12th November 1998 Archive

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Chip market on rebound claims SIA

Memories, CPUs and DSPs will all show positive growth

Further signs that the chip market is on the upturn came from industry body the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) yesterday. The organisation said that the overall market is set to grow by over nine per cent next year, while memory products, CPUs and the DSP markets are all showing healthy signs. According to the SIA, the …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 08:46
DoJ case ‘effort to advance competitors’ – Gates

The government is a stooge for a shadowy conspiracy, apparently

Bill Gates yesterday lashed-out at the DoJ antitrust case against Microsoft as a plot to boost Microsoft's competitors at the expense of the public. Speaking to the most pro-Microsoft audience on the planet, Microsoft shareholders, Gates said: "The more we see of the case, the more clear it is that there's an effort here to …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 10:19
Netscape buys Web marketing company

Race on with Microsoft to buy more portal users

Netscape has bought small business-oriented Web marketing company AtWeb for $95 million in stock less than a week after Microsoft acquired its own Web promotional operation, LinkExchange. The Netscape deal will see AtWeb's services integrated into the browser Satan's Netcenter portal -- AtWeb's !Register-It! search engine …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 11:34
Samsung to put $1 billion into North Korea

Move reflects previous Hyundai pledge

North Korea is to get a substantial boost from South Korea after Samsung said it will build semiconductor fabs and other manufacturing plants in the country. According to local newspaper the Korea Herald, Samsung will invest over $1 billion in the North Korean economy over the next ten years. The move is partly the result of …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 11:51
Smart, application-driven devices to replace PCs claims report

Forrester sees a Jetson world without PCs, TVs and phones -- but how do you get there from here?

PCs, phones and TVs are all dead in the long run, says Forrester Research, and the revolution starts this year. But the outfit doesn't seem entirely clear about what happens between now and the big breakthrough, which is scheduled for 2004. Forrester seems to have been driven to the length of inventing a new category to explain …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 11:51
RBR wins Cisco academic channel rights

Aims to appoint 10 key resellers

Datatec subsidiary RBR Networks has gained the rights from Cisco to distribute its products into the academic sector. The distributor now wants to find 10 key resellers in the UK to specialise in targeting the potentially lucrative market, it said. As part of its accreditation scheme, it will give them training, technical …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 12:26
AOL buys PersonaLogic

AOL hopes interactive buying guide developer will give it a lead in e-commerce

AOL is to buy decision-making help software developer PersonaLogic and its interactive buying guides for an undisclosed sum. PersonaLogic creates buying guides which users can explore to help them find the right products for them. Essentially, the technology creates personalised profiles which it matches along with user prompts …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 13:12
MS announces dates for channel training

But have you got a window free in your diary

Microsoft has announced its FY99 training calendar as part of its ongoing plans to support its channel. The OnTrack technical and sales training events for Microsoft Certified Solution Providers (MCSPs) runs until March 1999, culminating in a one day event, InsideTrack 99, on Friday 5th March. From now until December, events …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 13:44
Sanitizer and Shredder launched in UK

Software that gets you squeaky clean

Paranoid PC users and those obsessed with data hygiene can now get their hard disks deep down clean thanks to the launch of two new products. Sanitizer and Shredder, produced by Texas-based Infraworks, clean hard drives so thoroughly it's as if there was nothing there in the first place. The Sanitizer range of products is a …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 14:00
DRAM market gets colly-wobbles

Prices go up...prices go down...boom or doom?

Buoyancy in the chip market is not all it seems, it seems. Reports today from both the USA and the Far East suggested that the memory market was on the rise. But our daily DRAM update showed that prices on 64Mbit SIMMs has fallen steeply since last Friday. A report from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA, also reported …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 14:42
Are Microsoft's trial attorneys delivering?

The Register's brief encounter

Will Sullivan & Cromwell, Microsoft's principal trial lawyers, be shown the Yellow Card by Microsoft? It's clear that John Warden, Theodore Edelman and Steve Holley have been upsetting Judge Jackson over procedural matters. Warden has not succeeded in establishing a reasonable rapport with the judge. He slowness at cross- …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 15:03
MS apps ‘bloatware’ – official

Beast of Redmond VP reveals all in court-released evidence

Documents released by the court show that Paul Maritz, Microsoft group VP, wrote in an email to Bill Gates on 17 April 1995 which said that "Steve McGeady [the Intel VP currently being cross-examined in the court] remains an issue for us. He is a champion of Java, and a believer that the day of 'Bloatware' (ie. our apps) is over …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 15:16
Hi-tech companies outpacing UK economy

So invest in Eidos, Psion, etc. says Deloitte & Touche

The UK technology sector is growing far faster than other British business areas, according to accountancy firm Deloitte & Touche's (DT) consultancy arm. The company claims that technology firms -- a group that includes IT, telecoms and biotech operations -- account for just over five per cent of the VAT registered (ie. those …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 15:38
NTT selects WinCE for debit-card tills

Microsoft says CE was for embedded systems all along so maybe NT isn't after all...

Japanese giant NTT has licensed Windows CE for a new line of retail terminals designed to work with the county's forthcoming nationwide debit card system. The announcement marks a major expansion of CE's focus, moving beyond hand-held PCs and sub-notebooks to non-PC applications. True, it has already been licensed for Sega's …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 16:12
CMD to revisit RAID

Shrinks die for additional speed

CMD said that it will introduce a fresh architecture for external RAID products. At the same time, it said it would present its plans for IDE/Ultra ATA 66 semiconductor products at Comdex next week. The RAID technology, which CMD dubs Titan, will be the basis of a family of future products, the company said. It will include …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 16:15
Diamond introduces cheap Super 7 board

Costs around $110, with sound and vision, company says

Diamond has introduced an integrated Super 7 motherboard which includes integrated video and audio solutions for around the $110 mark. The company said that its Micronics M280 is a Micro ATX design using the SiS530/5595 chipset and will support Pentium/MMX chips, Cyrix MIIs, AMD K6-2s and IDT WinChip C6s. Speeds of up to 450MHz …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 16:28
A year ago today: Boom, boom

Chip industry will grow to $232 billion by 2000

The Semiconductor Industry Association has 65 members all of whose businesses rely on hard and fast information about the shape of chip sales to come. So our readers who are in the semiconductor market but not members of the august body will be mighty glad to hear that according to the SIA, the global chip market will grow by 17 …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 16:33
Intel stirs up bus row

We'll have to wait for the 30-year bus...

Intel looks set to further antagonise its major PC customers after it introduced a high end server bus spec late yesterday. That follows protestations from senior Intel executives at its Developer Forum earlier this year that while they would support HP and Compaq's efforts to produce a PCI-X spec, they had a better design in …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 17:04
Net music sales to grow 2000 per cent by 2002

But it's still a 'small earthquake, not many dead' story

Sales of music via the Internet are set to expand by nearly 2000 per cent over the next two years, according to research conducted by Market Tracking International (MTI), released today. But while that statistic sounds impressive, MTI's numbers show the industry's big players will continue to dominate. That's good news for a …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 17:13
Intel exec made up quotes, says Microsoft attorney

We expect he made up all those Bill Gates emails as well then...

Intel VP Steve McGeady came under sustained attack from Microsoft attorney Steve Holley today, who claimed he embellished his notes from a key 1995 meeting with Microsoft, that he'd made up the critical 'cut off Netscape's air supply' quote from Paul Maritz, and that his superiors regarded him as a prima donna. McGeady held up …

Business 12 Nov 1998, 21:23