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Comdex: Packard Bell will cut product lines, retailers
News The company will reduce the number of products it offers from around 20 to around 12, said Mal Ransom, senior vice president of marketing at the Sacramento-based PC maker. The retailers are saying that the main thing they want is dependable...
[November 17, 1998, 9:26]
Pearl Insurance Improves Understanding of Customers Across Product Lines
White Papers Pearl turned to Oracle's Siebel applications for an integrated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution - allowing the company the ability to access a comprehensive view of each customer across multiple lines of business, as well as...
[December 14, 2006, 0:00]
Solid sales push AMD past expectations
News Advanced Micro Devices reported first-quarter earnings that exceeded expectations due to strong sales across all its product lines. Our flash memory and microprocessor businesses delivered solid sales results in a seasonally down quarter, and both...
[April 15, 2004, 9:10]
HP-Compaq: Both PC brands will stay
News Hewlett-Packard will maintain the consumer PC lines from both Compaq Computer and HP for now, an unexpected twist in a merger that in general will lead to fewer product lines. It is unclear whether HP will differentiate the two product lines by...
[May 7, 2002, 17:31]
Lenovo eyes markets beyond China
News IBM's PC unit and Lenovo are developing plans to export Lenovo's product lines to other parts of the world after the merger is complete, Robert Galush, vice-president of product marketing in IBM's PC division, told ZDNet UK sister site CNET News...
[January 6, 2005, 15:10]
IBM's mainframe makeover
News By using the same processors across product lines, IBM will potentially be able to substantially reduce the cost and time involved in bringing mainframes to market, as well as cutting the cost of supporting them once they get installed in...
[May 22, 2002, 9:38]
HP's new PCs - it's all in the 'e'
News The company chose to combine the characteristics of the two other product lines in e-PC because "there's not a lot of difference between corporate and small business needs," said Eric Chanoit, HP's worldwide marketing manager for e-PC, based in...
[October 10, 2000, 8:03]
HP desktop trio embraces PIII
News Other PC makers planning to announce Pentium III systems this week include the following: IBM will offer the chip in its PC 300GL and PC 300PL product lines, as well as in its IntelliStation workstations.
[February 16, 1999, 13:30]
Leased lines to drive information society
News Leased lines provide high-speed, always-on connections to large businesses, and providers have been complaining to Oftel that BT is simply not offering a cost-effective wholesale product to them. The price we pay for leased lines means there isn't...
[April 25, 2001, 7:14]
Michael Dell: 'I'm not a huge fan of massive mergers...'
News And that of course comes from expansion into new product lines, into new geographies, market share expansion, driving more value through to the customer. On new product lines. About every year or so we've kind of added a new product line or a new...
[November 8, 2002, 15:47]
Linux: The forking fight-back
Talkback Not to mention that they simultaneously supports several separate product lines like win2k, win2003 server, XP, and soon Longhorn all slightly different. My guess is that most LInux distros are far more interoperable with themselves and other...
[February 6, 2005, 17:13]
IBM takes on Sun's server dominance
News Top server executives are compensated based on the success of all servers, not just their individual product lines. Research and development is spreading technology from high-end product lines to lesser siblings.
[March 20, 2001, 8:43]
Microsoft rallies ERP customers
News Specifically, Microsoft expects to discuss how it's progressing on its plan to redesign four separate ERP product lines it has assembled through a series of acquisitions, an undertaking it has code-named Project Green.
[March 8, 2005, 8:45]
IBM beats profit expectations
News Software revenue was up 6 percent as well, with double-digit growth in WebSphere and Tivoli product lines. In a conference call with financial analysts, IBM senior vice-president Michael Loughridge said that IBM continues to make changes to its...
[April 19, 2006, 8:45]
EMC revs up its matrix
News IBM and Hitachi Data Systems are each announcing enhancements to their competing product lines. Although it is about a year late, Symm 6 is important both for resuscitating (EMC's) mainstay product line as well as for its impact on other revenue...
[January 30, 2003, 14:57]
Cisco's product strategy: A view from the top
News We aren't making any announcements right now, but we are expecting to leverage it on different product lines, such as the GSR. Today, Crescendo's technology forms the basis of one of Cisco's most successful product lines, the Catalyst, a local-area...
[June 9, 2004, 15:20]
IBM shuffles server and high-end printing organisations
News But removing X Series, one of the PC division's most profitable product lines, could cut into profitability, say analysts. Gorman said the revamped PC operation would focus on services and "the new NetVista and ThinkPad lines you saw delivered last...
[February 6, 2001, 16:04]
Compression box boosts network bandwidths
News The Peribit SR-50 is a standalone box that effectively turns 256kbps lines into 1mbps lines. Compression has been understood for a long while, and regularly applied on disk storage and modem lines. A product that claims to make it easy and cost...
[May 31, 2002, 16:23]
Latest AMD snub cuts both ways
News Since then, the slow PC market, price cuts from Intel and the need for PC makers to simplify their product lines have begun to constrict the outlets for AMD chips, although its market share remains higher than it was a year ago.
[September 26, 2001, 8:55]
AltaVista cancels unmetered service
News It claims the unmetered model is financially unsustainable while BT maintains its stranglehold on local telephone lines. Experts predicted months ago that unmetered services would not work, due largely to the fact that BT still charges service...
[August 22, 2000, 9:14]
