Microsoft has bought graphics and technical-drawing company, Visio, for $1.3bn, the software giant is paying for the deal with a share swap. Jeremy Gittens, group marketing manager for business productivity division, said "Visio and Office go well...
IBM and NEC have announced a plan to integrate their electronic watermarking technologies and push them as part of the DVD standard. The move is designed to prevent the copying of data from the disks.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) will roll out its internet pharmacy logo in 2008 to identify accredited online pharmacies. The logo (shown below) will include the unique registration number of the pharmacy, hyperlinked to...
Lenovo plans to stop using the IBM logo on its products, with a complete switchover before next summer's Beijing Olympics. The Chinese company bought IBM's PC business three years ago and is currently the fourth-largest PC maker in the world.
Speaking at Comdex in Las Vegas, Carly Fiorina, HP's president and CEO said the new logo will be based on the company initials, and will apply to all products from desktop printers to high-end servers.
In an unprecedented step Microsoft has given Dell permission to remove its Internet Explorer (IE) browser symbol from the Windows 98 desktop. Clive Longbottom, analyst at Strategy Partner International, told Silicon.com the move was linked to the...