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Sony To Increase PC Prices
News Sony is raising prices on some of its PCs, the latest company to fall victim to increasing component costs. Dell Computer, which has been changing configurations on its PCs to blunt the impact of component costs, said on Thursday that costs have...
[April 8, 2002, 9:55]
Red Hat Boosts Service Subscription Plan
News But the new system monitoring component costs extra, said Paul Santinelli, director of marketing for the NOCpulse products. He'll begin implementing the systems management component in the second quarter.
[January 27, 2003, 11:02]
Ouch! Dell Warns Of 4Q Shortfall
News Dell continues to face an execution challenge in the fourth quarter due to generally higher component costs across the board. Fortuna said higher component costs would erode profit margins in the quarter.
[January 27, 2000, 10:58]
PC Boom Boosts Dell
News Despite this increase, component costs fell in general in the quarter, executives said. We actually saw component costs on an overall basis continue to decline during the second quarter, albeit at a slower rate that we saw in other quarters," Jim...
[August 15, 2003, 12:55]
Disk-drive Industry Sees Brighter Future In Store
News But lower component costs can cause a price war on the finished product. Watkins said drive companies used to be able to pit component suppliers against each other to squeeze out a lower price. Drive makers could therefore use fewer disks and heads...
[September 12, 2003, 10:45]
Dell To Pitch £120 Handheld At Comdex
News Falling component costs have also made price cuts more palatable for manufacturers. When we got into software for handhelds, we made a bet that component costs would come down, and while it was initially an obstacle, we're now able to attack the...
[October 9, 2002, 8:16]
Dell Sounds Latest Warning Bell
News Indeed, Dell said that its profit margins are firm because of lower-than-expected component costs. The company also plans to cut prices across its product lines to reflect lower component costs and better supply conditions.
[October 5, 2000, 8:37]
Microsoft Bets $500m On Xbox
News Falling component pricing should help Microsoft cut manufacturing costs, but not much. Sony's PlayStation2 won't benefit from commodity component pricing as much because it uses a specially designed graphics chip, the Emotion Engine, and pricey...
[November 15, 2001, 16:23]
HP Blames Market And 'own Mistakes' For Results
News HP sells most of its PCs in retail outlets and hence can't take advantage of or protect itself against component price changes. The decline was largely due to a mismatch between HP's forecasts for PC prices and component prices, especially in the...
[August 20, 2003, 12:40]
IBM Pumps Up 'on Demand' Power
News At its PartnerWorld conference in New Orleans, Big Blue will introduce upgrades to its WebSphere middleware, a key component of its on-demand computing initiative. At the conference, IBM will focus on the "on demand operating environment," or the...
[February 17, 2003, 12:05]
'Tunable' Lasers Revolutionise Telecoms
News Gemfire, a Cisco Systems-backed optical parts maker, and LaserComm, a Plano, Texas-based component maker, also plan to unveil or demonstrate products at the show. Similarly, Blue Sky Research, another fibre-optic component maker, plans to announce...
[March 20, 2001, 13:20]
Compaq Notebook Nears $1,000 Mark
News However, component costs and the overall complexity of the portable PC continues to keep notebook prices higher when compared to a similarly configured desktop PC. To reduce component costs, it has chosen to use a dual-scan screen technology, which...
[March 21, 2000, 15:02]
Q1 Earnings: Dell Delivers Again
News However, component costs remain "volatile", Schneider said. Lower component costs also helped Dell boost the bottom line. After market close Thursday, Dell saw first quarter earnings of $525m, (£347m) or 19 cents a share.
[May 12, 2000, 10:12]
Sony Unveils UK PS3 Pricing, Availability
News Sony looks at PlayStation family consoles - the PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable - as having 10-year lifetimes, and therefore, the company hopes that over time, component costs will drop enough to make a profit.
[May 9, 2006, 9:00]
Extending Service-Oriented Architectures With XForms
White Papers The benefits are broad, ranging from reduced integration costs, improved component reusability, and the ability to leverage existing infrastructure investments. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a mainstay of solution architecture.
[April 21, 2007, 0:00]
Contact Center Costs: The Case For Telecommuting Agents
White Papers In any contact center, labor costs are typically the largest annual expense component, exceeding 60% of total operational costs. This paper looks at how establishing a telecommuting or home agent program can lower costs and be competitive...
[May 5, 2008, 0:00]
Ballmer Gets It Wrong In Hardware Blame Game
Talkback Does Ballmer think it costs as little to produce each hardware component as it does to produce a copy of Windows? Each CD costs about 50p each (factoring in packaging, etc) and they sell it for £100. This is hilarious.
[October 25, 2004, 10:49]
Gartner: Apple Should Quit Hardware Business
Talkback Increasing component costs and pressure to cut its prices mean Apple's best bet for long-term success" WAS switching from IBM to Intel for it's components. Dell bought Alienware and is no longer exclusively using Intel motherboards.
[October 19, 2006, 0:43]
SAP Exchange Infrastructure: Simplifying Today's Complex IT Environment
White Papers This paper aim at providing information on SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) component, a powerful integration broker that works well within an IT landscape and with its various connectivity, format, and protocol requirements.
[July 25, 2007, 0:00]
TechNet Webcast: Business Desktop Deployment Workbench In Windows Vista (Level 300)
White Papers The Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) Workbench is a fundamental component of the Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment that enables one to create a repeatable, automated reference computer image that the person can use...
[November 23, 2006, 23:00]
