Another challenge to QWERTY's dominance
News While many still accept Dvorak's claim, the actual product failed to undermine QWERTY's dominance. John Parkinson thinks the world has been tied to an Industrial Age keyboard for long enough. One of a long line of entrepreneurs and scientists who...
[December 23, 2005, 8:45]
HP targets Cisco dominance with core switch
News HP ProCurve has launched a core switch that it hopes will challenge Cisco's market dominance. HP ProCurve hope its 8212zl core switch will challenge Cisco's market dominance The 8212zl, launched on Monday, is a scalable chassis core switch platform...
[September 10, 2007, 14:35]
Red Hat ready to tackle Microsoft's desktop dominance
News Szulik is aware of Microsoft's dominance. Red Hat is warming to the use of the Linux operating system on desktop computers, a difficult market where customers are picky and Microsoft is the leader. Red Hat, the leading seller of Linux, gets the...
[June 24, 2002, 16:41]
Oracle, UnitedLinux deal to threaten Red Hat's dominance?
News UnitedLinux is a four-company consortium made up of SuSE, the SCO Group, Turbolinux and Conectiva, which teamed up to present a single front against Red Hat's dominance in the industry. The database heavyweight announced on Thursday that it would...
[March 14, 2003, 9:03]
Windows dominance to last 'two to four years'
News Microsoft's dominance in operating systems will continue -- though only for the next few years. According to Mark Russinovich, co-author of Microsoft Press' Windows Internals and Inside Windows 2000, Microsoft will preserve its software dominance...
[November 17, 2004, 14:45]
Computacenter claims UK channel dominance
News Computacenter has re-affirmed its dominance of the UK reseller market announcing a 60 per cent increase in turnover for 1996 to £804.5 million. Pre-tax profits increased by 166 per cent to £40 million, compared with £15 million in 1995.
[May 1, 1997, 12:06]
ARM chip dominance defies market slump
News UK chip designer ARM Holdings is continuing to thrive despite the continued slump in the IT market, and on Monday announced 42 percent revenue growth for the three months ended 30 September. The results arrive on the back of several high-profile...
[October 15, 2001, 14:19]
HP dents IBM supercomputer dominance
News Though the places are fairly low -- most of them in the 500 to 300 range -- the systems helped undercut IBM's gradually increasing dominance on the list. IBM's overall dominance continues, though. IBM has seized six of the top ten spots in a list...
[June 21, 2001, 9:31]
Nokia fights to retain smartphone dominance
News But the big question is whether Nokia's efforts will be enough to stave off further market-share erosion, or if the company will slowly lose dominance as others, such as Apple, RIM and the upcoming slew of new Google Android phones and updated...
[March 13, 2009, 14:52]
Google's long-term dominance doubted
News When it comes to search engines, people overwhelmingly prefer Google -- but increasing competition from a number of rivals could eventually threaten the company's top spot, a study has shown. The survey released Tuesday by market research firm...
[May 26, 2004, 8:30]
News Burst: Radio waves to shake BT's broadband dominance
News The government is to announce the auction of significant parts of the radio spectrum, offering a low-cost alternative to high-speed Internet access. In reports experts agree the technology will be better than BT's ADSL offering.
[July 5, 1999, 10:33]
IBM cements outsourcing dominance
News IBM leads the pack in the $68.5bn (£41.08bn) information technology outsourcing market, but Hewlett-Packard and a handful of overseas companies are gunning to catch up, says research company IDC. In a recently published report, IDC said Big Blue...
[October 2, 2003, 11:15]
US Report: Net giants battle for portal dominance
News And some of the players are likely to strike out before long. Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, Yahoo! and others have been adding features at a furious rate in an attempt to turn themselves into Web portals, a term for multifeatured gateways to the Internet.
[May 11, 1998, 7:32]
MPs unhappy over ADSL dominance
News A group of MPs has warned that Britain's broadband market could suffer because BT is the only company capable of running a national high-speed network at present. The Trade and Industry select committee, in a report published on Tuesday, said that...
[February 10, 2004, 16:50]
IBM and Intel manoeuvre for blade-server dominance
News IBM and Intel plan to announce on Thursday a new step in their effort to establish their design as the dominant blade server technology, but other server makers favour a traditional standards process.
[September 2, 2004, 9:15]
Is America's IT dominance under threat?
News If David Patterson had his way, the president of the United States would congratulate top code jockeys just like the commander-in-chief applauds the winners of the Super Bowl. That would send a message about the importance of technology...
[April 20, 2005, 15:15]
AOL aims for mobile dominance
News AOL Anywhere may have just landed with the World's largest ISP inking deals with Ericsson, Nokia and RTS Wireless, to spread the word according to Steve Case and Co. AOL will work with telecommunications giants Ericsson and Nokia in developing...
[February 8, 2000, 6:09]
Compaq boasts server dominance
News Compaq's ProLiant 5000 range took almost 80 per cent of the server and super server market, according to a report by market research firm IDC. In addition, Compaq said the fastest model in the line was the first to break the Transaction Processing...
[September 24, 1996, 17:22]
Siemens tackles Microsoft IPTV dominance
News Recent speculation about problems with Microsoft's new Internet Protocol television software could give Siemens, the German telecommunications equipment giant, just the opportunity it's looking for to break into the emerging IPTV market.
[June 14, 2005, 12:24]
Broadband technologies vie for dominance
News Alcatel's announcements included a further extension of its Chinese DSL dominance in a deal with Zhejiang Telecom, adding 180,000 DSL lines to the Zhejiang province, and joining other deals including one with the dominant Chinese provider, China...
[October 31, 2002, 9:36]



