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AMD drops on downgrade
News Shares of AMD slumped 2 to 60 3/4 after an analyst downgrade Monday morning. US Bancorp Piper Jaffray analyst Ashok Kumar said in a note that the firm could lose share during its transition from K6 to Duron processors.
[August 7, 2000, 15:31]
Gartner: tread carefully as IM doors swing open
News Analyst group Gartner has warned its customers to take extra security precautions as companies such as IBM and Microsoft begin allowing federated access to both corporate and public instant messaging services.
[February 8, 2006, 12:10]
Xbox sales 'sluggish'
News Microsoft's Xbox game console sold worse than expected in November, according to an analyst, in a research note that may not bode well for the console's sales over the Christmas shopping season. Banc of America Securities analyst Bob Austrian said...
[December 16, 2002, 13:32]
HP merger opponent gains support
News A Wall Street analyst on Wednesday said she agrees with many points made by dissident Hewlett-Packard board member Walter Hewlett, including that HP should reconsider a spinoff of its lucrative printing and imaging businesses.
[February 21, 2002, 8:46]
News Burst: Intel leaving 'dead zone' open to competition
News Intel is leaving itself vulnerable to a serious attack from AMD microprocessors over the next 12 months, according to an industry analyst. The dominant microchip manufacturer, whose chips run the majority of PCs, is not planning a high-end chip for...
[August 15, 2000, 12:39]
Gartner: IT innovation can rescue US from recession
News IT innovation will be a key factor in helping the US to get out of recession, said analyst house Gartner on Monday. The senior analyst said IT executives should start scheduling meetings with business unit managers and executives, review their IT...
[April 9, 2008, 12:07]
Get ready to buy your own work PC
News The majority of the technology adopted by businesses in the future will have its roots in the consumer market, said analyst Gartner which also believes that companies will soon start encouraging employees to purchase their own PCs.
[January 3, 2006, 14:30]
Cool award for storage-robot maker
News Storage specialist Data Robotics has been awarded the title of Cool Vendor in Storage by analyst Gartner for Drobo, its low-cost storage robot. It is an impressive little box, but the steep price tag — $500 without any hard drives — will limit its...
[April 18, 2008, 16:16]
Processor 'dead zone' looms for Intel
News Intel is leaving itself vulnerable to a serious attack from AMD microprocessors over the next 12 months, according to an industry analyst. The dominant microchip manufacturer, whose chips run the majority of PCs, is not planning a high-end chip for...
[August 15, 2000, 16:44]
India wins lion's share of outsourcing
News India alone will soak up more than half the world's offshore business-outsourcing revenue this year, according IT analyst firm Gartner. Organisations have been cautious in their adoption of offshore BPO services, so growth in offshore delivery is...
[July 9, 2003, 8:16]
The Day Ahead: Kumar versus Brocade
News Say what you will about USB Piper Jaffray analyst Ashok Kumar, but he doesn't run with the herd. The outspoken analyst said IP SAN products are the next frontier and Brocade doesn't have a plan. Mark Specker, an analyst at WitSoundView reckons that...
[August 22, 2000, 11:59]
Sun shines through tech clouds - just
News Sun Microsystems edged a penny ahead of lowered analyst expectations Thursday, reporting pro forma net income of $263m (£182m), or 8 cents a share, on revenue of $4.1bn. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi expects a more "sheepish" attitude from Sun.
[April 20, 2001, 8:17]
Amazon slides on management shift
News Shares of Amazon.com continued their downward slide Wednesday morning in the wake of a harsh Lehman Brothers analyst report and upheavals in management. Today, Lehman analyst Holly Becker cut her rating to "neutral" from "buy", stating that she was...
[July 26, 2000, 17:00]
OpenOffice.org dismisses pro-OOXML report
News OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format. Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday, OpenOffice.org's marketing lead for...
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
Security holds back Web services
News Security issues are the number one roadblock to takeup of Web services, according to one market analyst. But Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at US-based XML and Web services analyst ZapThink, thinks it's still security concerns that are holding Web...
[July 11, 2002, 9:08]
Symbian confident of Nokia's support
News Symbian, Sony Ericsson and Motorola claim they are confident Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech will leave them unscathed, despite analyst suggestions to the contrary. On Wednesday the Ovum analyst Adam Leach wrote on his firm's website that the...
[January 30, 2008, 16:44]
Dell printer rumours get stronger
News A pair of analyst reports issued on Tuesday added to a torrent of recent speculation that the Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker's next move will be into the printer market. The company is more likely to enter the market through an OEM partnership.to...
[July 10, 2002, 10:00]
Businesses urged to address VoIP threats
News As VoIP products and services become more widely used by businesses, analyst Ovum has warned that while companies are concerned with voice quality and functionality they are not considering all the potential security risks associated with VoIP.
[November 13, 2006, 14:01]
European IT Forum: WAP needs lessons from i-mode
News Don't back i-mode to beat WAP in Europe is the unequivocal message from industry analyst IDC at the European IT Forum in Monte Carlo Tuesday. Senior Research Analyst for Wireless and Mobile Telecommunications, Tim Sheedy, tells delegates that...
[September 12, 2000, 11:55]
Microsoft and Linux 'to overtake Symbian'
News A new analyst report has predicted that smartphone OS leader Symbian will soon be toppled by two relative upstarts of the mobile world. In 2010, the analyst house said, Symbian will see its market share halved to around 22 percent, while Windows...
[February 20, 2006, 8:45]
