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Broadband rollout pitched as a recession-buster
News Maybe all of them together might do some good, [but] we're discounting their impact on IT markets," Gantz said. He gave a particularly downbeat assessment of the PC and server markets in 2009. He predicted that spending in the two markets would...
[February 10, 2009, 16:03]
Europe plays innovation catch-up
News Manufacturing is increasingly being outsourced to developing markets where labour is cheaper which leaves European companies under pressure to remain relevant and necessary. The draft EU Directive on Services aims to open up some of these closed...
[December 7, 2005, 11:05]
Intel restructures for the digital future
News The Channel Products Group will seek to expand on Intel's success in global markets by combining into one organisation existing groups focused on developing and selling Intel products to meet the unique needs of local markets worldwide.
[January 18, 2005, 8:10]
Palm OS Cobalt and Garnet: a first look review
Reviews Palm OS Cobalt: PalmSource's brand-new operating system (formerly known as Palm OS 6) is designed for devices in the communications, enterprise, education and entertainment markets. Garnet is expected to appear in traditional handhelds and in...
[February 24, 2004, 9:05]
WiMax gathers steam
News Sprint had previously announced that Chicago and Baltimore/Washington DC would be the first two markets to get the service, by the end of 2007. Asian markets lead the way On Monday, Sprint announced several new cities that will be part of the WiMax...
[March 27, 2007, 10:57]
HP stakes a claim in "friendly" Internet
News E-Services is not just a vision or strategy for us as we move into new markets," Fiorina said. She emphasised how HP plans to reinvent itself to keep ahead of the leagues of young, brash upstarts emerging from the e-commerce boom.
[March 13, 2000, 10:44]
Is the Web the future of entertainment?
News While the two markets require different entertainment forms in the long run, "it might take five to ten years to get there," he predicted. The conference took place two days after cable TV viewers in New York and 10 other ABC markets awoke to find...
[May 4, 2000, 9:15]
XP Starter Edition off to a slow start
News According to Gilliland, PC makers in developing markets are mostly focused on driving hardware sales, not software margins. Smaller computer retailers in these emerging countries, he said, tend to buy their systems from large OEMs, and then load...
[March 18, 2005, 11:10]
Microsoft photo standard comes into focus
News But JPEG 2000 has become an option in some specific niche markets such as digital cinema, medical imaging, and mapping and geographic information systems. JPEG 2000, a successor to JPEG that came from the same standards group, has been a dud in...
[August 1, 2007, 8:09]
Outsourcers play on vertical strengths
News Companies that offer information-technology outsourcing services are increasingly emphasising vertical markets, according to an IDC report released Monday. According to the research firm, the push by outsourcing providers to address vertical...
[July 22, 2003, 10:04]
Retailers warned of 'digital shoplifting'
News Telstra saw a good market opportunity in the youth and consumer markets for the service in between six and 12 months' time. Jason Juma-Ross, an analyst with AMR Interactive, told journalists at a special briefing that digital shoplifting -- illicit...
[March 23, 2004, 11:15]
Microsoft marches on Moscow to do battle with Linux
News Windows XP Starter Edition is Microsoft's attempt to gain more customers in the developing nations, the fastest growing markets in the world. One Intel executive said Russia and China will likely be two of the company's fastest-growing markets over...
[September 27, 2004, 16:20]
Planet 2000: Computing giants debate B2B strategies
News Deloitte believes the exchanges are so compelling from an economic point of view that they could ultimately be linked to traditional stock markets. One problem that might make it harder to steer is that just about every major company involved in...
[May 12, 2000, 11:16]
Microsoft and SAP square up for business applications battle
News Overall, Microsoft has enormous resources -- more than $50bn in cash -- and has proved in the past to be a ferocious foe to those it's challenged in the database, desktop software and Web browser markets, among other areas.
[December 11, 2003, 10:15]
Grid computing plays games
News Forget about banking or biotechnology -- one of the hottest emerging markets for makers of server hardware, software and services revolves around elves and magic potions. But the game industry is likely to remain an increasingly attractive target...
[June 4, 2004, 12:35]
IBM earmarks $100m for mobile research
News The company will focus on three areas: emerging markets, the enterprise field work and enterprise customer relationship applications. IBM is to invest millions of dollars for research into new mobile services and capabilities.
[June 18, 2009, 17:11]
that high-end
Talkback Emerging markets would be very interested indeed. could very well be making the most of what we got presently. Squeezing the last juice out of it and still find ways to improve. As such it would help to be less depending on others.
[May 9, 2007, 23:13]
Will embedded browsers rule the Web?
News The embedded world consists of a number of different emerging markets, each requiring "different branding needed on different devices on different networks", Liozides said. Despite Microsoft's and Netscape's claims to the contrary, the browser race...
[March 24, 2000, 13:03]
IBM and Red Hat ally on Linux
News IBM and Red Hat have created a program to boost Linux-based solutions among independent software vendors in emerging markets. Under the initiative announced on Friday, technical resources and implementation services will be made available to...
[September 17, 2005, 10:50]
Fujitsu set to join the top four computer giants
News The Japanese computer giant has made significant inroads into emerging markets, such as Italy, where growth was over 1000 percent. In the UK, shipments of just over 39,000 PCs, notebooks and servers put growth at 43 percent with an overall growth...
[July 21, 1999, 9:46]
