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  • StrongARM connection makes Corel Linux deal worth watching

    Did you hear the one about the Linux distributor, the StrongArm designer and the hardware vendor?

    Corel is to use Red Hat Linux 5.1 for its StrongARM-based NetWinder hardware platform. The NetWinder is the basis of a range of thin client and thin server platforms, and currently uses a custom Linux distribution based on Red Hat 4.2. The deal with Red Hat takes the form of a three year agreement whereby Red Hat will port 5.1 …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 09:08

  • Microsoft paid AOL ‘bounty’ for conversions from rivals, says exec

    Superficially damaging claims from Apple are shaky, but the AOL connection looks more dangerous for Microsoft

    Apple was forced into its 'peace treaty' with Microsoft last year, claimed Department of Justice attorney David Boies yesterday. After the company's shock defection from the anti-Microsoft camp Steve Jobs was booed by former fans, but according to a note produced in court by the DoJ, Apple had no choice. After Jobs announced the …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 09:10

  • IBM extends, high-speed, high-capacity hard drive line

    Ultrastar's bring IBM into line with Seagate

    IBM has released a line of high-speed Ultrastar hard disk drives in a belated attempt to catch up with the leading edge of the market. The Ultrastar 36XP leads the new line with its 36.4GB capacity and 7200rpm spin speed. It is followed by the Ultrastar 18ZX and 9ZLX, which offer lower capacities -- 18.2GB and 9.1GB, …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 12:45

  • Gateway Lazarus box to revive Amiga

    AmigaOS machine to run on PowerPC, take on Apple's iMac

    Direct vendor and erstwhile would-be Mac cloner Gateway appears to be keen to get its own back on Apple with a scheme to release a PowerPC 750 (aka G3) machine codenamed Lazarus. The life-after-death reference is explained by Gateway's decision to base the machine, which is due to ship early next year, on AmigaOS 4.0, according …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 12:46

  • Intel pledges £1.5 million to UK Science Museum

    Extension will focus on contemporary technology

    Intel is plunging £1.5 million in an extension to the Science Museum in Kensington, London. The £47 million site, called the Wellcome Wing, is due to open in summer of the year 2000, is a high-tech facility which, according to the museum, fill focus on contemporary technology and biomedicine. Intel is contributing software and …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 12:56

  • 3Com readies SAN plan

    WAN, SAN, thank you Ma'am

    3Com is to enter the storage area networking (SAN) market through a series of partnerships, it has emerged. The company will be working with Data General's Clariion division, MTI Technology and Legato Systems on a series of SAN products, including fibre channel NICs, hubs and switches. According to 3Com officials quoted by US …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 13:05

  • Transmeta turned Linus into an olive

    Then someone ate him, and he disappeared

    Linus Torvalds assumed the shape of a green olive when he joined chip company Transmeta, we can exclusively reveal. But, unfortunately, he loitered around the reception area of the Silicon Valley startup and was mistakenly eaten by one of the Transmeta programmers. He has not been seen since. Nor, apparently, have readers of The …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 13:12

  • Packard Bell chooses AMD parts

    Move indicates more distance from Intel

    Packard Bell, which two months ago started to use Cyrix chips in its machines in preference to Intel parts, said it will use AMD K6-2s in notebooks and desktops. That indicates a further widening of the gulf between it and Intel. Formerly, PB was one of Intel's most loyal customers. Said Mal Ransom, senior VP of marketing at …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 13:26

  • Hitachi sees red in six month period

    Domino effect hits another Japanese technology firm

    Hitachi has followed in the wake of Toshiba (see yesterday's story) and has turned in its first half year loss for 50 years. The company reported a net loss of Y124.66 billion for the six month period. That compares with a net profit in the same period last year of Y24.25 billion last year. Sales fell by 12 per cent in the …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 13:39

  • Intel warns no money in Web content

    Bit worrying for us, isn't it?

    Sean Maloney, a senior VP of the Intel Corporation, has warned that companies hoping to make money with Internet content are on to a hiding for nothing. Maloney, on a whistle-stop trip to London to pledge support for the Science Museum, said that there was currently no way to meter sites with rich content. "I don’t know of …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 13:58

  • No buyers means no jobs at Seagate chip plant

    262 jobs gone

    Seagate is to shut down its Scottish chipmaking business with the loss of 262 jobs after failing to find a buyer for the plant. The decision has come earlier than expected , as the plant was put up for sale earlier this month. But the disk drive giant said it had not even received any firm expressions of interest. The plant will …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 14:13

  • Motorola join Psion in Symbian relationship

    Now it's the Gang of Four

    Psion has reeled in Motorola as the fourth shareholder in Symbian, the intellligent mobile phone operating system company. Motorola is stumping up £28.75 million for new shares in Symbian. On completion it will hold 23.1 per cent of Symbian, in common with fellow shareholders Ericcson and Nokia. Psion’s stake is reduced from 40 …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 15:03

  • UK firm announces MP3 player

    Empeg seeks to avoid the legal entanglements binding Diamond's Rio

    Even as Diamond Multimedia was winning judicial permission to sell its Rio handheld MPEG music player in the US, a UK firm was announcing a device of its own, aimed at in-car use. However, while Diamond's reprieve may yet be overturned -- it's only a temporary judgement -- Somerset-based Empeg believes its machine is safe from …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 15:17

  • Iridium a rare metal. Satellite Iridium a rare service

    Fear of loss of face could mean egg on face

    Reports said that Iridium will start its satellite service this coming Sunday, even though there are still problems with the system. The Wall Street Journal said today that there are concerns that voice and the short messaging system (SMS) is not up to scratch. However, a further delay for Iridium would cause a serious loss of …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 15:46

  • Hopes of Hyundai-LG chip merger rise

    Lights at green or red? Orange spells caution more like

    A report in English language newspaper The Korea Herald quoted a senior captain of industry today as saying a deal between big chaebols Hyundai and LG to merge their semiconductor businesses is close. The two companies were locked in stalemate because each wanted a controlling state in the venture. At issue is loss of face, …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 16:02

  • European Micro Holdings buys Sunbelt UK

    Sunshine Supernova

    European Micro Holdings Inc has completed the acquisition of Sunbelt UK Ltd, the Wimbledon, London-based subsidiary of PC Wise inc, headquartered in Miami. Sunbelt buys in computers and memory and rebadges it under the Nova brand name. Established in 1992, 1997 turnover was $16.5 million with $742,500 pre-tax profits. …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 16:17

  • Now Dixons under Cyrix belt

    who? Daewoo

    Hot on the heels of Cyrix managing to get its chips PCs sold in 230 Comet stores, informed sources said that it has scored a similar deal with Dixons. In Dixons case they are hand-tooled own brand systems. Daewoo monitors have already started appearing in selected outlets of Currys and Dixons and the deal will be replicated …

    Business 28 Oct 1998, 16:38