IT Industry
Forrestor, 3/02: T-Shirts, Turtlenecks, And Ties
Once the recession fog clears, IT, marketing, and business strategists must converge to build a unified technology plan.
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PC Industry
Giga Research, 4/16/02: Modular Computing: The Next Generation of Personal Computing
Performance is no longer driving the market, users increasingly need their technology to be where they are and the market is stagnating because potential customers no longer see the need for staying current with their technology. Handheld computers are promising but generally too limited to be stand-alone devices. Smart phones are connected but even more limiting for computing tasks than handheld computers. Devices that try to do both generally result in a screen that is too small and a phone that is too big. There is a growing perception that combining the two in a modular approach can provide a phone of the right size and a connected handheld computer without the negatives of a combined device.
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c|net, 4/18/02: Gateway reports loss as expected
By Ian Fried
Gateway on Thursday reported a first-quarter loss that matched analysts' expectations and said its loss should narrow in the current quarter as the company continues to cut prices in an effort to regain market share.
Including $99 million in pretax charges, Gateway said it lost $123 million, or 39 cents per share, on revenue of $992 million. That compares with a loss of $502.9 million, or $1.56 a share, on sales of $2 billion in the first quarter of 2001.
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IDG, 4/19/02: PC Sales Starting to Rebound
Dell remains number one PC vendor in the U.S., topping the combined sales of HP and Compaq.
Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
The PC market in the U.S. showed its first year-on-year quarterly growth for a year during the first three months of this year, according to market analyst Dataquest.
Total U.S. shipments for the quarter of desktop and notebook PCs and PC servers were 2.3 percent higher than a year ago, at 11.1 million units, according to Dataquest's preliminary numbers published Thursday.
There was no change in the vendor ranking, although Dell Computer walked away as the bigger winner of the quarter, solidifying its number one position with a 16.2 percent jump in shipments to 2.9 million units, Dataquest says, crediting the jump to its desktop computer business.
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Microsoft
Reuters, 4/18/02: Microsoft Profit Rises but Outlook Cautious
By Scott Hillis
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday reported a 12 percent rise in quarterly net profit, but weaker-than-expected sales and a cautious outlook left investors scurrying for cover.
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c|net, 4/17/02: Microsoft urges support for new IP
By Stephen Shankland
SEATTLE--Microsoft is lobbying the computing industry to start moving the Internet to the next-generation underpinnings that will lay the groundwork for much richer networking.
At its WinHEC conference here, Microsoft executives urged hardware and software engineers to support IPv6, a replacement of the IPv4 version of Internet Protocol that underlies all communications across the Internet. IPv6's chief benefit is enabling a vastly larger number of computing devices to connect to the network by essentially boosting IPv4's limited number of addresses.
"We need your help. Work with network administrators to get IPv6 deployed in your enterprise. And build native support for IPv6 in every application or piece of hardware you build," Mike Shappell, a product unit manager in Microsoft's Windows networking group, said in a speech Wednesday. "It will take time for the world to move to IPv6. Now's the time to start."
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ZDNet, 4/19/02: How Microsoft plans to make computers 'trustworthy'
David Coursey,
Executive Editor, AnchorDesk
Do you trust your computer? Yes, it's a serious question. Because Microsoft wants you to be able to trust your computer the same way you trust your electricity, your water supply, or pretty much any other service you take for granted.
"Trustworthy Computing," according to a recent Microsoft white paper, means people will be "as comfortable with devices powered by computers and software as they are today using a device that is powered by electricity."
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