Delta Air Lines has signed up HP and IBM to provide desktops and laptops respectively to its employees through its "Wired Workforce" programme; but leading analysts think the move will have a detrimental effect on rival Compaq.
PeoplePC, the company behind wired workforce schemes at Ford and Delta Airlines, has been snapped up by US ISP Earthlink for $10m. PeoplePC had also clinched contracts to provide home computers to workers at Bertlesmann, Ingersoll, the New York...
A remote settlement in Iran has become the first village in the country to get online after a local lad used his US engineering qualification to get the neighbourhood wired up. While donkeys in the Iranian village of Shahkook still outnumber cars...
This enables support for the main picture formats, gif, jpeg, tiff, png and windows bitmap, and the power to decode digital music files. The WMA11B connects on one side to standard audio and video jacks or s-video connector, and the other via a...
Record companies in Europe, however, still seems to be worried about the prospect - Bertelsmann BMG, the world's fifth-largest record label, recently launched CDs in three formats including luxury and no-frills version to deter unauthorised copying.
McFie added the system also contributes to the company's green commitments, because it allows communications to be sent out in a variety of electronic formats, such as email or PDF, as well as paper. Norwich Union head of delivery, Scott McFie...