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  • Caldera’s DR gets OnSatellite of love

    Service to offer voice, email and smartie cards

    Caldera Thin Clients will be announcing today that its DR-WebSpyder – an embedded Internet set-top -- will be used by OnSat Network Communications in its private networks for satellite Internet access. The consumer end will consist of Caldera's v86-based graphical devices, with Inkotomi's Traffic Server network cache and OnSat's …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 07:00

  • Update: Transmeta transmogrified by Linux founder

    Torvald's arrival heralded sea-change

    More details have emerged about a switch in direction Transmeta made when it hired Linux inventor Linus Torvalds earlier this year. (See story, Transmeta to use IBM fabs) Reliable sources said that the company has re-engineered itself and is now preparing a Risc processor which will be optimised for Windows NT 5.0, and which …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 09:02

  • SGI considers Singapore plant

    Company pitching for 'wired island' business

    Singapore may be the location of a new Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) manufacturing and R&D operation, according to this morning's Singapore Business Times. This would be good news for the island, which has been hard-hit by the Asian crisis and associated job losses in hard disk manufacturing. We at The Register also speculate that …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 09:12

  • New flaw found in Netscape security

    we know where you wanted to go today, apparently...

    The relentless march of the Web browser security flaw continues, this time with Netscape apparently providing the inadvertent doorway for what sounds like a pretty compelling application for unscrupulous Web outfits. Sunnyvale computer consultant Dan Brumleve says he has produced a Javascript program which can use a security …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 09:14

  • Intel poaches PowerPC vet for Austin R&D labs

    Former Somerset chief to trawl Texas for talent

    Intel has pulled in a PowerPC Somerset Design Center veteran to head-up a new long-range R&D centre in Austin, Texas. Mark McDermott comes from the Motorola side of the old PowerPC alliance, and also ran the system on a chip design group at Motorola's Advanced Systems Technology Lab. It's not yet entirely clear what he and his …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 09:16

  • Microsoft vs DoJ: Judge may recalled ‘biased’ special master

    Lessig may return despite allegation 'IE zapped my Mac'

    Lawrence Lessig, who was chosen by Judge Jackson to be a special master in the DoJ case against Microsoft, but whose appointment was put on hold in February after Microsoft told the court of appeals that Lessig was biased because he did not like the way Internet Explorer had interfered with the software on his Mac, may be …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 09:33

  • Gates' gang sell shares, make huge wedges of cash

    But not as much as Andy Grove. Apparently

    Bill Gates and his Microsoft co-founder chum Paul Allen have been selling shares. Data from Microsoft's proxy statement just filed with the SEC shows that Gates sold $2.8 billion of Microsoft shares over the last year, and Allen $4.4 billion. The valuations are on the basis of last week's closing price. Gates has $57 billion of …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 09:37

  • LG-Hyundai still in merger stasis

    Pythonesque air affects new chip company

    Under pressure from the South Korean government, the country's five biggest chaebols have now agreed to sort out their managerial differences over the re-allocation of business units. But LG and Hyundai are still locked in a bitter struggle over which firm will have the controlling interest in the merged chip company they …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 10:22

  • Tetra flogs stationery rights

    Diverts proceeds into software licences

    Tetra has flogged the intellectual property rights (IPR) to its business forms division to Software Stationery Holdings for £150,000 cash. SSH also gets rights to use the Tetra customer database for two years. In return it will pay commission on all future sales to the database, committing to a minimum of £200,000 per year over …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 11:01

  • Pioneer organic luminescence has way to go

    US startup could beat Japanese major to the punch

    An announcement by Pioneer that it has solved the problem of creating organic electroluminescence (OLED) flat panel displays is not a significant breakthrough, it has emerged. OLED technology is far cheaper to produce than TFT technology but there are technical difficulties to implementing it, especially in the notebook field. A …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 13:29

  • World's largest bookseller Internet subsidary readies IPO

    Barnesandnoble.com wants a share in Amazon.com's Wall Street hype

    US book retailer Barnes & Noble will become the latest Internet bookseller to leap onto the IPO bandwagon when it floats its Barnesandnoble.com subsidiary. According to the company's SEC filing, Barnes & Noble will retain 80 per cent of the online retailer's stock. Given the inflated valuations Wall Street is giving to Internet- …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 13:42

  • AMD takes axe to comment on chip prices

    More than job is worth to comment, staffer comments

    A US source said that AMD will slash its prices towards the end of October on a range of its K6-2 processors. But AMD in the UK has refused to comment on the story, saying it was "more than their job was worth". According to Computer Reseller News US, AMD is preparing to release 380MHz and 400MHz versions of its K6-2 processors …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 14:07

  • Survey: third of a million UK jobs to be lost to Y2K bug

    But if Mother Shipton has it right, Year 2000 won't arrive

    A year 2000 company has claimed that a third of a million jobs will be lost in the UK as a result of the dreaded millennium bug. And small and medium sized enterprises are most at risk, the company has claimed. Although Prove It 2000 sells solutions to the Y2K problem, a representative maintained that the calls were not made as …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 14:50

  • Dtec Memory Corp wins Toshiba DRAM rights

    Taking Tosh to the SMEs

    Dtec Memory Corporation has won European distribution rights for Toshiba-branded DRAM and flash memory. The joint venture company, 51 per cent owned by Memory Corporation and 49 per cent owned by Datrontech, will target the European SME market. The company said it would also explore opportunities to integrate Memory Corp’s …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 15:16

  • Viglen profits remain linear at best

    Move into services

    Amstrad lovechild Viglen Technology will try and dig its way out of continually flat profits by re-focusing its efforts on networking and value-added software services. The company's aim is to move away from purely direct PC sales which took a massive hit last year as market share fell by 50 per cent. Viglen has just announced …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 16:31

  • Microsoft tools up for Embedded NT

    Suggestions of an October launch are somewhat OTT, but this is a biggie, strategically

    According to some reports today Microsoft is poised to launch Embedded Windows NT next month. A bit of a rush this, even for Microsoft - the company is currently advertising for an entire team to, er, develop the OS from ground zero. We quote: "Program Manager (new job) - Primary responsibilities include driving the development …

    Business 28 Sep 1998, 19:09