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Cheaper netbooks = good news
Talkback This would be good news for Consumers - although probably not such great news for OEMs, who are already giving up the margins they would have got on full size laptops. This could go two ways - OEM's dont want to sour their relationship with Wintel...
[January 7, 2009, 7:55]
Quantum pulls out of hard disk business
News Selling hard drives has been excruciating to many companies facing unpredictable demand, cutthroat competition and low profit margins. After 21 years of selling hard drives, Quantum on Friday formally left the business to turn its full attention to...
[April 2, 2001, 7:26]
Is Ballmer's $100 PC possible?
Talkback But for that we'll need to get rid of vendor tax, paying twice for your OS, 80%+ profit margins, more or less required vendor services for a price, new proprietary "standards" with each new version of whatever, patent restricted formats of data...
[November 12, 2004, 23:46]
CSS Cheat Sheet
Downloads The cheat sheet includes descriptions, values, and examples for backgrounds, borders, classifications, dimensions, fonts, lists, margins, media types, outlines, padding, positioning, units, colors, tables, text, selector types, pseudo-classes...
[September 12, 2009, 5:31]
IBM's shake-up must be a wake-up call
Leader For everyone else the narrow margins make it a dangerous play. So, IBM clearly sees little future in making hardware for mature markets (read Western Europe), leaving us with its services arm while it goes off to build PCs for emerging markets east...
[May 6, 2005, 16:15]
Escom stores shut down
News Receiver Nick Dargan said: "It is disappointing that the business as a whole cannot be sold but, given the oversupply in the retail market and rapidly declining margins in the sector, it was always a possibility.
[July 24, 1996, 12:01]
Spread the info about GPLv3
Talkback It also helps in the fight against Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) which rent-seekers like the RIAA are trying to use to keep their profit margins up (to the detriment of the public). It's important that as many people as possible know about...
[July 2, 2007, 13:15]
Seagate to give IPO a second go
News Intense competition and slim margins have plagued many hard drive makers. Seagate Technology announced Friday that it has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
[October 14, 2002, 15:10]
Genuine disadvantage more like
Talkback At the end of the day - does software need to be this much hassle - I for one don't want to have to jump through hoops just because Microsoft wants to prop up its sliding margins. For anyone who's failed the GWA advantage test that Microsoft has...
[October 31, 2006, 11:40]
Dell ditches IBM server design for Intel
News Dell has been casting about for a way to offer high-end servers using Intel processors -- machines that increasingly compete with heavy-duty servers running Unix and that can bring higher profit margins, more prestigious customers, and associated...
[June 10, 2002, 11:34]
Microsoft: Open source could harm us
News To the extent the open-source model gains increasing market acceptance, sales of the company's products may decline, the company may have to reduce the prices it charges for its products, and revenues and operating margins may consequently decline...
[February 5, 2003, 7:52]
Bytescout Watermarking SDK
Downloads Customizable font settings, text location, rotation, margins and other. This is a native component to add visual watermarks to images (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF) in C#, Visual Basic and ASP.NET applications.
[August 9, 2008, 8:00]
Fear and loathing in the face of DRAMs
News Akikusa is expressing fears that are already tiring the memory manufacturers -- that there are too many fabrication plants in the world, too many chips stockpiling in the warehouses, and too little profit to be made from the ever-falling margins.
[June 29, 1998, 12:28]
Lack of substance abuse?
Talkback So long as the margins work and the billing platform can cope them why can't a blend of revenue options exist? I understand Debes' argument and to some degree I accept his conclusion, but I think he misunderstands what SaaS is.
[September 10, 2008, 16:50]
BT to cut broadband start-up prices
News However, customers will only benefit if the Internet service providers who resell these products decide to pass the savings on, rather than use them to bolster their profit margins. BT will mark the New Year by cutting the upfront cost of some of...
[December 12, 2003, 16:35]
3G's growing pains hurt WiMax more
Leader Both companies have said that reduced spending in the developed market has hit them hard, while low margins are offsetting strong growth in developing markets. For a $500bn industry that's roped in nearly half the world, mobile telecommunications...
[October 16, 2007, 15:43]
US Report: EarthLink deal underlines new direction for US ISPs
News Facing intense competition and shrinking profit margins, ISP's are turning to such distribution deals, with retailers or PC manufacturers, for an edge over their rivals. The deal makes EarthLink the chains official Internet service provider...
[November 25, 1998, 5:33]
MS Store Trek: The Next Generation
Blog Comment PC makers couldn't stay in business if they were forced to sell "at cost", and the last time I heard, their margins were already thin. "Microsoft might be choosing to get a slightly lower margin than the PC manufacturers"
[November 29, 2009, 22:45]
Fiorina: HP can fend off Dell
News Analysts have speculated that Dell could reduce profit margins in HP's lucrative printer business by cutting prices on both printers and printer cartridges. Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina on Tuesday downplayed competitive threats to...
[October 8, 2002, 15:25]
AMD hurt by poor K6 yields
News Also, aggressive pricing by Intel forced AMD to cut margins lower than expected. The Californian chip maker was up a healthy 30 per cent in year-on-year revenues to $596.6 million but lost $31.7 million despite high demand for its K6 processors.
[October 9, 1997, 14:24]
