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iPhone 3G helps boost O2 sign-ups
News The results also showed fewer customers were leaving O2 in the third quarter of this year than in the same quarter last year, with 'churn' down from 1.7 percent to 1.3 percent. O2 UK added three-and-a-half times as many new mobile customers in the...
[November 17, 2008, 16:14]
Microsoft aims to show Windows 7 'Readiness'
News The lack of a predictable schedule combined with the churn of features late in the the process made it hard for partners to know, is this the real Windows Vista," Nash said. On Monday, Microsoft announced the Windows 7 Readiness programme, an...
[February 3, 2009, 16:25]
Phishers get smarter
News The number of brands targeted stayed the same from March to April, though there was significant churn within this group, with 11 brands being replaced. Phishers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their attempts to grab user names, passwords...
[June 6, 2005, 13:20]
ONdigital ITV merger fatally flawed
News Its biggest challenge, according to Grimsditch, will be to drive new growth and reduce ONdigital's ominous 22 percent churn rate. The merger between ITV and ONdigital may be a great idea for pushing digital TV to users but the structure is fatally...
[April 27, 2001, 17:00]
World 'on the cusp of a digital revolution'
News Microprocessors in stationary environments that can feed off of battery power, as in a car, will be able to consume around 10W but will churn at one trillion operations per second. We are on the verge of a world where all manner of devices will...
[February 8, 2005, 15:35]
Microsoft's PR - losing the plot?
Blog Comment I believe even the potential customers get harmed by all the churn generated by all the fuss and usually few meaningful facts. The Seinfeld and Mojave ads told me that Microsoft PR hadn't a clue. They had to have approved those ads for idiots.
[July 14, 2009, 8:05]
ASP99: Giving small firms big boys' toys
News When challenged about what happens to the data that Netstore collects about clients' IT infrastructures, Maynard said, "We would never share that with a competitor," but added that he believed "churn rates will be low in the ASP business".
[September 30, 1999, 15:31]
Vonage on verge of patent fix
News Vonage, which spent an average of $275 (£139) to acquire each new customer in the quarter, said that its churn rate, or the rate at which customers drop its service, rose to 2.4 percent, compared with 2.3 percent for the previous quarter.
[May 11, 2007, 11:14]
Netsky.D worm spreading at 'record speed'
News Even if you are stopping the virus at your gateway, your gateway has to churn through all this extra email it is suddenly receiving," he said. A new variant of the Netsky worm was spreading very quickly on Monday.
[March 1, 2004, 14:00]
Exclusive: iBook speed bump ahead
News In addition, DigiTimes said, Alpha Top is preparing to churn out Apple's next-generation iBook, code-named "P2". New information obtained by ZDNet News confirms details of a forthcoming speed bump to Apple Computer's iBook -- details that were...
[August 11, 2000, 8:41]
Orange to offer landlines to businesses
News It's about locking in customers - the more things you sell them, the less likely they are to churn. Orange announced on Friday that it's getting into the fixed-line game. Its landline offering will be aimed at small businesses and will give...
[February 27, 2006, 9:00]
Symbian heads 'to top' of smartphone boom
News With increasing competition and high churn rates, operators have felt the need to differentiate their products," said ABI analyst Kenil Vora, in a statement. The mobile phone industry will sell 150 million smartphones in 2008, 15 times this year's...
[January 9, 2004, 15:10]
Make sure convergence doesn't verge on the con
Leader Or it may not — but given that the telco's major impetus for such deals is to keep people locked in against churn factors such as competition and service problems, don't expect there to be an easy out.
[March 20, 2006, 16:50]
AMD, Intel trot out new chips
News While Athlons don't churn as many computing cycles per second (measured by megahertz) as Pentium 4 chips, they perform more work per cycle. AMD on Monday is expected to release a new version of its Athlon processor, while Intel plans to speed up...
[June 10, 2002, 9:03]
Garret Keogh's Weekend Diary
News Arif and I churn out the stories ably assisted by Martin filing copy from Comdex. Spend the morning grappling with kit and instantaneous deadlines at PC News Daily. Skip lunch to speak to Steve Billinger, in charge of content at the revamped MSN...
[November 23, 1996, 7:00]
Virgin Mobile and NTL: the UK's first quad-play offering?
News Quad-play is becoming established in the US, where cut-price deals are starting to improve customer acquisition and reduce churn (for example, Sprint-Nextel recently forged a deal with four cable operators).
[December 20, 2005, 15:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We have a new piece of software for this, which is much faster than the old package - it can churn through tens of thousands of recipients in no time flat. Friday 26/03/2004 Ack! Just before lunchtime, the whole editorial team is shocked out of its...
[March 26, 2004, 16:15]
Cracks in the Foundation
Blog I also doubt that the layoff's mean anything but a signal to create churn in the stock market. I've been reading all of the reports of job layoffs in practically every industry and location in the world.
[February 16, 2009, 7:46]
Contextual search demand remains niche
News For example, as more people use Hunch over time, the site will be able to churn more refined results that are specific to each user, Sheina said. Unlike search engines that run on keywords, sites such as Hunch, Answers.com, Mahalo and ChaCha, aim...
[August 20, 2009, 17:21]
Sky to introduce free broadband
News According to Sky, a one per cent cut in churn will save it £100m over five years. Sky has become the latest to join the 'free' broadband brigade — and has revealed its ISP makeover will cost it £250m in the next two years.
[July 18, 2006, 15:50]
