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Lord Stern: Downturn Won't Affect Climate Change Efforts
Blog Comment I am not sure that Lord Stern is not being a bit over optimistic about how green planning will be hit by a recession or downturn. I think that many of the energy and cost saving projects will continue as they are not altruistic or really...
[May 2, 2008, 10:22]
Downturn To Hamper Asian Piracy Fight
News Efforts to clamp down on the illegal use of software in Asia could prove futile as businesses become increasingly cash-strapped in the economic downturn. And with the downturn now straining company coffers, the use of illegal software could become...
[October 3, 2001, 15:11]
Lord Stern: Downturn Won't Affect Climate Change Efforts
Blog Being green is all well and good but how long will companies continue to worry about the environment if the financial downturn affecting the US bites harder and really impacts the UK? That was one of the questions posed to Lord Nicholas Stern, of...
[April 30, 2008, 16:52]
Micron Hints At DRAM Downturn
News On Friday, networking equipment maker Cisco said it expects the economic downturn to affect sales and earnings into 2002, triggering a world-wide selloff of tech shares on Monday. Demand for DRAMs, the basic building blocks for memory used in PCs...
[March 13, 2001, 11:38]
Cisco Latest Victim Of Downturn
News Analysts have said Cisco is better positioned to weather a downturn than most companies. Internet equipment leader Cisco Systems warned investors to expect flat to lower revenue in coming quarters, with full-year revenue growth in the "40 percent...
[February 7, 2001, 7:40]
Memory Makers Ride Out Downturn
News Unlike in past cycles, such as in 1995 and 1998, when excess capacity caused manufacturers to cut prices, the latest downturn was created by a slowdown in demand for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), the most common type of memory used in...
[August 8, 2001, 9:09]
DRAM Market Set For 2005 'downturn'
News It's warning for a downturn," Dan Hutcheson, chief executive of VLSI Research, wrote in a recent version of The Chip Insider , an industry newsletter. Worldwide revenue from DRAM, the memory found inside computers, will grow a whopping 56.2 percent...
[December 20, 2004, 11:10]
Asia-Pacific Region Defies IT Services Downturn
News The growth trend in IT services in the Asia-Pacific region has continued to a large extent independently of the downturn in some economies within the region," Jester said. Despite continued sluggish performance in Europe and the US, the Asia...
[May 28, 2002, 14:20]
Semiconductor Industry To See Worst-ever Downturn
News The semiconductor industry is facing its worst annual downturn ever, according to new figures from IC Insights, a US market research firm. The new research underscores the dramatic nature of the downturn for the chip industry.
[June 19, 2001, 12:23]
Lord Stern: Downturn Won't Affect Climate Change Efforts
Blog Comment The US (and Australia’s John Howard, prior to the last election) is constantly demonised because they won’t ratify Kyoto. However, I agree with the US stance - there’s no point to a climate change agreement that doesn’t include all the major...
[May 6, 2008, 14:09]
Lord Stern: Downturn Won't Affect Climate Change Efforts
Blog Comment It is interesting that Lord Stern describes John Howard as “appalling”. Whatever you think of John Howard, his government did launch the ground-breaking Global Initiative on Forests and Climate in March 2007 to help address the problem of global...
[May 6, 2008, 14:16]
Lord Stern: Downturn Won't Affect Climate Change Efforts
Blog Comment I agree, many of these efforts are about saving energy, others are required by law or they're things they can use in marketing campaigns so dropping them wouldn't make much difference.
[May 1, 2008, 22:11]
How Intel Plans To Survive The Downturn
News The semiconductor market is stuck in one of its worst slumps, Intel chief executive Craig Barrett says, but the growth of the Internet just might be its savior. The apparent paradox -- declining industry revenues during a period of increasing...
[October 31, 2001, 10:16]
EMachines Bucks PC Downturn
News Slowing PC demand? It's the economy, stupid! So says eMachines chief executive Stephen Dukker, who Thursday announced details on several forthcoming small-business PCs and a new strategy to attack the market.
[December 1, 2000, 9:43]
Gambling Sites Beat The Dot-com Downturn
News Internet gambling is one trade that is booming despite the current atmosphere of dotcom gloom, according to Web traffic monitoring company Jupiter MMXI Thursday. While many dot-coms are forced to cut back in order to survive market coldness towards...
[January 18, 2001, 13:43]
UK Hardware Distributor Hit By Downturn
News IT hardware reseller Computacenter saw its share price drop sharply on Wednesday morning amid fears that it might perform badly in the second half of 2001. Releasing its interim results the company announced that although profits for the first half...
[August 15, 2001, 16:03]
Downturn Claims 5,000 Dot-coms
News In the three years since the peak of the dot.com frenzy, nearly 5,000 internet companies have either been acquired or shut down in a massive sector consolidation, says a new study of mergers and acquisitions.
[March 17, 2003, 12:45]
IT Security Spending Appears On The Increase Amid Economic Downturn: Enterprises Move Quickly To Re-Examine Cyber Security Posture
White Papers Whale Communications, the leading enterprise-class SSL VPN vendor, is enabling companies to provide employees and partners secure access to corporate data and applications from any web browser. Its award-winning solutions have been securing...
[December 12, 2004, 23:00]
Telecom Downturn Weighs Heavy On Cisco
News Cisco Systems' stock price hit a 52-week low Monday amid ongoing concerns of an industry-wide slowdown of telecommunications equipment sales. Cisco's shares fell $5.30 to $42.88 Monday, the fifth straight day the company's stock has dropped.
[December 19, 2000, 11:17]
Roundup: Dot-com Downturn - Where Do Companies Go From Here?
News It's been a long, hot summer for dot-coms in the US and Europe alike. This spring's meltdown in Internet shares has turned out to be a long-term affair, resulting in delayed or scrapped flotations and a round of consolidations.
[August 31, 2000, 13:05]
