1780 - Steam engine inventor James Watt obtains a British patent for letter copying presses, which James Watt & Co produced that year.
Oracle will be unveiling Oracle database 11g at the Oracle Open Days 2007 conference and exhibition.
In this World Wide Wrap: iPod stores files, long live the hard drive, and online storage space doubles.
CA Information Governance allows companies to reduce risk and fulfil their compliance, legal and business requirements.
In this World Wide Wrap: Companies look to virtualisation, GIS conference discusses continuity, and Sri Lanka Telecom picks EMC.
Information should be treated like any other asset, says Jean Moncrieff, CEO of Emerge Africa.
The company`s FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional was named a Trend-Setting Product of the Year for 2007. [Local rep: Deltalink Consulting]
The solution unites interoperability and virtualisation with services in an open, secure environment.
In this World Wide Wrap: SOA enables Web 2.0, VMware aids SME virtualisation, and IBM takes on Enterprise 2.0.
In this World Wide Wrap: Vision gained with WiFi, Leaf Networks fills void, and Sun plans storage, server merger.
In today`s technology roundup: McDonald`s serves up WiFi, Google and IBM partner, Seagate boosts notebook storage, and VMware gets greener.
The company's EAS 6 for the Microsoft 2007 generation of products is now available. [Local rep: Soarsoft Africa]
In this World Wide Wrap: BT targets SMEs, VMware eyes SME market, and Hammer signs SME deal.