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18th September 1998 Archive

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  • Microsoft under threat from Intel on data mining front

    Further secret project undermines Win64

    The Register has learned that Intel has a data mining application, close to release, which will further exacerbate rifts between it and Microsoft. Intel is developing data mining and slicing software, codenamed Sonoma. Following fast on yesterday’s Miramar news, the further secret development is bound to alarm Intel’s close …

    Business 18 Sep 1998, 01:34

  • Greenspan gloom hits Euro stocks

    And Alcatel staggers after profit warning

    It couldn't last - four successive days in which the Street did well. Yesterday's falls (Nasdaq down 44 to 1646, Dow down 216 to 7874) was caused, it seems, by non-US sentiment concerning Alan Greenspan's Congress speech on Wednesday. It was shrugged off in the US, but Asian and European markets fell, reflecting his wait-and-see …

    Business 18 Sep 1998, 07:56

  • Judge nixes Microsoft bid to narrow case

    More evidence is welcome, and the trial's getting longer...

    Microsoft failed to persuade Judge Jackson to exclude what it dubbed "extraneous issues" concerning six companies in yet another court document, filed a few hours before yesterday's hearing. The Extraneous Six are of course Intel, Apple, RealNetworks, Sun, Caldera, and Bristol Technologies. There is new information in the filing …

    Business 18 Sep 1998, 08:19

  • Net naming conundrum conclusion in sight

    Domain naming authorities agree on next generation body

    Domain interruptus is edging towards a solution. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the administrator of the naming sytstem, and Network Solutions, inc (NSI), which registers the names, finally released yesterday jointly agreed bylaws and articles of incorporation for a new corporation. It is the intention that …

    Business 18 Sep 1998, 11:02

  • Citrix ships SCO and Linux thin clients

    Now claims coverage of all major Unix platforms

    Citrix has shipped Linux and SCO Unix ICA clients for its WinFrame and MetaFrame servers; the company says it now supports all of the seven major versions of Unix, including Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital Unix and SGI IRIX. The new clients will allow Linux and SCO machines to run Win32 applications on NT servers, and are …

    Business 18 Sep 1998, 11:47

  • IBM demos wearable ThinkPad

    But it doesn't seem to fit onto your feet...

    IBM's Wearable PC is only a prototype, but it was demonstrated by IBM in Tokyo this week. It has a three-inch screen in a head-mounted display, invented at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, and can have a microphone for speech commands using IBM's ViaVoice. The screen has 320x640 pixels, with a 256 grey scale, although SVGA …

    Business 18 Sep 1998, 11:59

  • Intel network scheme means war with Microsoft

    Intel's plans for thin server appliances don't leave any room for Gates & Co

    Is Intel now at war with Microsoft? A read of the small print of the company's "Thin Server Appliance Strategy," announced earlier this week, makes it abundantly clear that the two companies are on a collision course. The Intel announcement was reported here, but has attracted little attention, no doubt because it was 1: About …

    Business 18 Sep 1998, 13:50

  • Elcom rejects buyers

    Rejects unattractive proposals

    Elcom International, the US-owned corporate reseller, has abandoned its attempts to find a cash-rich buyer. Directors have voted to continue as a “standalone” company, and have parted company with investment bank Salomon Smith Barney, hired last year to find a suitable new parent company. Proposed deals were not “in the best …

    Business 18 Sep 1998, 16:30

  • Jenkins departs Compaq for HP

    Compaq-Digital shakeout continues

    Hugh Jenkins,Compaq UK enterprise manager, has left the company, after 10 years service, for a new job at Hewlett-Packard. His former boss, enterprise director James Stevenson, is holding the fort,until the company finds a replacement. “We regret Hugh’s departure,’a Compaq representative said. “During his time here, he helped us …

    Business 18 Sep 1998, 16:56

  • Mantech buys UK document management business

    Second UK acquisition this year

    Mantech International Corporation has acquired the imaging and data capture business of Seel Ltd, the Livingston, Scotland supplier of forms processing solutions. Terms were undisclosed. The acquired division operates in the UK banking and commercial sectors and will complement the business of Advanced Recognition Ltd (ARL), a …

    Business 18 Sep 1998, 17:02