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Dial 'O' For Oracle
News Proxy experts, however, said at the time that more than 50 percent of PeopleSoft investors would likely tender their shares in order to keep the takeover battle alive -- in the hope that Oracle would offer up a higher bid price as PeopleSoft's...
[December 14, 2004, 7:25]
AMD On The Defensive In Price War
News Joe D'Elia, senior chip analyst with the Gartner Group is sceptical about the price battle between the chip makers. D'Elia believes the battle between Intel and AMD will come down to technology, not price.
[August 23, 1999, 13:56]
BT And Sky Mull Deal To Deliver TV Via ADSL
News A tie-up between such well-known brands as Sky and BT would undoubtedly increase the intense battle between the telco and its cable rivals. Hanrahan believes the deal will definitely intensify the battle for broadband being fought between BT and...
[September 5, 2000, 7:46]
The Future Looks Bleak For AMD
News AMD has also lost an important image battle with Intel. For the low-cost PC makers, the battle over the bottom end means better profits and more powerful products. Then the chips failed to come, and now Intel has come in with price cuts.
[February 10, 1999, 13:56]
Toshiba Puts DVD-RW Into Notebooks
News But the DVD-burner manufacturers are currently waging a battle between DVD-RW and DVD+RW formats, reminiscent of the VHS versus Betamax conflict that preceded the widespread adoption of VCRs. Most see this format battle as the biggest hurdle to the...
[September 30, 2002, 15:12]
EC Approves Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger
News European antitrust regulators ruled on Tuesday that Oracle can proceed with its hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, clearing the last regulatory hurdle in the protracted and tumultuous battle. European antitrust regulators appeared to be...
[October 26, 2004, 15:45]
Microsoft May Introduce Game Console In Autumn
News Microsoft, determined to head off Sony in the battle to control digital entertainment, is considering a move that could shake up the video game market, industry executives said. The brewing battle between the two companies reflects a growing...
[October 26, 1999, 16:27]
GPRS Price War Unlikely, Say Analysts
News The battle now is for the non-voice calls. Vodafone won the voice war, and Cellnet have been desperately trying to win the non-voice battle. Analysts believe that Vodafone's decision to offer a cut-price GPRS service is unlikely to force BT Cellnet...
[June 1, 2001, 17:43]
AMD: No Price Cuts On The Way
News Stead admits there is a constant battle to balance price cuts of individual chips while keeping the average price above $100 (£62). Despite claimsearlier this week that AMD would "have to respond" to Intel price cuts announced Monday, the company...
[August 26, 1999, 11:52]
HP Targets Small Businesses With Cut-price PC
News The merger touched off an ongoing market-share battle with Dell. HP will aim the lower price at small and medium-sized businesses. HP uses price to make the d220 desktop more appetising to small business budgets.
[July 3, 2003, 9:51]
Game Boy Advance Price Cut
News The GameCube is Nintendo's entry into the next-gen console battle and will be a rival to Sony's PlayStation2 and Microsoft's Xbox. Nintendo today announced a global price cut of 20 percent for its Game Boy Advance console.
[January 29, 2002, 9:49]
Analysts Predict PC Price War
News Dataquest, a unit of Gartner, predicts that this year will see an "intense battle for market share", as multinational PC makers cut profit margins and force smaller competitors out of business. We anticipate a price war in the United States in 2001...
[March 26, 2001, 16:18]
Scoring An
White Papers Providing Internet access to five middle schools was a tough assignment for Battle Creek School System in Michigan. The district then chose Wireless Resources primarily for its ability to provide a Cisco Aironet high-speed, 11-megabits-per-second...
[October 4, 2003, 0:00]
More PS2 And Xbox Price Cuts Predicted
News It can now engage in a battle of wills with Microsoft and Nintendo to maintain its console's leadership," wrote Diot and Drozd. Both Sony and Microsoft announced significant cuts in the price of their respective flagship consoles last week, but...
[September 4, 2002, 11:20]
VoIP Price War Looms
News Internet-telephony companies already offer major cost savings over traditional telephone services, but now they're challenging one another for the title of cheapest of the cheap in an increasingly brutal battle for customers.
[November 4, 2003, 15:20]
Lindows To Sell Cut-price Linux Via P2P
News Earlier this year, the company -- which is in the midst of a long-running legal battle with Microsoft regarding trademark rights -- made a similar promotional offer using a file-sharing network. The company said on Thursday that it is set to...
[March 5, 2004, 11:40]
New Unmetered Price War On The Way - Analysts
News Analysts agree Wednesday that AOL's "Flat Rate" service is the first shot in a new battle over unmetered Internet access. I expect that we'll see some type of price war in the short-term," he said. However, he isn't convinced a price war would be...
[September 20, 2000, 14:51]
AMD Slashes Price For Cut-down Athlon 64
News AMD and Intel are once again locked in a battle for performance supremacy. Despite the lower price, the chip probably costs about the same to manufacture as the version with the larger cache because it is about the same size, analysts said.
[December 19, 2003, 8:30]
Update: Oftel's Ruling To Bring 'second Wave' Of Price Cuts
News AOL, a seasoned campaigner against BT in the battle for unmetered access is delighted with the ruling, describing it as a "seismic shift in the telecoms landscape. The magic Internet access price established by Demon eight years ago when it was...
[May 30, 2000, 12:15]
Microsoft Tops Q3 Estimates
News Despite the ongoing price battle in the PC sector, Microsoft continues to grow its total sales, earnings per share and stock price in unison. Microsoft shares closed up 2 1/8 to 83 1/8 ahead of the earnings report.
[April 21, 1999, 7:52]
