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IP-based Text Service Aims To Undercut Rivals
News A UK start-up is looking to undercut existing mobile operators with an IP-based text messaging service. Hotxt - pronounced "hot text" - launched on Monday and allows subscribers to send each other as many text messages as they want for £1 per week.
[March 27, 2006, 13:25]
Microsoft And Samsung: We'll Undercut Palm
News Microsoft and Samsung on Monday announced they have teamed up to develop a design for low-cost handhelds, a market dominated by rival Palm. Devices based on the design will use Microsoft's Pocket PC software and Samsung's 200MHz ARM9-based S3C2410...
[November 12, 2002, 7:57]
McKinley Servers To Massively Undercut Merced
News Servers based on the second iteration of Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor, code-named McKinley, will offer twice the performance at half the price of first-generation machines. Speaking to ZDNet UK at a press event in Dublin on Tuesday, Hewlett...
[January 16, 2002, 14:59]
BT To Sell Cut-price Broadband Product
News BT Retail looks set to undercut the UK's broadband Internet Service Providers by selling a "no-frills" product that will give users a fast connection to the Web without the additional services and support often provided by ISPs.
[April 8, 2002, 13:18]
Microsoft Wants Larger Piece Of Storage Market
News To tackle the high-end market, Microsoft will use a tactic honed in its successful battles for market share in database software, network operating systems and business applications: bundle lots of features and undercut competitors on price.
[August 21, 2003, 14:35]
Charles Cooper "IT's Like This..."
News Then in early September, the Justice Department and 20 states tacked on new claims that Microsoft had illegally pressured other computer vendors in an illegal bid to limit competition and undercut emerging technologies.
[November 12, 1998, 15:12]
Report: Dell To Go Into Handhelds
News They are typically priced at the high end of that market, at around $500 to $600, though Dell would probably try to undercut its competitors. Is Dell getting ready to enter the handheld market? A new report from market researcher ARS speculates...
[June 21, 2002, 15:14]
Lexmark Invokes DMCA In Toner Suit
News Lexmark claims that Static Control violated the DMCA by selling its Smartek chips to companies that refill toner cartridges and undercut Lexmark's prices. Printer maker Lexmark has found an unusual weapon to thwart rivals from selling replacement...
[January 9, 2003, 8:51]
Dell Printers Will Gain Ground Slowly
White Papers Dell has priced the hardware competitively but has not dramatically undercut the competition. Dell has shifted strategy from September 2002, when it announced plans to enter the printer market and drive down the price of printers and supplies.
[February 10, 2005, 2:00]
SmsZap
Downloads Message credits can be purchased from smszap.com and will typically undercut the SMS charges of the mobile network.Version includes a number of minor fixes With the ability to send SMS (Short Message System) text messages direct from your Mac to...
[June 30, 2005, 18:16]
Microsoft Sets Out Its Online Services Strategy
News Microsoft's strategy in the burgeoning world of ad-supported online software calls for aggressive new business terms to undercut rivals and a familiar game plan of cozying up to developers. At the company's Mix07 conference in Las Vegas on Monday...
[April 30, 2007, 10:12]
BT Cuts Prices As VoIP Market Hots Up
News BT has slashed its VoIP pricing to undercut number one Internet telephony provider Skype. The offer, which will only last until the end of this year, will see rates to a number of international destinations, including Australia and the US, cut to...
[September 28, 2005, 18:05]
Newspaper Group May Sue Over Search Listings
News The Internet has undercut the businesses of newspapers, book publishers and magazines for years and now these media are looking for ways to fight back. Web search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, collect headlines and photos for their users...
[February 1, 2006, 15:05]
More ISPs React To Broadband Price Cuts
News Internet service provider One.Tel has joined the rush to announce new broadband pricing and is planning to undercut the UK's largest ISPs, following last week's cuts in the cost of BT's wholesale ADSL services.
[March 5, 2002, 16:04]
Sun To Charge For Next StarOffice
News In a move that could undercut its anti-Microsoft campaign, Sun Microsystems plans to start charging for the next version of its StarOffice software, a suite of programs that competes with Microsoft Office but runs on Linux and Solaris as well as...
[February 26, 2002, 10:10]
IBM To Offer Sub-£1K ThinkPad, Cheaper Desktops
News Desktop prices will also be cut: Mike Lunch, managing director of the IBM PC Company UK, indicated that after the revisions, PC 300 prices would undercut comparable Compaq products by around £100-£150.
[October 21, 1997, 16:31]
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]
Interactive TV Market Heats Up
News Competition for the UK's interactive television business will heat up a notch on Monday with the launch of Freedomland, a set-top box system that seeks to undercut offerings from British Sky Broadcasting, ONdigital and Bush.
[April 30, 2001, 7:36]
Intel Raises Cache On Pentium 4
News Intel announced the launch of a new version of the Pentium 4 processor with an extra dose of cache on Tuesday, in a move that seems calculated to undercut the launch of the Athlon64 from Advanced Micro Devices next week.
[September 17, 2003, 8:40]
Greenplum Aims For Cheaper Datawarehousing
News The company says it plans to undercut current incumbents in the UK such as Teradata and Netezza. Greenplum, a US datawarehousing company, is preparing to open its first European office in the UK, where it wants to increase its profile and market...
[June 6, 2008, 17:30]
