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A Year Ago: IBM beats estimates in 3Q
News In the same quarter a year ago, IBM reported earnings of $1.4bn (£.85bn), or $1.35 a share, on revenue of $18.6bn (£11.34bn). Revenue for the quarter was up 8 percent compared to a year ago, but would have been up 11 percent without currency effects.
[October 21, 1999, 9:00]
A Year Ago: Netscape's blackest day totalled $88.3m loss
News In the end, Netscape lost a whopping $88.3 million compared to an $8.2 million profit a year ago. Following that principle, Netscape today posted the expected black quarter it had warned of just a few weeks ago.
[January 27, 1999, 5:38]
A Year Ago: Tesco Online to create 7,000 jobs
News Tesco's announcement comes a day after it reported that Web sales were up ten-fold over a year ago, though overall sales were lacklustre. After reporting 10 percent growth in the third quarter, compared to the same quarter a year ago, Tesco shares...
[January 19, 2001, 6:03]
A Year Ago: Data overload causing addiction
News Among key findings: per cent of managers say they receive more information than a year ago, and that their working environment has grown more stressful.per cent of managers think they receive too much information per cent of managers say they get...
[December 7, 1998, 9:54]
A Year Ago: Twenty three sacked for email abuse
News In the UK, there have been several "sacked for surfing" cases in the last year -- a council worker and a IT manager were fired for spending too much time on the Web -- experts suspect there are hundreds more that never get publicised.
[December 3, 2000, 6:02]
A Year Ago: Bookmark this!
News UBUBU also plans to come out with a kids' version later this year, and says it may create other versions for other age groups later. Backus, said he got the idea about five years ago during a conversation with his brother, Ben, a vision scientist...
[March 6, 2001, 6:01]
A Year Ago: Sequent suffers Wintel pangs
News A year ago, Sequent earned $8.6m (£5.24m) on $210.7m (£128.47m) in revenues. Those numbers included a one-off restructuring charge of $62.9m (£38.35m). The loss comes as Sequent's tries to reposition itself as a broader computer supplier to the mid...
[July 27, 1999, 6:08]
A Year Ago: Government panel recommends digital poll tax
News The panel, headed by economist Gavyn Davies, proposes digital viewers be charged an extra £24 a year, starting next April. Elderly people, the unemployed and the low paid cannot afford to pay £125 a year BBC licence fee," he said.
[August 8, 2000, 7:06]
A Year Ago: The Internet is shrinking - report
News Commissioned by the LA Times, the survey of 40,000 subjects shows that people spend 20 percent of their time on the top 10 Web sites today compared to 16 percent a year ago and the amount of time spent at the top 50 and 100 sites in that period...
[August 25, 2000, 7:00]
A Year Ago: ECTS - Lara sweeps Awards, Eidos shares soar
News The shares have climbed steadily from around 450p a fortnight ago, said a spokeswoman for the firm. The Eidos Interactive smash hit took the prize for Marketing Campaign of the year and PC Game of the year.
[September 8, 1998, 6:13]
A Year Ago: CompuServe resignations fuel merger speculation
News Earlier this year, it was rumored that CompuServe was close to striking a deal with competitor America Online Inc. Brice McNaughton, vice president and chief architect at the Columbus, Ohio, company resigned to fill a technology position at...
[August 17, 1998, 6:59]
A Year Ago: EToys gets off the mat
News In the same quarter a year ago, eToys reported an operating loss of $8.2m (£5m), or 9 cents (5p) a share, on sales of $22.9m (£14.2m). After peaking at 86 in October, eToys shares have been in a free fall, tumbling to an all-time low of 13 5/8...
[February 17, 2001, 6:05]
A Year Ago: Chastened MSN UK trying a new tack
News A year ago next Monday, rival online services were quaking at the echo of the Microsoft Network's giant strides. It's a non-issue. If you're a paying subscriber you get community, the Lord's cricket site.there are things still only available to the...
[January 21, 1999, 5:06]
A Year Ago: NT 5.0 public beta due next week
News A year later, the gun will fire. And many of the travails of networking giant Novell, which just a few years ago owned 80 percent of the networking software market, have come from NT. When Microsoft Corp.releases the first public beta version of...
[September 22, 1998, 6:27]
A Year Ago: IBM aims for bigger slice of chip pie
News In the US, sub-$1,000 PCs were 23 per cent of units sold in the first half of 1997, compared to seven per cent a year ago. IBM is aiming to be a bit more aggressive in the processor business. The IBM Microelectronics Division, to give the...
[November 5, 1998, 6:30]
A Year Ago: RealNetworks accuses Microsoft
News A spokesman for Microsoft rejected Glaser's contentions and said the company only learned about the complaints "24 hours ago. Microsoft has taken a minor equity position in the company. In a number of circumstances where the consumer already had...
[July 26, 1999, 6:46]
A Year Ago: AMD still fumbling demand in Q4
News Despite the earnings shortfall, the California company did improve its sales 29 percent versus the year-ago quarter when it lost $12.3bn (£7.5bn), or 9 cents a share, on sales of $613m (£374m). Despite those improved sales, AMD reported a loss of...
[January 14, 2000, 5:59]
A Year Ago: The future looks bleak for AMD
News A year ago, Intel cut the price on its Pentium MMX chips by up to 42 percent, putting pressure on a then-struggling AMD's K6 margins. A year ago, AMD was in the midst of a manufacturing crisis, unable to get its processors out the door and to its...
[February 10, 2000, 6:03]
A Year Ago: HP reports 'mixed' numbers
News HP reported a $617 million profit compared to $425 million on the year-ago quarter but most of that was caused by the firm quitting the disk drive business last year, the firm said. European sales were up 13 per cent year on year.
[August 19, 1998, 9:21]
A Year Ago: Dell cheers Wall Street yet again
News Revenues for the May-July quarter passed $2.8 billion, up 67 per cent on the year-ago quarter. Even in Europe, which has been something of a graveyard recently, Dell impressed with $620 million in revenues, up 42 per cent.
[August 20, 1998, 6:51]
