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US Report: Netscape Says Changes Starting To Pay Off
News In January, the company made it the default home page for Navigator users, a move Homer said has led to a 33 percent boost in home-page traffic. Netscape's share fell from about 60 percent in December to 56.5 percent in February, but it's climbed...
[April 28, 1998, 8:30]
ID Opponents Have All The Cards
Leader On its record, the Government has an addiction to consultant-led daftness that it pushes through at great expense and with little attention paid to ideas from outside the consultocracy. One figure that the Home Office is delighted that we see is...
[June 27, 2005, 13:45]
Intel Dominates Chipset Market
News The drop in demand and a chipset price war has led to a decline in revenue for all chipset makers, IDC said. In the meantime, the growing dominance of Intel's Pentium 4 processor has allowed Intel to turn the tables on its competitors in the...
[September 2, 2002, 15:12]
South Korea Orders Microsoft To Unbundle Windows
News These practices led to an increased supply of media in the Microsoft format, and of applications that compliment Windows media technology, which in turn led to a raised barrier of entry for the server and desktop operating system market, said the...
[December 7, 2005, 9:25]
US Experiences Record Breaking E-Christmas Sales
News The increased traffic and spending come despite a downturn in the economy that has led Jupiter Media Metrix to project a decrease in overall retail sales this holiday season. For the week after Thanksgiving, traffic was up 62 percent, from 1.9...
[December 14, 2000, 8:19]
Oracle's Earnings Surpass Forecasts
News Wall Street had been anticipating a strong rise in database revenue, given the recent "database-led recovery" for Oracle. Oracle generated revenue of $3.08bn in the quarter, up 9 percent from the $2.83bn reported for the period last year.
[June 16, 2004, 10:40]
Day-to-day IT Strategy Remains Top Priority
News The systems have been led by what's been sold, rather than what risks are out there. Some 90 percent of businesses said they explicitly considered these issues when planning and 60 percent rated them as major concerns.
[November 24, 2006, 15:20]
I-mode Services A Hit With Europeans
News However, deep differences between the Japanese and European mobile phone industries have led industry observers to question whether i-mode can be a success on foreign shores. The wide variety of specifications in European phones has led to gridlock...
[May 13, 2002, 17:06]
HP Posts Healthy Fourth-quarter Results
News Revenue increased 10 percent compared with last year led by notebook revenue, which was up 24 percent. HP posted fourth-quarter financial results on Thursday that capped off a year of dramatic improvements in profitability, led by solid quarters...
[November 17, 2006, 8:20]
Netbooks Expected To Drive PC-market Growth
News The growth was led by "the wide appeal of low-cost portables", like the Asus Eee PC, the analyst firm said. Worldwide PC shipments are expected to grow by 15.7 percent this year to reach 311 million units, according to a report released on...
[September 11, 2008, 11:27]
Financial Times Buys Into Marketwatch
News Data Broadcasting (DBC), worth half a billion dollars at Friday's market close, is issuing 56.5 million shares in itself to Pearson, giving the British media group a 60 percent stake in the enlarged company, to be led by FTAM President Stuart Clark.
[November 16, 1999, 9:31]
Broadband Britain 'must Follow Korea Path'
News This is one of the key conclusions of an investigation into the success of broadband in South Korea, which was led by Brunel University and funded by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). South Korea has the most advanced broadband market in...
[October 11, 2002, 12:38]
London Losing Lustre As Data-centre Destination
News John Cole, senior executive with Accenture's technology consulting practice, said: "The high prices and limited availability have led firms to consider locating their data centres outside of London. The company said the capital only has about five...
[February 28, 2008, 10:00]
World Cup Gives PC Sales The Boot
News That led to a slight market share increase worldwide to 19.2 percent. Gartner said Dell's sales grew 11.6 percent in the quarter and that its market share was 17.7 percent. Shipments of desktops, notebooks, and servers containing chips from Intel...
[July 20, 2006, 9:10]
Grid Computing To Combat Global Warming
News The project is being funded by the European commission to the tune of €4m and led by Italian academic institution INFN and other organisations including IBM Israel. As the UK attempts to meet its targets for lowering carbon emissions by 60 percent...
[January 17, 2005, 17:10]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo!: Slowdown? What Slowdown?
News s international sites -- led by Yahoo! Japan -- showed strong gains and accounted for 16 percent of the company's sales. That tally, down from 47 percent in the second quarter, is a big chunk of change, but the percentage is headed in the right...
[October 11, 2000, 11:51]
AT&T Chief Determined To Ride VoIP Wave
News Now amid cutthroat pricing, rival MCI's emergence from bankruptcy, and a regulatory climate that led AT&T to step away from consumer telephone service, the company is relying on voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, as one of the tools to...
[September 2, 2004, 15:50]
Banks 'must Try Harder' On ID Theft
News It led to a police investigation and left a series of banks - including Lloyds TSB, Barclays, Woolwich, and HSBC - with a PR nightmare on their hands. Close to 60 percent of US consumers sampled in January 2005 expressed that they were worried...
[July 5, 2005, 11:40]
Nokia And The Battle For Open Source's Soul
Leader The Finnish giant had, until now, kept out of the major alliances being formed in the mobile Linux space — the LiMo Foundation and the Google-led Open Handset Alliance (OHA) — because it could afford to.
[June 24, 2008, 17:24]
Government Sites Continue To Flout Standards
News Development of the eGMF, which forms part of the e-Government Interoperability Framework (eGIF), was led by the Office of the E-envoy, as an essential element of modernising government; it enables "better use of official information, joined-up...
[November 25, 2003, 11:20]
