Stories by Peter Sayer

  • Alcatel sees improvement ahead after Q1 income drops

    French telecommunication equipment maker Alcatel reported revenue for the first quarter up 3.7 percent, but net income down 55 percent compared to a year earlier. Revenue from sales of mobile phone networks rose while that from fixed telecommunications networks declined. The company's enterprise networking revenue remained stable, it said Thursday.

  • Vendors store all things great and small

    Storage products announced at the recent CeBIT trade show in Germany spanned the range from the monster space of a Cisco Systems storage switch ready for multiterabyte arrays of data, down to a new half-height tape drive from Tandberg Data.

  • Vendors store all things great and small

    Storage products announced at the Cebit trade show in Germany, last week spanned the range from a Cisco Systems storage switch ready for multiterabyte arrays of data, down to a new half-height tape drive from Tandberg Data.

  • Symantec will buy Veritas for US$13.5B in stock

    Symantec will buy Veritas Software in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced Thursday. Based on Wednesday's closing stock prices, the deal values Veritas at around US$13.5 billion, they said.

  • Paris city authority hedges bets on Linux move

    The city of Paris intends to reduce its dependence on software suppliers with "de facto monopolies," but considers an immediate switch of its 17,000 desktops to open source software too costly, it said Wednesday.

  • Unisys to lay off 1400 workers

    Unisys plans to cut 1400 jobs, primarily in general and administrative areas, and consolidate its office space worldwide. The cuts represent 3.8 per cent of the company's staff of 37,000.

  • Philips lowers forecast for chip division

    Two days after announcing that the head of its semiconductor business will leave the company, Philips Electronics lowered its forecast for the chip division's third-quarter sales.

  • Microsoft tests IPTV in Switzerland

    Microsoft has turned to a Swiss telecommunication operator for the first commercial trial of its system that delivers television signals to consumers over a broadband telecommunications network.

  • OECD task force on spam

    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is taking the fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail to Asia next month, where it will hold a meeting to discuss the priorities for its newly created task force on spam, it announced Thursday.