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  • No Corel profit yet, but Cowpland optimistic

    Sales are up, but a consolidation charge means profit escaped for another quarter

    Corel's sales for its Q3 increased by 46 per cent over the year earlier quarter and were sequentially up 13 per cent from the previous quarter. However, profit remained elusive. The loss reported yesterday was marginally down from the previous quarter and attributed to a one-time restructuring charge of $15.9 million for …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 06:55

  • EFF attacks ‘US-centric’ domain name plan

    Net librties group weighs in against 'undemocratic' proposals

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday attacked proposals for revamping the Internet domain naming system. The group said that Internet democracy would be undermined if the joint proposal by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and Network Solutions were accepted by the US government. EFF board member John Gilmore …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 06:58

  • Cirrus bales out of IBM and Lucent chip joint ventures

    Plans to cut wafer fab capacity by 70 per cent

    A couple of years back the then management of Cirrus Logic told The Register that chip fab capacity was going to be tight, 'fabless' semiconductor firms would therefore be in trouble and so Cirrus was going to do a deal with IBM to secure capacity, and therefore prosper. Oops. The boys who made this unfortunate strategic …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 07:31

  • Microsoft bidding for Euro publishing giant?

    If Bill's looking for content he obviously hasn't read Farmer's Weekly

    Rumours earlier in the week that the Anglo-Dutch Reed Elsevier, publisher of Computer Weekly and owner of the Lexis-Nexis database, was about to be bought by Microsoft were strongly denied here yesterday by Fokko Covers, Reed Elsevier's European Finance Director. On the Amsterdam Beurs, the shares fell back NLG 0.60 to 29.70 ( …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 07:34

  • Trigem III – now look out for the $399 PC

    Wal Mart deal may have been smoke, but we've still got millions of boxes to shift...

    The confusion surrounding Trigem's $499 iMac-esque PC has started to clear, with the emergence of what seems now to be a fairly normal scheme to storm the US retail market, with three classes of machine at $399 and $499 price points. Earlier this week Trigem was reported to have struck a massive deal with Wal-Mart (see Huge Wal- …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 08:15

  • Intel chief claims Microsoft alliance still strong

    But StrongARM, appliances and Java tell a different story

    Bouncing onwards from his visit to London earlier this week Intel CEO Craig Barrett has been telling journalists that his company's relationship with Microsoft is still strong today, maybe even stronger than it's been in the past. But Barrett protests too much -- in the same breath, he's capable of telling Reuters' reporter that …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 09:18

  • Quantum puts Bigfoot in it

    Capacities up to 19.2Gb

    Quantum said it has introduced the industry's highest capacity desktop hard drive. The Bigfoot TS series of drives comes in capacities of 6.4Gb, 8.4Gb, 12.7Gb and 19.2Gb in a 5.25-inch form factor and includes Quantum's shock protection system. That was previously only available on its Fireball L and Fireball EX hard drives. The …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 09:47

  • Belgium's most famous IT man speaks naturally

    Gaston Bastiaens to sign major car deal

    Lernout & Hauspie has said that it will introduce natural language into its speech products starting from October 6. At the same time, Gaston Bastiaens CEO of the company, hinted strongly that he was on the verge of signing a major deal with a car manufacturer to use its speech products. Sources said Ford-Chrysler was a likely …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 11:17

  • Big Blue takes cake on Netfinity's birthday

    Trade up offers stroke channel

    IBM has introduced three Netfinity servers and at the same time announced a cash trade up offer on its existing machines. The Netfinity 7000M10 is a four-way 400MHz system which will support up to 8Gb of ECC memory, has 12 hot plug PCI, predictive failure alert for chips, fans, hard drives and PSUs, and will support both Gigabit …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 11:52

  • Food company bitten by FAST piracy team

    It's very sorry and it won't do it again

    Aberness Foods subsidiary AR Gray has agreed an out-of-court settlement with the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) after the company was found to be using illegal copies of software. The settlement involves £8,000 in punitive damages, to be paid to software developer Open Access, plus a £12,000 purchase of new, legal …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 11:55

  • IBM to use copper in chipsets for Merced 8-way systems

    Will also use SOI and migrate RS features to servers

    IBM has said it is developing chipsets for an eight-way Merced machine using a combination of copper wiring and silicon on insulator (SOI) technology. The company said that it is migrating a number of features from high end servers to support the Intel platform. Bill Colton, worldwide general manager of the Netfinity division, …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 12:07

  • Ionica struggles on against insolvency rumours

    Company still looking for partner, but price must be an issue

    Struggling fixed wireless phone company Ionica is doggedly denying rumours today that it has hit a brick wall, and headed for insolvency. The company, which appointed a new chairman yesterday, has made no secret of the fact that it needs to find a 'strategic partner' if it is to live, but claims the search goes on. Ionica's big …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 12:28

  • BT escapes with caution after abuse complaints

    Promises OFTEL it won't let Internet sales staff look at customers' phone records

    British Telecom has escaped with a rap on the knuckles after being caught in an absolutely outrageous piece of malpractice (writes an absolutely outraged Register). UK telecoms watchdog OFTEL has let the giant off with a caution after some of its sales staff were found to have been using billing information to swipe rival ISPs' …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 12:30

  • NatSemi to pay IBM Micro $55 million – now official

    Will take one time charge -- another Register scoop

    As revealed here much earlier, National Semiconductor is to pay for the privilege of terminating its foundry agreement with IBM Microelectronics. IBM will stop making Cyrix chips before the end of this year and will take a one time charge in its second quarter of fiscal 1999, the company formally announced today. NatSemi-Cyrix …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 13:58

  • Updated: Transmeta to use IBM fabs after Cyrix loss

    Company had already hired Linux founder

    Reliable sources in Silicon Valley said early today that IBM Microelectronics is to take up some of the slack in its fabs caused by the loss of Cyrix business by building chips for Transmeta. The fabless valley start-up creates alternative VLSI chips for the multimedia market. Perhaps more significantly, Linus Torvalds, the …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 14:28

  • C2000 keeps resellers In Touch with ecommerce

    Telephone is an inefficient way of doing business

    Computer 2000 has launched a electronic commerce system which it claims will increase resellers sales productivity by up a third. Called InTouch 2000, the SAP-based system hooks up to the mainframe in C2000’s European headquarters in Munich, and pumps out real-time pricing and stock information. Undaunted by its previous …

    Business 25 Sep 1998, 14:59