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- Intel is ready for your fourth quarter business: Will you show up?
- Intel spent a lot of time talking about inventories on its fiscal third quarter conference call. The industry is stocking up on Intel chips ahead of server refreshes and the launch of Windows 7. The nagging worry for many analysts: Will businesses and consumers show up to drive the upgrade...
- Tags: PC, Inventory, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Oracle spinning its numbers a tad too much?
- Michael Hickins at BNet accuses Oracle of 'lying' about its competitive position vis-a-vis SAP. Such statements are always fraught with difficulty for several reasons: The year ends are five months apart The economy has been changing over time Currency rates are...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Financial Management, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- AMD grabs "impressive" market share from Intel in Q1
- It's good to see AMD becoming more competitive against Intel and for the first time in a year, managing to win back market share, says iSuppli, a market research firm. Intel lost 2.5 points in market share to 79.1 per cent, its first decline after a year...
- Tags: Revenue, Microprocessor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Semiconductors, Operational Accounting, Processors, Hardware, Finance, Components, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- SAP software revenues plummet, announces new deal on maintenance
- SAP has announced its Q1 results. total revenue was €2,397 million compared to €2,460 in Q1 2008, a fall of three percent. While operating income was only down eight percent, software revenues were off 33%, falling from €622million in Q1 2008 to €422 million. Support revenue climbed...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, SAP AG, No. Ray Wang, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Apple Q2 09 financials - Best non-holiday quarter, but signs indicate that recession is starting to bite
- Apple Q2 09 financials - Best non-holiday quarter, but signs indicate that recession is starting to biteGood article, Adrian...Apple have had an excellent quarter and it would be foolish to argue that, however market saturation is creeping in - Macs have plateaued, iPods have modest low single digit growth and...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Apple PC business, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, recession, Yoy
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23
- Why Nokia needs the U.S. more than ever
- Nokia's first quarter left a lot to be desired, but there is good news: The company sees a bottom in handset demand. However, if it really wants to come out of the downturn swinging it needs to make a splash in the U.S. Just a respectable showing in the U.S....
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Wireless And Mobility, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Profit falls 30% at smartphone maker HTC
- Smartphone maker HTC's first-quarter net profit dropped 30 percent from last year thanks to the one-two punch of the global economic downturn and delayed shipments of some new products, the company said. The Taiwan-based handset maker, best known for the Touch Pro and T-Mobile G1 phones, said...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Sales Force Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levels
- It took only a couple of months for cybercriminals to catch-up and reintroduce the massive spam volumes that briefly disappeared following the shutdown of the cybercrime ecosystem's sitting duck McColo in November, 2008. According to Google's Postini Spam data and trends for Q1 2009, during the first...
- Tags: Google Inc., Spammer, Spamming, Spam Volume, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Dell's fourth quarter sales stumble; Plans more cost cutting
- Dell's fourth quarter sales stumble; Plans more cost cuttingWhat a novel conceptRevenue is down due to the economic downturn, so Dell reacts by cutting spending. What a novel concept! I wonder why no one in Washington or on Wall Street thought of this?Apple can buy Dell with CASH...
- Tags: Strategy, Apple Inc., Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-26
- HP cuts base pay for execs and employees; Will tweak benefits to cut costs
- Amid a tough fiscal first quarter report and weaker than expected demand, HP is cutting base pay for executives and its workers. The cost cutting was mentioned by HP CEO Mark Hurd on the company's earnings conference call on Wednesday. HP met Wall Street expectations in the...
- Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Benefit, Mark Hurd, Action, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Apple Q1 09 results
- Apple Q1 09 resultsProbably worth noting that"Q1 09" represents sales for 1 October, 2008 to 31 December, 2008. That's one of the peak retail buying periods and since Apple is primarily focused on the consmer electronics market, it makes sense that it's their biggest quarter.The real test will come...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Microsoft Windows, Wireless and Mobility, Apple Inc., Apple Q1, Apple iPhone, sales
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Slicing up Sun
- Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls, one of which is from a disclosure perspective: I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk of...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Vista-related e-mails I'd like to read (but probably won't)
- Vista-related e-mails I'd like to read (but probably won't)This whole mess is just a public relations problem for the Vista brand, andMicrosoft in general. Microsoft will move as quickly as possible to get the Vista brand off of shelves. MS should also move to settle this case out of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), e-mail, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- Apple the software platform company
- Apple the software platform company" ... different than ..." is the give-awayQuoting:"So we're extremely comfortable with our product strategy going forward, and we approach it as a software platform company, which is pretty different than most of our competitors."[End quote]Given that, as you have observed, Apple is a luxury brand...
- Tags: Desktops, John Carroll, Apple Inc., software platform company, Apple Macintosh, software
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- Apple Q4 2008 earnings to be announced today (updated)
- Apple plans to conduct a conference call to discuss financial results of its fourth fiscal quarter today (Tuesday, October 21, 2008) after the markets close at 5:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. PT. You can listen to the audio webcast of the conference call live on Apple's investor relations...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Earnings, CNET New, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Q2 2008 HPC server leaders: HP - 37%, IBM - 27%, Dell - 16%
- Q2 2008 saw solid growth in the mid and high end of the market and softness in lower priced x86 servers, as evidenced by average selling prices ASPs that were up 16% compared to Q1 2008. According to Jie Wu, research manager for technical computing, the Q2 2008 HPC server...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Leader, Server, IBM Corp., Leadership, Management, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-18
- High-performance computing market grew 10% in Q2 2008
- Factory revenue and unit shipments for the High Performance Computing HPC technical server market exhibited 10% growth in Q2 2008, according to IDC. Revenues grew 10% over the Q1 2008 and 4% compared to Q1 2007 to reach $2.5 bln in the Q2 2007. Shipments of server system units in...
- Tags: Revenue, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Cloud Computing, Servers, Hardware, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Magazine ad revenues down 3.1% in the first half of 2008
- Total magazine rate-card-reported advertising revenue for the first half of 2008 closed at $11,554,569,406, posting a -3.1% decline against the previous year, according to Publishers Information Bureau. Ad pages during Q1 2008 totaled 108,924.13, at -7.4% compared to January through June, 2007. Total PIB revenue for Q2 2008 closed at...
- Tags: Advertisement, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
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