Report: One-third of China handset makers to disappear
Posted by inet on 2005-11-20
Article Source : EE Times
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Thirty percent of China's handset makers will be gone by the end of 2006 due to the segmentation and centralization of China's handset market, according to a report by Analysys International.
In its Quarterly Tracker on Handset Market 2005-Q3, the firm said increasingly fierce competition in China's handset market had
While Microsoft has had some 20 years to make Office what it is today, most industry analysts say that new open-source contenders, such as OpenOffice, measure up reasonably well against Redmond's suite. But they also say that while these suites do have most of the features of Microsoft Office, they lack certain advanced capabilities
Google Inc. on Friday launched a program that gives ad publishers the option of displaying an "advertise-on-this-site" link that takes advertisers to the search engine.
The initiative is an extension of Google's site-targeted advertising program AdSense, which launched this year. The link takes potential advertisers to a page where they
Alienware has released a new mobile workstation featuring high-performance AMD Opteron processors.
The company, which manufactures desktop, notebook, server and professional systems, has announced its new MJ-12 m7700a. The AMD-complement to Alienware's top-selling mobile commercial workstation has desktop-equivalent processing and graphics capabilities, dual hard drives and optical drives.
Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will start marketing Japanese versions of two new server software products in February, as the U.S. software giant moves to bolster its enterprise business in Japan.
Microsoft, which dominates the personal computer software industry, has positioned its server software business as one of its key
The number of people worldwide using mobile phones will likely reach 3 billion by 2010, a Nokia Corp. executive said Thursday. Currently, the Helsinki-based cell phone maker, the world's largest in terms of market share, said about 2 billion people have the phones.
BellSouth said Thursday it is expanding the WiMAX wireless broadband service it has been offering in Athens, Georgia.
The company said that it has installed a third radio tower in Athens, which will expand the availability of the service. Besides Athens, BellSouth has also launched WiMAX service in Palatka, Florida and New
Apple has released an update to Front Row, bringing it to version 1.0.1. The new release is available for download from Apple’s Web site.
Front Row is a new application which debuted with Apple’s recently refreshed iMac G5 line. Paired with a wireless remote control included with the iMac, Front
Posted by iTech on 2005-11-20
Article Source : eWeek
The open-source Mozilla Foundation released the latest iteration of its Firefox Web browsing software on Friday, promising faster navigation, increased customization and improved security in the third beta version of its upcoming application.
Labelled Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3, the new installment of the Web browsing software claims many of
The United States claimed victory this week in the contest to keep control of the computers crucial for directing Internet traffic. But approval Friday of a plan to leave Washington squarely in charge hasn't fully ended the debate: The European Union and a host of other countries are suggesting that a new multinational forum,
