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Telecom industry has saving graces, insiders say
News Despite the woes in the telecommunications industry, analysts and companies at the Robertson Stephens Optical Communications Conference on Tuesday maintained their faith that certain sectors can serve as safe havens.
[July 25, 2001, 14:41]
UK leads Europe in chip design
News The UK is well ahead of other European countries in what industry analysts say is the next big trend in the microprocessor world: chipless and fabless design. Industry analysts say that such companies, and particularly chip intellectual property...
[August 6, 2002, 15:09]
Gartner: PCs, handsets to lead electronics recovery
News The PC and mobile-phone sectors will be at the forefront of a general economic recovery within the electronics industry, according to analysts at Gartner. The home PC market "has held up better than expected", but corporate demand is depressed, the...
[October 13, 2009, 16:42]
Chip industry looks to 2GHz in 2001
News Microprocessor manufacturers will crack the 2GHz speed barrier and 3G devices will spur on the semiconductor industry in 2001, leading analysts predicted Thursday. In recent news, analysts said they expected to see less growth in the market during...
[January 19, 2001, 11:56]
Ofcom's BT deal wins cautious support
News Rival telecoms firms and industry analysts are in broad agreement that the plans, announced on Thursday morning, would mean greater competition -- which should ultimately benefit individual customers.
[June 23, 2005, 17:45]
Legal woes, stock drop mar Rambus' future
News Industry analysts say the company faces an uncertain future as its patent litigation against several large memory makers plays out in the courts -- litigation potentially worth millions of pounds. Disclosures about Rambus' conduct may have damaged...
[July 13, 2001, 15:14]
Does Wanadoo want Freeserve?
News Sunday Business reported this week that Wanadoo, which floated in July, is "in the race" to buy Freeserve, and industry analysts have also pointed to Wanadoo as a new possible parent. Freeserve said on Thursday unmetered access was helping it win...
[October 2, 2000, 10:34]
CRM market will show 'gradual increase'
News According to an IDC report released on Monday, the customer relationship management services industry is expected to grow 11.3 percent, on an annual compounded rate, to $101bn by 2007, but analysts caution that much of the growth for this year and...
[April 8, 2003, 10:23]
Hard-drive industry shows continued growth
News Despite industry leader Seagate's poor results earlier this year, analysts have said there is still plenty of demand for hard disk drives. Seagate reported its earnings in April, and revenue was below what analysts were expecting.
[July 23, 2008, 8:23]
EMC earnings to illuminate storage industry health
News When EMC reports earnings Tuesday morning, investors will get to see which analysts are right in the debate about whether the storage industry is insulated from the slowdown in computer technology spending.
[January 23, 2001, 10:20]
Net appliances: The next frontier
News For some time, analysts have predicted that Internet appliances may be the computer industry's next frontier. In order to appeal to consumers and to keep from competing with low-cost PCs, analysts have said Net appliances should be priced below $300.
[November 22, 2000, 8:56]
Intel's results worry analysts
News Intel's surprise departure from its own expectations for fourth-quarter earnings and revenue left executives, analysts and investors worried about the state of the PC industry heading into the new year.
[January 18, 2006, 8:05]
Memory price rises set to continue
News Industry consolidation, product diversity and changes in the customer base and other factors should result in fairly stable prices for the memory that goes into PCs and servers, according to memory executives and analysts.
[March 13, 2002, 9:27]
Rumours of ISP industry tryst for EarthLink and MSN
News Industry analysts say a tie-up could behoove both companies in their battles with online giant AOL Time Warner. Citing a number of factors, some analysts believe a deal between MSN, Microsoft's Internet unit, and EarthLink is not just a possibility...
[February 13, 2001, 10:30]
New ISDN prices could lure users
News With the growth of the Internet, teleworking and other trends leading businesses to re-examine bandwidth issues, ISDN could finally be poised for sharp growth according to analysts, and the price restructuring was welcomed by the industry.
[August 21, 1996, 17:32]
Reports on Xbox delay premature
News The newspaper later said the statement was incorrectly attributed to Ballmer and instead was meant to reflect general expectations by industry analysts on the timing of next-generation video game consoles.
[June 23, 2003, 8:14]
Online gaming could run and run
News Game stocks have surged so far this year -- and they could have more space to expand, if analysts and game companies are to be believed. And there's room for more gains, some analysts believe. Most observers believe the game software industry is on...
[July 5, 2001, 13:00]
Intel and AMD face yo-yoing chip market
News However, other industry and Wall Street analysts shouted the report down. Instead, the company held back adding capacity, and it's paying for it now, analysts said. Intel alone has boosted its 2000 capital spending estimates to $6bn from $4bn in...
[July 17, 2000, 14:17]
The Day Ahead: Dell cornered by growth expectations
News That's becoming a key question as Dell continues to lower analysts' revenue expectations. Analysts were wondering out loud why Dell doesn't just change its benchmark. Some analysts noted that Dell's competitors -- notably Compaq -- are "less dumb...
[October 5, 2000, 12:04]
Intel makes IA-64 patent move
News But industry analysts say it's an inherent part of the industry. Legal analysts said Intel's intent appears to be to block competitors from making products similar to IA-64, which is ultimately intended to replace the x86 architecture upon which...
[November 2, 2000, 7:00]
