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Antivirus Tools Becoming Hackers' New Favourite
News Makers of antivirus products have not yet been forced to acknowledge and fix potential problems in their code, analysts with Yankee Group wrote in a research paper published on Monday. Symantec, F-Secure and CheckPoint are among the vendors that...
[June 21, 2005, 9:30]
Mobile Internet Too Expensive
News But that is far too expensive and could be a major stumbling block in getting data services off the ground, according to senior analyst Farid Yunus of Yankee Group, an international firm of analysts. Other key advances, according to Yankee Group...
[April 27, 2001, 8:21]
Wi-Fi Threat To 3G 'is Overstated'
News Although WLAN technology is relatively mature, the same cannot be said of the public access WLAN service environment, according to Declan Lonergan, director of European wireless research and consulting at The Yankee Group.
[July 3, 2002, 14:59]
Novell's Schmidt Joins Google At Critical Time
News Now, more of a core business person is running the show, rather than a technologist," said Rob Lancaster, an analyst at the Yankee Group. The best way to look at them is by the major customers they've won, such as Yahoo," said the Yankee Group's...
[March 27, 2001, 9:13]
Net Appliances: The Next Frontier
News Hardware and ISP packages will only succeed in low-end or novice markets, said Milosz Skrzypczak of the Yankee Group. Gateway has a tremendous installed base of PC users, but AOL could discourage consumers outside that realm, according to some...
[November 22, 2000, 8:56]
Mobile Revenues To Top Fixed Lines
News Revenues from mobile phones in Europe will soon top those of the entire traditional telephone industry, according to analysts the Yankee Group. In an earlier report, Yankee Group said mobile network operators are relying on emerging data services...
[October 6, 2003, 14:40]
.Net Gets P2P Boost
News The acquisition is a way to get an essential technology without having to reinvent the wheel," said Laura DiDio, an analyst at research firm Yankee Group. Microsoft's acquisition of XDegrees, a small company known for its secure peer-to-peer...
[September 16, 2002, 11:28]
Windows PatchGuard 'hindering Security'
News PatchGuard will make it harder for third parties, particularly host intrusion-prevention software, to function in Vista," said Yankee Group analyst Andrew Jaquith. However, Yankee Group analyst Jaquith believes that step is getting closer...
[August 11, 2006, 8:50]
US Telecoms Giant Looks At Throwing Windows Out
News Researchers at The Yankee Group last month published a report predicting that small businesses will drive adoption of Linux on desktops. Linux, in particular, has become a more viable option for a desktop operating system, according to analysts.
[October 6, 2004, 9:05]
Virtual Insanity In Geneva...
Blog I'll keep you posted on what we unearth - which should be plenty given some of the panellists discussing the issue which include Paul Di Leo, boss of Zeus Technology as well as analysts from Yankee Group and BA Test Labs.
[February 22, 2007, 8:07]
Look Who's Joining Linux Bandwagon
News Small businesses don't need all the bells and whistles that Windows NT gives them," said Eric Klein, an analyst at The Yankee Group in Boston. There are only a handful of companies making Linux server appliances, but analysts believe this sort of...
[November 3, 1999, 8:21]
Pressplay To Offer Unlimited Downloads
News It's a recognition that their previous offering didn't resonate with consumers," said Michael Goodman, a senior analyst with research firm The Yankee Group. But its model, charging $14.95 a month for just 50 downloaded songs and 500 streams, had...
[August 1, 2002, 7:41]
Microsoft Ends Upgrade Advantage
News I've seen a real transformation from the outraged scepticism," said Laura DiDio, an analyst at the Yankee Group. Introduced in May 2001, the programme generated complaints from corporate customers and analysts who said it would raise software costs.
[June 30, 2004, 9:35]
Mobile Giants Bailing Out Of Hardware
News We'll still be sticking with the forecast of 500 to 540 million handsets sold, but we're now looking closer to the lower end of the range," said Dan Downey, an analyst with The Yankee Group. Such decisions have left analysts concluding that others...
[January 29, 2001, 9:06]
Email To Land In European Cordless Phones
News The numbers are small -- currently between 3 percent and 6 percent in the United States, according to research firm The Yankee Group. But it could soon grow to about 10 percent in less than two years, other analysts believe.
[April 15, 2002, 12:39]
Waiting For The Wireless Internet
News The Yankee Group estimates that there are 1.3 million users of wireless data devices in the United States -- and predicts that number will mushroom to more than 60 million by 2005. According to analysts, if AT&T is wrong and applications are made...
[July 7, 2000, 13:54]
Skype's Market Share Halves
News The inclusion of VoIP within broadband packages has encouraged broadband take-up, according to analyst firm Yankee Group. Broadband service provider branded-VoIP has been a key factor in driving carrier growth and triple-play success over the last...
[February 1, 2006, 7:15]
UK Firms At Risk From Telco Collapse
News Research published last week by The Yankee Group found widespread concern about the state of the telecoms sector, following the troubles of WorldCom, KPNQwest and PSINet. Quite a few companies, The Yankee Group warn, are taking a "wait and see...
[August 27, 2002, 9:24]
New Economy Jargon: Sooo 1999
News Peter Rumple, a vice president of sales who joined The Yankee Group in December, pushed the company to rename the units because clients were increasingly put off by them, according to Yankee Group analyst Harry Tse.
[March 2, 2002, 6:31]
'Spim' Threat Hovers On Horizon
News The Yankee Group estimates that 5 percent to 8 percent of all corporate IM today is spim, but the firm doesn't expect this percentage to increase over the next year, as millions of new users adopt instant messaging.
[April 2, 2004, 9:20]
