Taiwanese chip makers not rattled by quakes
Taiwanese chip makers appear to have emerged unscathed from a series of strong earthquakes that struck Taiwan on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Taiwanese chip makers appear to have emerged unscathed from a series of strong earthquakes that struck Taiwan on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Cisco Systems, perhaps best known for its enterprise networking products, has shown that it can be a strong contender in the Asian small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) market, based on data from market research firm International Data Corp.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can't do it alone. While ERP applications may offer improved operating efficiencies, those gains are unlikely to bear fruit without a comparable improvement in the way organisations interact with their customers, said Brent Frei, president and CEO of Onyx Software. For many organisations, however, justifying the cost of customer relationship management (CRM) tools is more difficult than doing so with ERP applications because the financial benefits are more difficult to measur
The rapidly rising amount of data traffic that is carried over the world's networks has necessitated a sharp change in strategy for telecommunications manufacturers who have prospered for years on the sale of large circuit switches. To keep up with the rate of change, networking and telecommunications equipment vendors have been forced to either acquire or merge with competitors. Former Bay Networks chief executive officer and current Nortel Networks president Dave House recently discussed the process of merging a data networking company with a large telephony equipment manufacturer, as well as recent developments in the networking industry. IDG's Sumner Lemon reports.
A conflict between Intel and three of its largest customers, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, has been quietly brewing in recent weeks over development of the next-generation standard for server input/output (I/O).
Cisco Systems president and CEO John Chambers is going door-to-door in Asia, meeting with key business leaders and politicians to spread the word about networking.
Dell has announced plans to start direct sales and technical support operations in nine major Mainland Chinese cities. This is in contrast to Dell's previous model in China which saw the vendor rely solely on a network of distributors to sell its products to end-users.
Platinum Technology has finalised plans to acquire VRML software developer Cosmo Software from parent company Silicon Graphics for an undisclosed amount.
While Taiwanese companies have reportedly been urged to reconsider their Australian investment plans by a Taiwanese-Australian business association following the recent strong showing by Pauline Hanson's One Nation party in Queensland elections, the Hong Kong government earlier this week took a step towards accelerating the pace of IT co-operation between Australia and the Special Administrative Region.
Despite concern within some industry circles that the merger of Compaq and Digital may mean a lower level of commitment to Unix in favour of Windows NT, a senior Digital executive has said that the combined company will emerge as a formidable contender as the market shifts towards 64-bit Unix.
Xircom chief forecasts rocky road for digital assistants
Analysts question value of CPU benchmarks
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