Example sentences of "corp says [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp says its procurements from foreign firms in the year ending March 31 are expected to show a 23% increase to $850m , the highest since 1981 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sunnyvale , California-based Weitek Corp says its Weitek Power 9000 graphics accelerator now supported Intel Corp 's PCI Peripheral Components Interconnect local bus , bringing workstation performance to machines using 80486 and Pentium . |
| 8 | Microsoft Corp says its projected sales of 1m copies of NT the first 12 months of sales are not highly dependent on Pentium . |
| 9 | For its part , Compaq Computer Corp says its decision to abandon the MIPS platform is based on considerable market research and interrogation of its major Fortune 1000 and FT 500 customer base . |
| 10 | Data General Corp is finding the transition to open systems at a time of recession extremely painful with a second quarter loss of $55m after a $48m charge for another 1,000 lay-offs : turnover was down 14% at $274m , in part because the sale of the Japanese subsidiary cut volume by $19m ; the company blamed the disappointing results on competitive pricing pressures , which have cut profits , as well as the weak worldwide economy ; the company says it continues to be very cautious about the remainder of 1992 ; AViiON sales continue to grow , but ‘ we are not satisfied with overall revenues , ’ the company declared Electronic Data Systems Corp says its graphical design system now supports Hewlett-Packard 's series 700 workstations : first deliveries are scheduled for May . |
| 11 | MCI Communications Corp says it has opened an MCI representative office in Peking : the new office will support a wide range of voice and data transmission services in China . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it has signed up Cranfield Data Systems Ltd in the UK and Istar SA in France to market complete systems for the dynamic analysis and vibration control sectors of the Measurement and Control market using its Series 7000 real-time Unix systems . |
| 14 | Standard & Poor 's Corp says it has cut the rating on Tandy Corp 's and Tandy Credit Corp 's senior and shelf-registered debt to A-minus from single-A and their commercial paper ratings to A-2 from A-1 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Look out , all those companies that are eagerly playing in the digital cellular telephony market with Time Division Multiple Access technology : the King of Prussia , Pennsylvania-based InterDigital Patents Corp unit of InterDigital Communications Corp says it has engaged the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro & Morin to represent it in connection with possible patent infringement litigation to enforce its portfolio of 32 US patents on the technology . |
| 17 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
| 18 | Digital Equipment Corp says it today starts shipping its new MT personal computers , a family of vertically-oriented 80486 machines that occupy one-third the space of conventional desktop systems : prices for the DECpc MT series go from $2,350 to $2,800 and fall in the middle of its line , it said . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 21 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Compaq Computer Corp says it expects its move into direct sales to generate up to 10% of its US revenues this year , and may be expanded to some foreign markets later this year : total US sales amounted to about $1,700m in 1992 , Compaq said . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mountain View , California-based Drexler Technology Corp says it has informed Sony Corp that it believes Sony infringed its patents with a a new eight-track Dynamic Digital Sound system to be introduced this summer in Columbia Picture 's ‘ Last Action Hero ’ movie : Drexler has two patents on the reading of high density optical data in a strip format and believes the two patents may be infringed each time digital sound from the movie track is played back using the Sony system . |
| 28 | Lotus Development Corp says it has sold more than 125,000 units worldwide of its new dynamic spreadsheet , Improv for Windows , in the first month since it became available in retail outlets : Improve is being offered at $100 until May 31 . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | Sharp Corp says it has shifted production of low-value personal computers from Japan to companies in Taiwan and Korea : Taiwan 's Twinhead International Corp will make notebook computers and while South Korea 's Hyundai Electronic Industry Ltd will make desktops ; annual requirement for both types is 40,000 ; the Nara plant in western Japan will now make mainly high value-added products such as the Newton . |