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A Year Ago: IBM Aims For Bigger Slice Of Chip Pie
News In the US, sub-$1,000 PCs were 23 per cent of units sold in the first half of 1997, compared to seven per cent a year ago. IBM is aiming to be a bit more aggressive in the processor business. The IBM Microelectronics Division, to give the...
[November 5, 1998, 6:30]
A Year Ago: The Future Looks Bleak For AMD
News A year ago, Intel cut the price on its Pentium MMX chips by up to 42 percent, putting pressure on a then-struggling AMD's K6 margins. A year ago, AMD was in the midst of a manufacturing crisis, unable to get its processors out the door and to its...
[February 10, 2000, 6:03]
A Year Ago: HP Reports 'mixed' Numbers
News HP reported a $617 million profit compared to $425 million on the year-ago quarter but most of that was caused by the firm quitting the disk drive business last year, the firm said. European sales were up 13 per cent year on year.
[August 19, 1998, 9:21]
A Year Ago: EToys Gets Off The Mat
News In the same quarter a year ago, eToys reported an operating loss of $8.2m (£5m), or 9 cents (5p) a share, on sales of $22.9m (£14.2m). Smiling faces as eToys receives outperform recommendation eToys investors finally got something to smile about...
[February 17, 2001, 6:05]
A Year Ago: Twenty Three Sacked For Email Abuse
News In the UK, there have been several "sacked for surfing" cases in the last year -- a council worker and a IT manager were fired for spending too much time on the Web -- experts suspect there are hundreds more that never get publicised.
[December 3, 2000, 6:02]
A Year Ago: Can IBM Be Big Again?
News IBM disputed the market share figures and maintained that sales to end users remained strong, up about 25 percent from a year ago. Analysts are predicting fierce price wars in the second half of the year as Compaq fights to retain its lead.
[August 5, 1999, 6:44]
A Year Ago: IBM Beats Estimates In 3Q
News In the same quarter a year ago, IBM reported earnings of $1.4bn (£.85bn), or $1.35 a share, on revenue of $18.6bn (£11.34bn). Revenue for the quarter was up 8 percent compared to a year ago, but would have been up 11 percent without currency effects.
[October 21, 1999, 9:00]
A Year Ago: Netscape's Blackest Day Totalled $88.3m Loss
News In the end, Netscape lost a whopping $88.3 million compared to an $8.2 million profit a year ago. Following that principle, Netscape today posted the expected black quarter it had warned of just a few weeks ago.
[January 27, 1999, 5:38]
One Year Ago: Happy AMD Posts Profitable Quarter
News The Californian chip maker made $12.9m on revenues of $551.9m, its first profit since the equivalent quarter a year ago. With up to four million K6 chips expected to be shipped this year the firm is expected to post banner figures in forthcoming...
[April 9, 1998, 7:00]
A Year Ago: Data Overload Causing Addiction
News Among key findings: per cent of managers say they receive more information than a year ago, and that their working environment has grown more stressful.per cent of managers think they receive too much information per cent of managers say they get...
[December 7, 1998, 9:54]
A Year Ago: Dell Cheers Wall Street Yet Again
News Revenues for the May-July quarter passed $2.8 billion, up 67 per cent on the year-ago quarter. The superlatives are running out for Dell as the direct seller confirmed its position of Wall Street darling by notching up its fourteenth consecutive...
[August 20, 1998, 6:51]
A Year Ago: Bookmark This!
News With the next version of the software, due later this year, users will be able to mix their personal planets with those of other users in cyberspace to form 3D galaxies -- akin to community site GeoCities' neighbourhoods.
[March 6, 2001, 6:01]
A Year Ago: AMD Still Fumbling Demand In Q4
News Despite the earnings shortfall, the California company did improve its sales 29 percent versus the year-ago quarter when it lost $12.3bn (£7.5bn), or 9 cents a share, on sales of $613m (£374m). Despite those improved sales, AMD reported a loss of...
[January 14, 2000, 5:59]
A Year Ago: Pentagon And Hackers In 'cyberwar'
News Several experts said such an attack wouldn't have even been detected at all a few months ago but the government has been quietly setting up cyberwar early-warning operations at the Pentagon, CIA and the National Security Agency over the past year.
[March 6, 2000, 6:09]
A Year Ago: The Internet Is Shrinking - Report
News Commissioned by the LA Times, the survey of 40,000 subjects shows that people spend 20 percent of their time on the top 10 Web sites today compared to 16 percent a year ago and the amount of time spent at the top 50 and 100 sites in that period...
[August 25, 2000, 7:00]
A Year Ago: Is A Pocket Mac Next For Apple?
News He ran down a laundry list of plans for the coming year: Releasing the iBook in time for the school season, shipping OS 9 this year and OSX Consumer after that -- plus a new line of G4-powered computers, due early next year.
[July 24, 2000, 7:01]
A Year Ago: ECTS - Lara Sweeps Awards, Eidos Shares Soar
News The Eidos Interactive smash hit took the prize for Marketing Campaign of the year and PC Game of the year. Developer of the year went to TR's authors - Core Design, with Eidos also picking up the prize for Publisher of the Year.
[September 8, 1998, 6:13]
A Year Ago: IBM Finds Gold In Copper
News Two years ago, IBM invested in performance-improving copper interconnect technology, and Thursday said it had shipped its one-millionth copper chip. An IBM spokesman said the company expects to ship another million copper chips by the end of this...
[September 25, 2000, 7:01]
A Year Ago: Viruses: What Punishment Fits The Crime?
News A revelation on Thursday that a Taiwanese university had caught, and only lightly punished, the writer of the destructive CIH computer virus a year ago heated up the debate on what should be done to those who spread viruses.
[April 28, 2000, 7:00]
A Year Ago: Cybergang 'Gunmen' Aim For Media
News The same office that investigated The New York Times defacement over a year ago will be spearheading the investigation. 'United Loan Gunmen' continue cyber attacks on media sites, while keeping identities secret
[September 19, 2000, 7:00]
