Police in the Dark on Microsoft Blast
The circumstances behind the explosive device that blew up just outside Microsoft Corp.'s South African office in Johannesburg early this morning are still a mystery.
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Telstra, KPN plan satellite joint venture
Dutch telecommunications company Royal KPN NV has agreed to form a joint venture with Australian telecommunications carrier Telstra, merging their respective mobile satellite communications businesses. The joint venture company will take the name of KPN's existing satellite communications subsidiary, Station 12, the companies said in a statement on Monday.
New 'Love Bug' arrests to be expected, NBI says
With investigators' attention in the "Love Bug" virus case focused on students at the AMA Computer College in Manila, the Philippines, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Manila is still working on 17 diskettes retrieved from a suspect's house in the city.
Motorola Introduces New Contactless Smart Cards
Motorola Inc. today announced the launch of a new smart card called M-Smart Venus MV5000, as well as a card acceptance device known as MCAD+ and a new platform for smart card applications called the M-Smart Exchange.
Seagate in New Distribution Deal with Tech Data
Storage products manufacturer Seagate Technology Inc. today announced that it has teamed up with Tech Data Corp., one of the world's largest hardware and software distributors, for its North American channel distribution.
Customer apps rise in ranking
As the spotlight of the traditional enterprise resource planning model shifts to a customer focus, a new model, collaborative commerce, is emerging said a Gartner analyst.
BT to Restructure, Spin Off Business and Expand
British Telecommunications PLC (BT) today announced its intention to restructure the company, expand further in Europe and create four new high-growth businesses in the Internet and telecommunications sectors.
Baltimore Launches New Security Package
PKI (public key infrastructure) developer Baltimore Technologies PLC, based in Dublin, today announced that it is offering a package of security products and services to customers such as banks, health-care companies, governments and other authorities.
HP Launches Range of E-Security Services
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) today launched a range of new services called Global Security Consulting Services, aimed at helping customers define an e-security strategy, review their current e-security products and integrate them into their existing business. The launch was announced here at the Infosecurity show today.
Mobile Users Will Only Get 14Kbps, Says Analyst
Vendors are promising new mobile products which will deliver bandwidth of 115K bps (bits per second), but this is only a theoretical speed which will never happen, according to Nigel Deighton, research director at Gartner Group Inc. In reality the new products, such as WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) phones, will only deliver bandwidth of 14K bps, he said.
Microsoft Ruling Gets Mixed Welcome in Europe
Executives attending a European IT industry conference today reacted with either glee or indifference to U.S. Federal District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling that Microsoft Corp. had violated U.S. antitrust law.
Analyst: MS 'Cloning' Could Damage Industry
Although the initial reaction from the European IT industry on the U.S. district court ruling on Microsoft Corp. antitrust violations has essentially been enthusiastic, a Gartner Group Inc. analyst warned today that a forced "cloning" of Microsoft could damage the industry.
B2B E-Sales Will Exceed B2C by Tenfold Next Year
By 2004, the business-to-business e-commerce market will be worth US$7.3 trillion, representing 6.9 percent of the global economy, Peter Sondergaard, group vice president of GartnerGroup Inc., said today in his keynote speech here at the Spring Symposium.
ERP Will Die and Give Place for C-Commerce
The traditional ERP (enterprise resource planning) model is dead, and a new model, c-commerce (collaborative commerce), is emerging, Nigel Rayner, research director at the Gartner Group Inc., said in a speech at the market research company's Spring Symposium here in Florence, Italy, today.
UPC Invests in Czech, Hungarian Cable Companies
Dutch cable company United Pan-Europe Communications NV (UPC) has strengthened its position in central Europe by acquiring two companies in the Czech Republic and one in Hungary, the company said today in a statement.