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UK Sales Rise In Flagging European PC Market
News Retail sales of PCs in the United Kingdom and France were the bright spot in an otherwise dismal fourth quarter for Western Europe. The amount of personal computers sold in Western Europe declined by 11 percent year over year in the fourth quarter...
[February 13, 2002, 11:52]
Global Software Piracy On The Rise
News There is also a fundamental piracy problem in the more technologically advanced regions of North America and Western Europe, the study found. Software piracy in North America accounted for 25 percent of the total dollar losses, at a combined...
[May 22, 2001, 14:15]
Europe Takes A Front Seat In Net Rulemaking
News Forrester Research predicts that online sales in Western Europe, including business-to-business transactions, will reach $2.5tn by 2006. In 2001, software sales in Western Europe totalled $52bn, or more than 28 percent of the world market...
[January 16, 2002, 14:49]
AMD Snags First Corporate Win
News NEC ranked ninth in terms of market share in Western Europe in 2000, said Smulders, shipping 455,000 business computers to that market. By contrast, NEC ranked No.in the Western European consumer market.
[March 5, 2001, 8:18]
P2P In B2B: How Will Peer To Peer (P2P, Napster Style) Systems Change B2B
White Papers However, cheap, always on internet access is now freely available in most western countries and an increasing proportion of businesses (even SMEs) now have this. Until recently, a large proportion of internet access was via slow occasional access...
[March 1, 2004, 23:00]
Marconi Adds Quality Of Service To A Wireless Broadband Network
White Papers Faced with a bandwidth shortage that could decelerate economic growth, community leaders in Western Maryland are working toward a common goal: expanding a successful wireless network for county government into a "local loop" infrastructure that...
[February 16, 2006, 23:00]
For A Leading Architectural Firm IP Communications Is A Blueprint For Sucess
White Papers Cohos Evamy is one of the largest Architectural firms in Western Canada. Through Cisco CallManager Express businesses can manage telephony services over the same Cisco Multiservice Access Router that provides data connectivity.
[February 19, 2005, 23:00]
Europe To Take Wi-Fi Crown From US
News America will be jostled off the top of the Wi-Fi heap within four years, researchers have predicted, as businesses and users in Western Europe and Asia rush to embrace high-speed wireless networking. Currently, North America is home to 46 percent...
[November 27, 2003, 15:40]
Protesters Target Anti-piracy Directive
News A spokesman for the Business Software Alliance, which has been fighting to broaden the directive's scope and penalties, recently said stronger enforcement was needed to curb the activities of criminal gangs, citing research that it says shows 37...
[March 8, 2004, 10:40]
Surveys Give Conflicting Accounts Of IT In The UK
News While the UK's SME connectivity is coming from a standing start, at just 69 percent for small businesses and 45 percent for microbusinesses -- only ahead of one other Western country, France, with 59 and 38 percent respectively -- the rate at...
[December 12, 2003, 13:55]
Mobile Operators Urged To Focus On Enterprise
News And yet, the report warns, operators continue to put their efforts into the consumer side despite the enterprise market accounting for 37 percent of mobile service revenue in Western Europe in 2006. But, by focusing on voice services for businesses...
[July 19, 2007, 8:13]
Hard Drive Handles Multiple Memory Cards
News The breadth of storage-hungry content that consumers and businesses deal with today requires a high-performing and robust all-in-one storage peripheral," Richard Rutledge, a vice president of marketing at Western Digital, said in a statement.
[January 7, 2004, 12:15]
Australian Code Aims To Curb Spam
News The IIA taskforce, chaired by Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA) representative Jeremy Malcolm, also includes representatives from the South Australian Internet Association (SAIA), major and smaller ISPs and email service providers, as...
[July 26, 2004, 10:55]
Microsoft Sued Over Use Of 'Forefront' Name
News Dexter + Chaney filed suit against Microsoft on Thursday in US District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle. Microsoft announced Forefront in June as a single brand that encompasses updated and upcoming security products aimed...
[September 18, 2006, 9:10]
Gartner: End Users Will Shape IT Spending
News By 2011, Apple will double its US and Western Europe unit market share Businesses, said Gutberlet, need to administer the right policies but, instead of building up a policy to deny or block access to applications and services, they need one that...
[April 11, 2008, 8:31]
A Year Ago: Europe Catching US In E-commerce Says IDC
News Twenty-three percent of those users would be based in Western Europe. As more businesses, develop a web presence, the proportion of business-to-business commerce on the Web will grow to 79 percent by 2002 before the ratio gradually changes to...
[September 7, 1999, 7:00]
Linux To Push Out Business Competitors
News The studies found that 40 percent of the 800 decision makers surveyed in North America and Western Europe are actively using or piloting Linux, and that Linux unit replenishment rates were twice as high as those for Unix.
[August 15, 2001, 16:48]
IDC Raises Sales Estimates For 2004
News The research company added that strong growth in Western Europe and the rest of the world helped propel second-quarter results, while growth in the United States came in lower than expected -- in the single digits.
[September 28, 2004, 10:00]
Telcos Bring Broadband To Scottish Isles
News BT and Thus are combining their networks to allow some residents on the islands of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles to receive high-speed Internet access. Thus operates high-speed wireless connections between the islands and the mainland, so...
[October 6, 2003, 17:20]
UK's PC Demand To Soar For Christmas
News In Western Europe, PC sales in Q3 are predicted to be 14.5 percent higher than the same quarter last year. For the last quarter of the year the figures look even better: nearly 19 percent year-on-year growth for Western Europe, with the UK market...
[September 8, 2000, 11:34]
