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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 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]
Acer undercuts chipset rivals
News Intel's Pentium 4 processor got another chipset option this week with Acer Laboratories' (ALi) launch of its Aladdin-P4, which, at $31 (about £21) will undercut rivals such as Via Technologies. However, the chipset is using a 0.25-micron...
[August 31, 2001, 14:07]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft offers protocols to its rivals
News Microsoft is to allow rivals to use its own protocols for instant messaging, email and collaboration technologies. The pioneering move takes the company one step closer to complying with restrictions imposed on Microsoft by the European Commission...
[February 6, 2007, 15:26]
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]
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]
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]
Gmail opens up to rivals
News Google has quietly added a feature to its free email service that lets people import their address book contacts from rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online. Since the weekend, Google's free email service, called Gmail, has been letting its...
[July 21, 2004, 10:10]
Google grabs search share from rivals
News Google's search share encroached on rivals, rising 0.4 percentage points to 63.5 percent from October to November Google took a chunk of market share from rival search engines in the US in November, new figures from ComScore show.
[December 22, 2008, 7:31]
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]
AmEx joins Microsoft Passport rivals
News The corporate maneuverings are an important part of rivals' attempts to secure their power by weaving their own authentication technologies into the fabric of the future Internet. American Express joined the Liberty Alliance Project on Wednesday...
[December 6, 2001, 9:26]
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]
Microsoft feuds with rivals over Vista security
News Microsoft and its security rivals are feuding over a key piece of Windows Vista real estate. A dispute still exists over "PatchGuard", a security feature that Microsoft says is designed to guard core parts of the 64-bit version of Vista, but which...
[September 20, 2006, 9:00]
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]
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]
