Vodafone breaks through 200 million customers

Against the backdrop of year-on-year revenue growth of more than five per cent, the mobile giant now boasts a customer base of more than 200 million. Vodafone yesterday announced that it added an extra 8.7 million customers to its books in the last three months of 2006, helping its overall customer base to swell to more than 200 million users. ...more

Freescale to debut two new PowerPC processors

Motorola's wholly-owned chip making subsidiary, Freescale, will introduce two major additions to its range of PowerPC processors at the forthcoming Multiprocessor Forum. Freescale first announced the e600 and e700 cores and platforms when it outlined its roadmap in April. The e600 succeeds the G4 that Apple currently deploys in its iBook, PowerBook, eMac and soon-to-be-replaced iMac lines, whilst maintaining full backwards compatibility. ...more

Samsung claims world's smallest laser printer

Samsung is claiming the world's smallest laser multifunction printer in its SCX-4200. The company claims that the mono printer is some 15 per cent smaller than its predecessor and 15 per cent lighter than its closest rival. It measures 16. ...more

Downloads chart debut delayed

The merging of downloads sales figure into the main UK Chart, which was due to go ahead in March, has been put back to 17 April. The BPI has asked the Official Charts Company to delay the merger because it is concerned that independent labels are under-represented in online stores. 'For a multitude of reasons, the current chart representation of independent repertoire at the major download outlets is poor,' explained BPI chairman Peter Jamieson. ...more

Sun floats idea of buying Novell to taunt IBM

Reports that Sun is considering buying Novell have pushed the latter's share prices up nearly 7 per cent in trading yesterday. A post in the blog of Sun's Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz on Sunday - the eve of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco - drew attention to Novell as the potential target of a Sun acquisition. Novell is currently valued at $2. ...more