MSN portal, Hotmail for European mobile users
Microsoft Corp. has launched a version of its MSN Internet portal for European mobile device users, and is offering access to its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service over cell phones, it said Wednesday.
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IBM, Peugeot to diagnose car faults over Net
IBM and French car maker Peugeot SA are working together to develop an Internet-based vehicle diagnostic system, the companies announced in a joint statement Tuesday.
AOLTW widens losses in Q4; expects flat Q1
IBM and French car maker Peugeot SA are working together to develop an Internet-based vehicle diagnostic system, the companies announced in a joint statement Tuesday.
Nokia: Mobile users want advertising on their phone
IBM and French car maker Peugeot SA are working together to develop an Internet-based vehicle diagnostic system, the companies announced in a joint statement Tuesday.
IDC: Palm regains European PDA market lead
Palm Inc. has regained its position as the leading supplier of PDAs (personal digital assistants) in Europe, but is still losing market share to PDAs running Microsoft Corp.'s Pocket PC and Windows CE operating systems, International Data Corp. (IDC) said Wednesday.
Palm completes split of hardware, software units
Palm Inc. has spun off its software business in an effort to encourage more manufacturers to license its Palm OS operating system for PDAs (personal digital assistants).
DOCSIS 2.0 spec completion promises faster cable modems
Cable modems could have triple the upstream capacity by the end of 2002, enabling video conferencing and peer-to-peer applications over cable connections.
Lufthansa flies to Novell to secure its network
Airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG has appointed Novell to provide secure network and directory services for its 70,000 employees, Novell announced Wednesday.
UK insurer in 10-year outsourcing deal with IBM
U.K. insurance company Royal and SunAlliance Insurance Group PLC (R&SA) has signed a 10-year agreement to outsource its IT management to IBM Corp., the companies announced Thursday. The two companies will also establish a joint research center.
Report: Google adds European sales offices
Search engine company Google is to open a sales office in Hamburg, Germany, to concentrate on German-language keyword advertising, according to a newspaper report.
How to survive the recruitment drought
Are you out of work, rapidly spending your last pay check and wondering what the heck to do next? Well, now might be the time to consider that Tibetan retreat you've been mulling over, because the international job market is not looking good.
IDC: Support hope for network product makers
Network equipment vendors will start offering extended service and support contracts as sales of networking products drop and companies try to maintain their current infrastructures, according to a report from research company International Data Corp. (IDC).
Study: Western European server market continues fall
Nervous businesses in Western Europe are upgrading old servers or buying low-end systems rather than the high-end products they would have bought a year ago, according to a report released by Dataquest, a unit of Gartner, on Friday.
ARM software boosts speed of Java OS for handhelds
SavaJe Technologies Inc. will license ARM Ltd.'s Jazelle software to increase the speed of its SavaJe XE operating system for handheld devices, the companies said on Wednesday.
Closure of Napster halves file sharing in Europe
Enthusiasm for file sharing over the Internet seems to have waned since the closure of the Napster Inc. music-sharing service in July, with a 50 percent drop in usage since then, said a Jupiter MMXI Europe BV report on Monday.