MAIT cuts PC sales estimate by 7.5 lakh.
NEW DELHI: With slow uptake in the enterprise market in the first half of the current fiscal, IT hardware association MAIT has revised downwards its PC sales projections for 2007-08 to 7.25-million, against its earlier projection of 8 million units. Announcing the findings of its Industry Performance...

How to stay profitable in 2008.
How to stay profitable in 2008 By Garry Bartecki Read the papers and I'm sure you're all opening the windows getting ready to jump. Listen to the economists and you start pulling yourself back in but are still ready to take the dive at the...

Drug-eluting stents come under spotlight.
Recent information suggesting a small but significant increase in the rate of death and heart attack possibly due to stent thrombosis in patients treated with drug-eluting stents (DES) has prompted the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to state that a more formal evaluation of this information is now...

EToys Misses Payments To Creditors.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 2001 JAN 18 (NB) -- By Kevin Featherly, Newsbytes. Perhaps signaling eToys' place on the endangered dot-com species list, a creditor has gone public complaining that the online retailer has not paid its bills. RemedyTemp, which does business as Remedy Intelligent Staffing, says...

ON Semiconductor Formed from Motorola Components Group.
Motorola Inc's former semiconductor components division, the subject of a $1.6bn management buyout led by the Texas Pacific Group earlier this year (CI No 3,659), relaunched itself as ON Semiconductor Inc yesterday. ON will stay at Motorola's old site in Phoenix, Arizona, and will use Motorola's existing facility there...

Retailing on the move: an era of change.
Retailing is a dynamic, vital, and important segment in the economy. Almost one in five workers in the United States is employed in the retail industry. Over one million retailing companies operate more than 1.4 million retail establishments, Retailing is defined as the timely delivery of goods and services...

Restore medical improved gross profit margin in 2007.
Lower production costs and more efficient manufacturing operations helped Restore Medical Inc. improve its profit margin last year. Gross profit for the fourth quarter of 2007, which ended Dec. 31, was $566,000, or 72% of net sales, compared with a gross profit of $697,000, or 63% of...

The Missing Piece: Buyer Interest; Despite some high-profile hacker attempts and the continuing spread of computer viruses, cyber insurance has not had much interest from risk managers. Here's a look at why. (Special Report: E-Commerce).
The cyber insurance business should be booming. Yet despite the seemingly daily discussion of new viruses and hacker warnings in the popular media, the anticipated acceleration in sales of cyber insurance policies is not happening. True, some policies are being sold, but nowhere near what industry observers had expected....

PC sales growth slows down to 20% in FY05.
NEW DELHI: The unabated pace of growth in the computer industry seems to be slowing down. Sales of personal computers grew by 20% in '04-05 after two consecutive years of over 30% growth. With a sales of 36.3 lakh units last year, the sales fell just short of the...

Computacenter Profits Up 30%, But Braced for Y2K Blip.
UK-based computer reseller and IT services provider, Computacentre posted pre-tax profits for the six months to June 30 up 30% to 40.7m pounds ($65.82m), bucking analyst forecasts which had ranged between 39.6m pounds ($64.84m) and 40.5m pounds ($65.49m). Revenue climbed 16.6% to ?904.8m ($1.5bn). The Hatfield, Hertfordshire-based...