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Online Error Leads To One-cent Laptop Sales
News Despite its initial denials, Compaq Australia now admits that it did in fact process the payments of customers who bought Presario laptops for just one cent as a result of an online pricing hiccup. Compaq is still adamant, however, that it is not...
[May 9, 2002, 9:46]
Intel Beats Forecast By One Cent
News Flash memory revenues, in one example, declined during the quarter. Intel on Tuesday reported a second-quarter profit that beat analyst expectations by a penny. The Santa Clara-based chipmaker's net earnings for the quarter, which ended on 28 June...
[July 16, 2003, 10:15]
One Year Ago:EC Rule Sends RAM Prices Up 30 Per Cent
News "We're seeing price rises of between 25 per cent and 30 per cent," said Ian Boyle, group director of UK memory distributor Datrontech. If it was true that the Korean government had told makers to cut production then it worked; production was down...
[March 26, 1998, 6:00]
Internet TV Drives Broadband Uptake
News As of the end of September, the UK had 6,381,000 DSL connections - a growth of 91 per cent in one year. European Union countries accounted for close to 40 per cent of the total growth in new broadband DSL subscribers in the period, confirming the...
[December 20, 2005, 12:35]
Compaq Already No. 2 In UK Workstations - DQ
News Compaq took a 16 per cent share of total unit shipments when RISC/Unix workstations are included in the figures, or the number one position for Pentium Pro/Windows NT-based workstations, with 28.1 per cent of unit shipments.
[March 5, 1997, 11:57]
Commerce One Lays Off 400
News Ebusiness software maker Commerce One said on Friday that it plans to cut 400 jobs, or 36 per cent of it staff, by the end of the year to reduce costs. The ailing firm, once a star of the business software industry, has over the past year cut...
[October 7, 2002, 15:25]
Sky To Introduce Free Broadband
News According to Sky, a one per cent cut in churn will save it £100m over five years. Using unbundled exchanges, Sky reckons it will have 28 per cent population coverage for the offers at launch and 50 per cent by Christmas.
[July 18, 2006, 15:50]
Are IT Managers Sidelined During M&A?
Blog They also found that more than one third do not expect integration to be complete within two years of the M&A deal being completed - and that 54 per cent cited poor overall data quality and documentation as a significant issue.
[December 4, 2007, 23:28]
BT Hurt By Niche Suppliers, Poor Quality
News Surprisingly, main rival Cable and Wireless has not had a massive impact, increasing its share by just one per cent. BT's share now stands at 65 per cent compared with 73 per cent last year. Almost 39 per cent of companies represented are using the...
[January 30, 1998, 15:34]
Real Stories Of Virtualisation
News While the average PC server uses only about 10 per cent of its CPU capacity at any one time, virtualisation software can increase this figure to as much as 70 or 80 per cent. Out of campaign times, we only use about six to eight per cent of the...
[August 10, 2006, 13:15]
Symbian Checks Into Executive Class
News That's where the bigger gains are going to come from, not trying to nickel and dime up one per cent here and one per cent there. The company also unveiled its first quarter results, showing year-on-year growth of 73 per cent with more than 11...
[May 17, 2006, 15:30]
International Surveillance Plan Slammed
News The ICAO standards do not govern the use to which the facial recognition is put but even the most reliable uses of this technology - one-to-one verification using recent photographs - have been shown in US government tests to be highly unreliable...
[April 2, 2004, 15:50]
Charities A Soft Target For Hackers
News More than a third (38 per cent) of charities have suffered a virus attack in the past year, according to research from Charity Finance, a journal for the non-profit sector. A similar number (35 per cent) said the unwanted attention of hackers is a...
[May 11, 2006, 10:10]
Are You On The Right Tariff?
Blog However, customers are confused about what their tariff includes as one in seven (16 per cent) don’t know how many free minutes they have, and one in six (17 per cent) don’t know how many texts are included.
[January 18, 2008, 15:18]
Spammers Tap Into New Markets
News While subject lines may claim "I grew my length three inches," the more incredible increase is the one which has seen healthcare related spam rise from 18 per cent of the total to 26 per cent in just one month.
[August 13, 2003, 11:35]
E*Trade Beats Estimates But Doesn't Grow
News Acquisition-related expenses accounted for one cent a share for the quarter. E*Trade Group, reported a fourth quarter net loss of 10 cents a share Wednesday - better than the 13 cent a share loss predicted by First Call.
[October 13, 1999, 15:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Next step is the one-cent version: that's not easy, but I dare say the current work in plastic semiconductors you can print onto surfaces with inkjets will have some role to play. At one cent, MIT says, RFID will become more common than barcodes.
[April 5, 2002, 16:57]
Yorkshire Hits 100 Per Cent Broadband Coverage
News Farmery added: "Although our region is one the few with 100 per cent broadband access, we also have one of the lowest take-up rates in the UK. Despite popularised images of a traditional society more used to whippets than Wi-Fi, Yorkshire has hit...
[January 3, 2006, 16:55]
Britain Is World's Leader In Computer Literacy
News A third of British homes have a computer, equal with Belgium and besting the US where 28 per cent of homes give house space to a computer. Based on a survey of 2,000 British schoolchildren, the research found that UK home usage is soaring - up 45...
[September 3, 1997, 14:04]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
News Mott plans to bring that down even further to around one per cent of revenue, but that is likely to mean an actual dollar increase given Dell's ambitions to be a $60bn revenue company by 2005. In Mott's time at Dell the IT budget has dropped from...
[April 1, 2004, 13:00]
