Announcing a new business unit and product packages for telephone companies and mobile communications providers, Compaq officials last week declared the company is serious about growing its telecommunications business.
As e-commerce takes businesses to little-known markets, companies should learn that flashy Web sites with little regard for local laws, tastes and customs do not have what it takes when it comes to taking your products to the world.
Announcing a new business unit and product packages for telephone companies and mobile communications providers, Compaq officials yesterday declared the company is serious about growing its telecommunications business.
Amid applause and cheering from an enthusiastic MacWorld Expo crowd, interim Apple Computer chief executive officer Steve Jobs yesterday unveiled the company's much-anticipated consumer portable machine, called the iBook.
Hummingbird Communications' $US208.34 million takeover bid of PC Docs International, announced in March, is set to become final this week.
Motorola last week announced it would sell its semiconductor components unit to private investment company Texas Pacific Group (TPG) in a deal valued at $US1.6 billion. The deal involves the Semiconductor Components Group (SCG) unit of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS). It calls for Motorola to receive about $1.6 billion in cash, notes and approximately 10 per cent of the stock of the new company, according to TPG officials.
Motorola announced this week that it would sell its semiconductor components unit to private investment company Texas Pacific Group (TPG) in a deal valued at $US1.6 billion.
Sun Microsystems this week announced ServiceProvider.com, a series of product bundling, sales incentive and service programs designed to help service providers offer mission-critical application outsourcing services.
Industry insiders speaking at the recent Internet & Electronic Commerce Conference & Exposition in the US were in violent agreement: the Net changes everything. Though organisations won't have to entirely scrap current supply and distributing mechanisms, melding these traditional ways of doing business with the Internet will also pose challenges, according to the pundits.
Growing demand for networks capable of offering mixed voice and data features has prompted a group of telecommunications industry veterans to announce last week the launch of Convergent Networks, aimed at providing carriers with switching products for integrated services. The new company's first product, the Integrated Convergence Switch (ICS), which comes with the company's Service Management Gateway (SMG), is due out by the end of the year, the company announced.
Microsoft announced three electronic commerce initiatives here yesterday in an effort to partner with companies that will help it offer one-stop shopping for businesses setting up storefronts on the Internet.
Computer industry insiders speaking yesterday at the fifth annual Internet & Electronic Commerce Conference & Exposition (iEC) were in violent agreement: the Net changes everything.
Michael Crichton, top-selling author of thrillers and director of hit movies, is turning his attention back to computer games. Crichton, who wrote a book about information technology, Electronic Life in 1983, and created an electronic game called "Amazon" in 1982, announced late last week that he is having another stab at creating computer games by forming Timeline Studios, to be based in Cary, North Carolina.
Microsoft appeared to stumble in its attempt to kick off its defence against the US Government's antitrust charges when its first witness conceded some points.
Computer Associates (CA) announced last week that it is continuing its aggressive acquisition strat-egy in the services arena with the purchase of LDA Systems (LDA), an information management consulting organisation that specialises in client/server, mainframe, mid-range and Internet technologies. All of LDA's 300 employees are joining CA. LDA has sustained an annual growth rate of 35 per cent over the last three years, according to CA. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
