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Motorola reopens China office after Sars
News Motorola is China's leading mobile-phone maker by market share, but global rivals such as Nokia and lower-priced domestic brands are catching up quickly. Motorola, which closed its main office in Beijing after an employee came down with SARS, plans...
[May 7, 2003, 13:16]
Microsoft's Beijing win causes concern
News China is already a big market for Microsoft and some other Western IT vendors but the rise of Asianux, an open-source operating system collaboration between the governments of China, Japan and South Korea, points to those countries looking to...
[November 26, 2004, 14:40]
Foundry rolls out IPv6 router and switch support
News Networking equipment vendor Foundry has added IPv6 support to its NetIron 40G router and its BigIron MG8 switch, and is now ready to ship this updated hardware to market in Europe. Some of our domestic and international customers have made IPv6 a...
[June 4, 2004, 18:00]
HP admits it's the ink that counts
News If we take a couple of percent of the photo processing market, we get a few billion dollars," said Urey. Another opportunity is in photography, where digital cameras allow printer companies to sell higher-end machines to domestic users.
[March 7, 2002, 9:38]
PC market hurting, but Dell grabs share
News The PC market is shrinking, while Dell Computer continues to gain market share. Confirming grim reports from individual PC makers, market researcher Gartner Dataquest said Wednesday that unit shipments worldwide tumbled nearly 12 percent in the...
[October 18, 2001, 9:40]
Mobile operators want to get machines talking
News For mobile operators looking to increase the amount of data carried over their networks, the machine to machine (M2M) telemetry market could well prove a boon. However, the M2M market already has some interesting examples.
[November 12, 2002, 14:24]
Nasdaq closes in on 4,000
News You can't really go by what happens this week and next week because this is just sort of wacky action," said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co. The Gross Domestic Product, which measures goods and services domestically produced...
[December 23, 1999, 10:40]
Ofcom aims to ease broadband migrations
News A particularly acute example of the difficulties that consumers can face when they are unable to get MACs was the recent withdrawal of broadband provider E7even from the consumer market," said Ofcom in its consultation.
[August 18, 2006, 16:45]
Roaming rip-off puts travellers off phoning home
News She said in a statement: "I call on all mobile operators to help tear down this last visible border in Europe's internal market. Reding has called previously for roaming prices to match domestic ones, but has labelled operators' cuts to date a...
[November 8, 2006, 10:19]
Europe's IT industry gets wake-up call
News For each Euro in the EU invested in major IT projects, some 75 cents flows into a market outside Germany today. He cited a study from management consultancy firm McKinsey which found that when one dollar of value creation moves out of the US, $1.13...
[March 10, 2005, 13:00]
Asian enterprises turn to Linux
News The market research firm polled a total of 850 organisations for its Asia-Pacific: Server and Storage User Wants and Needs Q4, 2001 report. In addition, Linux tends to eat more into Windows' market share than any other operating system such as...
[January 22, 2002, 10:10]
Semiconductors set for healthy 2004
News The semiconductor market will grow at 18 percent in 2004, according to International Data Corporation. Over the next five years to 2008, IDC has predicted the worldwide semiconductor market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12.5 percent...
[December 31, 2003, 10:00]
Plantronics headsets last the distance
News While other DECT headsets are already available, Plantronics believes this to be the first clip-on one to come to market. Rather than being Bluetooth-based, the CS670 uses DECT wireless -- the system used in many domestic cordless phones -- to get...
[June 5, 2003, 8:30]
China launches first supercomputer
News The successful development of Legend Supercomputer will end the monopoly of foreign computer products in China's high-performance computer market. China achieved a major advance in its technology ambitions as computer vendor Legend Group launched...
[September 2, 2002, 8:57]
Indian IT services to double UK market share
News India's five largest IT services suppliers will double their market share in the UK by 2011. India's top five services companies — HCL, Infosys, Satyam, TCS and Wipro — are on course to grow their share of the UK software and IT services market...
[January 24, 2008, 7:30]
Fiorina predicts steep growth for IT sector
News The way to navigate today's tech market, according to Fiorina, is to focus on becoming "more efficient and effective", getting more money from existing customers and "leveraging capabilities" a company already has.
[November 30, 2004, 17:10]
Intel wants AMD antitrust case kicked out
News An AMD representative has contended that Intel's motion to dismiss the case is an "effort to escape responsibility for marketplace misconduct and to inhibit fair and open competition in the microprocessor market".
[May 4, 2006, 9:10]
Techs bullish about China market
News PC shipments are expected to grow 18 percent annually on average through 2006, according to market researcher IDC. Legend, the largest local PC manufacturer, commands 26 percent of the market and is inching into mobile phones and the export market.
[July 10, 2002, 7:57]
UK could face Net skills shortage
News Britain has the opportunity to benefit from.gains in efficiency and deflation, but only if the skills and labour market can keep up with the lightning pace of Internet development," said co-author Janice Hughes in a prepared statement.
[June 9, 2000, 16:32]
A Year Ago: UK could face Net skills shortage
News Britain has the opportunity to benefit from.gains in efficiency and deflation, but only if the skills and labour market can keep up with the lightning pace of Internet development," said co-author Janice Hughes in a prepared statement.
[June 10, 2001, 6:28]
