Word: compaq
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...over the past 20 years, the computer industry is seeing sales decline for the first time ever. Before Sept. 11, research firm IDC was predicting unit shipments in 2001 would slide 6.3% from last year, to 45.3 million, and the terrorist attacks could push fall sales down further. Dell, Compaq and the rest of the PC companies have so far cut--or announced plans to cut--46,000 jobs this year, or about 12% of the industry's payroll. Chipmakers have it worse. Their worldwide revenue is expected to plunge 20% to 30% this year...
...buying PCs, laptops and software like video games. In the first few months consumers bought more than 7 million copies, either as upgrades or installed on new computers. "Most of the past releases of Windows drove the market to the next level," says Kevin Winert, a marketing executive at Compaq. "We would love for that to happen again...
...Microsoft is already seeding the market with software such as its Pocket PC 2002 platform, launched this month on handheld computing devices made by Casio, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, NEC and Toshiba...
...communicate wirelessly within a 10-m radius. The privately-held British company - which has raised $65 million in funding and does about 60% of its business in Japan - has already shipped more than a million Bluetooth single-chip devices, many of which are showing up in IBM, Sony, Compaq, Fujitsu and NEC laptops, Sony cell phones and Hewlett-Packard printers...
...most of the past 10 years, data storage has been synonymous with EMC, the company based in Hopkinton, Mass., whose growth shadowed the e-commerce boom and whose market share last year reached 35%--three times greater than Compaq's. Thought by many to be untouchable, the company's stock slid through 2001, the result of new competitive pressures and a slowing economy. EMC revealed in July that its second-quarter earnings had fallen 71%. A week after the terror attacks, EMC forecasted a loss for the first time in 11 years and announced 2,400 layoffs. Still, the company...