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Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning
Silicon Valley loves its buzzwords, and there's none more popular today than Web 2.0. Unless you're a diehard techie, though, good luck figuring out what it means. Web 2.0 technologies bear strange na...
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Bill Gates to Cede Software Reins in Era Change
REDMOND, Wash., June 15 — Three decades after he started Microsoft with the dream of placing a personal computer in every home and business, Bill Gates said Thursday that he would leave his day-to-day...
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Microsoft to launch Windows XP in Africa
ABUJA, Nigeria --Microsoft Corp. is targeting Africa with a lower-priced version of the Windows operating system that will work on cheaper machines and have Africa-themed screensavers and background w...
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Vonage on the line
Investors who want a slice of Vonage Holdings get their chance this week. Vonage, a pioneer of Internet-based phone services, is expected to set the price for its initial public offering on May 23. Ac...
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Microsoft rolls-out corporate search tool
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. plans to announce Wednesday that it will release a test version of a product to help workers simultaneously find information on their computer desktop, the ...
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The World's Most Innovative Companies
The World's Most Innovative Companies Their creativity goes beyond products to rewiring themselves. BusinessWeek and the Boston Consulting Group rank the best. It was a fitting way to wrap up th...
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Memo Outlines Microsoft's Plans
Last November, Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates kicked off what he called the era of "Live software," saying he'd unveil a host of new ways for consumers, businesses, and developers to gain access...
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What global executives think about technology and innovation
A recent McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives1 suggests that technology executives are more bullish about innovation and automation than are their business counterparts and see managing globa...
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The next generation of in-house software development
Most companies recognize the many advantages of buying software applications off the shelf rather than developing them in-house. By purchasing packaged applications (such as those from Microsoft, Orac...
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The next generation of in-house software development
Most companies recognize the many advantages of buying software applications off the shelf rather than developing them in-house. By purchasing packaged applications (such as those from Microsoft, Orac...
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Tech mergers should stay hot in 2006
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Mergers in the tech sector jumped last year from 2004, and investment bankers who work in the industry think that trend will continue in 2006. The dollar amount of deals i...
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IBM investing big in 'info-on-demand'
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- IBM will invest $1 billion to develop software and recruit thousands of consultants over the next three years to expand its business of making corporate information more accessib...
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Business Computing Market: Microsoft to Compete with IBM
Ever since the dawn of the info era more than 50 years ago, IBM (IBM) has been the 500-pound gorilla in large-business computing -- supplying technology and services to coordinate communications, proc...
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ACS says buyout talks end; shares drop
Shares of tech outsourcer dive 7 percent after private equity bidders make no move to purchase. January 17, 2006: 2:43 PM EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Technology outsourcing company Affiliated Comput...
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CTO CEO Sees Bumpy Rides in Roadmap for Networking the Commonwealth for Development
The Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, said at a lecture last night at the British Houses of Parliament that the Commonwealth fac...
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African broadband access accelerates
Broadband access has become increasingly available in Africa over the last four years according to the authors of a new report published by Balancing Act. The report is based on a survey of 100 operat...
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TSSI Verid+ fingerprint reader and Smartcard solution protects Ghana Telecommunications infrastructure
Ghana Telecom has installed TSSI's Verid+ iClass fingerprint reader at its facility in Accra, marking the first phase of a rollout programme that will eventually encompass all sites across Ghana. The ...
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Ghanaians look to SA for IT insight
Ghanaian deputy minister of communications Benjamin Aggrey Ntim was in Cape Town this week on a fact finding mission. Ntim visited Cape Town's Bandwidth Barn, an incubator project to foster IT entrepr...
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Internet access in Africa happening at snail's pace
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A giant underwater cable network connecting Africa to Europe and Asia provides Internet access to the planet's poorest continent but only a handful of countries seem to be enjoyin...
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Investcom signs agreement with Ericsson
Investcom LLc (formerly Investcom Holding), the leading international provider of mobile telecommunications services with operations in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, has awarded Ericsson a trio ...
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GOOGLE has trained millions of people to head first to the Web to find information. Can it now train consumers to buy? Late last month, Google Inc. introduced Google Checkout, a service that stores a user’s financial information and quickly shuttles them through checkout at retail sites. The program...
