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Security Appliances Move To Centre Stage
News Sales of high-end security appliances have surged in the third quarter of 2003 as enterprises install them in their main networks, having seen lower-end devices prove themselves in branch offices, according to the latest figures from analyst firm...
[December 16, 2003, 15:35]
Google's Profits Double Year-on-year
News Reporting for the first time as a publicly traded company, Google recorded a third-quarter profit of $52m that more than doubled on booming online advertising revenue. Revenue in the third quarter was $805.9m, up 105 percent from the $394m reported...
[October 22, 2004, 13:10]
IBM Talks Of 10,000 New Jobs
News IBM on Wednesday met analysts' average earnings estimate for the third quarter and said it saw the need for about 10,000 new jobs next year. Big Blue reported earnings per share from continuing operations of $1.02 (£0.61) up from 99 cents per share...
[October 16, 2003, 14:35]
Broadband Growth Outpaces Mobile Take-up
News In the third quarter of 2003, the broadband market grew from 79.4 million lines to 89.4 million. In fact, growth in the fourth quarter is usually faster than in the third," Johnson added. Maintaining the same percentage growth in the fourth quarter...
[January 5, 2004, 16:25]
Online Ad Sales Gain Again
News Sales from online advertising hit an estimated $1.75bn (£1bn) in the third quarter, the fourth consecutive period of gains for the industry, according to new research. Third-quarter sales represent a 20 percent leap from revenue of $1.45bn in the...
[December 10, 2003, 11:35]
Intel Climbs Flash Rankings
News The chip giant climbed back up the rankings in the flash memory market in the third quarter, according to research firm iSuppli, thanks to its pricing strategy. Intel pulled in $639m in flash revenue during the third quarter, up 8.9 percent from...
[November 17, 2004, 14:25]
Symbian Smartphone Shipments Surge
News Symbian's licensees shipped nearly four million high-end mobile phones running the company's operating system during the third quarter of this year, which ended on 30 September, the company said on Thursday -- nearly quadrupling last year's figures.
[November 20, 2003, 13:20]
Nortel Results Stun Analysts
News Revenue rose to $2.83bn from $2.53bn a year earlier and was up 25 percent from the third quarter. Dunn emphasised that carriers are starting to spend more on IP products, along with support services such as broadband access and third-generation...
[January 30, 2004, 8:20]
The Slow Road To Windows XP
News However, the popularity of Windows 2000 has remained high, with the venerable operating system still in use in 48 percent of business PCs during the first quarter of 2005, down just four percentage points from the third quarter of 2003.
[June 16, 2005, 11:20]
Chipmaker Meets Expectations
News Citing industry and economic conditions that make it difficult to forecast product demand, AMD said it expects sales of both processors and flash memory to increase "moderately" in the third quarter. Prior to its second-quarter report, an average...
[July 15, 2004, 14:35]
Generic Cartridges Leave Mark On Lexmark Profits
News Lexmark reported a first-quarter operating profit of $161.7m (£84.94m) from revenues of $1.358 billion. This represents a first-quarter revenue increase of eight percent from 2004 to 2005, compared with an increase of 13 percent from 2003 to 2004.
[April 27, 2005, 13:25]
Flat-panel Supply Set To Surge
News Nebrich said that after steady declines in what it cost to buy an LCD monitor, prices started rising in the third quarter of 2003. The average price of a 15-inch LCD monitor in the United States in the fourth quarter was $327, up from $302 in the...
[March 8, 2004, 7:30]
Wi-Fi Shows Rapid Growth
News Com took the third spot in market share from Proxim for the quarter, but Proxim remained No.for the year. The overall revenue for Wi-Fi wireless networking gear was up more than 55 percent in the fourth quarter to $751.9m (£403.29m), Synergy...
[February 11, 2004, 9:10]
Sun Back In The Black
News Revenue fell 14 percent from $4bn from the year-ago quarter, but grew 10 percent from $3.1bn in the third quarter. Sun slipped into unprofitability four quarters ago but fulfilled its predicted return to profitability through expense controls...
[July 19, 2002, 8:54]
Intel Earnings Beat Targets
News Intel's revenue for the quarter, which ended 28 December, was $7.2bn, up 10 percent sequentially from the third quarter. Gross margin came to 51.6 percent, compared with 49 percent in the third quarter.
[January 15, 2003, 7:50]
IBM Snares Bigger Bite Of Storage
News HP, IBM, Dell and Sun Microsystems captured almost 48 percent of the external storage market in the third quarter of 2003, up slightly from the third quarter of 2002. Third-place EMC saw its revenue jump 20.5 percent year over year to $617m in the...
[February 20, 2004, 9:10]
Storage Market Posts Healthy Growth
News EMC accounted for almost a third of the market in the fourth quarter, with $693m in revenue and 31.7 percent market share. The storage software market generated revenue of $2.2bn in the fourth quarter, continuing a healthy growth streak, according...
[March 15, 2005, 8:40]
Consumers Spur Notebook Boom
News Notebooks reached 29 percent of US PC shipments in the third quarter, Promisel said. Although, "we don't expect them to gain.two points every quarter, I think it's a pretty good indication of where the trend is going, given ASPs (average selling...
[January 12, 2004, 10:05]
PeopleSoft Wins New Customers
News Enterprise software maker PeopleSoft reported third-quarter revenue that exceeded expectations on Thursday, although the company's overall earnings dipped because of its buyout of rival J.D. Including the acquisition, PeopleSoft recorded a third...
[October 24, 2003, 15:10]
Singapore's Tech Skills For 2003
News According to the company's statistics, job seekers' confidence levels sank to an all-time low at the end of the third quarter. According to the Singapore Manpower Research and Statistics Department, rising unemployment in the third quarter...
[January 8, 2003, 11:17]
