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US Report: Lotus Attacks Microsoft In Mail Market
News Surveys show that, for the first time, Microsoft gained more new corporate seats in the first half of 1998 than Lotus. In what company officials are terming as their "most aggressive move to date," Lotus unveiled Tuesday a promotion offering...
[September 23, 1998, 16:10]
Who Do Apple Think Wants An IPhone
Blog Comment I agree that people do not understand the iPhone (Apple's) target market. Apple is NOT trying to dominate the entire market Microsoft-wise. It is NOT a give-away phone, carrier-choice phone, or corporate smartphone.
[August 3, 2007, 20:51]
Smartphones Heading For The Mass Market
News While the corporate market is humming along quite nicely, carriers and mobile-phone makers also see huge potential in the mass market, where, for example, teenagers and hard-pressed mums, who want email access and web surfing on the go, could...
[October 1, 2007, 12:19]
Computer Sales Worldwide Still Healthy
News While the fate of the US consumer PC market looks shaky -- with some analysts saying seasonal sales peaks are dead -- the corporate market still looks bright. But solid worldwide demand for portables will help counterbalance the sluggish US...
[December 7, 2000, 11:38]
IBM Grabs Top Spot In Notebook Sales
News Sony, also, is eyeing the corporate notebook market closely, which could boost its share position in coming quarters. Dell continued to lead the US notebook market during the fourth quarter, gaining 4.5 points, year over year, to 25 percent share...
[January 29, 2001, 16:23]
Oracle Attacks US Government's Case
News The US Justice Department, which seeks to block Oracle's proposed buyout, has disregarded Microsoft as a competitive factor in the market in which PeopleSoft and Oracle compete. Central to Scott's argument was that Germany's SAP, the global market...
[June 8, 2004, 10:40]
Microsoft UK Head: We've Grown Up
News The US market is huge but corporate functions as a global business. That's true of the whole IT market in today's environment. There's a new focus on corporate responsibility and ethics, the consumer is far more aware, partly because of the...
[April 8, 2004, 15:10]
Dell, Acer Clash Over Notebooks
News Acer and TI are in virtually the same bag in terms of bringing product to market. If you look at [market researcher] Dataquest's figures for the first and second quarter, both Acer and TI are way down so as far as we are concerned it doesn't make a...
[January 24, 1997, 15:14]
Not-so-cheap PCs Fail In Popularity Contest
News The overall PC market for Europe grew only six percent last year from 1999, hit largely by slow corporate sales, which accounted for 72 percent of the market. But there is light at the end of the tunnel for Europe's PC market, as big companies are...
[February 1, 2001, 15:09]
Pocket PC Sales: 1 Million And Counting
News Data from market researcher NPD Intelect shows that Pocket PC-based devices make up 26 percent of US handheld sales in the $350-and-higher range. Palm asserts that it will continue to target the corporate market aggressively and will keep working...
[May 23, 2001, 9:38]
BlackBerry Aims At Consumer Market
News T-Mobile USA set up a similar partnership for the US market last year. The business user is a critical market, with more than 25 percent of the workforce now mobile," said Nikesh Arora, T-Mobile's chief marketing officer, in a statement.
[March 5, 2003, 10:19]
Dell Product Group Gets Reboot
News Despite its talk about expanding into other global regions and product segments, Dell remains beholden to the US corporate PC market. Among other things, corporations pulled back on their desktop PC purchases after a frenzy of upgrading, consumers...
[December 13, 2006, 7:45]
What's Next For Oracle?
News It's a $22bn software market consisting of companies that sell programs designed to automate corporate functions, such as billing customers, updating employee records and processing orders. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison testified at the...
[September 10, 2004, 15:05]
Acer Plus TI Could Shake Up Notebook Big Three
News The agreement for Acer to buy TI's mobile unit for an undisclosed sum was announced yesterday and the deal is expected to be complete by the end of March, creating a significant new force in a market where Toshiba, Compaq and IBM have invested...
[January 24, 1997, 10:30]
Analyst Predicts More Bad News For PC Sales
News The US computer market ground to a halt during the fourth quarter, as consumers passed over PCs for handhelds, peripherals and other gadgets. He showed less enthusiasm about the consumer market, where Apple and Gateway are heavily dependent.
[February 7, 2001, 11:57]
Dow Off Sharply As Trading Resumes
News In addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission relaxed rules on corporate stock buybacks, and the Federal Reserve pumped money into the economy to ensure market liquidity. Although corporate buybacks are likely to have a big impact on the...
[September 18, 2001, 8:54]
Sybase Makes XcelleNet Purchase
News Database specialist Sybase announced on Friday a $95m (£52m) buyout of data management applications maker XcelleNet, furthering its thrust into the market for software tools used in mobile devices. The mobile middleware segment is expected to grow...
[April 5, 2004, 12:05]
Google's Enterprise Search Finally Reaches UK
News There is still a big question mark on whether Google's consumer success will translate to the corporate market but Girouard said that the company sees a real opportunity for better business search technology which he claims is lagging behind that...
[October 20, 2004, 15:10]
IDC Finds Optimism In 2004's Crystal Ball
News Tech spending will increase, IBM will indemnify customers in the SCO suit, and information technology services provided to US customers through offshore labour will double in 2004, market analysis firm IDC predicted on Wednesday.
[December 5, 2003, 8:25]
Dell And Startup Team On Wireless Access For Notebooks
News Round Rock, Texas-based Dell captured 25 percent of the US notebook market in the fourth quarter, according to Dataquest. Market researcher Cahners In-Stat Group forecasts the wireless networking market will grow to $2.2bn in 2004 from just $771mn...
[February 21, 2001, 9:25]
