To reach the technology wary, Palm plans to sell the Zire in consumer retail stores such as Target, K-Mart and Radio Shack. The first Tungsten models, including Palm's first handheld running OS 5, are due to be unveiled on 28 October.
According to him, Carrefour is following the example of Wal-Mart in the US, which is selling PCs with Linspire's operating system or the Java Desktop System. France's number one supermarket chain, Carrefour, has launched a pilot project to sell PCs...
Larry Singer, Sun's chief competitive officer, said: "We've had folks in labs trying to tear apart their benchmarks, thinking they're doing benchmarketing, not benchmarking. In the case of IBM and HP, it can run operating systems besides Unix, and...
Prior to Dell, Mott spent 22 years at Wal-Mart Stores where he was a key figure in helping the big-box retailer automate its supply-chain systems. The source said: "When [Hurd] was at NCR, he got their costs under control by benchmarking.
The use of IT was highlighted as a key factor in successful organisations but the report claims UK firms still lag way behind US firms, which invest three times more in technology. Few regional differences between businesses were found in the study...
However, when Vista with the SP1 beta was put through benchmark testing by researchers at Devil Mountain Software the improvement was not overwhelming - leaving the latest Windows iteration outshined by its predecessor.