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Merger caps short, turbulent Compaq history
News Capellas' efforts were starting to bear fruit when the high-tech industry in general, and PCs in particular, entered a prolonged slump late last year. See techTrader for the latest financial news in the high-tech sector.
[September 5, 2001, 12:55]
Net retailing shakeout hits Boo.com
News The store debuted with sites for multiple countries, using different languages and currencies, as well as high-tech bells and whistles such as 3-D views. Boo.com -- which is backed by luxury goods conglomerate LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton's...
[January 27, 2000, 9:02]
Government pledges boost for grid technology
News To hold our own in modern manufacturing we will need to innovate strongly by creating new high-tech manufacturing industries and upgrading traditional sectors such as steel and textiles. The project, carried out by a team made up of industry and...
[December 17, 2003, 12:55]
Jesse Berst: The coming M$ crash
News I want to end by reaffirming that I consider Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Bob Herbold the smartest threesome in the high-tech industry. The success of high-tech companies is built on stock options. Microsoft has used its cash reserves "to make...
[September 13, 1999, 10:38]
Making business see the cents in responsibility
News But what we have seen now is that the high-tech industry is next in line. The high-tech industry has other issues, too, like the digital divide and what impact that has on companies. Regulations and other issues are causing tech companies to...
[November 9, 2004, 10:48]
Despite growth, semiconductor sector falters
News Semiconductors, a basic building block of high-tech products such as PCs and mobile phones, runs in boom-and-bust cycles brought on by alternating periods of oversupply and shortages. Investors hammered semiconductor stocks Monday, even as experts...
[October 10, 2000, 14:00]
Calling IT pros: The jobs are out there
News Despite the flagging economy and reports of mass layoffs in the high-tech sector, there are still thousands of unfilled IT positions as European tech innovation continues to be held back by a widening skills gap.
[August 21, 2002, 10:03]
'Fantastic' time to be a tech start-up
Blog This morning I found myself at Intellect's Regent Conference, which is an annual get-together for executives of the UK's tech industry. Anyway, an interesting question amidst all this doom and gloom: is now a good or a bad time to be a tech start-up?
[February 10, 2009, 16:02]
Startup Spotlight: eSouk.com
News Startup Spotlight is a weekly feature on ZDNet UK News and ZDNet techTrader, featuring the bright sparks of the UK's high-tech startup industry. Why did you choose to target entrepreneurs within the Internet industry?
[March 15, 2000, 11:04]
Intel profit warning hits weak UK markets
News A profit warning from Intel Thursday night hit UK high-tech shares hard Friday, but it was just the latest bad news for British tech and telecoms companies, which have watched their shares slump over the last few weeks.
[September 22, 2000, 10:32]
Science fiction nightmare reveals WiMAX as an alien plot
Blog At the big industry launch where the aliens were going to reveal the tech and sell it to us as a great consumer boon, it became clear during the demo that it wasn't actually ready. The launch took place in a modern museum of antiquities, some of...
[July 21, 2008, 7:00]
Startup Spotlight: Schoolsnet.com
News Startup Spotlight is a weekly feature on ZDNet UK News and ZDNet techTrader, featuring the bright sparks of the UK's high-tech startup industry. I don't think that the fall in Microsoft share prices for example are going to have any long-term...
[April 28, 2000, 14:57]
Tech slump has knock-on effect in property market
News While the woes of dot-coms and other tech companies have contributed to the glut, companies that are more on the fringe of the industry are also beginning to feel the pain -- raising concerns that the worst is not over.
[July 4, 2001, 12:54]
Startup Spotlight: Jomono.com
News Startup Spotlight is a new weekly feature on ZDNet UK News and ZDNet techTrader, featuring the bright sparks of the UK's high-tech startup industry. This is a prime example of how the Internet can revolutionise a traditional industry.
[January 28, 2000, 7:15]
Discrimination is not the real issue
Talkback In other words most women find the whole tech industry crashingly boring, it doesn't interest them at all, so they don't go for it as a career. Women prefer interacting with people rather than machines, that's why they don't choose tech careers.
[September 22, 2007, 12:30]
Recovery polarises IT industry
News See the Finance News Section for the latest financial news in the high-tech sector. That fact of life is expected to show itself in the coming weeks as the majority of tech companies report quarterly earnings and offer their view on the current...
[July 14, 2003, 11:38]
Dot-com Ice Age shows signs of thaw
News See techTrader for the latest financial news in the high-tech sector. At least 537 Internet companies folded in the past year, compared with 225 in 2000, according to Webmergers.com, a company that provides research to the Internet industry.
[December 27, 2001, 16:30]
New wireless tech promises gigabits in the home
News A wireless chip that can transfer files rapidly over short distances has long been a goal of the tech industry but universal acceptance has proved elusive. GHz is a very new band for the consumer electronics industry, using frequencies that until...
[February 6, 2006, 16:40]
Working in IT: Where has all the fun gone?
News It was chic to be a geek, as nearly everything involving high-tech and the Internet was as hot as an Athlon processor without a fan. We've seen massive layoffs among tech companies, which has nearly oversaturated the market with workers who have IT...
[September 30, 2002, 16:48]
The Industry Standard to stop publishing
News The weekly tech magazine ultimately became part of the Internet zeitgeist it covered, taking off with the Internet boom and landing hard when the downturn dried up advertising dollars and put hundreds of companies out of business.
[August 17, 2001, 9:41]
