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A Year Ago: Intel is investing in Linux - but why?
News Industry analysts are quick to score Intel's pending announcements as a win for the Linux community, but at least one agrees that Intel's motivations remain somewhat cloudy. First and foremost, say industry experts, Linux provides Intel with access...
[September 29, 1999, 7:00]
Net movies: Ready for prime time?
News But despite Movielink's access to premium Hollywood content, industry executives and analysts say the imminent service will face the same challenges that darkened similar sites: limited demand, technology limitations and legal questions.
[November 4, 2002, 14:39]
Net needs fatter pipes - WorldCom
News Sidgmore told analysts at a NationsBanc Montgomery Securities Conference Wednesday that demand for Internet bandwidth increased by 1,000 percent in the last year, compared with voice bandwidth, which grew by only 8 percent.
[January 29, 1998, 10:45]
Slowdown predicted for microchip business
News Unlike AFI, most industry analysts see the boom continuing into 2002 or 2003 as businesses and consumers keep spending money on work tools and gadgets. We are referring to a significant slowdown affecting most of the segments in the IC [Integrated...
[August 16, 2000, 11:52]
SCO warns businesses over Linux liabilities
News Industry analysts viewed the move as an escalation of the company's intellectual property war and an attempt to put more pressure on companies to acquire SCO. They've compared themselves in glowing terms to the record industry in how they're taking...
[May 15, 2003, 7:28]
Picture this: Handspring's Visor Edge revealed
News A number of analysts and industry watchers have speculated that Handspring needed to remove the slot in order to create a thinner device. Chief product officer Jeff Hawkins dubbed the Visor Edge the "thinnest in the industry".
[March 13, 2001, 9:43]
Sony says Xbox launch could bring PS3 closer
News Despite Ando's comments, a majority of industry analysts feel that the PlayStation2 has strong sustainable potential to become the market leader among the current generation of consoles. The biggest threat to the PlayStation2 is that the Xbox...
[November 15, 2001, 9:48]
BEA pins its hopes on Quicksilver
News Industry analysts predict that corporate customers will move to a services-oriented architecture over the next few years. Industry analysts have speculated that the company, which took in about $1bn in revenue last year, could be a target for a...
[October 7, 2004, 9:25]
Intel heads for 3D standards war
News While many software developers and industrial designers welcome the chipmaker's investment in 3D software, the company's erratic course in recent years has raised concern among some industry insiders and analysts that instead of promoting 3D...
[June 21, 2004, 10:25]
Billions at stake in chip trial
News If it is successful, Rambus could levy license fees ranging up to as much as ten percent on billions of pounds of memory chips, according to industry analysts. Rambus' claims have been strengthened by several large DRAM manufacturers that have...
[April 26, 2001, 9:27]
Microsoft's hiring open source smarts...
Blog You will need to work directly with customers and partners across the globe, other product groups, field sales and marketing organizations, and industry analysts to influence internal, external and partner marketing efforts with a focus on...
[February 10, 2009, 12:23]
HP quarterly profit falls 19pc
News Analysts had been expecting earnings between 82 cents and 92 cents per share, and revenue between $26.8bn and $27.7bn. I'm pleased with our execution in a tough market climate," chairman and chief executive Mark Hurd said on a conference call with...
[August 19, 2009, 8:57]
AMD to purchase ATI for $5.4bn
News Many industry analysts have said it made little financial or strategic sense for AMD to buy ATI outright. This strategy has been in the making for a number of years and culminated with the ATI acquisition," Hector Ruiz, AMD's chief executive, said...
[July 24, 2006, 13:20]
Novell chief lashes Forrester report
News Particularly vexing, he says, is the fact that industry analysts can berate Novell for failing to do things that are already under way, or actually established. What's going on is apparently a lot of product development, little of which has been...
[September 19, 1996, 9:23]
Motherboard makers look to phase out Rambus
News Earlier this week, Intel acknowledged that it is ending a discount programme to help sell Rambus-based Pentium 4 chips, a move that industry analysts say marks a disengagement from the memory startup.
[July 27, 2001, 17:44]
Sun rejects IBM buyout offer, bid withdrawn
News Sun's reported concerns over structuring a deal that would allow IBM to easily walk away from a merger agreement should not be taken lightly, say antitrust attorneys and industry analysts. On the storage front, in which the industry generated...
[April 6, 2009, 8:57]
Dot-com Ice Age shows signs of thaw
News The pending springtime in the Internet industry comes as analysts report that surviving retail sites did exceptionally well during the holiday season compared with previous years, when e-tailers got slammed for poor service and irate customers.
[December 27, 2001, 16:30]
'Megadeals' may be on the way out
News But outsourcing -- farming out information technology or business tasks -- is thriving as a way for companies to cut costs and focus on their core business, according to industry analysts. Still, analysts expect smaller deals to become more common.
[September 17, 2004, 10:20]
WAP rides to Wi-Fi rescue
News Network operators and analysts have said that nationwide hot-spot coverage is not likely, but that more hot spots will be installed over time, making it easier for consumers to get service. An industry group has launched a free service to address a...
[October 7, 2003, 9:30]
Level 3 to help power Xbox Live
News But analysts and game industry figures have expressed doubts about the online push, saying factors ranging from slow growth in home networking to cheating by other players are likely to thwart mass acceptance of online gaming.
[July 23, 2002, 11:43]
