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Battle of business models rages in India
News Nandan Nilekani, the chief executive of Infosys Technologies said in a Times of India interview that there is now a "battle of business models". Indian IT companies are geared towards a global, outsourcing model of doing business and, as a result...
[October 21, 2003, 11:00]
AOL and Freeserve draw battle lines
News The battle of the ISPs was played out this week, as AOL and Freeserve shared a stage at the Jupiter Consumer Online conference in London. But Burrington points to his company's experience in the American markets where it has experimented with...
[October 21, 1999, 12:43]
Compaq trumpets PC resurgence
News Compaq executives say their PC business is back on track following a bloody battle with cross-state rival Dell. The Texas-based PC maker announced second quarter earnings last week that were in line with Wall Street expectations, despite parts...
[August 1, 2000, 14:23]
Microsoft muses on free desktop apps
News Even as Microsoft readies a host of new ad-supported online services to battle rivals, the software maker has been mulling a plan to offer free, ad-supported versions of some of its desktop products, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned.
[November 15, 2005, 8:35]
Five years ago: Compaq's super-floppy faces tough trek
News Compaq will begin shipping systems with its 120Mb super-floppy disk drive at the end of this month, firing up a hard-to-win battle with Iomega in the hotly contested seconday-storage market. Three models in Compaq's Deskpro 4000 business desktop...
[August 15, 2001, 8:00]
Lexmark tones up for printer fight
News It's a battle of who is going to own purchase decision," Grant said. Lexmark International plans a major product unveiling next week aimed at raising the stakes in the laser printer battle with Hewlett-Packard and taking on copier manufacturers...
[April 4, 2003, 11:05]
If you've got the cash, Google's got the answer
News Uphill battle Despite the well-polished reputation with the Web community and general good reception for its new services, this programme may have an uphill battle. Along with the demise of countless dot-coms, many such services were forced out of...
[April 22, 2002, 9:08]
Lenovo sharpens vision under new leadership
News Lenovo was bested by rival Acer in the battle for Europe's Packard-Bell brand a year ago in its attempt to grow its worldwide market presence, and recently reported a disappointing quarter as it has been hit hard by the tightening of IT budgets...
[February 19, 2009, 8:32]
Novell: The comeback kid
News Snapping up Linux desktop tool company Ximian and then the SuSE Linux distribution rejuvenated a company frozen in a mid-nineties time warp, shaking it out of the shell shock born from close-quarter fighting with Microsoft in the battle for...
[March 24, 2004, 12:15]
Q&A: J.D. Edwards CEO on resisting Oracle
News Entangled in an epic battle of wills with one of Silicon Valley's biggest egos, Dutkowsky has surely gotten more than he bargained for when he joined J.D. Secondly, when you look at the Compaq and HP business models, they're in PCs, they're in Unix...
[July 3, 2003, 10:35]
Linux slips off Dell's PCs
News As a result, she added, "you're fighting a pretty big uphill battle" to establish the operating system on the desktop. Citing slow demand for the operating system on client PCs over the last several quarters, a Dell spokesman said the PC maker...
[August 3, 2001, 8:30]
Handspring stepping into corporate market
News Handspring has an uphill battle because they never have established themselves in the enterprise, and the [broader] Palm economy is somewhat waning in the enterprise. Since then, the company has added new models with features such as faster chips...
[September 27, 2001, 13:20]
IBM drops AMD in North America
News IBM has quietly discontinued using AMD's chips in PCs sold in North America, as the battle for market share between AMD and Intel intensifies. IBM Canada continues to sell two models of its NetVista A40i consumer desktop on Big Blue's Web site for...
[August 14, 2001, 8:37]
Apple plans RAID on storage market
News Apple is entering the storage market pretty late in the game at a time when battle lines have been clearly drawn and loyalties are firmly entrenched," said Tim Deal, an analyst at Technology Business Research.
[February 11, 2003, 9:40]
IBM edges Sun out of server top spot
News Although IBM may have won the battle, Sun won the Unix server war in 2001. The systems are expensive, with top-end models often costing well over $1m. Gaining the top spot in the quarter was an important milestone for IBM, which has been working to...
[March 11, 2002, 8:44]
Pay-to-play search ignites trademark battle
News Many of the cases are settled before they ever reach the court, with smaller sites often removing the trademarked terms to avoid a costly legal battle. As search companies adopt more creative business models and site-ranking strategies, however...
[February 11, 2002, 12:02]
Lexmark hits back in printer war with HP
News The companies have been in a battle for the consumer printer market for five years. Lexmark announced six inkjet printers -- three of which are all-in-one models, two are photo-capable inkjets and one is a colour printer -- for the consumer market.
[April 30, 2003, 10:33]
Overture founder set to unveil new search venture
News Still, Insider Pages faces the uphill battle of drawing new subscribers in an environment laden with too many pitches to join other social networks. Craigslist could be developing new business models, given that eBay just took a 25 percent stake in...
[October 5, 2004, 10:40]
The Day Ahead: Transmeta's story still has a way to go
News On the Internet appliance side of the equation, Transmeta will battle MIPS, ARM Holdings and National Semiconductor. Meanwhile, he carried around plenty of models featuring Transmeta chips. There is little historical financial information that is...
[November 6, 2000, 13:05]
Free model is not sustainable - experts agree
News Free and unmetered internet access has been on the agenda for some time -- right now the battle is on. Eibisch believes that the models being adopted this week could change quite rapidly as broadband rolls out.
[March 15, 2000, 6:34]
