That, says Mahendra Negi, chief financial officer of Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based computer-virus company, is bound to be a low-margin business, as all it really involves is translation from English into Japanese.Nor is it certain that the new entrants will ever be able to wrest away the big three hardware makers' customers.
A spokesman stated that AMD would not name computer-maker customers until April; but at that time "I believe we will be able to give some very specific names" of customers, the CEO said.
Car component supplier Lear is hoping to ride the wave of connectivity to new heights, with plans to develop and ship a unit for its car-maker customers that lets their vehicles communicate with other cars on the road, city infrastructure including connected roads and traffic lights, and with cloud-based services.
The acquisition will give Voestalpine a steel maker with customers worldwide including the Boeing Company and Airbus.
Most manufacturers follow practices like those of PalmOne, the hand-held computer maker, when customers of unregistered products seek warranty help.
Aventis, another vaccine maker, said customers had placed so many orders for the vaccine this spring that it was sold out of its 26 million doses by May.
[C1.] Nervous Time for BlackBerry's Maker and Customers Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, is facing the possibility that the service could be shut down in the United States.
The company, Europe's biggest video game maker, said customers were delaying new video game purchases until manufacturers like Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft roll out a new generation of games consoles.
Airbus' catchup is its in-flight information services, AFIS, shown to the aircraft maker's customers in San Francisco at the beginning of the year.
For those not aware, Moto Maker allows customers to personalize their phone in a range of ways.
