Example sentences of "[noun prp] corp says [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NCR Corp says it plans to establish retail computer service centres in more than 50 US metropolitan areas as an alternative to on-site maintenance : the service centres will offer carry-in and mail-in hardware maintenance on a wide variety of desktop personal computers and peripherals , from NCR and third parties ; the centres will also market products including power line conditioners , upgrades and consumables , and NCR personal computers . |
| 2 | Orem , Utah-based WordPerfect Corp says its WordPerfect 6.0 for MS-DOS will be released on June 28 and that customer demand for it is already reaching record levels : the latest beta version will include drag-and-drop text , scrolling Button Bars and separate set-up options for the text mode and graphics mode ; the thing will be $500 . |
| 3 | Bethpage , New York-based defence electronics and aircraft manufacturer Grumman Corp says it is looking for an acquisition in the electronics , systems integration , or data systems areas — but it must be the right fit at the right price and the company ‘ wo n't force it . ’ |
| 4 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 5 | IBM Corp says it will be showing a prototype of its Flash memory-based solid state file at the Business Show Tokyo ‘ 93 this week . |
| 6 | IBM Corp says it has now completed its contracts with Digital Domain Inc to build a special effects studio in the Los Angeles area . |
| 7 | Having finally decided that it does want to get into the merchant semiconductor market , IBM Corp says it is looking to arrange a number of semiconductor industry alliances , with the aim of becoming a world top 10 company in chip sales . |
| 8 | Ceramic chip packaging specialist and OEM printer and personal computer manufacturer Kyocera Corp says it plans to cut its total workforce to 13,000 by shedding 1,000 jobs over the next three years to cope with a possible rise in the yen to 100 to the dollar ; the cuts will be achieved by reducing annual recruitment of graduates and normal retirement of some 700 a year , the company explained . |
| 9 | Apple Computer Inc 's Claris Corp says it will ship ClarisWorks 2.0 in the US later this month at the same $300 price as the original version , saying the new version adds three new capabilities and over 300 productivity enhancements . |
| 10 | Unisys Corp says it will support Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT 3.1 and Advanced Server NT in client and entry-level local area networks for its customers , starting with its PW2 Advantage and Advantage Plus personal computers ; the company will then offer MS-DOS , Windows 3.1 , Unix System V.4 , NetWare , Univel UnixWare , Santa Cruz Unix , OS/2 and the company 's own CTOS . |
| 11 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |
| 12 | Intel Corp says it expects to spend about $2,500m on capital expenditures and research and development in 1993 , an increase of 25% on estimated 1992 spending of about $2m , saying that the expenditures , unusually high as a percentage of sales even for a high technology company , are needed to address the increasing complexity of microprocessors and the high cost of chip plants ; the company has started paying a dividend , making its shares attractive to a wider range of institutions , and the expectation is that it will tap the market for new funds . |
| 13 | Intel Corp says it has now received over 30 orders for its Paragon parallel supercomputer , which began shipping in September , and Thinking Machines Corp , Cambridge , says it has 20 CM-5s already installed with customers ; it just sold a $15.8m CM-5 to the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing . |
| 14 | Intel Corp says it has begun shipping production versions of the Pentium microprocessor , but as the company already indicated , it will not be talking price until May , when it frees its customers to start announcing machines . |
| 15 | Microsoft Corp says its NT-based version of SQL Server will ship in the third quarter with full multi-processor support ; SNA server gateway will arrive at the same time , while products from its Hermes network management technology effort , will appear in the fourth quarter . |
| 16 | Microsoft Corp says its Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit Version 2.0 will be available early this month for $500 : the new generation supports several emerging multimedia systems and brings content-based title development within reach of publishers that might not know programming languages , the firm said ; Viewer 2.0 replaces the Multimedia Development Kit , the registered users of which can upgrade for $200 . |
| 17 | Microsoft Corp says its Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit Version 2.0 will be available early this month for $500 : the new generation supports several emerging multimedia systems and brings content-based title development within reach of publishers that might not know programming languages , the firm said ; Viewer 2.0 replaces the Multimedia Development Kit , the registered users of which can upgrade for $200 . |
| 18 | Microsoft Corp says its projected sales of 1m copies of NT the first 12 months of sales are not highly dependent on Pentium . |
| 19 | Microsoft Corp says it plans to lead a campaign against growing software piracy in Japan 's personal computer industry , opening it with a letter to 50 hardware manufacturers and 290 software vendors in Japan alerting them to the problem — the Japanese are generally law-abiding , but Microsoft suspects many are unaware they are doing anything wrong copying software . |
| 20 | Microsoft Corp says it has now shipped the second and final pre-release version of the Windows NT operating system to 70,000 customers and software developers , and says it offers significant improvements in performance , application support , networking and hardware compatibility ; release of the product is set for next quarter . |
| 21 | Microsoft Corp says it has trouble estimating the number of copies of Windows NT it will sell , so what is the reasonable way to tell whether it succeeds ? |
| 22 | Microsoft Corp says it is now shipping LAN Manager 2.1a for Unix Systems to OEM customers : the new version adds a Windows Network Administration program that gives administrators a unified tool for managing multiple servers from a Windows-based desktop , the LAN Manager Print Station that enables an MS-DOS- or Windows-based micro to be designated as a print server , and support for OS/2 2.0 clients . |
| 23 | Microsoft Corp says it plans on slapping a special introductory price on desktop Windows NT when it finally appears , a tactic bound to increase the force of the tidal wave when it hits . |
| 24 | Microsoft Corp says it is now shipping Microsoft SQL Bridge , a protocol gateway for building distributed client-server systems in Windows , MS-DOS , OS/2 , Unix , Macintosh and VMS environments . |
| 25 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 26 | Sony Corp says it will reduce recruitment of new graduates next fiscal year to 500 from the 990 that it has offered jobs for the current year : it will be the second consecutive year-on-year decrease in recruitment after a peak of 1,750 in the 1992-93 fiscal year . |
| 27 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB 's Ericsson Corp says it sees cellular telephone unit sales growing 30% to 40% this year from the current 20m in use worldwide , half in the US . |
| 28 | Boise , Idaho-based Morris Knudsen Corp says it has received a contract from IBM Corp to assume responsibility for much of the distribution function at the distribution centre in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania ; IBM Mechanicsburg is the central distribution centre for all parts that IBM uses in maintenance . |
| 29 | Acer America Corp says it is shipping AcerFrame 500 , an entry-level , diskless Intel Corp 80486-based , EISA server for up to 40 users : with 4Mb RAM , eight slots , SCSI II channel and floppy drive , it runs SCO Unix , OS/2 , NetWare , MS-DOS and NT ( when it arrives ) and starts at $2,300 . |
| 30 | McDonnell Douglas Corp says it has now completed the sale of its Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire-based McDonnell Douglas Information Systems International Ltd unit to a group of investors organised by Baring Capital Investors Ltd of London . |