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Desktop PC Popularity 'to Plummet' By 2007
News The desktop PC has been the corporate user's main information tool for about 20 years, but with the falling cost of laptops and the rapid evolution of wireless networks, Meta expects the PC's popularity to plummet as information workers adopt new...
[January 15, 2004, 12:20]
Desktop PC Popularity 'to Plummet' By 2007
Talkback There are certain ideas which, no matter how totally wrong they are (at least based on how the market reacts to them), just will not die. This is one of them. Microsoft's Mira (SmartDisplay) was a perfect example of why this doesn't work.
[January 15, 2004, 18:02]
Desktop PC Popularity 'to Plummet' By 2007
Talkback Thing computers make much more sense for corporate users. As an office worker myself writing this while I wait for Microsoft Access to query a database, I can see several idle computers on my colleagues desks.
[January 15, 2004, 16:27]
UK Net Startups Not Scared By Freeserve Plummet
News A number of European Internet companies with a public offering on the horizon have reacted with defiance to the news that the share value of Freeserve and eXchange dropped dramatically Monday and Tuesday.
[September 21, 1999, 16:17]
A Year Ago: Gates Loses Dosh As Tech Stocks Plummet
News Microsoft's Bill Gates was the biggest loser in last week's record stock slide. He saw his worth fall more than $5bn (£3bn) Monday to about $52bn (£32bn), based upon SEC filings of his stock ownership.
[September 1, 1999, 7:00]
Wireless LAN Sales Surge As Prices Plummet
News Sales of wireless LAN equipment soared in 2002 -- with shipments more than doubling over 2001 figures -- spurred by falling prices; higher demand for mobile computing; and better interoperability becauses of work on standards.
[June 16, 2003, 9:54]
A Year Ago: UK Net Startups Not Scared By Freeserve Plummet
News Companies planning share offerings say the market is still sound A number of European Internet companies with a public offering on the horizon have reacted with defiance to the news that the share value of Freeserve and eXchange dropped...
[September 21, 2000, 7:02]
Printing Costs Plummet At Eva
White Papers Evangelische Gesellschaft Stuttgart (eva) provides social services to vulnerable members of the community inhabiting one of Germany's largest cities. To maximise its capacity to deliver social benefits, it also needs to keep a close eye on its...
[May 24, 2006, 0:00]
News Burst: Motorola Warns On Mobile Sale And Shares Plummet
News Mobile phone sales will slow down according to the world's second largest mobile manufacturer Motorola which saw its shares drop 15 percent following the announcement. Motorola warned Wednesday that a decline in demand, especially in Europe, will...
[October 12, 2000, 9:35]
US Report: Gates Loses Lots O' Dosh As Tech Stocks Plummet
News That means he's lost $4.5m (£2.74m) per minute since midnight, according the Bill Gates Net Worth Page. But don't shed too many tears. Gates' worth has actually climbed nearly 40 percent in the past year, and he's still is worth more than all the...
[September 1, 1998, 9:23]
Hynix Sees Semiconductor Profits Plummet
News South Korean chip manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor on Thursday blamed a 31 percent drop in profits on a strong Korean won and a decline in average chip prices. Hynix recorded an operating profit of 360 billion won (£210m) in the first quarter of...
[April 20, 2006, 13:35]
NTL And Telewest To Merge
Talkback To re-iterate comments made last December when the CIO at NTL resigned, Telewest customers can only hope that their generally good service levels don't plummet to the dismal standards of NTL.
[October 3, 2005, 13:01]
This Man Could Lose Several Million Dollars Overnight
White Papers If temperatures plummet, Graeme is automatically alerted by a TXT message sent to his Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone. Graeme MacKenzie has over thirty hectares of kiwifruit plantings, spread across several blocks of land.
[March 23, 2005, 23:00]
Half Of UK Opposed To ID Cards
News Support for the UK's national ID card programme continues to plummet, with one quarter of people saying they are strongly opposed to the scheme. According to an ICM poll, 25 percent of those surveyed thought it was a "very bad" idea — up from 17...
[February 7, 2008, 8:57]
Free Broadband Causes Satisfaction Free-fall
News The advent of "free broadband" has caused customer satisfaction levels to plummet by up to 16 percent in only six months, despite prices falling by up to 17 percent. A new report by product comparison site uSwitch shows that, while internet service...
[November 14, 2006, 9:23]
LetsBuyIt.com Stock Crashes As Trading Resumes
News Internet retailer LetsBuyIt.com saw its shares plummet Tuesday morning as they resumed trading after being suspended Friday. The company's stock dropped 70 percent to 0.40 euros in trading on Frankfurt's Neuer Markt.
[January 2, 2001, 8:22]
The Queen Gets The Dot-com Blues
News The Queen has become the latest entrepreneur to suffer from dotcom fallout, seeing value of the Internet company she invested in plummet by over half a million pounds since its peak. In January of this year the Queen invested £100,000 of her own...
[October 21, 2000, 7:19]
Exclusive: Freeserve Unmetered Announcement Tuesday
News The UK's largest ISP, Freeserve, will announce on Tuesday plans to tackle the recent spate of unmetered access deals that have seen its share price plummet. According to sources, Freeserve will reveal a "highly competitive" unmetered deal this...
[March 14, 2000, 6:00]
Via Sees Chip Sales Up For 2001
News Taiwan's Via Technologies said sales were up more than 10 percent for 2001 over the previous year, making it one of the few companies that did not see its revenues plummet during the economic slump of the past year.
[January 3, 2002, 14:20]
VoIP Spam Tipped To Rocket
News Telephony spam could soon comprise over half of all phone calls, the networking vendor says, potentially causing worker productivity to plummet. NEC has warned businesses that telephony spam levels are about to soar.
[January 29, 2007, 15:46]
