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...stakes in this launch are even higher for computer and chip manufacturers and makers of peripherals that were reeling from a decline in PC sales even before Sept. 11 and that have seen buyers virtually disappear since then. A huge chunk of the battered tech sector is counting on XP for a new breath of life...
...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...
Peavey: “New kind of personal computer, instead of PC. PV—personal visualizing...
When Mexico's largest flourmaker, Maseca, wanted to exploit the government's recent deregulation of the tortilla industry, its delivery fleet needed instant access to warehouse data. Houston-based Compaq, which sent its new iPAQ pocket PC service south of the border this year, nailed a deal to put its handheld wireless devices in hundreds of Maseca drivers' pockets...
...every Dell and Cisco, these days, there is a Sun and an AMD, issuing glum earnings outlooks and quietly smothering the newborn tech optimism in its cradle. And the NASDAQ that had posted decent gains Thursday on the it's-gonna-be-OK news from America's bellwether PC producer and router-maker quickly crumbled, shedding its gains dolefully into Friday afternoon. Taken together with job cuts soaring to ten-year highs last month (and that's just the barest taste of the post-disaster economy - the hold at 4.9 percent unemployment for September is the ultimate in lagging indicators...