Topic: General

Posted by : trraju on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 12:49 PM

SAN FRANCISCO - PeopleSoft Inc. has scheduled its annual meeting for March 25, setting the date for a potentially decisive showdown in a fierce battle to fend off rival Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover attempt. The meeting date, announced Friday, could mark PeopleSoft's last stand unless the Pleasanton-based business software maker can convince its shareholders that the company is worth more than Oracle's current $9.2 billion bid.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 09:19 PM

Intel has unveiled its first Flash Software Developer Kit (SDK) for mobiles, promising that the Flash Data Integrator 6.0 (FDI) will help developers boost performance of advanced applications for multimedia smartphones. The FDI royalty-free platform is designed to help designers integrate and develop mobile phone applications including Java applets, Bluetooth file transfers, voice recognition tags, MP3, pictures and video files to the hardware.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 09:17 PM

SEATTLE - America Online Inc. said Thursday it had filed a federal lawsuit accusing numerous unnamed defendants of violating federal and state laws by sending bulk messages known as "spim" to instant message accounts and Internet chat rooms. The lawsuit, filed late Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., marked the first time AOL has expressly targeted spim in a legal action.

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 02:52 AM

The Sun is drawing up plans to launch a downloadable mobile Java version of the newspaper. The publisher believes its brand is strong enough to compete head on with mobile operator portals like Vodafone Live! and is looking to launch as soon as possible. "We'll be in a position to launch fairly soon," said Simon Ashley, commercial manager for News Group Digital. "We're a strong brand, we should be doing it ourselves rather than Vodafone Live!." The Sun is just the latest in a growing number of brands and media companies looking to mobile Java to offer a direct relationship with consumers, sidestepping the need to negotiate for a place on the operator portals.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, September 07, 2004 - 07:45 AM

TORONTO (CP) - IBM Canada Ltd. plans a $35 million expansion to create regional centres across Canada to sell technology services to small and mid-sized companies. The move by the Toronto-area computer giant is part of a broader strategy to expand its penetration of the small and mid-sized corporate market in Canada for technology services, business the company says is worth up to $5.6 billion a year.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 06:02 PM

Information management solutions provider Atempo Inc has revealed that its Time Navigator has been certified with the HP (NYSE: HPQ) StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS). The certification is proof of interoperability between Time Navigator and HP's storage solutions.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 06:37 PM

HP has confirmed that it is planning to acquire UK services firm Synstar in a deal believed to be valued at around $160m.
If the purchase is approved by share holders and regulators, HP will be able to significantly boost its European services arm, allowing it to more effectively compete with rivals such as IBM and EDS.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 05:31 PM

Tech firms might be rebounding from the dot-com bust, but enrollment in college computer programs keeps falling. San Jose State University in Silicon Valley enrolled 417 full-time computer science undergraduates for the fall semester, down from 525 last year. The University of Texas at Austin expects about 1,275, down from 1,465 a year ago. The University of Notre Dame should have 50 -- better than last year, but down from 60 at the peak. Ohio State University is down 30%.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, August 09, 2004 - 05:51 PM

Computer manufacturer Dell Inc (Nasdaq: DELL) has presented its Dell Precision 370, its new single-processor system. Dell Precision 370 combines new Intel Pentium 4 processors with DDR2 memory, PCI Express, new high performance graphics and integrated SATA RAID.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, August 09, 2004 - 05:51 PM

Swift, "on-demand" access to large-scale data storage is the goal of a prestigious research grant IBM Corp. has awarded to the University of Arizona Eller College of Management. The grant to Eller's management information systems department - consisting of tens of thousands of dollars worth of IBM computer equipment - was competitively awarded to the UA under IBM's Shared University Research, or SUR, grant program.