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AST To Exit Consumer PC Sector
News Troubled PC vendor AST is pulling out of the consumer/retail PC sector. The firm announced yesterday it will concentrate on business as of the fourth calendar quarter, beginning October, and said the change of tack applies all over the world.
[April 30, 1997, 11:35]
Five Years Ago: AST To Exit Consumer PC Sector
News Troubled PC vendor AST is pulling out of the consumer/retail PC sector. First published 30 April, 1997. The firm announced yesterday it will concentrate on business as of the fourth calendar quarter, beginning October, and said the change of tack...
[April 27, 2002, 7:01]
Analyst Calls For Major Surgery To Save PC Industry
News The PC sector will unravel because of overcapacity, a problem that has plagued other industries. HP should buy Compaq, parlaying its profitable printer business and strong brand name into a leadership position in the sector.
[January 17, 2001, 7:52]
Is That A Virus, Or A Malfunction?
News Another type would travel from PC to PC via floppy disk, hidden in the boot sector, and when a PC was booted from an infected floppy, the virus would copy itself to the boot sector of that PC. For example, a worm that infects a boot sector, deletes...
[October 28, 2002, 17:03]
UK PC Market Finds Its Legs At Last
News The UK PC market, including servers, laptops and desktops, showed double-digit growth for the fourth quarter of last year, driven by rising demand from consumers, businesses and the public sector, according to research from IDC published on Tuesday.
[February 4, 2004, 12:00]
Compaq To Report Surprise Profit
News Compaq's announcement may also help confirm Wall Street's view that the PC sector is rebounding. Compaq Computer handed the tech sector some unexpected good news on Monday, saying it would turn a profit for its fourth quarter.
[January 7, 2002, 16:24]
A Year Ago: New Gateway Targets Business Users
News Gateway 2000 today announced major changes in both its branding and the way the company plans to do business in the corporate sector amid cries of `about time' from analysts and competitors. Gateway is right to go into the business sector," says...
[April 23, 1999, 6:48]
AST Europe To Cut Half Staff, Focus On Notebooks
News Last April, the company pulled out of the consumer PC sector. AST to exit consumer PC sector The firm has confirmed rumours that it is to lay off about 50 per cent of its European workforce and will focus on notebook PCs with the aim of regaining...
[February 2, 1998, 14:22]
Chip Market Heats Up In July
News In the chip world, PC-related products were the strongest sector in July, according to the SIA. The consumer sector, which includes DVDs and digital cameras, also remained healthy, the SIA said. The SIA attributed the boost in PC-related products...
[September 3, 2003, 15:55]
Newport Tries To Cash In On VoIP
News VoIP is one of the hottest topics in the technology sector at present. Sir Terry in particular has a track record of success in the telecoms sector, having previously founded both Newbridge Networks and Mitel -- which were sold to Alcatel and BT...
[March 29, 2004, 12:40]
HP Edges Past Lowered Expectations
News And between a weak economy and an ongoing price war in the PC sector, don't expect the consumer sector to look good anytime soon, said Shebly Seyrafi, analyst with A.G. The consumer sector weighed heavily on HP's third-quarter operations.
[August 17, 2001, 10:37]
Weak June Doesn't Stop Chip Sales Rise
News Chip sales in the Americas were hurt by a sluggish PC market and turmoil in the telecommunications sector. Analysts said the chip sector is still bouncing along the bottom. And other PC manufacturers have issued warnings.
[August 2, 2002, 15:07]
HP Merger Opponent Gains Support
News If completed, the HP-Compaq merger would be the largest in the tech industry's history, leading to massive consolidation in the PC sector and greatly altering two of the industry's oldest icons. See the Finance News Section for the latest financial...
[February 21, 2002, 8:46]
Intel Profit Warning Hits Weak UK Markets
News Computacenter (quote: CCC), the PC hardware and services provider, was also hard hit by the tech sector slide. Vodafone Group (quote: VOD) weighed in with a fall of 2.3 percent, while Colt Telecom Group (quote: CTM) was the sector's biggest loser...
[September 22, 2000, 10:32]
The Day Ahead: Pondering An AMD-Transmeta Merger
News AMD is reliant on flash memory (a very volatile market) and PC processors (a cyclical sector). Technology is one thing, but making inroads in a sector dominated by AMD, Intel and others is another feat entirely.
[January 4, 2001, 13:07]
IDC Lowers World PC Market Forecasts
News We've seen only limited recovery in business shipments, while consumer growth has slowed in recent quarters, and public sector shipments are falling. The US market was actually stronger than expected because of public sector buying, IDC said.
[June 10, 2003, 7:30]
Q&A: Spyglass's Harris-Evans On Putting The Web Everywhere
News The customer is not a desktop PC user because the vast majority of people aren't in this exalted sector where we believe everyone knows what a PC is and has access to one. We felt that the real growth in use of the Net would come from the consumer...
[September 17, 1997, 17:14]
HP To Miss Targets And Cut 3,000 Jobs
News In an echo of comments she made last month, Fiorina said recent market data suggests that Europe is seeing a slowdown in PC sales similar to the one in the United States, with "growing softness in the retail sector and increasingly competitive...
[April 18, 2001, 14:53]
HP-Compaq To Run Antitrust Gauntlet
News Every sector they compete in is a very competitive sector. Outside the high-tech sector, European regulators earlier this year surprised General Electric and Honeywell by blocking their proposed $43bn merger, which had been approved in the United...
[September 7, 2001, 10:45]
AMD: At Last A Positive Surprise
News AMD said it expects first-quarter sales to be "flat" to "slightly down" from the fourth quarter, reflecting an anticipated seasonal slowdown in the retail sector of the PC market following an exceptionally strong fourth quarter in the sector.
[January 20, 2000, 9:27]
