French management consultant and IT services provider Cap Gemini and networking giant Cisco yesterday said they will form a joint venture designed to help telecommunications carriers, service providers and cable companies put corporate networks in place.
Sybase has detailed the latest release of its mobile database product, SQL Anywhere Studio 7.0, which will be available on the market later this month.
Siemens' networking group has announced it will focus its efforts on moving companies towards converged voice and data networks based on the Internet protocol (IP), but promised to let companies `go at their own pace.'
Citing record growth in its fourth quarter, SAP this week said its net income in the 1999 fiscal year grew 14 per cent.
America Online and Time Warner have announced plans to merge in an all-stock deal the companies value at $US350 billion.
An advisory group to the European Parliament is asking the government body to consider banning Intel's Pentium III chip in Europe for privacy reasons.
Efforts to develop wireless Bluetooth technology gained momentum on Tuesday as four US-based vendors said they would help promote the emerging standard.
CHS Electronics Ges.m.b.H., the Austrian subsidiary of Florida-based distributor CHS Electronics, has declared bankruptcy, according to a report yesterday by the Austrian Press Agency.
The Internet may make the world seem like a global village, but regional differences still play a large role in users' Internet experiences, according to a new study from International Data Corp (IDC) on advanced Web usage around the globe. The study looked at "who is doing the buying, what they do for a living, how much they spend, how concerned they are about purchasing over the Web, and what differences there are by country", IDC said.
Trying to lure more European users online, AOL Europe yesterday said it has struck an agreement with Intel to deliver cheap PCs bundled with online access across Europe.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) on Monday announced what it is calling the "e-PC", a new category of Windows-based desktop devices designed to offer businesses a cross between a standard desktop PC and a simpler-to-use, more stylish-looking Internet device.
Advanced Micro Devices this week started shipping a 700MHz version of its new Athlon microprocessor series.
Compaq Computer has ceased its efforts to port its version of the Unix operating system, Tru64 Unix, for Intel's forthcoming IA-64 platform.
3Com yesterday announced plans to split the company in two, taking its Palm Computing subsidiary public.
German book publisher Bertelsmann AG said yesterday it has asked its US-based online book-selling venture, Barnesandnoble.com, to make sure that illegal "hate literature" is not being sold in Germany.
This transition could also expose organisations to a different type of virus -- the one that lurks maliciously in the background of computers.
