Hardware Sector
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Government cost-cutting will hurt M'sian IT sector
News Move by Malaysian government to reduce its spending on new computers and IT-related equipment could harm country's local industry, say market watchers.
Tags: Local Government, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, SMB, Malaysia, Computer, Government, public sector, printer, software
Asia will feel impact of credit crisis
News Businesses in the region will be somewhat cushioned from global economic events, but will feel effects as buying slows, say analysts.
Tags: Business structures, Business Strategies & Functions, Business, Ovum, Mobile, Telecommunications, IT-spending, Asia-Pacific, Gartner Inc., Hardware
Asian tech sector to see lower growth
News The IT industry across Asia Pacific is expected to register lower revenues due to the global economic slowdown and terrorist attacks in the United States.
Storage software sees continued growth
Techguide Worldwide revenue from storage software reached US$2.1 billion in the first quarter of 2005, about 15 percent more than a year ago, according to an IDC report published Monday.
Storage software sees continued growth
News Worldwide revenue from storage software reached US$2.1 billion in the first quarter of 2005, about 15 percent more than a year ago, according to an IDC report published Monday.
Tags: Storage
CNET tech index sinks with broader market
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Microsoft earnings top expectations
News Buoyed by strong demand for PCs, Microsoft last Thursday reported better-than-expected quarterly sales and earnings, with the company noting that it sees signs of a recovery in corporate tech spending.
Big money in M'sian hardware sector
News Hardware makers are tipped to be biggest beneficiaries of the Ninth Malaysian Plan, which will see some US$3.5 billion being pumped into ICT-related initiatives across the country.
Tags: Hardware, Funding, Government
New M'sian ministers unlikely to alter ICT plans
News But, Malaysia's two newly-appointed ICT ministers must provide strong leadership and instill higher transparency to drive initiatives forward, industry watchers say.
Tags: Politics, Local Government, Personal broadband, Entrepreneurship
Gartner and UBS provide a mixed view on IT spending
News Gartner report forecasts a 2.3 percent growth in IT spending this year, while UBS Securities predicts a more dire outcome of a 5- to 15-percent decline.
Tags: UBS AG, Security, IT-spending, Security Software, Gartner Inc., layoff, Japan, software, financial, P&L
Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft all tumble
News Just about every major stock in technology, from chipmakers to consumer electronics titans to Web stars, was dragged into Wall Street's slide.
Tags: Financial, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Stock, Computer, Amazon.com Inc., software, hard drive
IT may benefit from warming China, India ties
News Warming India-China ties could find one of their most fruitful outlets in growing co-operation in the information technology (IT) sector, analysts said.
Tech stocks gain as Dow pauses
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