Nielsen//NetRatings is reporting that broadband connections for the first time reached
51 percent of the American online population at home during the month of July, as compared to 38 percent last July. Sixty-three million Web users connected to the Internet via broadband during July 2004 as compare...
Mobile broadband networking products developer PacketHop today announced it has joined with wireless networks provider Nortel Networks to provide mobile communications technology targeting the homeland security market. Under the agreement, the companies will initially target the US$11 billion homela...
Telstra gained a head start on Australian rival entrants to the third generation mobile phone market with a US$450 million deal to share Hutchison Telecommunications' third generation infrastructure. The agreement ends speculation about whether Australia's biggest telco would build its own infrastru...
Electronic Arts announced an agreement to acquire Criterion Software Group from Canon Europe. With the acquisition, EA will assume Criterion's studio in Guildford, UK; two intellectual properties, Burnout and Black; and the RenderWare middleware technology. Under a previous agreement, Criterion's Bu...
Worldwide dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) revenue reached US$6.7 billion in the second quarter of 2004, a 19.8 percent increase from the first quarter of this year, according to preliminary results by Gartner. Hynix Semiconductor moved into the number two position in the second quarter of 2004 w...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the third and final day of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2004 -- the company's main event for business partners -- with a message of increased company investments to fuel innovation in the industry. "For businesses dedicated to innovating with tech...
George Samenuk, chairman and CEO of Network Associates, sent an e-mail to all company staff reassuring them that rumors of a Microsoft takeover are not true. "Many of you have seen the article in Computer Reseller News (CRN) which says that Network Associates is being acquired by Microsoft," said th...
Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia said Tuesday its global market share tanked in the first quarter due to bad design and shaky business relationships. Nokia's global market share fell to 28.9 percent in the first three months of the year, compared to 34.6 percent it held a year ago, reported Gar...