Tag Archives: technology

Dell outlines enterprise strategy

Key message to customers: Whatever floats your boat. Not content to be left behind by the vision bandwagon, Dell has started to push its own agenda in the enterprise space. At a media briefing in Singapore in late October, Bruce Kornfeld, director of worldwide product marketing in Dell’s Product Group, touted the company’s Scalable Enterprise… Read More »

Marriage made in hell

Which is worse? A marriage of convenience or a marriage of necessity? If pundits can have it their way, they would probably bet against both.Just for the purpose of illustration, let’s take a closer look at the tussle between The SCO Group and the Linux camp. To SCO, the open-source movement is probably a marriage… Read More »

Wanted: Cybersecurity expert

The job of a cybersecurity administrator is unrewarding, to say the least. You get absolutely no credit for your successes (who’d know anyway?), whereas the slightest slip-up often gets magnified to epic proportion.In the aftermath of September 11, the tech industry jumped at the chance to marshal its strongest ideas in the war against terrorism.… Read More »

Canon’s xnu shapes up again

Shaping up more and more like a bread toaster, the new Canon xnu i255 can easily take its place on a kitchen table without looking out of place. But do not underestimate this bubble jet printer from Canon. With its non-optimised 4,800-dpi resolution, fast printing speed (12ppm monochrome/9ppm colour), and space-saving design, the xnu i255… Read More »

Another VERSAtile machine from NEC

Expanding NEC’s line-up of wireless mobile solutions, the new NEC VERSA E680 notebook combines wireless technology with unrivalled portability in a trendy two-tone chassis. The notebook, powered by Intel’s Centrino-based Pentium M processor, boasts 802.11b wireless connectivity and an extended battery life of up to 4.5 hours (based on the 14-inch model). For easy file… Read More »

It’s a Breeze to use!

Sick and tired of using Microsoft PowerPoint for your presentations, and not being able to repurpose the content for other uses later? Macromedia has a solution for you. Its recently launched Breeze presentation platform creates Flash-based rich media content from your PowerPoint presentations, which can be delivered online to audiences along with several niceties like… Read More »