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  • Microsoft promises NT 5 in 1999 – beta 3 by Thanksgiving

    Intel delegates told code looking good

    Microsoft now claims it will be able to deliver beta 3.0 of Windows NT 5.0 to end users by Thanksgiving Day, and that it is firmly on target to deliver the complete version in 1999. That emerged during a presentation by a Microsoft base architect NT 5.0 engineer to an audience of developers at Intel’s forum in Palm Springs. He …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 00:14

  • Gore relaxes encryption restrictions

    The US appears to be getting there by degree

    The US is relaxing controls on encryption keys exports from 40-bits to 56-bits keys, vice-president Gore has announced. The pressure for such a move had come from vendors who were concerned that the US used to have essentially the whole market for encryption products, but there are now in excess of 500 non-US products with 128- …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 09:35

  • Intergraph demands instant conviction for Intel

    Summary judgement sought in antitrust case

    Intergraph has filed a motion in the Huntsville, Alabama district court requesting a summary judgement in its case against Intel. CEO Jim Meadlock said that "There's no sense in spending resources to prepare for and conduct a trial on the matter. The judge can rule based on the evidence at hand." Filing for judgement is the same …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 09:44

  • FCC plans faster US modem access

    Just turn up the juice, apparently...

    Faster modems may result from a small relaxation on the signal power limit for modems, which is being considered by the Federal Communications Commission. At present, the FCC enforces a regulatory limit that keeps pulse-code modulation modems to a maximum of around 53 to 54Kbps, although most rarely exceed 40 to 42Kbps because …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 09:46

  • HP admits job cuts on the cards

    But is Europe safe from Platt the Axe?

    Hewlett-Packard is to undergo a restructure which will involve the loss of jobs, chairman Lew Platt said yesterday. Platt did not discuss how the restructure would change the operation of the company, or state where the staff cuts would be implemented, or how many redundancies would be involved. But he was emphatic that " …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 11:10

  • AOL responds to DoJ IE claims

    A business decision, says Case

    Steve Case, chairman of AOL, has been correcting the record concerning Microsoft's wooing AOL to Internet Explorer and away from Netscape Navigator. Speaking at the Upside conference yesterday in Washington, Case said: "Our choice was Microsoft, in large part because they provided [IE] free and also were willing to bundle us …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 12:36

  • Netscape goes onto the attack

    Communicator makes it easier to elbow out IE and Microsoft

    Netscape has upset Microsoft with the Communicator 4.5 release 2 preview by making it very easy to set Communicator as the default browser. According to Dave Bottoms, the product manager, it is Netscape's intention to go after Windows users who were forced into Internet Explorer. The installation process puts icons for Navigator …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 12:39

  • Acorn scrubs Risc PC 2

    Seventy-five staff walk the plank

    Talk about timing. Less than a week after buying Acorn User from IDG media in a management buyout, editor Steve Turnbull’s plans to "reinvigorate the entire Acorn market" lie in tatters. Because Acorn ain’t playing ball. It has scrapped Phoebe, the Risc 2 project, upon which the hopes of the Acorn user and reseller community …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 12:41

  • OEM deal strengthens Hitachi enterprise storage line-up

    Frustrated by lack of visibility

    Hitachi Data Systems Europe has signed an OEM agreement with Sutmyn Storage, to distribute the American company's Scimitar Virtual Tape Systems across Europe. Sutmyn has also certified Hitachi Freedom Storage 5700E and 7700E disk storage systems for use with its VTS (Virtual Tape Server) solution. The Scimitar VTS provides the …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 14:28

  • Compaq takes on Germany with local assembler-built Pcs

    Attempt to boost sickly market share

    This weekend sees the first fruits of an OEM deal between Compaq and a German PC assembler go on sale as Compaq attempts to boost its sickly European home PC market share. With Germany accounting for 25 per cent of the European home PC market and Compaq only managing to rank tenth with just two per cent of the German home PC …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 14:31

  • Seagate builds film drives for Kodak

    If a picture takes a thousand words, a sketch will do for you

    Eastman Kodak and Seagate are joining forces to create improved APS-camera-to-computer technology bridges. The alliance covers marketing, manufacturing and sales, and the two companies will work to develop the next generation of film drives. Under the terms of the deal, Seagate gets exclusive manufacture and sales rights for …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 15:29

  • Acquisitions pay off for Compel

    Smooth integrator

    Welwyn Garden City-based reseller Compel has revealed healthy growth in turnover and profit in its financial results for the year ending 30 June. Turnover was up some 88 per cent to £210.0 million, compared with £111.8 million for last year. Profit before tax stood at £9.0 million, up an impressive 78 per cent from last year’s £ …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 15:34

  • Intel makes bid to capture security lead

    First hardware implementations to arrive next year

    Chip company Intel is to make a bid to dominate the security market by introducing up to ten hardware primitives into its chip sets and CPUs. Pat Gelsinger, general manager of Intel's business platform business, said: "We found ourselves talking to IT customers that security is an increasingly important component in a connected …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 15:40

  • Industry majors team up on digital displays specs

    Specification to appear in Q1 next year

    Most of the major players in the PC industry have teamed up to create a working group to define a specification for digital displays. IBM, Intel, HP, NEC, Dell, Fujitsu, Intel and Silicon Image will work together to define an extensible interface specification which will address protocol, electrical and mechanical definitions. …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 16:01

  • Datatec scoops up RBR Networks

    Cisco gap plugged

    Datatec Ltd has plugged a huge gap in its networking equipment franchise line-up with the £25 million (including performance guarantees) purchase of Cisco-only distributor RBR Networks. With sales projected to reach £80 million this year, RBR says it accounts for more than 50 per cent of Cisco sales through the UK channel. The …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 16:25

  • Pat ‘Kicking’ Gelsinger gives Register massage

    intro

    Disaffected employee 1: Credit Lyonnais O For three glorious days last week, anyone who linked into www.credit-Lyonnais.com saw a picture of a naked woman and a speech bubble ("I like Arab men...take me now"). Most peculiar. News of Credit-Lyonnais' innovative approach to financial services went around the City like wildfire - …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 17:42

  • Intel spells out details of Merced simulation programme

    Wants to increase developer base with pre-silicon scheme

    Intel is engaged in an attempt to sign more developers up to its Merced pre-silicon development environment programme. Earlier this week, Craig Barrett, Intel’s CEO, said that a Merced processor will arrive in the middle of the year 2000. Silicon samples are expected in the second half of next year. The company has around 50 …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 19:19

  • Taiwan suffers chip catastrophe

    Fifteen billion dollar plan on ice

    UMC has said it is going to put a stop to a massive investment it was going to make because of the oversupply problem in the chip industry. The foundry was going to spend nearly $15 billion to build state of the art fabrication plants but has pulled the plug on the project. Earlier this year, The Register reported that Taiwan …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 22:43

  • Hatch says leave Intel bunnies alone

    Hey, leave Intel alone!

    A US senator has taken the bold step of asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to lay off Intel. Senator Orrin Hatch, the republican representative of the state of Utah, formerly the home of both WordPerfect and Novell, has instead advised the FTC to take a further look at Microsoft. Hatch was responding to an impassioned …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 22:45

  • SGI MIPS not Compaq chips

    And so it came to pass...

    As reported here many, many moons ago, Compaq is to ditch MIPS chips in favour of its newly acquired Digital Alpha platform. The news came formally at an announcement in Paris but senior executives at Compaq had made no secret whatsoever of their plans. The real news was that Compaq decided to issue a press release to tell the …

    Business 17 Sep 1998, 22:47