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The Day Ahead: Ellison takes on the world
News And Ellison predicted Oracle could hit profit margins of 40 percent. To no-one's surprise, Ellison predicted Oracle would win the B2B game, too. First Call consensus was 12 cents (7p) a share, while Zack's predicted 20 cents (12p) a share.
[March 15, 2000, 12:13]
Tech visionary foresees mobile-phone revolution
News In the shorter term, Kurzweil predicted that mobile-phone users will soon have the ability to talk in their own language and be heard in another as speech-translation engines — a technology that he has been developing — become embedded in mobile...
[May 20, 2008, 12:39]
Logica job cuts confirmed
News Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) has already predicted that job cuts were coming at Logica. Monday's Irish Independent predicted that Logica was planning to lay off 15 percent of its Irish workforce.
[November 8, 2001, 17:09]
Net needs fatter pipes - WorldCom
News Eventually, Sidgmore predicted, technologies such as complex corporate applications, interactive voice, and multicasting will drive bandwidth demand through the roof. He also predicted a new Internet pricing structure that's similar to traditional...
[January 29, 1998, 10:45]
Jobs runs with bulls at staff rally
News While Jobs warned staffers -- many of whom have been hit hard by the drop in value of Apple stock since the company issued a profit warning for the fourth quarter of 2000 -- not to expect a rapid spike in the value of their shares, he predicted...
[January 26, 2001, 9:03]
Report: Chip market to grow, but slowly
News The SIA also predicted that the centre of gravity for the industry will continue to shift toward mainland Asia, already the largest market for semiconductors. In the 2001 forecast, the group predicted that 2002 sales would grow by 6 percent to $150bn.
[November 7, 2002, 8:14]
New top-level domain goes .pro
News At the time, many predicted a land grab for names related to the domains, from those who missed out on popular dot-com addresses rushing to get a piece of the action. However, domain names such as .info and .name haven't been as popular as...
[August 8, 2003, 12:05]
Freescale and ARM promise £140 netbooks
News Cammal predicted a "co-existence" of Intel-based and ARM-based netbooks in the future. He added that the same i.MX515 processor would be used in MIDs — an announcement he predicted would occur soon. Chipset manufacturer Freescale on Monday unveiled...
[January 5, 2009, 16:16]
Yang's departure could open door to Microsoft
News And a former Yahoo executive who asked not to be named also predicted that Microsoft would come calling, now Yang is not at the helm. And Microsoft would get a deal this time, he predicted. Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo opens...
[November 18, 2008, 16:42]
Intel blames Europe for poor outlook
News Merrill Lynch, for instance, predicted that the chipmaker would narrow estimates in its midquarter report to between $6.5bn and $6.8bn, owing to slower PC sales in April and May. First Call predicted earnings of 15 cents per share on revenue of...
[June 7, 2002, 9:09]
T-Mobile offers coverage check for new customers
News Customers will receive a printout indicating the predicted coverage levels — measured in bars as on a phone — and they can cancel the contract within 14 days if the signal proves to be weaker than predicted .
[September 29, 2006, 17:45]
Bright future ahead for LCDs
News The flat-panel TV market -- made up of LCD and plasma televisions -- will continue to grow in the first quarter because of increased availability, declining prices and consumer interest, iSuppli/Stanford Resources predicted.
[March 30, 2004, 16:05]
Demand for key IT skills remains high
News When assessed on the basis of speciality, the highest predicted two-year demand growth rate is for systems development staff, with a predicted increase of 13.1 percent. Demand for IT skills in technologies such as Oracle, SAP, .NET and VMware will...
[January 14, 2009, 16:29]
German 3G auction: And the winners are...
News It was also widely predicted that Group 3G would drop out as the price rocketed. The telco's latest 3G win will be added to licences it already has in the UK, Netherlands, Spain and Japan and has raised eyebrows about its ever-increasing debt, now...
[August 18, 2000, 11:04]
Advertising body slaps ntl
News Responding to claims that ntl has been irresponsible in the handling of its free Internet service the spokeswoman argues that no-one could have predicted such demand. We looked at various models from the US which predicted people would use the...
[June 30, 2000, 11:22]
Microsoft may dodge tech-industry bullet
News In a Monday research note, Blodget predicted third-fiscal quarter revenue of $6bn, far short of Microsoft's $6.3bn to $6.4bn prediction. Stanek, who expects Microsoft to meet estimates for the most recent quarter, cut his fiscal fourth-quarter...
[April 19, 2001, 14:55]
Darling puts squeeze on gov't IT spending
News He predicted that national debt will rise sharply, to a predicted 57 percent of gross domestic product in 2013-14, against 36 percent in 2007. The chancellor of the exchequer has placed new demands on government IT, with a £5bn increase in the...
[November 25, 2008, 9:53]
Microsoft on Trial: Fairness of poll questioned
News In a recent survey of [software developers], 85 percent predicted that Microsoft's integration of Internet functions into Windows would help their company and 83 percent predicted it would help consumers," he wrote.
[January 15, 1999, 10:22]
Home networking needs a killer app
News By 2005, over 60 percent of European households will have the potential to do home networking, through digital television, broadband access and/or owning more than one PC," Tant predicted. Tomorrow it will be enhanced services that will generate...
[May 3, 2001, 13:01]
World's largest supercooled magnet gets going
News In particular, the experimenters hope to detect the Higgs Boson within three years, a predicted subatomic particle that is key to the current mainstream theories of matter. The LHC will consume some 120 megawatts and is predicted to run for between...
[November 23, 2006, 11:45]
