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In The News
- Tech Giants Target Living Room
- IT must act as driver for change, says Gartner
- Consumer Mobiles Drive Double-Digit Growth in Canadian PC Market, Says IDC
- iPod market share falls to 87%
Feature: Global brands go mobile
Financial releases, Market notes
- Stocks Rally as Oil Prices Drop
- Seagate Technology Financials
- Hutchinson Technology "buy," target price raised
- PEMSTAR Reports Fiscal 2005 Second-Quarter Results
- MAXTOR CORP Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report
- IOMEGA Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report
- Network Appliance downgraded by Morgan Keegan
Focus on: The Economy
- Singapore's high-risk ventures
Focus on: Products
- Seagate Unveils 5GB USB 2.0 Drive
- Slim DVD drives may reach the mainstream in 2005 |
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Tech Giants Target Living Room Wall Street Journal (requires subscription) - Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are mounting a joint advertising and marketing campaign to promote their high-profile efforts to penetrate the living room. The technology giants, longtime partners with a sometimes-stormy relationship, have never jointly planned and funded a major media campaign, company officials said. Their new effort will target U.S. consumers with TV, print and cinema ads, a new Web site -- dubbed DigitalJoy.com -- and technology demonstration centers in 38 malls and other public locations. Specific spending plans aren't being disclosed. But Ann Lewnes, an Intel vice president of sales and marketing, put a three-month, initial phase of the campaign in "the low tens of millions of dollars." The companies said they may follow up with a bigger marketing push in 2005. More...
Gartner: IT Must Act As Driver For Change VNUnet - Analyst Gartner is predicting radical change will occur as organisations realise that IT must act as a key driver for business change. Speaking at the analyst's annual Symposium IT Expo 2004 in Cannes this week, Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's head of research urged attendees to move away from siloed IT, and suggested re-organizing the infrastructure as a series of processes that link business operations. More...
Consumer Mobiles Drive Double-Digit Growth in Canadian PC Market, Says IDC IDC preliminary market data shows that the Canadian PC market sustained its five-quarter streak of double-digit growth in the third quarter of 2004, thanks to accelerated consumer purchases of notebooks. Shipments rose 16 percent year over year and, for the first time, broke the 1 million unit mark. According to preliminary figures released by IDCs Canadian Quarterly PC Tracker, the quarters record performance was largely driven by the accelerated consumer adoption of notebooks during the back-to-school season spurred on by aggressive vendor pricing, a favourable Canadian dollar and excess component inventories. More...
iPod market share falls to 87% The iPod's market share has fallen slightly, down from its peak of 92% to 87.3%, according to new research from market research company NPD Group. According to the report, which covers sales over September, Apple's player lost share to both cheaper, flash memory-based players and HP's version of the iPod. In the hard drive-based sector, Apple sold 87.3% of the total units shipped, while HP's iPod took 3.6% of the market, making it the number two selling product over the month. In third place came Rio, with 2.8%. More... |
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Think mobile content is just for geeks? Mickey Mouse begs to differ.
Many people hear the words "mobile content" and instantly think of young, male "gamer" types. Although that segment represents early adopters, Disney has found that mobile content presents a strong business opportunity in more mainstream content for mass audiences, especially when you view it from a global perspective. In August 2000, with a combination of calculated risk and blind faith, the WDIG (Walt Disney Internet Group) entered the nascent mobile-content market in Japan, aggressively investing in production, marketing, and infrastructure to launch the Disney-i service with NTT DoCoMo. What started as a basic suite of services, including Disney-branded graphics, ring tones, games, and utilities, quickly developed into a meaningful and profitable business. Disney Mobile is now the No. 1 brand of mobile content in Japan. It has relationships with the four major Japanese carriersNTT DoCoMo, J-Phone, KDDI, and DDI-Productand more than 3.6 million paid monthly subscriptions, which cost 100 to 300 yen per month. Based on that early success, WDIG more than a year ago set a goal to be a worldwide leader in mobile-information and entertainment content. team. More... |
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Singapore's high-risk ventures TodayOnLine - SINGAPORE'S decision to invest in its future by identifying potential technology winners which would involve the need to invest huge sums of money deserves a long, hard look. More... |
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Stocks Rally as Oil Prices Drop Reuters - U.S. stocks extended their post-election rally on Thursday, pushing the S&P 500 to its highest close for more than two years as oil prices tumbled below $49, while tobacco and food company Altria Group Inc. surged after saying it may split itself up. More...
Hutchinson Technology "buy," target price raised
PEMSTAR Reports Fiscal 2005 Q2 Results
MAXTOR Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report
IOMEGA Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report
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