By publishing open APIs for developers, the ICQ division hopes to turn its instant messenger into an application platform -- a risky path that was also attempted and later abandoned by AOL's Nullsoft division with its Winamp multimedia player.
More laptops than desktops were sold in the US in May, according to a report released on Friday - a milestone in PC sales history. Occasionally, laptops have outsold desktops but those moments happen during a one-week period and are usually the...
In a recent poll of 279 silicon.com readers, 72 per cent said laptops will overtake desktops at some point in the future. Of those, approximately 10 per cent said laptops will outnumber desktops in one year, 18 per cent in three years and 15 per...
IDC's figures for Western Europe predict total PC shipments will increase by 7.9 per cent annually over the next five years - almost exactly halfway between the near-stagnant 1.2 per cent growth of desktops and the stellar 15 per cent predicted...
Meanwhile, in the US retail sales of laptops surpassed desktops in 2005. As worldwide desktop shipments continue to slow, laptops are expected to represent more than half of all client PCs by 2011, according to an IDC report.
At the core of the offering is an open set of application programming interfaces (APIs) offered by IBM as a subset of the Lotus Sametime collaboration capabilities, along with communication APIs provided by Cisco to access communications...
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