Technologies

Sun Microsystems has recruited one of its biggest customers yet for its StarOffice software, signing a contract with the Ontario Ministry of Education covering 2.5 million students.Sun Microsystems has recruited one of its biggest customers yet for its StarOffice software, signing a contract with the Ontario Ministry of Education covering 2.5 million students.

Macalla has an extensive track record in delivering interactive and notification-based
multi-channel/device solutions to a range of vertical markets.

When you travel, we believe you have at any given moment a value that we call a context.

Fonepool has selected leading mobile applications company Macalla Software to deliver a remote prepaid phone payment solution for J1 students working in the US. The top-up service will be exclusively handset based, eliminating any need for vouchers, and is available from June 1 2004.

Qatar fuel Additive Company (QAFAC) signed a License agreement with Qatar e-Government to start benefiting from its electronic governmental services.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) and Software AG have formed a business alliance to deliver add-on technology for Software AG's Tamino XML Server 4.1 to support Sun's StarOffice(tm) Software 6.1 productivity suite

For the mobile operator, topping up prepaid accounts by SMS has several benefits. It is a lower-cost method of adding credit than vouchers, by about 10-15%.

Telco Contracts announced in March 2004

More than a year after the widespread launch of MMS services, operators remain reluctant to divulge too much information about the MMS traffic they carry on their networks. Vodafone, for example, released details of Java downloads by its live! subscribers in July, but stayed silent on MMS traffic.

Mobile operators are almost exclusively selling MMS-capable devices with color screens, many with built-in cameras. By year-end, 23% of all mobile phones in Europe will be MMS-capable and more than 55 million are expected to have built-in cameras. These statistics show a strong and growing base of MMS-capable phones.

According to data released this week by research firm Gartner (gartner.com), worldwide server sales were up 27.1 percent in the first quarter of 2004, reaching 1.57 million units.

With the increase of more and and more Portal Services, Telcos and eGovernments are under pressure to respond with not only single sign on, but single registrations for services bundles.

Linux siphoned market share from UNIX in the relational database management system (RDBMS) market, a niche that grew 158 percent from $116 million in new license revenue in 2002 to nearly $300 million in 2003.