Companies Shouldn't Overlook Minnow ISPs - Report
News Research by IT market analyst the Butler Group suggests that CompuServe, MSN and AOL provide a service up to 20 times slower than smaller providers, leading to expensive connect times. The results were based on tests conducted over 10 random periods.
[June 30, 1997, 13:14]
Microsoft Sued By Minnow Over Internet Explorer Name
News Internet Explorer, Microsoft's flagship browser, may have to be renamed if court action by Illinois ISP Synet Inc is successful. The 18-man company claims that it produced a software bundle of Internet utilities (including Netscape Navigator) by...
[August 15, 1996, 6:00]
Broadband Campaigners Demand More Govt Leadership
Talkback As a minnow in the campaigning scenario, I feel strongly that the government should ensure that all exchanges are brought up to the minimum standard required for broadband. BT have set a target of 400 homes for my exchange, that represents 30% of...
[April 20, 2004, 16:56]
A Year Ago: Adobe: "We Are Not For Sale"
News Creative software giant Adobe has reacted sternly to the advances of the relative minnow Quark, which last week attempted to buy a stake in the firm. In an interview with ZDNet UK News, Adobe UK MD Alaisdair Boyle says the company may be going...
[August 26, 1999, 7:00]
Cyrix Aims At Tier 2/3 Players With 6x86MX
News The CPU minnow is trumpeting its product as a close competitor to Intel's Pentium II but says it won't be making great efforts to curry favour with blue chip PC brands and the corporate desktop domain ruled by Intel.
[June 5, 1997, 15:34]
M2 Bang On Time - Cyrix
News While AMD is getting set to launch its K6 processor next Thursday, April 3, and Intel eyes a May 7 debut for Pentium II, the minnow of the sector also sees a second quarter release for its device. Cyrix's M2 processor is getting ready to join the...
[March 26, 1997, 14:58]
Five Years Ago: M2 Bang On Time - Cyrix
News While AMD is getting set to launch its K6 processor next Thursday, April 3, and Intel eyes a May 7 debut for Pentium II, the minnow of the sector also sees a second quarter release for its device. First published 2 April, 1997.
[March 25, 2002, 6:01]
UK Notebook Maker Tadpole's Shares Suspended
News PCDN Comment: As its name suggests, Tadpole has remained a minnow despite being tipped as a hot stock in the early 1990s when IBM made a large investment. Shares in UK high-end portable PC firm Tadpole Technology were suspended yesterday as the...
[April 2, 1997, 14:44]
Lindows Wins A Round In Naming Battle
News The Linux minnow might feel slightly aggrieved though -- the princely sum the Dutch court ordered Microsoft to pay as recompense is just €944. In the ongoing dispute over whether or not Linux reseller Lindows' name treads on Microsoft's trademark...
[June 2, 2004, 16:30]
Intel's $2b Profit Quarter Delineates Its Might
News Cyrix, even by AMD's standards, is a minnow. Intel underlined its enviable position of strength from which to take on the challenge of AMD and Cyrix by announcing a 39 per cent rise in revenues to $6.4 billion for the January-March quarter.
[April 15, 1997, 9:33]
Voodoo 2 Cards Rushed To Market Says Creative
News These guys are working around the clock to get the chips out but 3DFX is a minnow company and it may have bitten off more than it can chew. "I guess we plead guilty to rushing the Voodoo 2 cards but the demand has been absolutely enormous.we had no...
[April 6, 1998, 15:31]
TDK-Grey Cell Buy To Fuel GSM, PC Card, Software Comms
News Despite its minnow status, Grey Cell has chalked up a string of firsts including the first fax-modem/Ethernet combination PC Card, the first fibre optic PC Card, and the first Ethernet 10Base2/10BaseT combination card.
[September 2, 1997, 14:17]
Adobe: "We Are Not For Sale"
News In an interview with ZDNet UK News, Adobe UK MD Alaisdair Boyle says the company may be going through some irksome changes but is in no mood to be entertaining what one analyst believes is an attempt by Quark to draw attention to Adobe's misfortunes.
[August 26, 1998, 16:58]
NatSemi Buys Cyrix, Aims For Sub-$500 PCs
News Although Cyrix has long fancied itself a rival to Intel in the orthodox PC market, NatSemi sees the $550 million deal as a means of jemmying its way into the burgeoning market for much cheaper systems.
[July 29, 1997, 9:13]
PeopleSoft Upsets Merged Customers
News I didn't want to be a minnow in an ocean," said Matelski, the city's chief information officer, who turned down a rival bid from PeopleSoft to supply the software. Lured by the promise of personal attention every bit as good as that lavished on...
[July 29, 2004, 11:05]
Tarantella Is A Good Catch For Sun
Leader Tarantella is a minnow in the world of enterprise-application delivery over the Internet, where Citrix dominates with a revenue stream perhaps 100 times larger and backing (up to a point) from Microsoft.
[May 11, 2005, 14:15]
Tesco Takes On Software Giants
News David Mitchell, an analyst with Ovum, said: "Partnering with a category minnow demonstrates one of two things: either that Tesco is confident that its marketing engine is robust enough to develop their brand and the business behind it, or that it...
[October 2, 2006, 13:25]
