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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: 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: 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: Bluetooth bites back at BT home wireless system
News TDK said BT's plan, which uses a combination of DECT and 802.11 wireless radio, amounted to "bits and pieces" put together a year or two ago with the technology of that day. TDK's Bluetooth division criticised BT's move into wireless home...
[September 7, 2000, 7:01]
A Year Ago: Cybergang 'Gunmen' aim for media
News The same office that investigated The New York Times defacement over a year ago will be spearheading the investigation. In contacting Attrition.org, its members used a third person to set up "meet" times on an Internet chat channel, and would only...
[September 19, 2000, 7:00]
A Year Ago: Exclusive: S3 expands into sexy consumer markets
News Traditionally a graphics card company that has dabbled in other silicon markets, S3 is shifting focus to embrace MP3, DSL and other sexy new technologies. Two years ago, S3's business looked to be falling apart, as it expanded into areas outside of...
[September 6, 2000, 7:01]
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: Can IBM be Big again?
News IBM disputed the market share figures and maintained that sales to end users remained strong, up about 25 percent from a year ago. When two big market research houses recently released their rankings of the five biggest PC makers in the United...
[August 5, 1999, 6:44]
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: 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: 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]
A Year Ago: IBM finds gold in copper
News Because copper is a more efficient conductor than aluminium, electrons traveling down a copper wire move faster than they would if they were moving down an aluminium wire of similar length. IBM is making a good living from copper, and expanding its...
[September 25, 2000, 7:01]
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Is a pocket Mac next for Apple?
News He needed one year to create products in four areas (professional and consumer desktops and portables) and just two years to make Apple a comeback king, a feat perhaps unduplicated in tech history. He ran down a laundry list of plans for the coming...
[July 24, 2000, 7:01]
