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AMD misses on fourth-quarter earnings
News Advanced Micro Devices last week reported a larger-than-expected fourth-quarter loss, despite revenue from processor shipments rising by 60 percent from the preceding period. As projected, we saw increased PC processor and flash memory sales in the...
[January 20, 2003, 8:59]
Nortel results stun analysts
News Nortel Networks blew past analyst expectations for the fourth quarter, reporting on Thursday strong growth in wireless networking and a positive outlook for its voice over Internet Protocol equipment.
[January 30, 2004, 8:20]
Dearer Linux servers gain sales
News Customers gravitated toward more-expensive and powerful Linux servers in the fourth quarter of 2003, new sales statistics show. In the fourth quarter -- IBM's last in its fiscal year and often one with strong sales -- Big Blue was top in Unix, with...
[February 27, 2004, 8:05]
Legal worries spur software spending
News The storage software market jumped by 18 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003, thanks partly to efforts by companies to meet data-handling regulations and prepare for disasters. Research firm IDC plans to release on Monday a study showing that the...
[March 15, 2004, 10:00]
Symbian shipments rise amid doubts over future
News Symbian, the UK mobile-phone software maker, said on Monday that more than two million Symbian-powered handsets shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2003, with the total for the year reaching 6.67 million, which is more than three times 2002...
[February 23, 2004, 11:10]
Adobe prints profit for fourth quarter
News Software publisher Adobe Systems reported record revenue and income for its fourth quarter, buoyed by a new version of one of its main graphics packages and by strong growth for its publishing products.
[December 12, 2003, 10:50]
Plummeting prices hit Ethernet switch firms
News Revenue from Ethernet switching products fell about 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003, compared with the previous quarter, Synergy Research Group said in a report released on Friday. In the fourth quarter, the worldwide market for Ethernet...
[February 16, 2004, 11:00]
Intel scores revenue record
News Intel has reported record revenue and a fourth-quarter profit that exceeded analysts' expectations despite a $611m charge. Included in Intel's fourth-quarter earnings was a $611m, or 9 cents per share, charge for the impairment of goodwill from...
[January 15, 2004, 15:05]
Online ad sales gain again
News Sales from online advertising hit an estimated $1.75bn (£1bn) in the third quarter, the fourth consecutive period of gains for the industry, according to new research. Actual third-quarter results will be reported along with representative fourth...
[December 10, 2003, 11:35]
Intel climbs flash rankings
News The chip giant climbed back up the rankings in the flash memory market in the third quarter, according to research firm iSuppli, thanks to its pricing strategy. Intel pulled in $639m in flash revenue during the third quarter, up 8.9 percent from...
[November 17, 2004, 14:25]
Survey: Business customers less satisfied with Dell
News The PC maker's overall customer service and support satisfaction rating, as measured by Technology Business Research's Corporate IT Service and Support Customer Satisfaction Study, fell slightly from the fourth quarter of 2003 to the first quarter...
[June 29, 2004, 12:35]
Broadband growth outpaces mobile take-up
News Maintaining the same percentage growth in the fourth quarter of 2003 will have taken the worldwide number past 100 million," said Tim Johnson, publisher of Point Topic. In fact, growth in the fourth quarter is usually faster than in the third...
[January 5, 2004, 16:25]
Red Hat below expectations, but optimistic
News The company had a net loss of $56,000 (£35,600), breaking even on a per-share basis, on revenue of $25.9m for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2003, which ended 28 Feb. Revenue for the current quarter, which ends 30 May, is expected to be between $27m...
[March 26, 2003, 11:22]
AMD delays Hammer for desktops
News Earlier, AMD planned to ship Clawhammer to manufacturers by the end of the fourth quarter of this year and have it on store shelves in the first quarter of 2003. AMD lost two points of market share in the past quarter and posted a loss for the...
[September 13, 2002, 8:15]
Revised server numbers show HP 'decline'
News An underestimation of HP's worldwide server revenue in the fourth quarter of 2001 prompted Gartner to revise its overall growth/decline figures for 2002 and its figures for the last quarter of the year.
[June 5, 2003, 12:28]
IBM plans data-storage hard sell
News Big Blue on Tuesday estimated that sales of its storage software, such as data backup and storage management programs, grew two and a half times the overall market rate for that sector in the fourth quarter of 2003.
[February 4, 2004, 10:25]
SCO's legal fees eat up profits
News Controversial Unix software company the SCO Group reported a loss for its fourth quarter on Monday, based largely on the hefty legal fees the company has accrued in waging its intellectual-property war against Linux.
[December 23, 2003, 11:50]
Palm's loss smaller than expected
News Handheld-maker Palm on Tuesday reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter sales and a loss that was narrower than analysts had forecast. Excluding certain charges, Palm said it posted a fourth-quarter loss of $8.9m, or 30 cents per share.
[June 25, 2003, 8:53]
Solid sales push AMD past expectations
News Revenue for the quarter exceeded even the seasonally strong fourth quarter by about $30m. The fourth quarter marked the company's first profitable period since the second quarter of 2001. In the first quarter, microprocessor revenue came to $571m...
[April 15, 2004, 9:10]
Looking for love online drains wallets
News Zimbalist said the results for the first half of the year serve to prove that the market has gotten back on track after a disappointing fourth quarter in 2002, when sales for paid content dipped to $359m, in a 7 percent drop compared with the...
[September 24, 2003, 16:30]
