Palm Expected To Hand In Good Earnings Report
News However, analysts say handheld sales have remained robust, despite the slump in the PC market. Tech investors should finally get a bit of good news Wednesday when handheld maker Palm reports earnings that are likely to beat analyst forecasts.
[December 20, 2000, 14:34]
Palm Slumps Yet Further On Outlook
News Shares of Palm took a hit Wednesday after the company predicted that sales would slump $250m below estimates for its fourth quarter. While most reduced estimates based on the companyÂ’s outlook, some urged investors to stick it out, saying that the...
[March 28, 2001, 15:27]
Handspring Buy May Boost Palm Wireless Plans
News The sluggish sales has been partly due to an overall slump in the handheld market, but the market has stabilised in the first quarter of this year, Canalys said. A recovering handheld market Canalys, a London-based analysis firm focused on mobile...
[June 4, 2003, 16:24]
ARM Shares Fall On Royalty Fears
News As the high-tech slump has progressed, ARM's manufacturer partners have continued to invest in equipment in order to remain competitive. The company licenses designs for microprocessor cores used in portable devices like mobile phones and handheld...
[April 15, 2002, 13:29]
Intel Sees 76 Percent Drop In Income
News Intel has held firm to its forecasts since then, despite several analysts trimming revenue forecasts amid signs the PC slump will continue longer than expected. Executives blamed the drop largely on weak sales of communications chips and flash...
[July 18, 2001, 9:13]
Handspring Homes In On Midrange
News Palm had a number of problems earlier this year when it announced the high-end m500 and m505 models long before they were ready and then faced a slump in sales of its existing products. NPD Intelect analyst Stephen Baker said the midrange is a key...
[August 16, 2001, 9:02]
Euro Chip Sector Faces Leaner Times
News Chip sales are a key indicator of the strength of the IT industry, so the WSTS's predictions suggest that the worst of the technology slump may not be over, at least for Europe. It said earlier this month that it expected to see accelerated demand...
[October 26, 2001, 14:23]
Will Apple Live Up To Macworld Hype?
News Rather than hunkering down and riding out a protracted slump in PC sales, Apple Computer appears to be starting the new year where it left off in 2001: pushing the envelope with sleek new products. Despite an industrywide slump, Apple last year...
[January 5, 2002, 6:31]
Fiorina Warns Tech Gloom Is Spreading
News The words are significant in light of remarks earlier by HP and competitors such as Sun Microsystems, which had previously pointed to strong European sales as a bright spot that contrasted with the North American slump.
[March 21, 2001, 15:39]
ARM Sees Opportunity In Adversity
News ARM believes it can ride out the high-tech slump through the sheer diversity of its embedded offerings, and its prominence in the market. Besides its mobile phone chips, ARM designs power Nintendo's Game Boy, which is selling 100,000 units a day...
[April 11, 2001, 11:24]
News Roundup: April Brings Showers Of Job Losses
News Tue, 03 Apr US economic slump means redundancies this side of the Atlantic Thu, 19 Apr Suffering from a sharp drop in demand, the handheld maker starts doling out pink slips and finding other ways to tighten its belt
[April 19, 2001, 13:02]
No Killer-app Means Death To Handhelds
News The handheld market has been sliding in the past few quarters partly as result of one major player, Handspring, shifting its focus from handhelds to a combination organiser and cell phone. HP's progress was due to sales of its $299 (£188) iPaq H1910.
[April 24, 2003, 9:53]
Consumer Electronic Spending Will Defy Global Slowdown
News It may sound odd to predict growth, given that many technology companies are sacking staff because of the slump in the high-tech sector. The predictions came as electrical retailer Dixons announced strong growth in sales of mobile phones, digital...
[July 5, 2001, 6:28]
Sony Plans To Ride Out Economic Slump
News Despite the economic slump, Sony Electronics will try to maintain its double-digit growth in the United States this year by releasing a slew of new products. To keep the juggernaut rolling, Sony will be rapidly releasing products such as a new...
[April 4, 2001, 10:03]
PDA Shipment Figures Slump Again
News According to Kevin Burden, IDC's research manager for mobile devices, the health of the PDA market in the future depends on manufacturers creating new products that can "leverage the unique hardware and software capabilities of the handheld device".
[July 29, 2005, 12:55]
Tech Slump Has Knock-on Effect In Property Market
News Palm, developer of the Palm operating system and handheld devices, provided one of the most disturbing examples of how ambitious expansion plans can turn into expensive boondoggles. But those plans have gone awry in recent months as sales have...
[July 4, 2001, 12:54]
Palm's Sales Slump In April
News By comparison, retail sales in March were roughly flat with January, which is typically one of the slowest months for handheld sales after the holiday buying season. Things appear to be going from bad to worse for Palm, the leader in the handheld...
[May 3, 2001, 9:24]
