshiba and Samsung Electronics are making progress in independent research projects aimed at realising chips that are two...
June 16, 2004 16 Jun'04
Gateway sees higher Q2 revenue on improved sales

Gateway expects to report higher-than-expected revenue in its first full quarter since it bought eMachines.
June 16, 2004 16 Jun'04
Firms roll out latest notebooks to meet business demand

Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba have all released new systems in anticipation of an increase in corporate purchasing later...
June 15, 2004 15 Jun'04
AMD to ship dual-core server in 2005

Advanced Micro Devices has completed its design for dual-core server and desktop processors and will ship products in 2005.
June 15, 2004 15 Jun'04
AMD unveils low-power Mirrorbit flash memory

Advanced Micro Devices' Spansion flash memory joint venture will announce the second-generation of its Mirrorbit flash memory...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Wlan market surges

The global wireless Lan hardware market soared by 56% in 2003.
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Wireless serves up better printing

Businesses deploying wireless Lan networks now have the opportunity of setting up easy printer connections with the PocketPro USB...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Wireless Lan market hots up

The number of users taking advantage of wireless Lan (local area network) hotspots around the world will reach 30 million by the...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Wireless directors’ directives

With the take-up of wireless devices rapidly spreading, Toshiba, in partnership with the Institute of Directors (IoD), has...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Vodafone aims 3G at business

Vodafone has revealed that the business community will be the focus for its eagerly awaited 3G service in the UK.
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Try before you buy

Orange is allowing business customers to try a host of mobile data services for free for a month before they decide whether they...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Tottenham spurred on by wireless Lan

In an otherwise disappointing season, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club can make claim to lead the Premiership by being the first...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
TI explores a new EDGE

Texas Instruments (TI) has embraced EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) technology as part of its plans to supply...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
T-mobile made easy

T-Mobile has simplified its public WLan Hotspot service, offering a standardised pricing structure across all five of its...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Suffolk cuts the communications strings

Suffolk College is providing its students, staff and visitors with internet access using a wireless Lan that incorporates data...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Study reveals Bluetooth security holes

Security holes in the Bluetooth wireless data exchange facility on phones have been discovered by IT security company AL Digital.
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Smartphones aren’t that smart, say users

Smartphones are declining in popularity among business users, claims mobile software specialist Intuwave.
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Siemens Mobile module stays right on track

Siemens Mobile has developed a tri-band vehicle-tracking module that combines GSM and GPRS with satellite global positioning...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Shared broadband through the air

3Com has launched a wireless asymmetrical digital subscriber line solution that allows companies to share out the high bandwidth...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
School's out for mobile

The General Teaching Council for England, which has 500,000 registered teachers, has deployed a high speed circuit switched data...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Satsuma unveils GPRS-PDA

Satsuma Solutions has launched a GPRS-based personal digital assistant (PDA) solution for companies who want to avoid the...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Properly trained staff get best from mobile

85% of firms say mobile technology boosts workforce productivity, but only 35% of companies investing in it train their staff to...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
PBXtended for mobile users

Ericsson has developed a private branch exchange (PBX) extension system which allows companies to make mobile phones the primary...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Opening up mobile e-mail

OpenHand has launched a mobile service that enables business travellers to get their e-mail on the move without costing their...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Nokia seeks Big Blue for business

Nokia and IBM have announced the first corporate users taking advantage of their technology alliance which marries Nokia’s new...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Mobile rights and responsibilities

Mobile telecoms networks cover virtually everywhere in the nation and this means that you will able to connect to your network...
June 14, 2004 14 Jun'04
Mobile reporting system helps the aged

Cambridgeshire county council and the local health authority are aiming to save millions of pounds by implementing a mobile...
June 11, 2004 11 Jun'04
Market IT products and services to generate value in the business

Gigaworld Delegates at the conference in Barcelona were told that IT departments need to market their skills and services and...
June 11, 2004 11 Jun'04
Book a place at the annual IT ball

IT directors who want to reward their team and help needy children can join other top IT professionals on 8 July at the annual...
June 10, 2004 10 Jun'04
Tivo hopes to hit home

Home networking features to come as standard
June 10, 2004 10 Jun'04
HP sharpens Itanium blade plans

Blade systems will be based on 64-bit chips
June 10, 2004 10 Jun'04
IBM shrinks desktop system

IBM has announced a desktop system that is 35% smaller than its predecessor, taking up less space than some of its laptop...
June 10, 2004 10 Jun'04
Lexmark makes colour printing affordable for SMEs

Lexmark's C510 aims to give SMEs an easy-to-use laser which provides business-class colour at an affordable price.
June 08, 2004 08 Jun'04
NEC to launch Itanium blade server in September

NEC will begin to ship blade servers based on Intel's Itanium 2 microprocessor in September.
June 08, 2004 08 Jun'04
AMD unveils low-cost Sempron chip brand

Advanced Micro Devices will unveil a third major processor brand called Sempron in the second half of this year.
June 08, 2004 08 Jun'04
Motorola subsidiary unrolls product roadmap

Motorola subsidiary Freescale Semiconductor has outlined a product roadmap that will take its line of ultra-wideband chipsets...
June 07, 2004 07 Jun'04
Chip makers go mobile

Intel, IBM and Cadence Design Systems will launch a pilot programme aimed at chip designers with lightweight mobile workstations...
June 07, 2004 07 Jun'04
Microsoft offers free OS for 'cold' servers

Microsoft will allow servers used for disaster recovery to carry copies of its Windows server software at no extra cost, as part...
June 07, 2004 07 Jun'04
Eight-way Opterons promised by year-end

Taiwanese hardware maker Iwill is to begin volume production of an eight-way server based on the 64-bit Opteron 800 series...
June 04, 2004 04 Jun'04
Prescott Pentium 4 chips prepare for launch

Intel is to introduce eight new Pentium 4 processors using a new packaging technique, including its first workstation processors...
June 04, 2004 04 Jun'04
Sync-and-go web application support

Sybase's Mobile division has unveiled the latest version of iAnywhere's M-Business Anywhere mobile application platform,...
June 04, 2004 04 Jun'04
Mini memory cards poised for capacity boost

Two of the smallest memory card formats on the market will have a capacity boost in the coming months, according to card makers...
June 03, 2004 03 Jun'04
Transmeta unveils 1.6GHz Efficeon processor

Transmeta is showing working samples of the latest version of its Efficeon processor at the Computex trade show in Taipei this...
June 03, 2004 03 Jun'04
Texas Instruments demos split-chassis PC

Texas Instruments has found a solution to the problem of hot and noisy computers by splitting them in two and moving the hottest...
June 03, 2004 03 Jun'04
China to enter supercomputer top 10 list

A computer built by Chinese firm Dawning Information Industry is expected to be one of the world's 10 most powerful...
June 03, 2004 03 Jun'04
Computer failure hits air traffic control

Most flights from Heathrow airport were grounded this morning after a computer failure at the National Air Traffic Control centre...
June 02, 2004 02 Jun'04
Sun and Fujitsu merge Sparc server lines

Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are to merge their Sparc-based server product lines by 2006, expanding a long-standing partnership...
June 02, 2004 02 Jun'04
Mobile PDA in your Palm

Business travellers are the target for PalmOne with the launch of a portable GPS-enabled personal digital assistant (PDA) which...
June 02, 2004 02 Jun'04
Mobile gets open

Linux fans may soon have mass market Linux-based mobile devices to choose from, following a technology agreement between mobile...
June 02, 2004 02 Jun'04
Intel chips will support location-based services

Intel is developing support for location-based services in its mobile processor line that will allow computers to access...
June 02, 2004 02 Jun'04
Symantec tool eases PC migration

Symantec has unveiled a tool that automates many of the more mundane tasks associated with PC migration.
June 01, 2004 01 Jun'04
Companies unveil combo Wi-Fi mobile phone

Avaya, Motorola and Proxim will introduce what they have dubbed the "enterprise phone", which can easily switch voice phone calls...
June 01, 2004 01 Jun'04
MS support pledge boosts security

Microsoft's guarantee that its business products will have a 10-year lifecycle will boost the company's Trustworthy Computing...
May 28, 2004 28 May'04
Sony unveils hard disc portable media player

Sony has announced its first hard disk drive-based portable media player to support both audio and video.
May 28, 2004 28 May'04
PalmOne joins e-prescription initiative

PalmOne is to work with US health apps supplier HealthRamp to develop electronic prescribing solutions.
May 28, 2004 28 May'04
Server hardware sales on the rise

Results show fourth consecutive growth period.
May 27, 2004 27 May'04
Bull moves on with recapitalisation plan

Shareholders support difficult decision of French server and services company
May 27, 2004 27 May'04
Better security will help wireless growth

The security of wireless hot spots for internet access for IT users on the road was the subject of discussion at the CeBIT...
May 26, 2004 26 May'04
Rapid Linux growth boosts server market

Rapid Linux growth boosts server market
May 25, 2004 25 May'04
Sandisk launches combo Wi-Fi and memory card

SanDisk will begin shipping a Secure Digital card that combines 256Mbytes of memory and a wireless Lan adapter by the end of...
May 25, 2004 25 May'04
VeriSign acquires Jamba

VeriSign acquires Jamba
May 24, 2004 24 May'04
Cisco timeline

The story so far: 20 years to global domination
May 24, 2004 24 May'04
Unisys staff concerned about appraisal policy

A row has broken out over a staff appraisal system at IT services company Unisys that advises managers to "manage out" staff...
May 21, 2004 21 May'04
BT joins mobile firms to develop Bluephone

BT is working with Ericsson, Alcatel and Motorola to accelerate the development of a new type of mobile handset which will offer...
May 21, 2004 21 May'04
Enterprise update for Blackberry handhelds

Research in Motion is working on a new version of its enterprise server software for the Blackberry mobile device and has...
May 21, 2004 21 May'04
Replacement cycle will spur PC sales

Worldwide PC shipments will grow 13.6% this year over last, driven by a Y2K replacement cycle and the loosening of corporate...
May 21, 2004 21 May'04
Construction firm moves to thin client to boost productivity

Australian construction and building group BGC has ousted half of its fleet of Wintel PCs in favour of thin clients running...
May 21, 2004 21 May'04
EMC gateway tempts remote office market

EMC has announced its lowest-priced NAS gateway device, which targets enterprise remote office data backup and recovery.
May 20, 2004 20 May'04
Tesco IT boss is a millionaire - again

Tesco's top IT professional received a salary of more than £1.6m last year, the third consecutive year that he has earned more...
May 20, 2004 20 May'04
IBM expands virtualisation plans

IBM has revealed more details on how it will add a new range of virtualisation software and technologies, called Virtualization...
May 20, 2004 20 May'04
IBM, HP and Microsoft talk autonomic strategies

IBM, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard shared the stage at the first International Conference on Autonomic Computing in New York...
May 20, 2004 20 May'04
RIM improves Blackberry management and Palm OS support

The latest version of Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Enterprise Server software will make it easier for users to connect to...
May 20, 2004 20 May'04
Developers offer Mac OS on PCs tool

A team of open-source developers have released software which emulates the PowerPC processor architecture and enables users to...
May 19, 2004 19 May'04
Handheld device market in flux

The handheld device market is contracting as a result of changes the role of such devices in a new wireless environment.
May 18, 2004 18 May'04
Curtain up with Orange

Cinemas are looking to boost their audience figures on quiet Wednesdays with a two-for-one mobile ticket offer in conjunction...
May 18, 2004 18 May'04
Council acts on mobile power concerns

Concern about the environmental and possible health impact of large mobile network transmission stations, has led to Chester City...
May 18, 2004 18 May'04
Centrino push boots Wlan adoption

The embedding of wireless technology within laptops is a key driver in the constant expansion of the Wlan Business Market...
May 18, 2004 18 May'04
Bluetooth rival nears

The short-range wireless connection technology Bluetooth will now have a rival following the formation of the Near Field...
May 18, 2004 18 May'04
Eurim calls for IT security skills framework for police and business

Police and security professionals need to be trained under a common skills framework if they are to work together effectively to...
May 18, 2004 18 May'04
AMD to launch dual-core chips in 2005

Advanced Micro Devices will release dual-core Opteron processors for servers and workstations in 2005, the same time that Intel...
May 18, 2004 18 May'04
Dell adds Bluetooth and XScale chips to PDAs

Dell is unveil three new Axim personal digital assistants, adding the Bluetooth short-range wireless networking technology to its...
May 17, 2004 17 May'04
Experts cannot see business case for ID cards

The government has failed to show that there is a sound business case for spending £3bn on a national ID card system, IT experts,...
May 17, 2004 17 May'04
Intel's Fister named CEO of chip design firm

Mike Fister, former head of Intel's server processor group, left the company this week to become president and chief executive...
May 17, 2004 17 May'04
Yahoo takes on Google with extra mail storage

Yahoo will raise the storage limit given to its free e-mail users while at the same time bumping its premium subscribers up to a...
May 14, 2004 14 May'04
Windows XP SP2 poses firewall management test

Business users could face complex management challenges to get the most out of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 update due for...
May 14, 2004 14 May'04
Consolidation set to cut number of datacentres from nine to two

Abbey is on track to reduce its datacentres from nine to two by the end of 2005.
May 14, 2004 14 May'04
US energy dept awards $25m grant for supercomputer build

The US Department of Energy has awarded a $25m (£14m) grant to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to begin work on what...
May 14, 2004 14 May'04
Intel promises security and 64-bit extensions for Prescott chip

Intel will turn on security features and 64-bit extensions within the Prescott core as it ships PC and server processors based on...