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Pressure Mounts On BT Over Unmetered Access
News The pressure on BT to offer Internet users unmetered access intensifies Thursday as Intel joins the bandwagon for cheaper Net access. Hewitt promised to "put pressure" on both Oftel and BT although details of the e-Minister's strategy were not made...
[October 21, 1999, 16:20]
Oracle Intensifies Pressure On PeopleSoft
News Oracle's revised hostile takeover bid puts new pressure on PeopleSoft in its eight-month battle to fend off its arch-rival. Oracle's increased bid of $26 (£14.22) a share represents a 15 percent premium over the $22.70 closing price of PeopleSoft's...
[February 5, 2004, 7:45]
Oracle Special: Inside The Pressure Cooker
News All quarter long, there is no pressure and you do your normal selling. We had a lot of pressure to sell the applications, even though they weren't ready for prime time. Pressure to make a sale is nothing new in the hypercompetitive business of...
[July 2, 2001, 13:41]
Ellison Explains Industry Pressure
News Increasing competitive pressure from SAP and the entry of Microsoft into the business applications market spurred Oracle to launch its hostile bid for PeopleSoft last year, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison testified on Thursday.
[July 1, 2004, 11:50]
Oftel Changes Role, Will Keep Pressure On BT
News Telecoms watchdog Oftel published its new approach to regulation Tuesday, promising to maintain pressure on BT in the domestic telephone and Internet arenas, but generally proposing a more hands-off approach.
[January 18, 2000, 15:53]
Big PC Players Increase Market Pressure
News Compaq, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell have all shown strong growth at the expense of smaller vendors who are coming under increasing price and marketing pressure from the top tier PC makers, according to Dataquest.
[August 1, 1997, 11:38]
The Dark Side Of Competitive Pressure
White Papers One of the most basic principles in economics is that competitive pressure promotes efficiency. However, this pressure can also have a dark side because it makes firms reluctant to act on private information that is unpopular with consumers.
[June 28, 2005, 0:00]
Microsoft Under Pressure For Latest Hotmail Hole
News Microsoft is under pressure to fix a security hole in Hotmail that allows hackers to access other people's emails -- in some cases even emails that have been deleted. Less than a fortnight after the MSN Hotmail servers were infected by the...
[August 21, 2001, 13:07]
AMD Confirms Loss Due To Intel Pressure
News AMD has admitted that price pressure from rival Intel has forced the company to "incur an operating loss" for the current quarter, sending its shares into a $2 drop before trading was halted, yesterday.
[February 5, 1999, 10:45]
Children's Charities Pressure Blunkett Over Net Safety
News We need to keep up the pressure, and make sure that the government sticks to its election manifesto promise. More than 50,000 NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) campaigners will be bombarding the Home Secretary David...
[August 1, 2001, 16:38]
File-trading Pressure Mounts On ISPs
News Record companies have joined the movie industry in trying to root out post-Napster file trading, putting new pressure on ISPs to clamp down on subscribers' actions. ISPs say the last few weeks have seen a sharp upturn in the number of requests they...
[July 26, 2001, 11:19]
PeopleSoft Under Greater Pressure After Ruling
News The big question is whether PeopleSoft's board will cling to the poison pill in an effort to keep Oracle away or abandon the provision under mounting pressure from shareholders eager to cash in on Oracle's all-cash offer.
[September 10, 2004, 10:30]
Under-pressure IT Bosses Are Slipping Up
News Half of IT bosses admit to making bad decisions in the last six months because of pressure from colleagues and lack of time and resources. One in four senior managers in the IT industry said undue pressure from colleagues affected the way they made...
[November 18, 2005, 14:40]
Kodak Snaps Under Customer Pressure
News Kodak has succumbed to public pressure and bad publicity, and offered to honour a £100 digital camera offer that it mistakenly posted on its site. The company this morning posted a message on its UK Web site saying that customers who ordered a £329...
[January 31, 2002, 11:01]
Understanding The Back Pressure Feature In Exchange Server 2007
White Papers This paper shows that the Back Pressure feature helps the Exchange Server 2007 to prevent the inundation of system resources. When a monitored system resource exceeds the specified threshold, the Exchange Transport Services stop accepting new...
[April 23, 2008, 0:00]
Reforms Pile Pressure On IT Directors
News Inevitably, this will put more pressure on chief information officers and IT directors which reinforces the need for a strong professional body to support this community," Gough said. A spokesman for The British Computer Society (BCS) agreed that...
[November 9, 2005, 14:00]
Egg Under Pressure To Crack Online Banking
News Investors are looking for results much more than they were a year ago and Egg, like any business, is under pressure to turn a profit," said Ensor. With its first-quarter financial results being released this Friday Internet bank Egg must show that...
[April 18, 2001, 15:33]
Pressure Mounts On Dell Over Linux PCs
News The decision to sell PCs with pre-loaded Linux came as a result of pressure from visitors to the IdeaStorm website, Dell's user forum. More than 20,000 people have signed a petition calling on Dell to offer Linux-based PCs outside of the US.
[June 18, 2007, 17:06]
Failing IT Staff Under Pressure
News Sceptical boardrooms fed up with underperforming IT departments are set to make 2005 a tough year for senior IT managers with increased pressure to cut costs and deliver tangible benefits, according to a new survey.
[February 3, 2005, 8:35]
Taiwan: Open-source Pressure Won MS Price Cut
News The recent win by a Taiwanese pressure group that forced Microsoft to slash prices by over 50 percent is a strategy that works only up to a point, said an industry analyst. For the software giant to really feel the heat, a better strategy may be...
[March 3, 2003, 15:07]
