Xerox's patent claim on Graffiti system to be thrown out of court

Handheld builder palmOne has had Xerox's claim that the Graffiti text entry system infringed one of its patents thrown out of court. District Court Judge Michael A. Telesca issued a summary judgement in favour of palmOne after deciding that the patent was invalid. ...more

Laser printers to take off in UK

The colour laser printer market is set to take off in the UK, according to CAP Ventures analyst, Stuart Robinson. He described the overall UK picture for the printer market as 'stagnant', and as 'reaching saturation point'. But the increased performance and decreasing prices of colour laser printers means they are an increasingly attractive proposition to SMEs looking to save money by doing more print jobs in-house. ...more

Evesham outraged by Compaq contract

UK PC vendor Evesham.com has spoken out over the Government handing a ?2m PC contract to Compaq. Members of Parliament are now restricted to buying their PCs from US company Compaq, which has recently cut 700 jobs at its Erskine fab in Scotland to move operations to Czechoslovakia. ...more

Email has lowest response in marketing campaigns

Email is one of the least effective methods of getting response to marketing campaigns. With only the sixth highest response rate which at 1.12 per cent email marketing lies well behind other methods of getting potential customers to respond The most effective is telemarketing at 5. ...more

Muslim hackers blast Denmark in Net assault

Gangs of pro-Muslim computer hackers have unleashed a withering cyber attack on Danish and Western websites in the past week, escalating their defacement barrage to coincide with dozens of violent street-level demonstrations across the Arab world in protest at the publication of a cartoon depiction of the Prophet Mohammed. The number of Danish websites alone - those carrying a '.dk' suffix - knocked offline in the past week numbered 578 between 30 January and 6 February, according to Zone-H. ...more