TechTrader: EarthWeb, Cheap Tickets Top Estimates
News Cheap Tickets inched past analysts' estimates in its third quarter, earning $2.6m, or 11 cents a share, on sales of $110.2m. EarthWeb posted a smaller-than-expected loss in its third quarter Tuesday, losing $9m (£5.4m), or 93 cents a share, on...
[October 27, 1999, 10:25]
Takeover Boosts Lastminute's Capacity
News Online travel site Lastminute.com announced on Monday that it was buying Travelselect.com, a UK-based supplier of cheap airline tickets, for £9m. Travelselect.com sells flight and Eurostar train tickets, car hire, hotel rooms and insurance via the...
[April 8, 2002, 17:22]
Plastic Microchips Ahead
News Plastic microchips could also allow everyday disposable items, such as price tags or tickets, to carry out basic computing tasks. Researchers at Cambridge University are developing cheap microchip technology using plastic that some pundits believe...
[November 27, 2000, 11:05]
Pentagon Hacked
Blog Comment They were filled with brand new blank tickets. I reckon there were easily 500 tickets there. Given that I'd just paid over a hundred quid for a pair of tickets, and that all I'd need to do would be to thermal-print details onto blanks and swipe...
[June 22, 2007, 19:37]
Jane Wakefield: Waiting For The WAP Train
News But will we really be booking cinema tickets, reading news and buying CDs on our phones? If the e-minister had come back and said: "What we really need to do is get rid of BT's monopoly today and have really cheap off-peak access," the train the...
[March 28, 2000, 12:16]
The Luncher Awards For 1997
News To top it all, he lost the draw for tickets to France for Euro 98, to his arch rival, PC Week's Mole. Microsoft: Mini Swiss Army penknife (nice cheap tat, but no scissors) Silly hats, cheap plastic toys and jokes that don't make sense.
[January 2, 1998, 10:39]
News Burst: Expedia Makes Splashy Market Debut
News It's going to be the number one travel site according to traffic," said Peony Kao, IPO analyst for Renaissance Capital, looking at Media Metrix statistics that put it ahead of Preview Travel and Cheap Tickets with four million unique users.
[November 11, 1999, 9:57]
Gator 'spyware' Investigated By Harvard
News In the cutthroat travel business, Orbitz, Travelocity.com, Priceline.com, and Cheap Tickets have purchased pop-ups that Gator users visiting arch rival Expedia will see, the study found. A Harvard University researcher has completed an...
[May 22, 2003, 11:34]
Wall Street Smitten With Online Travel
News Toss in earnings from Cheap Tickets and you got the makings for one profitable sector. On Priceline.com's first-quarter earnings conference call, CEO Daniel H. Schulman sounded quite smitten about the online travel business.
[May 2, 2001, 13:24]
How To Talk To Microsoft About Linux
Talkback Anyway the tickets to this show are real cheap.bye now I like the idea that one linux club came up with. They made a couple thousand copys of linux distro's and stood outside the MS sideshow and gave them to people as they entered.
[June 16, 2004, 4:28]
Expedia Buys Two Travel Sites, Tops Estimates
News Expedia competes with Priceline.com, Preview Travel, which merged with Sabre Holding's Travelocity, and Cheap Tickets among others. Expedia also posted a smaller-than-expected loss in its first quarter as a public company.
[February 1, 2000, 10:16]
The Day Ahead: Expedia's Independence Pays, Musicmaker's Swan Song
News It competes with Priceline.com, Preview Travel, which merged with Sabre Holding's Travelocity, and Cheap Tickets among others. Expedia reported a smaller-than-expected loss and announced two acquisitions that bolster its position in the online...
[February 1, 2000, 11:31]
Cleaning Up A Bad Email Reputation
News Companies such as WalMart.com, Staples, Vanguard, Geico and Tickets.com have hired its services, Habeas said. As a result, email is no longer an easy and cheap way to get messages out to a large number of people, but one that needs careful management.
[April 27, 2006, 15:30]
Happy New Ear From Sony Ericsson
Blog I'll wager that headset has never been clamped roughly to the side of a builder's sweaty, stubbly, shaven head and used to book tickets for the West Ham game. They're very cheap, and available in a wide variety of styles.
[January 10, 2008, 15:15]
Employees To Be Billed For Personal Internet Use?
News If you use your office computer for internet banking and booking theatre tickets, you're fine. James Turner, industry analyst for security & services at Frost & Sullivan, said that charging employees for personal bandwidth usage would stir up a...
[February 1, 2005, 14:55]
Orange WAP Services Land, Phones To Follow
News If the cinema has half its seats empty for a particular film showing, it can send out a message to a user's phone offering half price tickets, available at the touch of a button. The service will be cheap, and phones will probably come down to...
[September 23, 1999, 17:22]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback I've filled over 5000 trouble tickets, and amongst the 10 hardest people to understand, were 2 Indian folks that were contacting me to report an alert. Dragging onto my hyppothesis and opinion: I think if north american companies cheap out on their...
[June 8, 2006, 8:16]
Thai Airways Online Sales In Legal Mess
News Although you have sought to make a booking, I regret to inform you that the nature of this unfortunate but obvious mistake was such that Thai Airways International is unable to issue you with tickets.
[April 28, 2003, 9:12]
The White Board Goes Wireless
News Some airports in Canada, too, have been using Wi-Fi networks to find people who are about to miss their flights -- the airports then process their tickets and give them seat assignments on the spur of the moment.
[November 4, 2002, 13:52]
Amazon Offers Cheap Shop Space
News The customer could also be referred off of the Amazon site to a page selling concert tickets. Continuing its metamorphosis from online bookseller to retailing giant, Amazon.com announced Wednesday a program that will allow small businesses and even...
[September 30, 1999, 11:00]
