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Asia helps lift May chip sales
News The SIA, in its recent midyear forecast, predicted that chip sales will grow by 3.1 percent this year. The chip sector was a little bit merrier in May. Worldwide semiconductor sales rose close to 3 percent to $11.4bn for the month, thanks to...
[July 2, 2002, 7:57]
Tech helps UK fraud reach a 12-year high
News In a statement, Hitesh Patel, partner at KPMG Forensic, predicted fraud could continue to rise this year: "Given the developing economic conditions, companies and individuals need to be more alert than ever to the fraud threat.
[February 5, 2008, 8:48]
AOL takes fight to BT with £50m
News The Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator, set up to oversee LLU, predicted in its January monthly update that there will be more than one million unbundled lines this year. AOL is investing millions in local-loop unbundling (LLU), a move designed to...
[January 20, 2006, 15:45]
Cryptography experts debate cloud-computing risks
News Ronald Rivest, a computer science professor at MIT, predicted that cloud computing "will really be a focal point in our work in security. A group of pioneers in the security field, whose work in encryption is used to protect internet data and...
[April 22, 2009, 8:46]
SMS messaging hits the nine billion per month mark
News We'll see a seamless move from SMS to buddy chat services, where a number of users can share a text conference, probably within the next 18 months", predicted Sheedy. A record nine billion Short Message Service (SMS) messages were sent worldwide...
[October 5, 2000, 7:33]
US Report: Environmental audio from Creative - mixed response
News We are going to drive this technology into a lot of PCs," predicted Micah Stroud, Creative Labs' audio product market manager. The new product, which will be in US stores starting Friday (September for the UK), puts a range of high-fidelity audio...
[August 13, 1998, 11:12]
Corel to sell its Linux arm
News Some industry watchers, however, predicted that Corel would dump Linux as soon as Cowpland exited. Sounds like troubled Canadian software vendor Corel will soon enlist another company to help bail it out.
[December 15, 2000, 10:21]
Yahoo! and Hotmail let customers be spammed
News In a study released Wednesday, New York-based Jupiter Research, a division of Jupiter Media Metrix, predicted that Web email providers and Internet service providers will increasingly use their power to weed out unwanted messages from consumer...
[January 26, 2001, 10:51]
Intel alone in seeing glass half full
News IBM chairman Louis Gerstner, in announcing the company's earnings on 18 July , predicted that demand for PCs would remain sluggish, and that sales were also being hurt as the value of foreign currencies declined.
[August 3, 2001, 9:15]
Apple tops Q2 estimates, sets rare stock split
News David Bailey, an analyst at Gerard Klauer Mattison, predicted Apple would earn 80 cents a share on sales of around $2bn. Apple Computer flew past analysts' estimates in its second quarter Wednesday, returning a profit of $160M (£97.6m), or 88 cents...
[April 20, 2000, 9:45]
IBM bets on CIGS with solar-cell deal
News CIGS will be the big story of 2009 because we know how many companies are putting in multimegawatts of CIGS [production capacity] in 2009," predicted solar expert Travis Bradford, president of the Prometheus Institute, who spoke at a recent...
[June 16, 2008, 8:49]
HP chip team sets up home at Intel
News More engineers may migrate from HP to Intel in the future, predicted Linley Group analyst Linley Gwennap. In the tech industry's equivalent of a player trade in the sports world, close to 100 HP engineers have moved over to Intel to develop...
[September 14, 2001, 10:49]
Microsoft patches four critical IE, Exchange holes
News Andrew Storms, director of security operations for security firm nCircle, predicted that while there were no known exploits for the Exchange vulnerability, attackers were likely to be working on them.
[February 11, 2009, 10:12]
Britain hottest in Europe for Wi-Fi
News Additionally, the sky-high costs of providing Internet backhaul from hot spots will kill many hot-spot business cases," predicted Lars Godell, Forrester senior analyst, when the Forrester figures were released in June.
[August 13, 2003, 12:50]
Marconi in takeover talks
News Back in June Andy Evans, Marconi's CTO, predicted that other UK telcos might choose SoftSwitch as a way of building their own next-generation networks faster than BT. Shares in Marconi rose sharply on Monday morning after the UK telecoms...
[August 8, 2005, 11:50]
'Midband' will ease the broadband divide, says BT
News We believe that by mid-2005, broadband services could be available to around 90 percent of the country," predicted Danon. BT has unveiled details of a new product that could make high-speed Internet access available to 97 percent of the UK population.
[November 19, 2002, 16:01]
Red Hat aims for the high ground
News In fact, he believes the future of computing will look a lot like the "Network Computer", or NC, predicted by the likes of Scott McNealy and Larry Ellison in the 1990s. Linux won't make an impact on the desktop in the near future, but it will beat...
[February 4, 2002, 15:44]
Intel wireless tech to be five times faster
News We'll pretty much see all the [companies] enter the 802.11a market by the end of 2002 and see it take off in 2003," predicted Cahners analyst Gemma Paulo. Wireless technology being pushed by Intel will get a massive dose of speed later this year.
[September 10, 2001, 9:58]
How the Democrats' win affects tech
News Adam Green, a spokesman for the liberal advocacy group Moveon.org, predicted that the election results would be a boon to the enactment of extensive net neutrality regulations. It was the narrowest of Republican margins in the US Senate that doomed...
[November 10, 2006, 10:20]
ZigBee gets ready for certification
News In late 2004, Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, predicted that the ZigBee wireless standard would be hugely successful, although it should be noted that his company Polaris Ventures, has invested in several ZigBee companies.
[January 6, 2006, 16:25]
