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Rivals to Handspring: Bring it on!
News With only a small amount of fanfare, Handspring on Tuesday officially announced its Visor handheld organiser -- and rivals Palm Computing and Microsoft said they welcome the competition. Handspring's device, based on Palm Computing's Palm operating...
[September 15, 1999, 9:03]
Rivals 'could beat BT' in the next-generation game
News BT may find that it is overtaken by smaller UK rivals in its push to radically transform its UK telecommunications infrastructure into an all-IP based network, a senior executive at Marconi suggested this week.
[June 10, 2005, 13:00]
Rivals gear up for database clash
News IBM plans to debut the first fruits of a long-standing research project later this year, setting the stage for a clash with rivals in the multibillion-dollar database software market. Big Blue will announce later this month that it will ship by...
[January 13, 2003, 14:08]
Smaller broadband ISPs outshine larger rivals
News The UK's smaller ISPs are outperforming their largest rivals when it comes to customer satisfaction, according to research published in Which magazine this week. The consumer rights group surveyed around 10,000 broadband users who used one of 23...
[August 3, 2005, 14:30]
Orange beats rivals to high-speed mobile data
News Mobile telecommunications giant Orange is attempting to steal a lead from its rivals in the race to provide high speed mobile data transfer services by filling the gap between current GSM technology and the much-hyped GPRS.
[September 24, 1999, 12:28]
AOL must move to share IM with rivals
News AOL Time Warner on Monday must give federal regulators a progress report detailing efforts to open its instant messaging networks to rivals, the first such filing required as a condition of the company's January merger.
[July 23, 2001, 15:59]
Sage shaping up to take on its rivals
News As Brendan Flattery, Sage's managing director for the mid-market, told ZDNet.co.uk, the company hopes, through these application suites, to maintain revenue growth against rising competition from larger rivals such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.
[September 7, 2007, 16:41]
Palm: 'Little guy' takes on top-dog rivals
News But Downey said the company knows it needs a large advertising budget to succeed at retail with well-heeled rivals such as Palm and Handspring. If you build it, will they come? That's the question for Palm's smallest licensee, a 40-person Iowa...
[April 23, 2001, 8:52]
Thus on rivals, regulation and recovery
News Its rivals are also posing new challenges, with BT developing its 21st Century Network (21CN) and Cable & Wireless attempting to dominate at the top end of the UK communications market. Like all UK telecoms operators, Thus has been through several...
[January 12, 2007, 13:10]
Gates: Rivals tried to 'castrate' Vista
News On the day that Microsoft Vista was finally ready to ship, company chairman Bill Gates took a swipe at his rivals, accusing them of attempting to "castrate" Vista before it was shipped. Gates' comments came as he spoke to journalists in Germany...
[November 10, 2006, 11:16]
BT's broadband push leaves rivals stranded
News However, BT's changing broadband policies have been tough on smaller rivals such as Everywhere Broadband, Radiant Networks and community groups. BT's decision to ditch its trigger-level scheme and make broadband available almost universally across...
[May 7, 2004, 18:00]
Microsoft wants Office 14 to get on with rivals
News Microsoft isn't just trying to work with its rivals, though. Microsoft is looking at ways for Office to work better with rival efforts such as OpenOffice and Google Docs. The next version of Office will natively support the OpenDocument format (as...
[March 6, 2009, 8:17]
Google offers rivals ability to resell e-books
News Google offered an olive branch to rivals of its digital book efforts at a congressional hearing on Thursday, but Amazon was not interested. Google offered an olive branch to rivals of its digital book efforts at a congressional hearing on Thursday...
[September 11, 2009, 8:47]
Can Magneto repel Microsoft's mobile rivals?
News The OS, code-named Magneto, is the latest in a string of software releases that highlight Microsoft's attempts to take on rivals including PalmSource and Nokia. Microsoft has licensed its ActiveSync technology to OS rivals palmOne and Symbian.
[May 9, 2005, 19:00]
Rivals help improve Dell's outlook
News Dell Computer on Thursday raised its revenue and earnings outlook for the second quarter, saying it continues to gain market share from computer rivals. The company said it now expects revenue for the quarter that ends 2 August will reach $8.3bn...
[July 12, 2002, 7:45]
Rivals encroach on Oracle's database lead
News Oracle holds the technological edge and regularly comes out with innovations that are copied by its rivals, analysts say. Analysts say that Oracle, with its huge customer base, has the wherewithal to fend off its rivals.
[October 16, 2001, 10:49]
Enterasys sues rivals for patent violation
News Enterprise LAN vendor Enterasys has filed a patent suit against rivals Extreme Networks and Foundry Networks, which one analyst sees as a sign of desperation by a company experiencing poor results. Enterasys claims Foundry Networks and Extreme...
[June 27, 2005, 13:40]
IBM pulls away from server rivals
News IBM increased its lead in a growing server market, nibbling away share from rivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun, according to figures to be released on Wednesday. Sales of servers worldwide increased 5.5 percent to $11.5bn in the third quarter of 2004...
[November 24, 2004, 7:30]
Microsoft targets Java rivals
News Microsoft hopes to turn up the heat on its Java rivals with plans for new software that could simplify the creation of heavy-duty Web services applications. While Microsoft executives have offered scant information on Indigo, people familiar with...
[August 8, 2003, 11:15]
BT wants an end to rivals' bickering
Talkback They would say that wouldn't they, I can just see MS using this one tomorrow to stop all their rivals kicking up a fuss. So I would like to see BT's rivals keep crying whenever they feel they need to.
[April 5, 2005, 20:51]
