Dell guns for small business market with new laser printers

Dell today unveiled four new printers as it stated that aims to become the leading supplier worldwide. The company set out its strategy at its annual EMEA Product Showcase in Cannes, France. Since launching its own printers in the US in March 2003 Dell has grown its market share from zero to 19 per cent, mainly taking sales from HP (which has more than 40 per cent) and Epson. ...more

Web services the Kylix way

With an emphasis on delivering Web services, Borland has updated its Linux-based development system, Kylix. New features in Kylix 2 include BizSnap for quickly generating e-business applications, WebSnap for creating database driven Web application servers, and DataSnap for interfacing to databases from the likes of Oracle, Informix, and IBM. The rapid application development (RAD) system is available in three editions: Enterprise ($1,999), Professional ($249) and Open. ...more

Palm to launch Windows based Treo

The previously unthinkable is set to happen today. Palm is widely rumoured to be about to announce a Treo PDA/mobile phone running the Microsoft Windows operating system. The announcement is set to be made in San Francisco where Palm, Microsoft and US telco Verizon are planning to hold a joint press conference. ...more

AMD takes almost 10 per cent of Q3 chip revenues

The market recognition of AMD technologies in processors is at last starting to pay off in cash terms. According to market research from IDC, the Sunnyvale, California company took a shade under 10 per cent of all chip sales revenues in the third quarter of this year, the first time it has done so since Q1 2002. The strategy of moving from a low cost supplier of clones of Intel chips to supplying premium parts is paying off. ...more

Pipex follows fashion for restricted but cheaper broadband offerings

Pipex has joined the list of ISPs offering both sub-512K and limited-bandwidth ADSL services. Solo 150 and Solo 250 fall into the first category, with respective (and rather self-evident) downstream speeds of 150 and 250 Kbit/sec and upstream of 70 and 128Kbit/sec respectively. Solo 150 costs ?15. ...more