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HP launches colour phone-PDA

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) launched a PDA (personal digital assistant) with integrated cell phone and color display for the European and Japanese markets at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France today.

Palm completes split of hardware, software units

Palm Inc. has spun off its software business in an effort to encourage more manufacturers to license its Palm OS operating system for PDAs (personal digital assistants).

European PC sales fall, but beat global trend

A decline of 5.1 percent in PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in the fourth quarter of last year isn't great news -- but it's better than the 6.7 percent fall measured worldwide by research company International Data Corp. (IDC).

IBM supercomputer to help in Mars trip

IBM Corp. will provide the University of Texas at Austin (UT) with powerful supercomputing systems for research into areas including planned flights to Mars and next-generation Internet 'Grid' computing, the company said on Friday.

How to survive the IT recruitment drought

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Yankee Group: Mobile commerce needs good content

The European mobile commerce market will be worth over $50 billion by 2006, but only if the wireless industry acts quickly to promote wider content and service creation from third parties, Yankee Group Inc. predicted in a report released Friday.

Survey: Inertia keeps Microsoft IIS sites running

The number of Websites using Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Information Services (IIS) software continued to climb in September, despite the effects of Code Red, the closure of a major Web hosting company using IIS, and an analyst's warning that IIS users should look for more secure alternatives, according to a report from Netcraft Ltd. released Monday.

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