Topic: General

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 08:18 PM

Vijay Sonty loves Apple Computer laptops. The chief information officer of the Broward County Public School District, the nation's fifth-largest with 270,000 students, just ordered 4,500 laptops for the upcoming school year. His purchase is part of an ongoing initiative geared to eventually give every high school student a notebook computer. That's an extension of his strategy to put more Apples into classrooms. The district's computers are 70% Apple and 30% Dell (DELL), but Sonty wants to move towards an all-Apple shop. "Apple technology is easier to use. There are fewer issues with the operating system. If you look at the price point, Apple is higher. But when you package everything, the total cost of ownership is lower," says Sonty.

Posted by : Anonymous on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - 10:56 AM

Cisco Systems and IBM have unveiled enhancements to the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller for the Cisco MDS 9000, the storage area network (San) product jointly developed by the two companies.

Posted by : Anonymous on Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 11:08 PM

The Defense Department has picked International Business Machines Corp. to build the U.S. military's fastest supercomputer and the fourth-fastest in the world .

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 06:57 AM

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A line of Dell Inc. desktop computers running a version of the Linux operating system will be sold in Europe by a reseller, broadening alternative offerings to Microsoft Corp.'s ubiquitous Windows software. The computers being sold online by Questar of Milan, Italy, will ship with Lindows Inc.'s Linspire operating system - in English- or Italian-language versions - and will receive Dell technical support, Questar said Tuesday.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 06:52 AM

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jul 08, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Cisco Systems of San Jose, Calif., said Thursday it has acquired privately held Parc Technologies of London. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $9 million in cash for all outstanding shares of Parc not already held by Cisco.

Posted by : Anonymous on Monday, July 12, 2004 - 06:51 AM

Google's plan to sell stock to the public may be Silicon Valley's hottest party of the summer, but just try wrangling an invitation -- or even finding out when or where it's going to happen. So far, would-be investors -- and even Wall Street pros -- are finding that no one can tell them how shares in Google will be offered for sale, how much they will cost or even how to get in line for the hottest deal in decades.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 10:15 PM

ORANGE, Europe's third- largest mobile phone company, yesterday said it will launch its third-generation mobile phone service in the UK on July 19, and that it had chosen LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson to supply its first 3G handsets.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 10:14 PM

The Chinese authorities have issued new regulations that expand the censorship of mobile phone text messages.

Posted by : Anonymous on Sunday, July 04, 2004 - 10:14 PM

Tiny keyboards are looking like the next big thing in cellphones.
As cellphones increasingly become pocket-size mobile computers used for text messaging, e-mail and Web access, phone makers are rushing to add standard Qwerty keyboards to make those functions easier. On most phones today, users enter text by tapping the standard phone keypad -- a cumbersome process for many.

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.