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Measure Up With The Horizontal Ruler: Set Margins, Indents, And Tabs
White Papers In Word, one can quickly set up margins, tab stops, and paragraph indents in one convenient place: the horizontal ruler. The horizontal ruler is the bar across the top of the Word document with measurements marked out on it.
[May 4, 2008, 0:00]
Intel At The Margins
Leader It has slashed margins: on cue, sales have risen. As those lost margins signify, the days of rich pickings have gone and may not return. Intel's latest quarterly results show an alert company reacting to seismic change.
[July 19, 2007, 16:50]
Estrella Seguros Uses SAS Customer Intelligence To Improve Profitability In A Market With Squeezing Margins
White Papers Profit margins, if positive, are very thin. Auto insurance is a very tough and complex business and there are a large number of insurers competing for business, so the market is highly mature allowing for only a tiny growth in the volume of business.
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
Amazon.com Beats 3Q Estimates But Sees Lower Margins Ahead
News However, rising expenses will crimp profit margins in future quarters. During a conference call with analysts, Bezos said Amazon.com's fourth-quarter gross profit margins would fall between 200 to 300 basis points compared to the third quarter due...
[October 28, 1999, 8:16]
Creating A Macro To Meet Court Requirements For Document Margins
White Papers Different courts have different requirements, or preferences, for document margins. One can accommodate these preferences by setting the margins every time one creates a document. An easier way is to automate this task by creating a macro (a set of...
[May 4, 2008, 0:00]
AMD Takes Aim At Notebook Market's Margins
News AMD on Tuesday opened the throttle on its Athlon XP-M processors for notebooks. The chipmaker launched three new models, including a new Athlon XP-M 2800+ processor for regular-size notebooks, its highest-performance notebook chip to date.
[June 17, 2003, 13:53]
Margins Soar At Red Hawk/CDT With MAS 90 And JOB*OPS
White Papers Red Hawk/CDT is now part of the Cable Design Technologies group of companies, a worldwide leader in the design, development and manufacturing of both copper and fiber optic cable solutions. Management needed a tool to determine the profitability of...
[October 11, 2003, 0:00]
Mobile Standard Comes In From The Margins
News The cellphone standard EDGE is surprising many by staking a permanent claim. The 100-kilobit-per-second cellphone technology was meant as a stepping-stone for cellphone carriers as they progress toward 3G, or third-generation, telephone networks...
[January 27, 2004, 14:25]
FLASHWAVE 4010: Improving Margins For The Most Popular Services
White Papers The FLASHWAVE 4010 remote extension device is a compact OC-3 access module that is optimized for simplicity and low cost to enable optical delivery of DS1 or DS3 service with improved profitability. This new device radically redefines how service...
[July 20, 2004, 0:00]
Elonex Falls Into Administration
News Cut-throat competition from the likes of Dell, along with the wafer-thin margins that dominate the PC business, have claimed their latest victim this week, with Elonex revealing it has been forced into administration.
[June 14, 2006, 12:55]
HP: Open Source Can Be More Profitable Than Proprietary
News HP claims it has started to make higher margins from open source than proprietary software in some instances, due to the support costs associated with migration. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Wednesday, HP's open source and Linux chief technology officer...
[October 29, 2006, 13:03]
US Report: ISPs May Offer Free PCs
News What could make that possible are the quickly falling prices and profit margins of the basic PC. That may be the only way for PC makers -- now competing for ever-thinner margins in the sub-$1,000 PC space -- to actually make a profit as consumers...
[October 30, 1998, 10:24]
UK Notebook Market Booms
News Notebook sales are booming in the UK as vendors and retailers squeeze their profit margins to generate demand. Ian Gibbs, research analyst for IDC's European Personal Computing group, said demand has been fuelled by aggressive price cutting and...
[August 14, 2003, 17:25]
Securing The Future For Cisco
Leader Its business model demands market domination and very high margins backed up by double-digit growth. But Cisco's margins approached 70 percent last year, some of the highest in the business: any acquisition can only dilute these.
[February 17, 2005, 12:20]
The Day Ahead: VA Linux Delivers, Diversifies Revenue Base
News First-day IPO hype aside, VA Linux is delivering on exactly what it said it would do -- boost margins, post eye-popping revenue growth and diversify its revenue base. Long-term gross margins should be in the 27 percent range with profits by the end...
[August 24, 2000, 12:15]
The Day Ahead: Amazon.com's March To Profits Still Hazy
News Amazon.com cleared every hurdle it had to: First quarter loss, revenue, gross margins and customer accounts all topped Wall Street estimates. Retail margins are weak and possibly weaker depending on how you count fulfillment costs.
[April 27, 2000, 12:04]
Bodegas Y Bebidas Uncorks Customer Satisfaction With Websphere Commerce
White Papers Bodegas y Bebidas (ByB) wanted to increase profit margins and reduce marketing costs by leveraging Web-based selling solution. The results have exceeded all expectations profit margins have risen by 40 percent, and direct marketing costs have been...
[March 2, 2004, 23:00]
US Report: `Price War' Ravages IBM's Q1 Earnings
News IBM's chief financial officer said yesterday that an unexpected price war bit into profit margins and dragged down the company's earnings in the first quarter. Ricciardi said revenues and margins for IBM's PC business were down year to year, but...
[April 21, 1998, 8:39]
Best Practices For Customer Support In Consumer Electronics
White Papers The race for convergence has blurred the lines between traditional consumer electronics and high tech companies - resulting in increased competition, shrinking margins, and compressed product life cycles.
[January 7, 2005, 23:00]
Analysts Predict PC Price War
News PC makers are turning to cut-throat tactics to raise their market share, even at the expense of profit margins, and the result will be a 10.7 percent growth in the PC market this year, according to analysis firm Dataquest.
[March 26, 2001, 16:18]
