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Preparing for the Solution Architectures exam
News When judging the performance of a system, consider both expectations and actual performance. You have to weigh expectations against actual availability. But, when you consider expectations, you may be able to save a nickel or two by going with a...
[October 28, 2002, 10:18]
Nortel snaps up Sonoma Systems
News And the Canadian firm exceeded Wall Street expectations for the second quarter, increasing growth expectations for the full year. Nortel Networks will acquire Sonoma Systems in a stock deal worth $540m.
[August 15, 2000, 13:05]
Analysts: iMac sales looking up
News The Apple Store is exceeding Apple's traffic expectations," he said. Mark Specker at SoundView Financial Group had similar news to report, stating in his research report last week that demand had exceeded his initial expectations.
[February 22, 2002, 11:24]
eBay revokes Microsoft's Passport
News Microsoft made changes to its service that prompted eBay to drop support, the online auctioneer previously stated.eBay on Wednesday missed Wall Street earnings expectations for the first time in at least three years, sending its shares down 12 per...
[January 20, 2005, 7:55]
Google's revenue (almost) doubles
News That handily beat analyst expectations, on average, of $1.36 per share and revenue of $944.4 million, excluding traffic acquisition costs. On Tuesday, Google's chief rival, Yahoo, posted higher third-quarter profit and revenue from a year ago and...
[October 21, 2005, 11:00]
Game industry girds for battle
News While Microsoft is pitching the service as the future of gaming, initial expectations are modest. I think their expectations are that it's going to be a very slow build," Cole said. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will launch new campaigns in the game...
[May 14, 2002, 13:23]
Intel delivers financial 'comfort'
News It's possible that we had different expectations and they (PC makers) were hoping for a quicker type of recovery," Bryant told analysts. Broadcom on Wednesday warned it would fall short of second-quarter expectations.
[June 8, 2001, 9:46]
Intel chief harangues staff
News Our business is complex, and we have set high expectations for ourselves. Finally, I was direct because I wanted senior managers -- whose job it is to set expectations to all of you and to provide direction and coaching -- to have no doubt about...
[July 28, 2004, 9:15]
The Day Ahead: Is the price right for Priceline.com?
News Our guess is that Priceline is just playing the expectations game here. Great expectations: Ever since Yahoo! Simply put, expectations are high. Nevertheless, Priceline gave back all of its pre-earnings run-up in a day over those great growth...
[July 25, 2000, 11:55]
Can HP's quarter make or break merger?
News The biggest reason for the nonchalance is that expectations have already been trimmed. Given that expectations have come down a lot--(by) close to $1bn (£700m) in revenue--there isn't a big risk of the company missing estimates," Sacconaghi said in...
[November 14, 2001, 9:39]
Windows 98 support shifts to CD
News Ahlgren also admitted that Microsoft is hoping to keep Windows 98 users' expectations low, so if there is a serious security breach that the company decides to fix, they will be pleasantly surprised. He said "it remains to be seen" if there will be...
[January 9, 2004, 12:15]
Attention switches to Microsoft's licensing programme
News We have heard positive comments from resellers on renewal rates, leading us to believe that 20 percent, or perhaps 30 percent, could be renewing, at the higher end of management's expectations," Sherlund said in a research note.
[July 22, 2004, 8:55]
AMD chips win broader Dell approval
News Earnings per share came out to 22 cents, exactly what the company had predicted in July, but 10 cents below initial expectations. HP, which reported earnings in line with expectations on Wednesday, uses AMD processors alongside Intel chips in...
[August 18, 2006, 8:45]
Sony's US arm sports healthy growth
News Komiyama recently discussed his expectations for the consumer-electronics business and the shift at Sony with CNET News.com. Those devices went beyond our expectations. Each of the three businesses -- Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Pictures Digital...
[February 5, 2004, 10:10]
Cisco posts profit warning
News In an effort to meet our customer expectations, we continued to increase our inventory and capacities to keep up with rising demand. Cisco in February missed second-quarter earnings expectations by one penny because of sluggish sales of networking...
[April 17, 2001, 7:26]
HP still seeks competitive edge
News While chief executive Carly Fiorina was reserved in July when HP missed expectations, she said confidently in November that the company had hit its stride, posting sales considerably ahead of expectations.
[December 9, 2003, 14:10]
Microsoft beats estimates but still disappoints
News Microsoft hiked its revenue expectations for the coming fiscal year but cut its expectations for per-share earnings. We had a great quarter, with 15 percent revenue growth, as all of our businesses met or exceeded our expectations, and our progress...
[July 23, 2004, 8:35]
Sun unveils JavaFX preview, gloomy outlook
News The results topped Wall Street expectations of fourth-quarter revenue of $3.72bn; Sun had said on 15 July that its results would top lowered expectations. Sun on Thursday released a preview version of JavaFX, programming technology that the company...
[August 1, 2008, 18:20]
Consumer satisfaction with PCs drops
News Fornell's group conducts the survey by asking 80,000 customers of the leading PC makers a series of questions related to how they view service quality, price, problems, future or repeat purchase plans, and satisfaction related to expectations.
[August 14, 2007, 9:47]
Mac Office slashed in price
News Last year, Microsoft executives complained that Mac Office sales were lagging expectations and blamed Apple for not doing enough to promote Mac OS X. It's fully met our expectations," Ho said on Monday, but Microsoft would not say how many copies...
[August 12, 2003, 11:15]
