8th October 1998 Archive

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Management

• AMD poised to announce K6-2 400 deal with tier one PC company Faster versions in November could win the company sales further upscale
• Chip sales grew in August First month-on-month rise since November 1997
• Citrix stock price Scudded intro
• Compaq axes 1000 jobs First round of 17,000-redundancy scheme
• DoJ takes on Visa and Mastercard Slapped wrists for stifling smart card competition
• Ellison takes aim at Microsoft crown jewels – Windows NT After lashing-out in all directions, Oracle's Larry Ellison seems to be finding the right target at last
• HP switches to Intel StrongARM for Jupiter CE machines HP's ARM licence the other week may be panning out into a co-development deal
• Intel maps out future of IA-32 with 1 Ghz CPU, Katmai and friends We told you this a while back - Intel told everybody else yesterday...
• Microsoft rolls out ‘Jupiter’ CE in surprise attack Research coincidentally proves punters want larger format 'PC companions' - but not smaller PCs, presumably...
• Network Associates sets sights on online market P-p-p-pick up a p-p-p-ortal
• Network Solutions domain name licence renewed NSI stays in charge until 2000 in return for registration data
• October 24: Cyrix price drops Advance notice
• Oracle plans $8 billion revenue Web outsourcing operation Larry Ellison reckons that pay-as-you-go enterprise apps are the Next Big Thing, and is looking for partners
• Packard Bell NEC settles whistleblower suit $3.5 million paid to end 'old parts for new' case
• Pan-Europe modem standard could cause trouble Standards harmonisation is outpacing the PTTs, claims TDK
• Roundup: Markets on 7th October Book deal impacts Amazon, AMD goes down on good news. Bizarre...
• Seagate pulls plugs on Scottish semi plant Plans to outsource semiconductor support for its drives
• Update: Wise men save Acorn PC Bondar to the rescue, maybe?
• Yahoo! profits! soar! Portal second most visited Net entry point after AOL