Topic: General

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 10:13 PM

Jul 02, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- A weekly series by United Press International examining emerging wireless telecommunications technologies.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 10:12 PM

After a successful suit against Redline Communications, Wi-LAN Inc. has turned the legal heat on Cisco Systems Inc.

Posted by : Anonymous on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 01:21 AM

Finnish telecomms solutions provider Nokia announced on Monday (28 June) that its global developer programme Forum Nokia now had a total of 14 Nokia CDMA Series 40 developer platform compliant devices.

Posted by : Anonymous on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 01:19 AM

Telematics and tracking services supplier GlobeTrac Inc (OTC BB: GBTR) has teamed with wireless solutions supplier WebTech Wireless to launch the WebTech 5000 locator.

Posted by : Anonymous on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 05:45 AM

TOKYO (AP) - Hitachi Ltd. and NEC Corp. will establish a joint venture in October to develop and manufacture network equipment such as routers and switches, the Japanese electronics giants announced Friday. Hitachi and NEC said they hope the new company - with initial capital of about 5.5 billion yen (US$51.06 million) - will take on rivals such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. It will focus on high-end to mid-range routers and switches.

Posted by : Anonymous on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 05:43 AM

IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered into an agreement to expanding its relationship with IT giant IBM to cross-sell each other's products and services. Under the agreement TCS will train its employees and create new solutions using IBM hardware and middleware platforms, and the two companies will market each other's products and services in selected markets such as banking, financial services, insurance, telecomms, retail and manufacturing.

Posted by : Anonymous on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 05:40 AM

Selling on the online auction eBay may be lucrative, but it can also be fiercely complicated. You must know how to shoot and download digital pictures, appraise and list items, set up a payment account and master the ins and outs of the Web site. It's a process that can be so intimidating to the uninitiated, they often throw their hands up and make plans for a garage sale.

Posted by : Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 11:52 AM

Sprint Corp. today said the company will lay off 1,100 more employees, cutting jobs from its long-distance operations. About half of the layoffs will be in the Kansas City area. Employees will be notified by mid-July and receive severance and employment assistance. Howard Janzen, president of Sprint Business Solutions, said the layoffs are necessary to keep the Overland Park-based telecommunications company competitive.

Posted by : Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 11:49 AM

TORONTO, Jun 17, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The head of Cisco Systems said Thursday he would like to join forces with telecommunications group Nortel Networks. "I believe in strategic partnerships. I would love to have Nortel as a partner," said Cisco's chief executive John Chambers at a conference in Toronto. But the head of the California-based router maker also suggested Cisco would not be interested in buying out the Canadian telecom company.

Posted by : Anonymous on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 11:10 AM

Shoppers will soon be able to buy some of Gateway's MP3 players, home entertainment systems and flat-panel television sets at Best Buy stores. ateway is liquidating inventory left over from its 188 Gateway Country stores, which it closed in April as part of a reorganization. Most of the products are slightly outdated, so they could be sold at a discount, though Best Buy won't say. All Best Buy stores and its Web site are expected to have the products soon. Best Buy will not sell Gateway PCs. Many tech analysts have been expecting such a deal because new Gateway CEO Wayne Inouye is a former Best Buy vice president.

Posted by : Anonymous on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 11:08 AM

Arrests have been made in the theft of computer code behind Half-Life 2, which is expected to be one of this year's best-selling titles, the game's manufacturer announced yesterday. The theft last year had a role in the delayed delivery of the game, originally scheduled for release in September 2003, as Valve Corp., based in Bellevue, Wash., rewrote parts of its programming and assisted in an FBI-led investigation. Valve chief executive Gabe Newell said at the time that he believed the code was stolen by hackers from a company computer.

Posted by : Anonymous on Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 06:49 AM

SAP AG said it now owns about 90.01 pct of SAP Systems Integration AG as a result of the share buy-back offer that ended on May 27.
SAP spun off the company in 1997 and in March, it offered 20.40 eur per share to buy the outstanding shares.

Posted by : Anonymous on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 02:25 PM

Communications Inc. president William Daley has resigned and the company named Forrest Miller, currently corporate planning group president, to replace him.The telecommunications company offered no explanation for the abrupt personnel changes in its brief statement.
Miller's title will be Group President-External Affairs and Planning and he will report to SBC chairman and chief executive Edward Whitacre Jr. The group will combine the company's public affairs and planning units

Posted by : Anonymous on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 02:20 PM

Business software maker Oracle Corp. reduced its hostile takeover bid for rival Peoplesoft Inc. to $7.7 billion Friday, shaving nearly 20 percent, or $1.7 billion, from its previous offer to reflect its prey's wilting market value.
In its surprise move, Oracle revised its nearly year-old bid for PeopleSoft to $21 per share, reversing from the $26 per share, or $9.4 billion cash, that had been on the table.

Posted by : Anonymous on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 02:17 PM

Weeks after Google made waves with a new service called Gmail, Yahoo has promised an overhaul of its own mail service, including unlimited storage for premium users.
The new Yahoo Mail will roll out in phases this summer, said Jim Brock, Yahoo's senior vice president for consumer services.

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 05:15 PM

Cisco Systems plans to add an additional 1,000 workers this year as U.S. tech spending finally comes back, CEO John Chambers said Tuesday.
Cisco already boosted its staff by 200 in its fiscal third quarter -- the first time in three years that the No. 1 network-gear maker has added jobs. Most of those jobs, plus the 1,000 to come, will be in the USA.
San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco, a key barometer of tech spending, announced the news as it reported better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal third quarter.

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 05:14 PM

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods and Google's thirtysomething founders aren't the only investors likely to make big bucks when Google sells shares to the public this year.
Stanford University, where Google began, could sock away $250 million from stock it owns in the online search engine giant. That could be a record for a university profiting from a campus start-up.

Posted by : trraju on Friday, May 07, 2004 - 01:35 PM

The European Commission has fined Microsoft a record €497m (£280m) for its anti-competitive behaviour in Europe.But the software giant's monopoly is under a potentially far more serious attack, and one that will have a huge impact on the IT skills market.

Posted by : trraju on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 09:59 AM

SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 23, 2004 (AFX-UK via COMTEX) -- PeopleSoft shares retreated Friday morning after the business-software company narrowly missed Wall Street's earnings expectations and served notice that it may fall short again in the current quarter. Acknowledging that profits have been dragged down by fighting Oracle's takeover bid, PeopleSoft reported a first-quarter net profit of $24 million, or 7 cents a share, on $643 million in revenue.

Posted by : trraju on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 09:57 AM

UK Web developers are throwing their weight behind Zope, an open source application server already popular in the US and Europe, but which has yet to crack Britain. On 19 April, commercial Zope vendors will join forces to launch the Zope Association, which aims to promote open source technology in general and Zope as a development tool. The forum will launch in the House of Commons, with founding members including UK commercial organisations that already use Zope.