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PC Makers Attack New Windows Fees
News PC makers and several states allege that new Microsoft licensing agreements, arrived at under the proposed antitrust settlement between the software maker and the US Justice Department, impose harsher terms on some manufacturers than agreements...
[February 22, 2002, 12:12]
PC Makers Ready To Throw Out The Windows
News Major personal-computer makers are quietly working on a wave of products that won't use Microsoft's Windows PC-operating system, the source of the software giant's market power. While surging consumer interest in the Internet was the catalyst for...
[October 28, 1999, 13:20]
PC Makers Target Sales To MPs
News It's really good marketing on behalf of the PC makers". New and re-elected MPs are being bombarded by mailings from PC vendors seeking to cash in on the sea change caused by Labour's landslide election victory last month.
[June 13, 1997, 11:33]
PC Makers Ready XP, But Optimism Fades
News But while PC makers have been eagerly awaiting the chance to sell XP-based systems in hopes that the new software would reverse a yearlong decline in sales, some analysts contend that a weakening US economy, further undermined by last week's...
[September 19, 2001, 15:28]
Comdex '99: PC Makers Look Beyond The Beige Box
News This board will be utilised by a number of PC makers, going forward. Service and content are other areas where the PC makers are thinking outside the beige box. Indeed, PC makers, chip sellers and even Microsoft -- whose Windows operating systems...
[November 18, 1999, 10:02]
PC Makers Find Ways To Extend XP's Life
News The pre-downgraded PC option is just the latest way PC makers have responded to stronger-than-expected demand. Computer makers appear to have found a way to get around Microsoft's deadline for selling PCs with Windows XP as the operating system.
[April 28, 2008, 14:04]
PC Makers Seek Safety In Services
News The beleaguered PC industry is taking a cue from McDonalds, bundling hardware and services into computing "value meals" that offer better deals for customers and steadier revenue for PC makers. Not only can services secure more hardware sales, PC...
[October 9, 2001, 9:08]
CeBIT 2002: PC Makers Delve Into Phones
News The distinction between mobile phones and computers will blur further next week as several PC makers demonstrate their first mobile phone devices at the CeBIT show in Hannover. The Pocket PC 2002 handheld computer has a dual-band GSM phone built in...
[March 7, 2002, 13:43]
PC Makers Get Post-Y2K Blues
News Experts noted that consumer PC makers, taking Apple's lead, are becoming more creative and competitive in their approach to the consumer market. The stock markets hammered PC manufacturers Monday, as new data on worldwide PC growth increasingly...
[July 25, 2000, 14:03]
PC Makers Rolling Out 800MHz PIIIs
News PC makers Monday announced a number of new consumer-oriented systems that offer Intel's newest 750MHz and 800MHz Pentium III chips. When the 800MHz chip is paired with Intel's 820 chip set and Rambus memory, users should expect to pay between $2...
[December 21, 1999, 8:42]
PC Makers Hit With 'copycat' Suits
News On Sunday night, four new suits were filed in US District Court in Beaumont, Texas, against PC makers Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, NEC Packard-Bell and e-Machines. Toshiba's massive $2.1billion (£1.28bn) settlement for using a potentially flawed floppy...
[November 2, 1999, 8:14]
PC Makers' Fears Allayed
News PC makers have some reasons to be thankful, according to new retail sales results from the week of Thanksgiving. Overall PC hardware unit sales, which include desktops, notebooks, monitors, PDAs and printers, rose by 4.6 percent year-on-year...
[December 1, 2004, 15:15]
PC Makers Embrace New Intel Chipset
News Among other benefits, the 865 chipsets let PC makers build desktops with two channels of DDR DRAM memory, a workstation-like feature that increases the volume of data the processor can obtain at once.
[May 21, 2003, 10:24]
PC Makers Put Price Tags On Athlon XP
News Distributors and major PC makers often get substantial discounts from AMD on orders of over 1,000 chips. Dealers and computer makers have begun to list prices on AMD's upcoming Athlon XP processor, which officially goes on sale on Tuesday.
[October 8, 2001, 10:51]
PC Makers Rev Up 3GHz Releases
News PC makers such as Dell will offer the 3GHz chip in their performance-oriented desktop models, which sell for $2,000 (£1,300) and above. They acknowledge that they'll target only the kind of PC buyer who wants to do much more than just check email...
[November 12, 2002, 15:46]
PC Makers Consider Child-friendly Computers
News A new taskforce was announced to included representatives from the Internet industry, child welfare organisations, the police and government, as well as acknowledging the need for PC makers to become involved.
[April 2, 2001, 15:33]
Double Delight For PC Memory Makers
News For makers of PC memory known as double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM, 2004 is shaping up as a two-pronged winner: prices for the current technology are surging, and a new, high-profit replacement is about to hit store shelves.
[April 14, 2004, 11:15]
Intel Brings PC Makers Up To SpeedStep
News Intel has settled on a brand name for its battery-saving Geyserville technology, telling PC makers this week that the upcoming mobile Pentium III feature will now be called SpeedStep. Vara said Intel was telling PC makers about SpeedStep now so...
[September 24, 1999, 10:31]
'Intel Inside' Shackles PC Makers - Part 1
News Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigators looking into allegations of Intel Corp.s tight-fisted control over PC makers might want to follow the money -- specifically, the hundreds of millions of dollars Intel spends annually with PC makers for...
[April 6, 1999, 9:02]
Microsoft Forced Hand Of PC Makers - DOJ Papers
News Gateway 2000 Inc.and Micron Electronics Inc.are among the PC makers that told the U.S. Compaq Computer Corp. Department of Justice how Microsoft refused to let them remove IE or the IE icon from the Windows 95 operating system.
[October 23, 1997, 9:11]
