Tag: talks

Telco/ISP

Optus-NBN deal would make 'total sense', says Budde

By Ry Crozier | Oct 6, 2010 | 8 Comments

NBN Co thirsts for customers and engineering skills.

Telco/ISP

iiNet in talks to buy Netspace

By Ry Crozier | Mar 11, 2010 | Comment Now

Price estimates too high.

Telco/ISP

Telstra CEO available 'on-demand' for Conroy

By Munir Kotadia | Oct 29, 2009 | 9 Comments

Can't remember how many times they have met.

Security

Blacklists, whitelists and heuristics: Symantec describes new threats

By Kathryn Small | Nov 20, 2008 | Comment Now

iTnews talks to Vincent Weafer, VP Security Response, Symantec, about how server-side polymorphism is changing the security landscape.

Hardware

Dell talks about 80 core processor

By Sylvie Barak | Nov 20, 2008 | Comment Now

Get ready an 80-core monster machine from Dell. At SC08 yesterday, Michael Dell, Dell’s CEO gave a presentation which included a slide showing an 80 core chip which should tip ...

Finance

Yahoo may reignite talks with AOL

Sep 26, 2008 | Comment Now

The new board at Yahoo, which includes billionaire investor Carl Icahn, is to reopen talks with Time Warner about AOL, according to reports.

Finance

HP 'in talks' to buy EDS

By Shaun Nichols | May 13, 2008 | Comment Now

HP has announced an interest in buying IT services firm Electronic Data Systems (EDS.).

Software

Oracle talks up its Fusion Middleware plans

May 12, 2008 | Comment Now

Oracle previewed a number of planned enhancements, including better support for development and deployment of rich enterprise applications, for its Fusion Middleware family.

Networking

Microsoft 'in talks' to buy Facebook

By Shaun Nichols | May 9, 2008 | Comment Now

Microsoft has been speaking with social networking giant Facebook about a possible acquisition, according to reports..

Hardware

Nvidia talks up GPU 'supercomputers'

By Shaun Nichols | Feb 26, 2008 | Comment Now

Nvidia has claimed that its graphics chips are not just for gaming and watching movies..

Security

US talks up biometric border protection

By Clement James | Nov 16, 2007 | Comment Now

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed today that the first year of its Biometrics-at-Sea border protection programme has been a success and has accomplished its ...

Networking

IBM talks up virtualisation mobility

By Tom Sanders | Aug 7, 2007 | Comment Now

IBM expects that the ability to move running virtual partitions between physical servers will give the company an additional edge in the Unix server market.