Tech Stocks Tumble - No consensus on cause
News Yankee group analyst Andy Greenman thinks "the first step towards a major wobble" has occurred and believes Net sceptics who have predicted a massive crash could be right. Compaq's recent dismal performance coupled with the resignation of the...
[April 20, 1999, 12:05]
Smartphone market picks up in Europe
News While Palm is still the leading handheld vendor, and Sony continues to post good growth rates, the sheer number of vendors using Windows CE in their devices means that Palm OS is now in third place in EMEA," said analyst Andy Buss in a statement.
[April 23, 2003, 12:58]
Office, Vista changed in wake of Adobe threat
News We think it will be rare, because there is value and customers want it," group programme manager Andy Simonds said. Microsoft is making changes to the next versions of both Office and Windows as part of an effort to head off a legal challenge from...
[June 5, 2006, 9:10]
Digital TV 'tax' slammed by media alliance
News It is iniquitous to tell people to pay more for something they will have to migrate to," said Sky spokesman Andy Sholl. The alliance, unprecedented in modern media, is made of commercial broadcasters including ITV (including its contributing...
[August 2, 1999, 17:35]
Hilton hacker sent down
News The numbers included those of rapper Eminem, actor Vin Diesel, singers Christina Aguilera and Ashlee Simpson, and tennis players Andy Roddick and Anna Kournikova. A Massachusetts teen who admitted to accessing T-Mobile USA's internal systems and...
[September 15, 2005, 9:25]
Intel's results worry analysts
News Low-end desktops are an area of relative strength for AMD, and Intel estimated that AMD probably gained a percentage point of market share during the quarter, chief financial officer Andy Bryant said during a conference call after Intel's earnings...
[January 18, 2006, 8:05]
Contractor loses High Court IR35 case
News This was a confused and uncertain case which was not typical," said Shout99 founder Andy White. The High Court on Friday denied a software contractor's challenge to the IR35 tax regime in a case that a contractors' group called "a bitter blow" for...
[March 31, 2003, 15:45]
Trial: Now it's Microsoft's turn
News The shoe's going to switch and Microsoft is going to be the one being cross-examined, and that's where they really, really had problems last time around" in the main trial, said Andy Gavil, an antitrust professor with Howard University School of Law.
[April 15, 2002, 8:59]
Marconi in takeover talks
News Back in June Andy Evans, Marconi's CTO, predicted that other UK telcos might choose SoftSwitch as a way of building their own next-generation networks faster than BT. Shares in Marconi rose sharply on Monday morning after the UK telecoms...
[August 8, 2005, 11:50]
Google Australia wants techies home from UK
News Noble denied that working in IT engineering in Australia lacked "sex appeal" — the reason cited by Gartner fellow Andy Kyte for fewer engineering students graduating from universities in India — but said IT faced an identity crisis.
[February 6, 2008, 8:12]
Cyber-extortionists 'cost UK bookmakers £40m'
News Silicon.com's Andy McCue contributed to this report A gang of alleged cyber-extortionists arrested in Russia last week are accused of costing UK online bookmakers massive amounts of money through lost business.
[July 30, 2004, 10:55]
Tablet PCs: Is the writing on the wall?
News But Gartenberg's optimistic view of the future of tablets isn't shared by all analysts Andy Brown, IDC's programme manager for European mobile computers and devices, says that the handwriting recognition-based machines will comprise just one...
[July 1, 2005, 10:55]
Intel, AMD up sales forecasts
News On the logic (processor manufacturing) side, our factories are approaching full," said Andy Bryant, Intel's chief financial officer, on a confrence call. Things are looking better in chips. Intel on Thursday raised the range of its revenue...
[December 7, 2001, 11:38]
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[April 14, 2006, 8:00]
Microsoft under pressure on Windows XP
News A lot of this may be posturing about settlement," said Andy Gavil, an antitrust professor with Howard University School of Law. Lawmakers, trustbusters and competitors are turning up the heat on Microsoft, indicating they could seek to delay the...
[July 25, 2001, 8:56]
What has broadband done for us?
News Of course, these services existed before broadband, but the key point is that these applications are compelling enough for people to go out and buy broadband services, says Andy Kitchener, chief executive of e-commerce software vendor Shopcreator.
[March 31, 2004, 12:15]
Apple readies for Macworld amid rumours
News Though we do not expect a business update on demand trends, Jobs often uses his keynote as a focal point to drop some relevant metrics on the success of certain initiatives, such as a number of iTunes downloads," Bear Stearns analyst Andy Neff...
[January 6, 2004, 10:25]
Intel sees 76 percent drop in income
News We are confident that Intel Architecture business has returned to seasonal patterns," CFO Andy Bryant said during a conference call with analysts following the announcement. Intel beat analyst expectations in what was an otherwise dismal second...
[July 18, 2001, 9:13]
OpenOffice denies rift with Sun
News While the subject of a foundation has been raised, the fact is that Sun has already 'let go' of OpenOffice.org by purchasing StarDivision in 1999 and releasing the source code to StarOffice as free/open source software under the LGPL, making the...
[February 10, 2006, 15:45]
Microsoft to buy in more security skills
News Security analyst Andy Buss of Canalys predicted that Microsoft would have a bigger impact on the consumer market with its OneCare security service than in the business arena with Forefront. Microsoft will focus on rapid acquisitions to quickly...
[August 2, 2006, 15:50]



