Example sentences of "computer market " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headland is buying Multisoft , a software group which makes business accounting systems designed for the personal computer market . |
| 2 | GROUPE BULL , the French computer company , has launched itself into the personal computer market with the $635m acquisition of Zenith Computer Group of the US , writes Mary Fagan . |
| 3 | Because it was IBM jumping into the computer market with Microsoft in 1981 — as opposed to yet-another bunch of blue-jeaned entrepreneurs — would-be competitors reckoned the couple 's technology might be worth copying . |
| 4 | A 5 p.c. reduction in gross margins on lower-margin desk-top computer products and the weakness in the market were blamed for last year 's downturn but ICL says its share of the British computer market rose by one point to 19 p.c . |
| 5 | Now they 've taken a plunge into the dive computer market and the outcome is the DataMax Sport . |
| 6 | Buying a second-hand board is rather like the second-hand car or computer market in that there are plenty of bargains but unless you are careful you can be ripped off . |
| 7 | The world 's computer market is awash with software programs for every kind of application . |
| 8 | First , the computer market is becoming increasingly diversified . |
| 9 | Although Hitachi has been overtaken in the domestic computer market by NEC , it was not from lack of commitment to software development . |
| 10 | Sales executive Pim Meaning said there no plans to move gallium capability into the digital computer market . |
| 11 | As an illustration , the computer market in the EC is characterised by the presence of many , very large companies , but it is still highly competitive . |
| 12 | They are a product of the current computer market : an oversupply of machines and recessionary pressures forcing companies to seek the cheapest deals . |
| 13 | Its record is entirely respectable , but there is no evidence to suggest that Hanson 's skills are appropriate for the really difficult management problems like the rebuilding of the Rover Group or the strengthening of I.C.L . 's position in the world computer market . |
| 14 | The very rapid pace of change in the computer market does mean that second-hand computers can be excellent value . |
| 15 | The two are betting that with WinPad , they can exploit their dominant positions in the personal computer market to defeat the majors that have already tipped their hands , including AT&T Co and Apple Computer Inc . |
| 16 | Fremont , California-based Media Vision Technology Inc has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to acquire Pellucid Inc , which is committed to bringing high resolution real-time , true colour , two- and three-dimensional graphics and full motion video capabilities to the personal computer market : Media Vision will pay about $15m in shares . |
| 17 | Sales fell 9.8% to $5,440m , and Bull blames the world economic slowdown , price wars in the personal computer market segment and the effects of structural changes in the industry — but those problems also affected Hewlett-Packard Co , ICL Plc and NCR Corp , all of which managed to remain profitable and to grow in 1991 . |
| 18 | The company 's first entry for the embryonic multimedia computer market is the ProLinea CDS , which comes with a CD-ROM drive , 16-bit sound board , modem , external speakers and four CD-ROM titles at $1,700 . |
| 19 | Sugar said that the PDA was certainly not a blockbuster by the standards of the early personal computer market when the company could make a clear £300 on each machine sold : he put the total size of the UK electronic organiser market at around 200,000 units . |
| 20 | ICL Plc 's Helsinki-based ICL Data Oy yeeased its domination of the Finnish computer market by buying all the operations of Oy Mercantile Data Ab apart from its business of importing and marketing Compagnie des Machines Bull SA computers . |
| 21 | With both the Intel Corp Pentium processor and its own Alpha RISC chip ready to enter the personal computer market this year , Digital Equipment Corp is expected to get around the problem by offering parallel lines of nearly identical systems based on the two chips , US PC Week reports . |
| 22 | As the Polish computer market is valued at around $360m a year , the latter condition is not likely to prove significant . |
| 23 | The companies that have the highest sales in Poland and stand to lose most unless they can restructure their import channels to take advantage of the quotas , include Dell Computer Corp and Compaq Computer Corp in the personal computer market ; Computer 2000 and ComputerLand Corp in distribution , and Hewlett-Packard Co , Star Micronics Ltd , Seiko Epson Co and Seikosha Corp in the printer market . |
| 24 | Olschewski had no worries about competing in the difficult personal computer market , saying ‘ We are not concerned about unit numbers , but about quality . |
| 25 | NEC Corp has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which has placed the A-1 commercial paper rating of the NEC Industries Netherlands BV finance subsidiary on CreditWatch with negative implications , citing intensifying competition from local and international firms in Japan 's personal computer market , creating further pressure on profitability . |
| 26 | On the positive side , it would secure the only international outlet for its mainframes , and with Zenith Data Systems and Bull Micral , would finally be able to shed its also-ran image in the world personal computer market ; on the negative , there would be the threat of re-nationalisation under a new administration . |
| 27 | The fact that this was the first downsizing show to be held in Japan is in itself an indication of the major change taking place in the Japanese computer market , which has been even more mainframe-centric than the US and Europe , and indicates the strong power of the economics of small computing . |
| 28 | Apple Computer Inc opened a marketing and channel development office in Mexico City : a market forecast has estimated that the personal computer market in Mexico should grow 29% to near $1,000m this year . |
| 29 | Commenting on the appointment , Dean Witter Reynolds Inc analyst Jay Stevens told Dow Jones & Co that the automakers have been working to slash excess capacity and workers for years and that that is the situation now faced by IBM after its decades of success in the mainframe computer market have been undermined . |
| 30 | Having conquered the UK personal computer market , Elonex Plc is the first European personal computer producer to strike an OEM deal with Univel Inc , the Novell Inc-Unix System Laboratories Inc venture . |