IBM on Friday will attempt to establish industry guidelines for the emerging field of highly automated computing systems. Big Blue will publish a blueprint that describes how information technology companies can make hardware and software more self...
Microsoft and Intel have teamed up to help electronics makers expand the market for portable video devices. Microsoft is developing a software environment, called Media2Go, for portable video players (PVPs) - small, portable machines designed to...
The building society has pushed on with a multi-platform approach to providing financial
services using the Nationwide brand. At the same time, it manages mainframes and high-end servers in-house from IBM, ICL, Tandem (Compaq) and Unisys.
Organisations looking to outsource their IT operations must ensure they do so in conjunction with the overall business strategies, according to Richard Sykes, former IT director of ICI and now chairman of Morgan Chambers.
Sun Microsystems has fought back against an attempted coup to wrest control of Java by outlining its future plans for the programming language. Speaking the day after Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and 12 other vendors announced the formation of a...
Internet guru, Ivan Pope, has been outlining plans for his role as chairman on the board of domain name company, Netnames. Pope has passed over his former role as CEO to Thomas Barrett so that he can focus on realigning his company towards digital...