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RSS forecasts in newsBT to axe 10,000 staff
News BT said on Thursday it is in the process of cutting 10,000 jobs, as it reported second-quarter core earnings and revenues just ahead of revised forecasts. BT warned less than two weeks ago it would miss original earnings... [13 Nov 2008]
Mobile wallets to bulk out m-payments' future
News In the next few years, the Mobile Payments Markets: Strategies & Forecasts 2008-2013 report from analyst house Juniper Research predicts mobile payments will be driven by mobile money transfers and NFC-enabled handsets... [30 Oct 2008]
Plastic's fantastic, despite economy being drastic
News Datamonitor forecasts the total value of transactions by plastic cards to reach £747bn by 2012. Despite the continuing pessimism about the global economic climate over the last 12 months, UK spending using plastic cards... [27 Oct 2008]
eBay not bidding on positive fourth quarter
News Online auction giant eBay lowered its fourth-quarter revenue expectations and reported third-quarter numbers that met analyst forecasts. Company executives said Wednesday that it expected fourth-quarter profit to come in... [16 Oct 2008]
SAP sales drop as credit crunch looms large
News Michael McCarty, chief equity and options strategist with broker dealer Meridian Equity Partners, said he expected results for the third quarter to be rough for many tech companies and forecasts for the fourth quarter... [07 Oct 2008]
Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brands
News Interbrand calculated the value of the brands by taking into account revenue forecasts, market research and brand risk analysis - including factors such as customer loyalty. Apple may currently be king of consumer... [19 Sep 2008]
IT demand is weakening, warns Dell
News Dell expects to incur costs to "improve competitiveness", reduce headcount and invest in infrastructure and acquisitions but gave no specific financial forecasts. Two of the biggest computer vendors, Dell and Ingram... [17 Sep 2008]
Wireless broadband to be cellular feast
News Writing in a report entitled Wireless broadband forecasts for 2008-2015: HSPA, HSPA+, EV-DO, LTE and WiMax, co-author Dr Mark Heath said HSPA will support the vast majority (88 per cent) of all wireless broadband... [05 Aug 2008]
Met Office gets £33m supercomputer
News UK weather forecasting body the Met Office has signed a £33m deal for a new supercomputer that will enable more accurate and detailed forecasts. The extra computing power will give the Met Office the capability to do... [04 Aug 2008]
Record Mac sales give Apple stellar quarter
News Apple's guidance for the upcoming quarter, however, was well below Wall Street forecasts. Apple has reported record Mac sales and one of its best third quarters ever. For the company's third fiscal quarter, which ended... [22 Jul 2008]
Nokia grabs bigger slice of market
News This is up from earlier forecasts of between six per cent and seven per cent unit growth. Nokia is gobbling up market share on mobile handsets fuelled by sales in emerging markets. Last week, the Finnish mobile phone... [21 Jul 2008]
NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News The analyst forecasts the gross transaction value of relatively low value purchases - such as refreshments, tickets and food - made via NFC will exceed $75bn globally by 2013, with the lion's share of contactless... [18 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst firm Gartner, which has predicted that the market for both PCs and servers will remain in growth this year, and at least for... [02 Jul 2008]
Mobile banking set to boom
News The analyst forecasts 41.5 billion mobile financial service (MFS) transactions will be made by the end of 2011, with services being driven by rapid consumer adoption especially by mobile users in developing countries who... [18 Jun 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News But the biggest shift has been in computing, where water drawn from a local borehole will provide the constant cooling for its 600 servers and the NEC SX-6 supercomputers, with equivalent power of 8,000 PCs, that... [09 May 2008]
