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Rivals to Handspring: Bring it on!
News With only a small amount of fanfare, Handspring on Tuesday officially announced its Visor handheld organiser -- and rivals Palm Computing and Microsoft said they welcome the competition. Handspring's device, based on Palm Computing's Palm operating...
[September 15, 1999, 9:03]
Rivals 'could beat BT' in the next-generation game
News BT may find that it is overtaken by smaller UK rivals in its push to radically transform its UK telecommunications infrastructure into an all-IP based network, a senior executive at Marconi suggested this week.
[June 10, 2005, 13:00]
Sage shaping up to take on its rivals
News As Brendan Flattery, Sage's managing director for the mid-market, told ZDNet.co.uk, the company hopes, through these application suites, to maintain revenue growth against rising competition from larger rivals such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.
[September 7, 2007, 16:41]
Browser rivals gaining on IE
News After resetting its methodology to better account for global variations, market analyst firm Net Applications' browser usage statistics have resumed an earlier trend in which Internet Explorer's main rivals edged ahead.
[September 3, 2009, 11:11]
Sun signs up to rivals' security standards
News Sun will now focus all its development work on WS-Security and work with its rivals to improve the specification through the OASIS group, said Bill Smith, Sun's director of Liberty Alliance technology.
[June 27, 2002, 15:52]
Google grabs search share from rivals
News Google's search share encroached on rivals, rising 0.4 percentage points to 63.5 percent from October to November Google took a chunk of market share from rival search engines in the US in November, new figures from ComScore show.
[December 22, 2008, 7:31]
Gmail opens up to rivals
News Google has quietly added a feature to its free email service that lets people import their address book contacts from rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online. Since the weekend, Google's free email service, called Gmail, has been letting its...
[July 21, 2004, 10:10]
Google offers rivals ability to resell e-books
News Google offered an olive branch to rivals of its digital book efforts at a congressional hearing on Thursday, but Amazon was not interested. Google offered an olive branch to rivals of its digital book efforts at a congressional hearing on Thursday...
[September 11, 2009, 8:47]
Gates: Rivals tried to 'castrate' Vista
News On the day that Microsoft Vista was finally ready to ship, company chairman Bill Gates took a swipe at his rivals, accusing them of attempting to "castrate" Vista before it was shipped. Gates' comments came as he spoke to journalists in Germany...
[November 10, 2006, 11:16]
Microsoft offers protocols to its rivals
News Microsoft is to allow rivals to use its own protocols for instant messaging, email and collaboration technologies. The pioneering move takes the company one step closer to complying with restrictions imposed on Microsoft by the European Commission...
[February 6, 2007, 15:26]
Rivals help improve Dell's outlook
News Dell Computer on Thursday raised its revenue and earnings outlook for the second quarter, saying it continues to gain market share from computer rivals. The company said it now expects revenue for the quarter that ends 2 August will reach $8.3bn...
[July 12, 2002, 7:45]
Smarts absorbs rivals' management data
News Smarts has made a bid to position itself at a higher strategic level than established rivals such as Micromuse with the launch of "Smart Adapters" that import data from other vendors' products into its InCharge product, to provide management...
[February 1, 2002, 17:42]
Can Magneto repel Microsoft's mobile rivals?
News The OS, code-named Magneto, is the latest in a string of software releases that highlight Microsoft's attempts to take on rivals including PalmSource and Nokia. Microsoft has licensed its ActiveSync technology to OS rivals palmOne and Symbian.
[May 9, 2005, 19:00]
Orange beats rivals to high-speed mobile data
News Mobile telecommunications giant Orange is attempting to steal a lead from its rivals in the race to provide high speed mobile data transfer services by filling the gap between current GSM technology and the much-hyped GPRS.
[September 24, 1999, 12:28]
Rivals encroach on Oracle's database lead
News Oracle holds the technological edge and regularly comes out with innovations that are copied by its rivals, analysts say. Analysts say that Oracle, with its huge customer base, has the wherewithal to fend off its rivals.
[October 16, 2001, 10:49]
Enterasys sues rivals for patent violation
News Enterprise LAN vendor Enterasys has filed a patent suit against rivals Extreme Networks and Foundry Networks, which one analyst sees as a sign of desperation by a company experiencing poor results. Enterasys claims Foundry Networks and Extreme...
[June 27, 2005, 13:40]
Smaller broadband ISPs outshine larger rivals
News The UK's smaller ISPs are outperforming their largest rivals when it comes to customer satisfaction, according to research published in Which magazine this week. The consumer rights group surveyed around 10,000 broadband users who used one of 23...
[August 3, 2005, 14:30]
Microsoft feuds with rivals over Vista security
News Microsoft and its security rivals are feuding over a key piece of Windows Vista real estate. A dispute still exists over "PatchGuard", a security feature that Microsoft says is designed to guard core parts of the 64-bit version of Vista, but which...
[September 20, 2006, 9:00]
Microsoft wants Office 14 to get on with rivals
News Microsoft isn't just trying to work with its rivals, though. Microsoft is looking at ways for Office to work better with rival efforts such as OpenOffice and Google Docs. The next version of Office will natively support the OpenDocument format (as...
[March 6, 2009, 8:17]
IBM pulls away from server rivals
News IBM increased its lead in a growing server market, nibbling away share from rivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun, according to figures to be released on Wednesday. Sales of servers worldwide increased 5.5 percent to $11.5bn in the third quarter of 2004...
[November 24, 2004, 7:30]
