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Corporate Anti-spyware Spending Tipped To Boom
News The report, Corporate Anti-Spyware Market 2005-2009 by the Radicati Group, cites growing corporate concern over spyware designed to steal information. The report predicts that the number of corporate users with anti-spyware tools will grow from 16...
[July 1, 2005, 12:30]
Portal Software Beats Spending Trend
News Corporate spending on software may be down, but one product is bucking the trend: portal software, which lets companies streamline access to business systems. Microsoft last month announced it would revamp its SharePoint Portal Server next year...
[June 12, 2002, 11:57]
The Day Ahead: Dell Puts Y2K Hangover To Rest
News Corporate spending is tracking normal seasonal patterns. Rollins said corporate accounts rebounded in mid-quarter and picked up late in the first quarter. The corporate sales outlook was topic of the day on Dell's first quarter conference call.
[May 12, 2000, 11:58]
IBM Angles For Bigger Chunk Of Corporate Spend
News IBM is accelerating its strategy of using industry-specific business expertise to get a larger portion of corporate spending, IBM executives said at a briefing for financial analysts on Thursday. While not commenting specifically on its view on...
[December 5, 2003, 9:10]
Western European PC Sales Fall Again
News A recovery, driven by corporate spending, could be imminent, though. The lack of corporate rebound continued to prevent a return to positive growth in the three largest European markets, with France suffering the most from the lack of business...
[July 19, 2002, 15:58]
Compliance Demands Drive Security Spending
News A poll of corporate executives published on Monday found that companies are increasing spending on security to satisfy legislation -- not necessarily because their chief executive have seen the light.
[September 30, 2003, 11:45]
SOX To Pull IT Spending Up In 2006
News Corporate governance and compliance laws are driving up information technology spending by businesses, Gartner reported in a study released Thursday. Projects that were not aligned with compliance and corporate governance were delayed or cancelled...
[December 16, 2005, 8:45]
IBM's Earnings Solid But Unspectacular
News Echoing comments made in the two previous quarters, IBM executives said corporate spending on information technology continues to rise between 4 percent and 5 percent, which is the best since 2000. But Stahlman said IBM's product groups can benefit...
[July 16, 2004, 11:05]
Handhelds Make A Comeback
News The rise in sales shows that there is more life in the data-centric handheld market than some had predicted, partly due to the popularity of features such as GPS navigation, and a rise in corporate spending, Canalys said.
[January 26, 2004, 15:05]
IDC Finds Optimism In 2004's Crystal Ball
News IT spending is more correlated with corporate profits than (gross national product) or other factors, and corporate profits are increasing," said Frank Gens, senior vice president of research at IDC. Tech spending will increase, IBM will indemnify...
[December 5, 2003, 8:25]
Dell Still No. 1 In The UK
News IDC said Compaq's troubles were are partly due to huge slowdown in corporate sales as companies cut their spending after Y2K investment. This fumbling, along with increased competition from Dell in the corporate arena, helped Dell take over from...
[May 26, 2000, 15:30]
Price Hikes Pay Off For Microsoft
News Despite "weak PC demand and corporate IT spending, Microsoft was able to deliver extremely solid operating results from a revenue and operating profits statement," he said. Microsoft's revenue rose 10 percent in the fourth quarter, thanks in part...
[July 19, 2002, 7:58]
IBM's Growing Pains Continue
News The impetus behind the "transformation" services is to give IBM a larger portion of corporate spending, including money dedicated to nontechnology functions such as human resources, accounting and customer support.
[May 5, 2005, 14:00]
Microsoft Profit Beats Expectations
News While corporate IT spending was slow to improve this quarter, we saw strength across all of our consumer businesses, driving higher-than-expected revenue for the company," Microsoft chief financial officer John Connors said in a statement.
[October 24, 2003, 11:40]
Companies Choose Not To Pick Up A Penguin
News Goldman Sachs this week released its first information-technology spending report, based on a recent poll of 100 executives from Fortune 1000 companies. Part of the survey asked the executives to rank their highest and lowest spending priorities.
[November 7, 2001, 12:45]
Pocket PC 2002 Debuts
News A decline in both corporate purchasing and consumer spending has led IDC to also slash its forecast for the overall handheld market. Pocket PC-based devices continue to fare well in the minds of business leaders, according to a new IDC survey of...
[October 4, 2001, 9:14]
N+I: Alcatel To Expand Into US
News It is the corporate market that has carried Cisco through the sharp drop in equipment spending. The appearance of Alcatel chief executive Serge Tchuruk at the NetWorld+Interop conference here suggests that his Paris-based company is serious about...
[May 8, 2002, 12:07]
Does IBM's Success Herald A Software Comeback?
News Despite the slowing spending rate, JP Morgan said certain software companies stand to do well this year, as corporate customers invest in software-related projects, such as regulatory compliance, software infrastructure overhauls and business...
[January 24, 2005, 11:25]
HP Denies 'tepid' Superdome Server Performance
News But corporate spending for servers appears to be scaling back. Sun and HP both are concerned about declining revenues due to reduced corporate spending. Kraemer also had rosier news for HP on the storage side of its business, where customers don't...
[January 11, 2001, 11:55]
Intel Falls Shy Of Views; Revenue Flat
News Most analysts predict a gradual return in corporate spending in 2003, but the chipmaker isn't holding its breath. Waiting for corporate cooperation When it comes to notebook chips, for example, "The majority of the notebook market tends to be...
[October 16, 2002, 9:39]
