Children today are the ultimate consumers - fashion-victims, peer-pressured, stupid, tone-deaf and much too comfortable. It`s all the fault of technology, but it`s a hallowed tradition, sometimes carried into adulthood.
In today`s technology roundup: an e-commerce mix-up may have led to Office 2003 prices leaked online; Microsoft abandons Outlook Express; 802.11g helps WiFi growth; SCO executives sell shares; and Steve Jobs tops the CEO salary list.
Striata has helped Samsung grow its SMS customer database through an inbound SMS campaign for the Samsung Matrix Reloaded competition.
In today`s technology roundup: Samsung plots ultra-wideband WLAN; CDs may be toppled by ringtones; mobile camera phones to outsell digital and film cameras; and Nvidia rejoins performance testing programme after cheating claims.
Comverse and the Portugal Telecon/Telefonica Moviles joint venture have demonstrated multimedia message servicing (MMS) over a CDMA 1XRTT network in Brazil.
Dataquest has placed Acer second in the local notebook market after it increased its sales by 208% in the second quarter of this year, says Acer.
Mobile network operators Vodacom and MTN have identified mobile applications, content, billing and usability as the main focus areas in getting subscribers to use their fledgling data services.
The Dell Latitude X300 notebook has been released in SA.
Tiscali believes the local cellular phone industry is continuing to grow nine years after the first networks went live, despite most analysts predicting it would slow down after five years.
In today`s technology roundup: SMTP creator says the protocol must go; consumer technology proves its worth as a US boy photographs his would-be abductor with his cellphone; AMD gains slightly on Intel; and French researchers criticise WLAN.
The Intermec 700 Colour Mobile Computer with SyVox speech recognition software has been made available through local distributor ProScan Systems.
Competition is driving down prices for wireless LAN training courses, with two companies, Poynting and Miro Distribution, going head-to-head in an increasingly cutthroat market.
Local distributor of in-car video/DVD technology, Tier One Distribution, has signed a deal to equip Land Rovers for export to Nigeria with video/DVD systems.