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PC World Starts Catalogue Operation
News PC World Business Direct carries an inventory of over 9,500 products covering desktop and mobile systems, internetworking hardware, peripherals, software, media and office supplies. PC World: 0990-464464
[November 28, 1997, 11:48]
CDL Empowers High-Function Mobile Computing Device With DB2 Everyplace
White Papers The largest air cargo terminal in the world at 600,000 square feet, the Hong Kong facility is meeting its security needs without compromising productivity with a sophisticated pervasive computing solution from Irvine, California-based Consumer...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Escom (3) - Gateway 2000 Not Keen On Retail Route
News Dixons are doing better than Escom because with superstores like PC World you've got more of a chance, they're like 'PC Direct' or 'Computer Shopper' with bricks and mortar. However, Shepheard agrees with the opinion being widely voiced today that...
[July 24, 1996, 19:12]
NEC Confirms Direct PC Sales Move In UK
News Together, NEC and Packard Bell account for the fifth highest volume of PC sales in the world, Munro added. Colwyn Munro, general manager of NEC Direct, said that Packard Bell, the PC maker 49 per cent owned by NEC and 10 per cent owned by NEC...
[February 2, 1998, 15:59]
Intel Tells GSM Bosses: Build The Wireless Net
News Just as the Internet is causing a revolution for the PC industry and the land-line telecoms operators, it offers the potential to revolutionise the wireless business. The GSM industry faces the same challenges as the PC industry [and] there are...
[February 19, 1997, 14:17]
Five Years Ago: Intel Tells GSM Bosses: Build The Wireless Net
News Just as the Internet is causing a revolution for the PC industry and the land-line telecoms operators, it offers the potential to revolutionise the wireless business. The GSM industry faces the same challenges as the PC industry [and] there are...
[February 18, 2002, 6:01]
Dell Looks To Asia For Partnership Opportunities
News Dell is currently the world's second-largest PC maker. The PC maker broke away from a 23-year tradition of selling computers to consumers via a direct sales model when it announced its retail strategy in July, in an attempt to reach more customers...
[October 8, 2007, 16:18]
Acer Snaps Up Gateway
News Its identity as a company was constantly in flux after that, expanding through retail stores, delving in the world of consumer electronics, and acquiring low-end PC maker eMachines. In 1997, founder and chief executive Ted Waitt rejected a proposed...
[August 28, 2007, 8:07]
Leaked Memo Exposes Dell's Plans
News Dell is to consider selling PCs through a reseller channel, breaking the direct sales model which has seen it become one of the world's top two computer vendors. However, with a changing global sales climate and an explosion in PC retail growth...
[May 1, 2007, 14:53]
Compaq Slashes Xmas PC Prices
News Promotional pricing] is designed to make small business users aware that they can purchase a Compaq PC for no more than the cost of an equivalent PC from tier two and three vendors. Compaq has cut PC pricing across lines by up to 46 per cent as it...
[October 16, 1996, 11:03]
Fortunes Of The Dynamic Dozen
News In 1998, if there is to be a suitable response to the anxiety of the PC industry, the corporate world and the general public, both Intel and Microsoft's methods of conducting business will merit careful attention.
[December 30, 1997, 7:00]
Time's Tiny Takeover Signals High Street Battle
News Dixons and PC World are the only people doing this at the moment, so Time is looking to go into direct competition with them," Atwal added. UK computer retailer Time's takeover of collapsed rival Tiny is likely to lead to a high street battle with...
[January 31, 2002, 14:44]
Dell Sets Off On Overseas Sales Blitz
News The market researcher expects overall world-wide PC sales to grow 10.7 percent this year from their 2000 level, but remain flat or decline in the United States. The European PC market has seen slower growth, so Dell's results from that region are...
[April 6, 2001, 8:08]
Gateway Gets Fifth CEO In Six Years
News During the 1990s, Gateway was one of the fastest-growing PC makers in the world. He is the fifth chief executive (four permanent and one interim) in six years and, like his predecessors, will face the challenge of getting Gateway out of the budget...
[September 8, 2006, 13:35]
Dell: Hitting The $80bn Target
News The company ranked as the world's largest PC maker during the fourth quarter. And for all the talk about no longer being a PC company, Rollins did acknowledge that PCs are still a vital part of Dell's business.
[April 8, 2005, 17:25]
The XP Embedded Catch: Viruses In Your Video Recorder
News With Windows XP Embedded, the software company is aiming to give makers of so-called "embedded" devices -- basically, any digital device that isn't a PC -- an easy way of building machines that are compatible with the software of the PC world...
[December 4, 2001, 15:01]
Dell Plans Relentless Diversification
News The company's refusal to use traditional resellers, distributors or the retail channel (though it once toyed -- disastrously -- with the latter) has allowed it to maintain profit margins, a unique feat among the leading global PC makers these days.
[January 30, 2003, 8:23]
HP-Compaq: What Happens Now?
News Tue 4 Sep A few weeks ago, observers wondered if Carly Fiorina would be pushed out as chief of HP -- now she's running the second-largest PC company in the world Kewney's World: the HP-Compaq merger Hewlett-Packard and Compaq have announced that...
[September 4, 2001, 12:50]
Pfeiffer Out As Compaq CEO
News Rosen also said the Houston-based company had been too slow under its previous management in capitalising on market opportunities in the PC business and beyond. Perhaps a bigger problem: Compaq was late to adopt an effective strategy in direct...
[April 19, 1999, 8:12]
A Year Ago: Pfeiffer Out As Compaq CEO
News Rosen also said the Houston-based company had been too slow under its previous management in capitalising on market opportunities in the PC business and beyond. Perhaps a bigger problem: Compaq was late to adopt an effective strategy in direct...
[April 18, 2000, 7:00]
