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COMPETITION regulators in Europe have approved without conditions Hewlett-Packard’s US$13.9 billion (A$14.6 billion) acquisition of services giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS).
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MOBILE phone carrier Vodafone Australia says it added 117,000 for its fiscal fourth quarter to the end of March, pushing the company’s total customer numbers beyond four million for the first time.
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The Federal Government is looking at two vastly different models from bidders for its $4.7 billion National Broadband Network following Macquarie’s decision last week to join Telstra as an adviser.
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SEARCH giant Google’s plans to launch new mobile handsets equipped with a new open source operating system will not be ready until next year, The Wall Street Journal is reporting.
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GERMAN business software giant SAP has signed a strategic co-innovation partnership with Research in Motion to build RIM’s Blackberry device into the heart of enterprise software systems. |
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THE Federal Government will allow Telstra to switch off its regional-centric CDMA mobile telephone network in two weeks, despite concern among rural lobbies that the replacement network is substandard. |
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ONLINE giant Yahoo has unveiled a suite a new features aimed at making search easier on mobile devices, including the better integration of voice and predictive text. |
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CHIP-maker Intel has unveiled five new processors in its Atom line – formerly known by the development code-name Silverthorne – technology aimed at Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and embedded solutions. |
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APPLE has used the annual Macworld convention in San Francisco to lift the veil from its new Next Big Thing – the “world’s thinnest notebook” known as the MacBook Air. |
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THE former chief technology officer of the One Laptop Per Child project has set up a spin-off company that aims to produce a laptop for just US$75 (A$84). |
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THE spectacular sales success of the tiny, low-cost Eee PC notebook from Asus has prompted the sincerest form of flattery from its competitors – imitation. |
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SEARCH leader Google has confirmed it will participate in the US Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction – underlining the company’s interest in entering the wireless voice and data device markets. |
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THE global trade association for the mobile industry, the GSM Association (GSMA), says there is a vast untapped worldwide market for an additional 70 million mobile broadband -capable notebooks. |
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AFTER years of disinterest, network giant Cisco Systems has thrown its weight behind the WiMAX standard, buying Texas-based WiMAX specialist Navini Networks for US$330 million (A$358 million). |
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WIRELESS internet service provider Unwired has reported a 37 per cent surge in customer receipts in the past financial year and says the renewed focus in WiMAX technology in Australia would lead to further strong growth.s |
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THE world's largest processor manufacturer Intel has joined the One Laptop Per Child initiative, which seeks to bring low-cost computers to third world children as a means of improving education and fighting poverty. |
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HANDHELD specialist Palm has launched a sub-notebook portable computer to be used in conjunction with its popular Treo smart phone as the company seeks to take advantage of explosive growth in the mobile email market. |
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DELL Computer will lay off ten per cent of its global workforce – or about 8,000 staff – as part of an ongoing restructure aimed at getting the troubled PC giant back on track. |
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CHIP-maker Intel has launched a new brand called Centrino Pro processor technology, extending the Intel vPro processor technology used in business desktops into the next high performance laptop offering. |
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GLOBAL Acer notebook computer sales surged more than 45 per cent in the fourth quarter last year, making it the third largest notebook supplier ahead of Japanese giant Toshiba, iSuppli research has found. |
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WORLDWIDE capital spending on semiconductor manufacturing equipment jumped nearly 23 per cent last year to US$42 billion (A$51.5 billion) pointing to strong expected demand for memory product. |
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KOREAN semiconductor maker Samsung has used the Mobile Solutions Forum in Taipei to launch its new 1.8-inch, 64GB flash-solid state drive (SSD). |
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FLASH memory specialist SanDisk has used the Cebit 2007 show in Hannover to lift the lid on its new 2.5inch, 32GB solid-state drive (SSD). |
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CHINESE PC manufacturing giant Lenovo has issued a voluntary recall of 205,000 battery packs used in its ThinkPad line of notebook systems over concerns they are potentially dangerous. |
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JUST days after announcing surging profits from wireless data traffic, Telstra has cranked up speeds on its Next G third generation mobile network from 3.6Mbps to 14.4Mbps. |
