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Mobile future under fire
News A separate report predicted wireless handset sales will slow in the coming year as the market reaches maturity. The report is the latest bad news for the mobile phone industry, which has struggled over the last year to generate interest in services...
[March 20, 2001, 12:36]
Microsoft remakes its .NET pitch
News In the first full year of SQL Server growth, Atkinson said the business was averaging an annual run rate of $1bn, adding that the coming year would witness the "broadest release" of enterprise servers.
[July 28, 2000, 11:11]
Commerce One president heads to AOL
News Kimmitt, who has been with Commerce One for nearly a year and a half, will remain a member of the e-marketplace company's board of directors. Mark Hoffman, Commerce One's chairman and chief executive, said Kimmitt made many important contributions...
[June 19, 2001, 10:55]
Tech billionaires a little less wealthy
News Despite losing almost $6bn in the past year, Gates, Microsoft's chairman, has a net worth of $52.8bn. Ellison's net worth declined from $26bn to $23.5bn this year. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who has also long ranked near the top of the survey...
[March 1, 2002, 16:40]
Vienna hobbles open-source migration
News In a setback for the City of Vienna's three-year-old open-source migration programme, city authorities decided on Wednesday to scrap most of the systems that have so far adopted the city's custom-built Linux distribution, instead approving an €8m...
[June 6, 2008, 11:37]
Intel brings PC makers up to SpeedStep
News That will be the name for Geyserville when we announce it next year," said Intel spokesman Manny Vara. SpeedStep, however, will not be available until the introduction of faster mobile Pentium III chips next year.
[September 24, 1999, 10:31]
Semiconductor industry to see worst-ever downturn
News Even the biggest semiconductor companies have felt the pinch; Intel, for example, is expected to see its second-quarter revenues down as much as 25 percent on the same period last year. It believes that, barring a recession, the market will...
[June 19, 2001, 12:23]
Intel plans flash memory price hike
News Major equipment makers doubled the amount of flash memory they included in cell phones in the third quarter this year, compared to the same quarter the year before, according to Intel. We are expecting the fourth quarter of this year and first...
[November 26, 2002, 8:26]
Three dots mean the fabless chips are up
News Investments in these companies have been spurred by a recent rise in average chip prices and expectations are that the market for fabless chips will grow as much as 15 percent this year, analysts said.
[April 10, 2003, 11:00]
Unisys banks on Windows success
News But Compaq dumped the ES7000 about a year later. But Feverston believes Unisys' "three-year head start" on competitors in the 32-processor Intel server market gives the company a huge advantage. Unisys is betting big on Windows Server 2003, and...
[April 7, 2003, 10:26]
Amazon.com misses estimates but sets profit roadmap
News A year from now, Jenson said operating losses would be 5 percent of sales, including any new retail stores. In 2000, we will reap the benefits of scale," said Jenson, who said gross margins would approach 20 percent in the first quarter and could...
[February 3, 2000, 9:43]
Apple patches Mac OS X hole
News In a lot of ways, 2003 was the year of the hole. Microsoft acknowledged 119 vulnerabilities this year in Windows -- 47 in Windows 2000, 46 in Windows XP and 26 in Windows 2000 Server -- and issued 76 security updates, according to the company.
[December 23, 2003, 7:45]
Red Hat Linux nears security clearance
News Red Hat hopes the nearly year-long, $1m (£570,000) process of achieving Common Criteria certification will push Linux into the mainstream, as many government agencies around the world require the certification in order to deploy an operating system.
[December 3, 2003, 13:10]
Electoral Commission hopes for email voting next year
News Speaking on Radio 5's Sunday Service, Sam Younger, chairman, expressed his optimism that the British public should have the option of voting by email in local elections this time next year. I would be disappointed if voting by email or on the...
[April 30, 2001, 15:41]
Compaq Computer meets Calista Flockhart
News Later this year, Compaq Computer will jump into the nascent market for tiny servers that use less power and take up less space than current products. The computing giant plans to release "hyper-dense" servers sometime this year, Mary McDowell...
[February 6, 2001, 8:22]
US Report: IBM plans sub-$1,000 LCD monitor
News But LCD prices have tumbled this year, with 14-inch displays dropping below $1,000. LCD prices should continue to fall over the next year, further narrowing the price gap between LCD monitors and CRT monitors, according to a new report by...
[August 17, 1998, 10:15]
At long last Linux 2.4
News Linux 2.4 is running about a year behind schedule. Linux distributors have been counting on including the 2.4 kernel in versions of their products starting in the first half of this year. The much-anticipated next version of the core of the Linux...
[January 5, 2001, 13:45]
AMD beats targets but sees slowdown
News Income was down 34 percent from the same quarter last year, when the company reported income of $189.3m, or 55 cents a share. AMD's year-to-year sales decline is the result of softening markets for products, such as flash memory, overpowering gains...
[April 19, 2001, 15:50]
CeBIT 2000: Rewind to CeBIT 99
News We highlight the news that tickled the fancy of visitors to last year's show and has gone on to revolutionise our lives. However, a year is a long time in the tech world, as these CeBIT 99 flops illustrate.
[February 21, 2000, 8:52]
Asian enterprises turn to Linux
News Latest findings by Gartner Asia-Pacific revealed that 15 percent of companies in the region (excluding Japan) used Linux in the fourth quarter of last year. Storage vendors will face tough market conditions this year (in Asia-Pacific).
[January 22, 2002, 10:10]
