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BCS: Funding Cuts Will Harm Computing Research
News Speaking on behalf of the research councils, professor Ian Diamond said: "The Research Base provides the intellectual energy to meet the challenges posed by globalisation. While we are satisfied that the government remains committed to the 10-year...
[February 27, 2007, 11:50]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com Woes Dash Amazon's Revenue Hopes
News We view these deals as an excellent way for Amazon to monetise its greatest asset -- its customer base," said Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget, in a February research note. We have been disappointed by the company's ability to monetise its...
[July 27, 2000, 11:58]
Schools Panic Over WiFi
Blog Comment I agree that there is almost no research (in fact, I have yet to find any published papers at all) on Wireless networks and health, however they are very similar to base stations in a number of ways (signal type, signal frequency, pulsing nature...
[November 22, 2006, 10:16]
Femtocells May Solve Operators' 3G Woes
News Operators are having to face up to the challenge of providing high-quality indoor coverage to cater for habitual handset users, which — in one scenario — means more base stations to provide the necessary network density.
[November 26, 2007, 14:56]
Study Claims Mobile Base Stations Are Safe
News Mast Sanity, a pressure group which campaigns against the building of cellular base stations, issued a statement on Tuesday criticising the study for ignoring "the long-term effects, such as cancer and genetic damage, as has been highlighted in...
[July 25, 2007, 12:55]
Open Source Firms Claim Business Model Benefits
News SugarCRM chief executive John Roberts agreed that this model seems inefficient, and claimed that open source companies do not need to spend as much on marketing as they already have a large user base who may become customers in the future.
[April 7, 2006, 12:55]
Xbox Sales 'sluggish'
News Microsoft has been trying, with little success, to catch up to market leader Sony, whose PlayStation2 installed base is ten times larger than that of the Xbox. In fact, the machine's installed base is now large enough that lucrative software sales...
[December 16, 2002, 13:32]
The Day Ahead: Techs Plunging Off Copper Mountain
News In a research note last month, Savageaux said persistent concerns about Copper Mountain's CLEC customer base "was overblown". Lucent's woes are well-documented, but there are other holes in Copper Mountain's customer base.
[October 18, 2000, 12:44]
AMD Quits The Megahertz Race
News However, consumers generally base their buying decisions on the number of megahertz. The aim is to convince PC buyers not to base their purchasing decisions on clock speed alone, but to also consider the actual performance of the chip, sources say.
[August 31, 2001, 8:41]
IBM Turns Up The Transistor Heat
News Though IBM has been working with silicon-germanium for about a decade, the latest advance allows the company to make transistors -- the building blocks of chips -- that are only 100 atoms to 200 atoms thick at the base.
[June 25, 2001, 10:18]
Putting A Lid On CRM Costs With Self-service
News Today, Remington still uses RightNow's hosted package, with its Revelation self-learning knowledge base and e-mail management system, and sees greater productivity with the same 20-rep customer service team.
[July 16, 2002, 14:52]
BEA Sees A Turnaround Ahead
News The disappointing financial results revived some long-standing questions about BEA's ability to thrive, but analysts say the company's advantages include impressive technology, a large installed base and strong industry partnerships.
[May 20, 2004, 11:10]
WiMax: The Saviour Of Rural Broadband?
News The involvement of Intel has helped to further push standards, which has reduced the cost of WiMax kit enormously, Dineen says: "One of the reasons this technology hasn't succeeded so far has been cost --- base stations and related infrastructure...
[April 5, 2004, 16:15]
Egg Will Break Even In Q4
News Egg increased its customer base to 1.33 million by 11 December, up from 1.2 million on 1 October. The net outflow of deposit funds was caused by changes in the demographics of Egg's customer base. Egg now has to make a profit from this customer...
[December 15, 2000, 15:31]
Xbox Price To Drop Tonight
News The price after the cut will still be $20 above where the Xbox needs to be in order to build sales momentum and boost the console's user base, according to Gikas. We look at: where we do want the installed base to be?
[March 29, 2004, 11:55]
Intel Celebrates 25 Years Of X86 Chips
News Although Intel has made many changes to the x86 architecture over the years -- increasing the performance and complexity of resulting processors many times over -- the underlying architecture has ensured that the chips still act basically the same...
[June 10, 2003, 11:06]
The Day Ahead: Ciena, Sycamore Stoke Fibre Optic Love Affair
News A diversified customer base is a big deal with the networking crowd. The outlook for Sycamore looks good, but it has to continue to diversify its customer base. Don't expect that in the future because of Sycamore's growing revenue base, said CFO...
[May 19, 2000, 11:25]
Monster.com Parent Concedes HotJobs Fight
News countered TMP's bid, arguing that HotJobs' listings could diversify the company's revenue base and "create a powerful new force in recruitment. is hoping to target listings as a way to diversify its revenue base from advertising.
[December 27, 2001, 14:21]
IT Spending: What The Analysts Think
News The total installed base of application software is still increasing (albeit slowly) and the installed base continues to purchase maintenance contracts and services. One of the favourite activities of leading IT analyst firms is to research and...
[October 6, 2003, 15:00]
Akamai, Chartered Semi IPOs Take Off
News It's hard to predict the company's success since most others in the space have a limited customer base, Gaskins said. Allied has signed up a lot of buildings, and should have an ongoing subscriber base.
[November 1, 1999, 11:41]
