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  • UK Tech Week off to a feeble start

    And another Comdex UK seems less than glossy - it's been 15 years people - face it, it doesn't work in Europe

    This week is UK Technology Week, but judging by the attendance on the yesterday at Earl's Court, it must be pronounced a major flop. The Comdex UK 98 (incorporating Object World), Networld+Interop, and Expo Comm exhibitions were merged, but only managed to bring together 150 or so exhibitors. Instead of the 28 terminals that had …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 07:59

  • HP and Sun make peace over Java

    Sun seems to have put away the attorneys it was reaching for earlier this year. Friends hug. Cut to credits.

    Hewlett-Packard and Sun seem to have come to a mutually agreeable arrangement regarding HP's Java-cloning activities. In March of this year HP announced its own Java strategy, which included the creation of its own Java Virtual Machine, and for a time it seemed the two were tottering on the brink of litigation. But a new …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 08:02

  • AMD beating Intel at low-end, takes aim at sub-$1,500

    Back in profit a quarter early, AMD sees ever-increasing sales for the K6-2

    AMD is claiming a 54 per cent share of the sub-$1,000 PC market for its K6-2 CPU, and is now taking aim at the sub-$1,500 mainstream desktop market with the 350 MHz version of the chip. This sector of the company's business now at last seems to be booming - on the strength of it AMD yesterday announced that it had gone back into …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 09:23

  • Roundup: Markets on 6 October

    Graham Lea picks the winner and loser across the globe

    There was good news in Tokyo this morning: the Nikkei was up six per cent on expectations that the Japanese government had indeed been shamed into finding a way to increase the capital of the banks, with bills before the Diet (see Japanese banking collapse threatens IT sector). In London, the FTSE was up four per cent on hopes …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 09:32

  • Set-tops to oust PCs for home Net access

    Price and ease of use the name of the game

    Net-enabled TVs, not PCs, represent the future of domestic Internet access in the US, claims a report from research agency Inteco. And while the number of home computers is predicted to grow by 60 per cent by 2003, the majority of them will go into homes that already have a PC. The number of PC-equipped US homes will grow from …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 10:47

  • SGI, Real 3D end hostilities

    Marketing, development and patent licensing deal ends three-year lawsuit

    Silicon Graphics has taken a ten per cent stake in graphics chip developer Real 3D, and the two have agreed to undertake cooperative marketing and development programmes. The moves come at the end of a three-year legal battle. The deal sets up Real 3D as preferred supplier for future SGI workstation products, such as Create 3D …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 10:53

  • DoJ vs MS trial delayed again

    DoJ wants four more days to complete evidence from slow industry execs

    The start of US versus Microsoft may be delayed for four days, according to unconfirmed reports circulating early this morning, and attributed to a lawyer who wished to remain anonymous. It was suggested that both Microsoft and the DoJ wrote to Judge Jackson yesterday asking for a further four-day delay until Monday 19 October. …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 11:47

  • Plasmon licenses IBM technology for tape push

    MagStar MP selected for own-branded tape library systems

    CD-ROM and MO storage specialist Plasmon has licensed IBM's MagStar MP 3570 tape drive systems to power a new line of Plasmon-branded tape storage library systems. According to analysts, the deal could boost Plasmon's sales by 25 per cent. The agreement grants Plasmon worldwide rights to MagStar MP technology to be included in …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 12:22

  • Fujitsu announces double speed SDRAM

    But names it after defunct communist country...

    Fujitsu has announced the development of a form of SDRAM that can transfer data twice as fast as standard SDRAM. Double Data Rate SDRAM uses a new circuit architecture, and samples will begin shipping in November. According to Fujitsu, DDR (Deutsche Demokratik Republik? Surely not - ed.) SDRAM has a peak data transfer rate of …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 13:31

  • DRAM: Out with the bath effect water

    intro

    Those of us in the semiconductor industry refer to something called the 'bath tub effect'. When a product is launched, it's expensive, but as as demand grows the price drops. Eventually, demand drops off and the part becomes more expensive again. The result is a flat-bottomed sales curve, hence the reference bath tubs. It's a …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 13:41

  • NatSemi attacks WSJ cancer claims

    Lifestyle and genetics to blame for ill workers

    National Semiconductor has hit back the Wall Street Journal, following a "one-sided" article in Monday's edition, in which the company was accused of exposing workers at its Greenock, Scotland plant to hazardous working conditions. In the WSJ article, former NatSemi workers complained of chemical leaks at the plant, and exposure …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 14:01

  • Silicon Spam – whatever next?

    intro

    For some time now we've all been pestered by emails from various members of the hierarchy of an outfit called Silicon News, or Silicon TV, or Silicon.com, or something. They keep telling us useful stuff like we could win a Sony DVD player if we just log into the site. We restrain ourselves. But now what about this? From: euro < …

    Business 7 Oct 1998, 19:31