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Novell's Schmidt Joins Google At Critical Time
News The best way to look at them is by the major customers they've won, such as Yahoo," said the Yankee Group's Lancaster. Now, more of a core business person is running the show, rather than a technologist," said Rob Lancaster, an analyst at the...
[March 27, 2001, 9:13]
Building Boom Leads To Datacentre Crash
News What you're seeing is an about-face in supply and demand," said Carrie Lewis, an analyst with The Yankee Group, a market research firm. It's not all gloom and doom," The Yankee Group's Lewis said. Analysts say demand will pick up again as the...
[May 10, 2001, 11:04]
Siemens Tackles Microsoft IPTV Dominance
News It's Microsoft's game to lose," said Adi Kishore, an analyst with The Yankee Group. The Yankee Group's Kishore said Siemens could make a good business out of catering to smaller service providers. If these problems result in significant delays, it...
[June 14, 2005, 12:24]
Wi-Fi Threat To 3G 'is Overstated'
News In a new publication, research organisation The Yankee Group says there are still a number of problems need to be resolved before public access wireless local area networks (WLANs) become a commercial reality.
[July 3, 2002, 14:59]
You've Got Mail! Portals Hungry For Piece Of E-commerce Pie
News or Excite selling their own products," said Melissa Bane, a program manager with Yankee Group. The idea of convenient shopping on the Web is great, but once you actually try to do it, having to enter your credit card information again and again can...
[November 16, 1998, 14:53]
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. Data services are crucial to network operators...
[April 27, 2001, 8:21]
WorldCom Customers Urged To Hang On
News Research firms such as Giga Information Group, Gartner and the Yankee Group say they've been besieged with calls asking for advice about where to turn if WorldCom flames out. We're getting a lot of calls from customers asking for advice," Yankee...
[July 4, 2002, 11:33]
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]
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]
'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]
New Economy Jargon: Sooo 1999
News Signalling just how out of vogue New Economy buzzwords have become, technology research and consulting company The Yankee Group renamed a number of its business units this week, sans jargon. The Yankee Group's BtoB Commerce & Applications Research...
[March 2, 2002, 6:31]
Wireless Networking Wars Hit Speed Bump
News Whatever the use, people will find a way to fill up the extra wireless bandwidth, said Yankee Group analyst Karuna Uppal. While no one knows how the standards issue will shake out, analysts and networking executives say the worst case scenario is...
[February 27, 2001, 9:22]
Microsoft Targets Defectors With Discounts
News With Open Value, Microsoft is doing everything they can to keep small and midsized businesses, which are the most likely for further defection," said Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio. Locking customers in is a key component of Licensing 6, analysts...
[November 27, 2002, 7:46]
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. For some time, analysts have predicted that Internet appliances may be the computer industry's next frontier.
[November 22, 2000, 8:56]
Home Networking Gets A Jump Start From New Tech
News People are buying them, so home networking is gaining momentum," said Yankee Group analyst Karuna Uppal. Thomson will become one of the first companies to release home networking kits using electrical outlets, giving the fledgling technology...
[January 5, 2001, 9:20]
American Express Toys With Free ISP
News If American Express cannot tie new revenue streams directly to the free ISP service that will help it cover the costs.you might find that the company will pull back on this initiative," said Emily Meehan, senior analyst at The Yankee Group.
[February 9, 2001, 8:30]
Mobile Data Services To Replace Voice By 2005
News A similar study by the Yankee group predicted the streaming media market to be worth $3,300m by 2006, if ten percent of mobile users spend $10 a month on data services. Data will replace voice services as the killer app for wireless in as little as...
[May 15, 2001, 14:04]
Emerging Handsets Mimic IPods
News said Michael Goodman an analyst at The Yankee Group. As cellphone makers edge back into the market, analysts say, they will need to make an aggressive push if they hope to make any headway. These moves have been spurred by wireless companies' need...
[July 2, 2004, 15:40]
Longhorn: If They Build It, Will Anyone Come?
News I don't hear anyone saying 'I've got to have Longhorn tomorrow,'" said Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio. One thing that has changed, said Yankee Group's DiDio, is that businesses are significantly happier with Windows security now than they were a...
[April 1, 2005, 18:10]
Negotiators Step In To Software Deals
News You have to be very clear on what you need and don't need," said Andy Efstathiou, an analyst at the Yankee Group. The latest round in the negotiation game is likely to be played through the end of September, analysts say.
[August 22, 2002, 13:01]
