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Nokia's flat Q1 warning prompts fears
News The Finnish manufacturer expects sales growth of around 25 to 30 percent in Q1, down on its previous prediction of 25 to 35 percent. The company also lowered sales forecasts for handsets during 2001 to between 500 and 550 million, down from an...
[January 31, 2001, 7:03]
Met Office buys IBM petaflop supercomputer
News The as-yet-unnamed supercomputer is being acquired from IBM in a deal worth £33m, and will be used for both standard weather forecasting and climate-change prediction. Short-range pressure and temperature prediction is already accurate but, with...
[August 5, 2008, 12:19]
Semiconductor industry to see worst-ever downturn
News The figures are worse than IC Insights' previous prediction, issued in March, of a 9 percent decline. If the prediction proves correct, 2001 will be worse even than 1985's record contraction of 20 percent.
[June 19, 2001, 12:23]
Has HP underestimated job losses?
News Matthew Boon, principal hardware platforms analyst at Gartner Research Australia, believes that the layoff figure will be much closer to Hewlett-Packard's prediction "give or take 10 percent". For Boon, the only reasonable prediction that can be...
[May 14, 2002, 10:51]
Is it boom time for IT security?
News Highlights of the report include the prediction that identity theft costs will triple from the estimated 2002 figure of $8.75 billion to $24 billion this year. Easier to understand is the prediction that companies will continue to dump first...
[February 24, 2003, 10:50]
Reports predict IT security spending will skyrocket
News Highlights of the report include the prediction that identity theft costs will triple from the estimated 2002 figure of $8.75bn (£5.54bn) to $24bn this year. Easier to understand is the prediction that companies will continue to dump first...
[February 24, 2003, 13:09]
Intel says first-quarter sales on track
News That prediction represents a narrowing of its January prediction for the quarter, which had revenue ranging from $6.5bn to $7bn. Intel said on Thursday that its first-quarter sales are on track with expectations, a potentially good sign for the PC...
[March 7, 2003, 7:42]
Nokia gets City thumbs-up
News Nokia told investors on Tuesday that its earnings per share in the fourth quarter of Q4 2001 would meet or exceed its earlier prediction of between 0.18 and 0.2 euros (between 0.111 pence and 0.124 pence).
[December 12, 2001, 11:14]
Motorola warning fuels mobile fears
News In January it warned that it was experiencing big drops in orders for its semiconductor and handset units, having already cut its earnings prediction for Q4 2000 by 40 percent. Fellow handset maker Nokia recently cut its prediction for worldwide...
[February 23, 2001, 13:45]
Security 'hit-list' for 2007 revealed
News Such a strong prediction is likely to draw fresh criticism of those peddling the mobile malware threat but Sans joins antivirus vendors such as F-Secure, McAfee and Symantec in making the case for greater mobile security.
[October 3, 2006, 8:45]
Tech visionary foresees mobile-phone revolution
News Kurzweil said display technology will also undergo a radical change, consigning the touchscreen-versus-keyboard debate to the history books — if his prediction of "virtual displays that hover in the air" comes to pass.
[May 20, 2008, 12:39]
IDC finds optimism in 2004's crystal ball
News Although manufacturers continue to promote the concept, real investments in server virtualisation and other techniques to more efficiently use computing resources will continue to lag," the prediction said.
[December 5, 2003, 8:25]
IDF: Intel unveils Banias secrets
News Lots of power is normally wasted doing pre-fetch and branch prediction, two high-performance mechanisms where a processor gets information in from memory ahead of time whether it's going to be needed or not.
[September 11, 2002, 13:57]
IDC revises PC forecast upwards
News Earlier this month, Gartner bumped up its prediction for worldwide PC shipments in 2003 to 164.3m units, a 10.9 percent increase from 2002. That forecast, released in August, was also an upward revision of an earlier prediction.
[December 12, 2003, 11:20]
The Big Interview: William Webb
News That prediction is not one of wireless technology grinding to a halt, however, but one of new and innovative services coming out using the technologies we already have. Ofcom deliberately chooses not to make predictions of the future, because in...
[December 12, 2006, 11:42]
What ails Oracle?
News Moreover, it's unclear whether that prediction will hold, given diminished spending expectations for the technology market as a whole. But this week, the company revised its prediction to say spending will rise just 0.4 percent for the year.
[September 17, 2004, 15:30]
What did Einstein ever do for us?
News The first of these papers, a doctoral thesis submitted in April, was Einstein's prediction that the size of molecules could be gauged by the effects of dissolving sugar in a liquid. His prediction proved to be not far from reality.
[June 3, 2005, 12:00]
Global IT spending to fall by 10pc
News The figure, from Forrester, is a drastic increase to the researcher's earlier prediction that worldwide IT spending in 2009 would fall by around three percent year-on-year. Worldwide spending on IT could drop by 10 percent this year, according to...
[July 1, 2009, 9:26]
Sophos: Gates will be proved wrong about spam
News Bill Gates' prediction of January 2004 that spam would be "a thing of the past" within two years has virtually no chance of coming true, according to security company Sophos this week. Sophos warned on Tuesday that spam will continue to be a major...
[December 6, 2005, 17:25]
Stanford, tech execs unveil science centre
News The goal of the centre is to tackle problems in geosciences, such as climate change, with better computational power for analysis, simulation and prediction of earth systems. Stanford University opened the doors on Tuesday to a new computational...
[June 21, 2006, 11:00]
