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Tech giants eye consumer support market
News However, the overall market for Windows support last year was $7.8bn (£4.5bn), which includes everything from corporate server support to consumer PCs. It's not completely clear how big the market is for premium consumer support, said Matt Healey...
[March 1, 2006, 14:55]
BlackBerry aims at consumer market
News The devices typically lack features common in consumer-oriented PDAs, such as a music or video player, but are designed to make it simple to read and respond to messages. T-Mobile USA set up a similar partnership for the US market last year.
[March 5, 2003, 10:19]
Corporate IT 'will follow the consumer market'
News Not everyone at the event agreed that the enterprise market could learn a lot from the consumer space. From where I sit, it [the consumer tech market] looks more like the fashion industry than grown-up ICT," claimed Mark Hunter, chief executive of...
[February 21, 2006, 14:45]
HSDPA 'will fail in consumer market'
News Super 3G technology is unlikely to turn around 3G's poor track record in the consumer market, a supplier of IP routers has claimed. HSDPA is not going to make the impact on the consumer market that the networks think," Sarian's marketing director...
[September 5, 2006, 17:20]
Consumer sales boost notebook market
News PC manufacturers shipped a total of about 30.5 million notebooks in 2002, accounting for about 23.5 percent of the worldwide PC market, according to a new study by IDC. Notebooks as a percentage of the total market jumped about a point from 2001...
[March 26, 2003, 15:58]
3DLabs eyes PC graphics comeback
News Graphics chipmaker 3DLabs plans to re-enter the consumer PC market this year, once the company's acquisition by sound card maker Creative Labs is completed, a company executive said. Mercury Research analyst Dean McCarron said Creative has a chance...
[May 4, 2002, 7:31]
US Report: One more battle to fight for Microsoft
News Now that at least one study suggests Microsoft has overtaken Netscape in the browser market, the company owns the top position in every major consumer computing market. Intuit recently launched a new retail promotion campaign that highlights the...
[October 5, 1998, 12:10]
Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success
News A RealNetworks executive has claimed that Linux risks being excluded from the consumer market if it does not add support for copy-restriction technologies. Jeff Ayars, a vice-president at Real Networks, said in a talk at LinuxWorld in Boston on...
[April 7, 2006, 10:10]
Internet World: Digitalme does little for privacy, yet
News Entering the nascent consumer profiling market, network software maker Novell launched its Digitalme identity management service at Internet World in New York Tuesday. It's a market-driven decision, but it's not really good for the consumer," said...
[October 6, 1999, 16:18]
A Year Ago: Study: Microsoft overcharges for software
News Microsoft has collected $10bn (£6.1bn) in consumer overcharges in the past three years thanks to its "monopoly" over the PC operating system market, consumer groups alleged in a study released today. As a result, officials of the Consumer...
[January 10, 2000, 5:30]
BT creeps away from consumer broadband
News BT has denied that is ditching its consumer ADSL service, but at the same time admits that its focus will now be on the more lucrative business market. At the moment our focus and effort is the SME [small and medium-sized enterprise] market but in...
[April 19, 2001, 16:09]
Sony straddles the DVD fence
News The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and discs, which should be available to consumers by the end of the month. DVD-RW is mainly for people looking to record video and play it on consumer DVD players.
[November 26, 2001, 9:56]
Intel delves deeper into consumer electronics
News Intel is moving deeper into the consumer electronics market with a handheld audio player and portable Internet devices, but analysts question whether the company will find success. It's slowly making a push into the consumer space.and all these...
[January 3, 2001, 9:21]
BSkyB to sell discounted no-frills broadband
News BT Retail looks increasingly likely to dominate the UK's consumer broadband market in the future after securing a major marketing deal with BSkyB. However, BT Broadband is £3 per month cheaper than broadband from Freeserve or BTopenworld, and as...
[July 31, 2002, 12:51]
BT aims to dominate with no-frills broadband
News BT Retail believes it can capture half of the UK's consumer broadband market with its new "no-frills" high-speed Internet access product, and kick-start the broadband applications sector in the process.
[June 14, 2002, 16:46]
Study: Microsoft overcharges for software
News Microsoft has collected $10bn (£6.1bn) in consumer overcharges in the past three years thanks to its "monopoly" over the PC operating system market, consumer groups alleged in a study released today. As a result, officials of the Consumer...
[January 11, 1999, 12:09]
Wi-Fi shows rapid growth
News The Wi-Fi gear market continued its rapid growth in 2003, led mostly by consumer holiday sales, but companies saw a slight shuffle in their market share rankings. The consumer sector drove the overall market, increasing about 74 percent in the...
[February 11, 2004, 9:10]
What ashame :(
Talkback What ashame :( no preinstalled Ubuntu Dell comps in the UK, and a load of other countries/islands soon, for the consumer market. Also hopefully Dell will make preinstallations of Ubuntu (and other distros if Ubuntu is a success) for the consumer...
[May 4, 2007, 21:52]
2000: The year PDAs grew up
News But unlike 1999, when PDAs were considered more of a tool for mobile professionals, this was the year the market went consumer. The consumer giant has a significant pool of content from within the company to draw from but also plans to use...
[January 2, 2001, 9:19]
Iomart abandons consumer broadband
News Now it has withdrawn from the consumer market it will send out more warning signals to a government determined to see the UK as the best broadband nation by 2005 that there is a fatal problem with existing rollout.
[June 5, 2001, 16:54]
