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IBM lands storage start-up XIV

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:05:36 +0000

IBM has agreed to acquire XIV, a privately-held developer of software to run large enterprise storage systems. XIV's flagship Nextra platform allows multiple storage devices and applications to be managed under a single system. The... Read more...

Former Cisco exec lands at Joost

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:18:06 +0000

Mike Volpi, who previously headed up Cisco's routing business, has been appointed chief executive at online video start-up Joost. He left Cisco in February citing personal reasons after working for 13 years with the networking... Read more...

Nokia Lands High-Speed Wireless Contract From U.S. Army

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:04:02 +0000

Motorola is cutting jobs and watching profits drop. What's Nokia up to? Making deals with the world's largest military power. That was a no-brainer. The U.S. Army has awarded Nokia a contract to build a... Read more...

Infineon Lands Contract for Passport Security Chips

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:10:29 +0000

Infineon Technologies said Monday it had landed an order for millions of data storage chips from the U.S. government, which will be featured in a new generation of electronic passports.The exact size of the contract... Read more...

'Googling' Lands In Dictionary

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:56:05 +0000

On Thursday, Merriam-Webster stamped its approval on a raft of words that will appear in its next dictionary update, including the verb "google" and other tech terms such as "spyware" and "mouse potato." The words... Read more...

Gateway lands on another retailer's shelves

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:36:30 +0000

Gateway plans to announce Monday that its desktops will soon be selling on CompUSA's shelves. The deal comes after pacts with Best Buy and Best Buy Canada and is part of the... Read more...

MLB lands Microsoft, America Online deals

Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:54:10 +0000

Microsoft is expected this week to pay as much as $40 million over two years to video stream live Major League Baseball games onto PCs, sources said on Monday, heightening competition with rival RealNetworks and... Read more...

Nvidia lands Doom 3 deal

Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:22:44 +0000

The GeForce FX line will be the official graphics cards for Activision's upcoming shooter. A new page on the Nvidia Web site has revealed that the company has struck a deal with... Read more...

IBM lands huge German mainframe contract

Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:42:05 +0000

IBM Corp. will deliver 20 high-performance mainframe computers to a German financial IT service company in a deal worth over €100 million ($127 million), IBM spokesman Hans-JÃ¼rgen Rehm said Friday. Sparkassen Informatik GmbH... Read more...

DVD copying fight lands in UK

Darren Bolton — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:37:25 +0000

Motion Picture Association of America calls for UK ban on sale of DVD-copying software. A US software company is fighting moves by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to have the sale... Read more...

Microsoft lands big contract from Army

Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:52:06 +0000

Microsoft won a $478 million, six-year contract to provide software to the U.S. Army, the biggest order ever for the company's programs. The agreement covers 494,000 desktop computers, Microsoft spokesman Keith Hodson said.... Read more...

Ex-Sega Chief Lands In Microsoft

Marcel Klum — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:51:37 +0000

A couple of days ago Sega America President, Peter Moore resigned in uncertain circumstances. Most believed that his resignation was due to lower than expected profits for the fiscal year of 2002. However it has... Read more...

Compaq lands big-budget deals

Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:32:12 +0000

Compaq Computer has snared two mammoth three-year contracts, one with defense contractor Raytheon for $200 million to $250 million and one with Swedish cell phone maker Ericsson for $150 million. Compaq beat... Read more...

Nvidia Xbox win lands staff with insider trading suits

Tue, 20 Nov 2001 00:41:50 +0000

Eleven Nvidia staffers and four associates stand accused of making $1.7m through insider trading, after the company told employees it had won the contract to supply Microsoft's Xbox games console with graphics chips. ... Read more...