Emerging Tech

Hewlett-Packard has united its 25 software products into two solutions in an effort to add emphasis to its dedication to software.

Visitors to the massive IT and telecommunications trade fair CeBIT, which opens next week in Germany, are particularly interested in Internet and wireless telecommunications technologies, according to one survey.

Motorola, Inc.'s announced job cuts of 7,000 positions in its personal communications sector on Tuesday, citing continuing deterioration in the mobile handset market.

"Betrayed." "Devastated." "Abandoned." Those were some of the words networking systems managers used to describe how they felt when 3Com Corp. pulled the plug on its large enterprise networking business.

Microsoft Corp. will unveil new software next week that will allow Web services created using its .Net technology to run on computers that use operating systems other than Windows, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, said in a speech Monday evening in San Francisco.

Brampton, Ont.-based Nortel Networks Ltd. launched a suite of new products under its Personal Internet initiative at the end of January with the goal of enabling companies to create end-to-end personalized content delivery services.

A survey of U.S. companies released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and an association of IT security workers found that 85 per cent of the respondents detected computer security breaches in the past 12 months and 64 per cent suffered financial losses as a result of the incursions.

Business trends suggest that portals will play a larger role in organizations of every flavour, according to Matt Cain.