Mobile handset maker Motorola has jumped into second place worldwide and is gaining ground on many of its rivals as the market for mobile phones continues to expand rapidly to record sales volume. A report from Gartner says that a surge of sales in the fourth quarter, when sales jumped 24 percent, h...
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On the heels of IBM's decision to sell its PC unit to Chinese player Lenovo, Forrester Research is reporting that the number of personal computers in use worldwide will more than double to almost 1.3 billion by the end of the decade. That's up from 575 million today, according to the Forrester repor...
Worldwide mobile phone sales surged in the third quarter and some vendors took more advantage of the uptick than others, with Nokia solidifying its hold on first place and onetime market leader Motorola slumping from second to third place as Samsung became No. 2. According to a report from Gartner, ...
Bidding to solidify and expand its new role as market leader in the wake of its merger with AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless has announced plans to roll out faster wireless service and more broadband-dependent services nationwide. Cingular said its completion of the US$41 billion merger with AT&...
Skype Technologies, viewed by many as a pathfinder in the bid to bring voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calling to consumers, said it has collaborated with Siemens on technology that will enable traditional cordless phone users to have their calls sent over the Internet. The product, being made a...
Security's ongoing movement from a technology-dominated discipline to one that falls under the bailiwick of a company's CEO, CFO and COO is good news for Solutionary, a managed security service provider that views security as part of an overall business problem, rather than a gee-whiz technology. Th...
Hoping to keep its edge in software in part by producing a torrent of technological innovations, Microsoft is planning to push hard to secure more patents in the coming year. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told analysts at the company's annual meeting yesterday that Microsoft plans...
German engineering conglomerate Siemens today posted strong earnings growth for the quarter ended June 30, with net income up 29 percent over the same period last year, profit from operations up 21 percent and orders up 5 percent. At the same time, the company also said it now expects to exceed its ...
Sales of mobile phones jumped sharply to record-setting levels during the first quarter, but longtime leader Nokia saw its share of the market fall to the lowest level in five years, according to a report from Gartner. Nokia's share of the cell phone market fell from 34.6 percent a year ago to 28.9 ...
Bringing together various applications and computer systems is certainly no picnic, but another vital integration challenge is often overlooked in the corporate dialogue: integrating the IT department with the rest of the enterprise. How can a CIO ensure that his or her department is involved in sha...
A little over a year ago, an international consortium of four vendors announced they were pooling their talents and resources to create UnitedLinux -- a new, standardized flavor of the open-source Linux OS. However, UnitedLinux has not made many headlines since then, and SCO, one of the consortium m...
For a time, small businesses probably felt like little kids getting bumped out of line for the ice cream truck. They would jump up and down, money in hand, trying to catch the attention of software vendors, only to see those vendors choose to do business with larger, stronger, deeper-pocketed enterp...
Although innovation can be wonderful, there is something to be said for sticking to the basics. In fact, that is how venture capitalists seemingly have come to feel about high-tech companies as they contemplate which to fund with now-limited resources. Those who remember the manic days of VC funding...
Juniper Networks has announced plans to acquire rival Unisphere Networks from its parent company, Siemens AG, in an effort to win market share from dominant telecom equipment provider Cisco Systems. The cash and stock deal is valued at about $740 million. "Juniper paid $380 million in cash for a ...
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