HP heralds green PC with five-year lifecycle

HP is attempting to cash in on the current obsession with green technology with the launch a new energy efficient business PC range. The HP rp5700 Long Lifecycle Business Desktop PC range is fitted with an 80% efficient power supply, which the company claims is up to 15% more efficient than standard supplies. This reduces both energy consumption and waste heat emanating from the small form-factor PC. ...more

Lernout and Hauspie's accounts investigated

Speech-recognition specialist Lernout and Hauspie is being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after alleged accounting irregularities from its Korean division. The concerns came after L&H began an independent audit after the Korean division reported better than expected results. The firm reported sales of $143. ...more

BlackBerry plumps global handheld sales

The ever increasing presence of BlackBerry wireless email devices continues to bolster the worldwide market for handheld PDAs, according to the latest figures from Gartner. The market grew by 6.6 per cent in the first quarter of 2006, with 3,653,550 devices shipped, an increase of 225,000 on the same period in 2005. ...more

Web 2.0 flowers in IBM's Lotus Connections productivity suite

IBM's Lotus unit is set to launch a service called Connections, dubbed as a 'MySpace for office workers' IBM is taking the battle for productivity software into the social networking arena. Up against the latest offerings from Office 2007, IBM's Lotus unit is set to launch a service called Connections featuring the online sharing of information. In a bid to improve the workings of groups it combines five components: member profiles, activities, blogs, communities and something called 'dogear', which is IBM's term for how users share web bookmarks with colleagues. ...more

Google declares it is to go public

The worst kept secret in the dot com business is finally in the open. Search engine Google has filed papers with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering of shares. The company says it hopes to raise $2. ...more