The Effects Of Competition From Large, Multimarket Firms On The Performance Of Small, Single-Market Firms: Evidence From The Banking Industry
White Papers Under the efficiency hypothesis, technological progress improved the performance of large, multimarket firms relative to small, single-market firms, whereas under the hubris hypothesis, consolidation was largely driven by corporate hubris.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Mid-Market BPM: A Single - And Cost-Effective - Version Of The Truth
White Papers ThatÂ’s changed, and there has never been a better time for mid-market executives to invest in powerful, cost-effective BPM. This paper describes Business Performance Management (BPM), which helps executives to make better decisions.
[July 22, 2008, 1:18]
U.S. Market Update: Smart ID Cards And Readers Deliver Network Security And Physical Access Control In Single Credential
White Papers The Smart Card Alliance, an industry organization, estimates that there are now about five million smart cards issued in the United States for logical or physical access control. With that many cards deployed, the necessary readers, middleware and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Cisco Systems & Hitachi Data Systems Selected By Euronext.liffe For Multiprotocol, Multiservice Storage Network For Business Continuity
White Papers Euronext.liffe, the derivatives business of Euronext, comprising the derivatives markets of Amsterdam, Brussels, LIFFE, Lisbon and Paris is creating a single market for derivatives, by bringing all its derivatives products together on a single...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Two Cores Not Enough? Then Try 96
News Chip designer ClearSpeed has put 96 computing cores onto a single semiconductor, as the race to secure a niche in the emerging market for co-processors heats up. A typical microprocessor on the market today will have three floating point units and...
[October 7, 2004, 15:10]
Intel's 'Timna' To Kick-start Low-end PCs?
News Intel's forthcoming Timna chip could revitalise the stalled market for sub-$600 (£390) PCs -- or prove to be another expensive stumble in attempts by chip makers to jam more features on a single chip.
[May 5, 2000, 9:31]
Sony Shrinks PS2 Chip For Cheaper Consoles
News Sony Computer Entertainment says it has combined two of the processor components of its PlayStation2 on a single die, which should significantly reduce the cost of manufacturing the market-leading video game console.
[April 8, 2002, 14:27]
CAS-BUS: A Scalable And Reconfigurable Test Access Mechanism For Systems On A Chip
White Papers These libraries of IP cores, either available in-house or commercialized on the market, are reused by embedding them into a single system chip, conceptually in the same way as integrated circuits were connected on PCBs.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
New CPUs Fuel Server Competition
News And now that server partitioning is available in virtually all market segments (including Intel-based machines), a single server can take the place of several, resulting in lower acquisition costs and much easier management.
[April 17, 2002, 15:11]
Premmia, Schlemmia: AST Joins Single-brand Gang
News AST this week followed market leaders like Compaq and IBM in shrinking the number of lines and reverting to a single name for its corporate desktop range. It's a distribution fashion," said Jeremy Davies, managing director of market analyst Context.
[August 1, 1996, 17:16]
Wi-Fi Access Point Squeezed Onto Single Chip
News The company claims that the Atheros AR5006AP-G is the first single-chip 802.11g access point to hit the market. We anticipate that the market will continue to move towards more highly integrated WLAN solutions that reduce cost, yet maintain...
[December 16, 2004, 11:25]
Bluetooth Boost Gives UK Firm A Lead
News The funds raised will help to further secure our leading market position and take full advantage of the opportunities in the single-chip radio market and the anticipated explosion in Bluetooth," said CSR chief executive John Hodgson in a statement.
[January 4, 2001, 15:53]
Redmond Announces Free Multi-core Support
News Microsoft will continue to charge its customers for a single processor licence once a new crop of hardware servers with the equivalent of two microprocessors on each chip hit the market next year. As we begin driving multi-core chips into the...
[October 19, 2004, 9:15]
Compliance: Tech's 'uncomfortable' Future
News The goal, on the one hand, is to create a level playing field for organisations to operate in what has to date been a series of fragmented national markets in a bid to take on the might of a single, unified US market.
[March 20, 2006, 12:50]
Processor Speeds Up HP's Unix Servers
News The Unix server market is the single largest segment of the server market, with systems that are powerful enough for jobs such as tracking corporate inventory but that are cheaper to run than mainframes.
[June 24, 2002, 8:49]
EU Visitors May Face Roaming Price Hikes
News The reforms have been led by Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for information society and media, and are aimed at creating a simplified single market for people who travel between EU countries.
[April 16, 2007, 17:05]
UK Government Wakes Up To Firefox
Talkback But if they react to late to changing market trends (some of) there customers will already have walked away and are thus not likely to return. IE7 will one day come and the question is what kind of impact that'll have of market trends.
[August 26, 2005, 0:17]
Pressplay To Offer Unlimited Downloads
News Stung by tepid market reception to its online music subscription service, major music label-backed Pressplay plans to offer listeners access to an unlimited supply of music for a set period for a single fee.
[August 1, 2002, 7:41]
IBM Gives Power5 Servers Dual-core Boost
News In that market, everything from single powerful machines to vast clusters of hundreds of smaller machines is used to tackle work such as automotive crash simulation or pharmaceutical research. IBM is in the midst of a concentrated effort to climb...
[June 20, 2005, 9:25]
EC To Cap Text-roaming Costs
News The Commission will, therefore, start working on measures to ensure that consumers benefit from a truly single market for mobile text services. José Manuel Barroso, the Commission's president, said the restrictions would be in line with the concept...
[July 15, 2008, 16:09]

