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  • Four years ago: Chip makers ready steeds for Desperation Derby

    They’re off...

    Remember those days when you were a shy suitor and brought round a bunch of flowers for your sweetheart in the vain hope she might climb into the back of your dad's car with you later on? Or, alternatively, remember those days when some gawky pimply lad you couldn't stand, tried to lay you for the price of a box of chox and a …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 08:47

  • DoJ expert – how MS pricing, market share climbed

    The court transcripts show Warren-Boulton redeeming himself after a bad start

    Now that the transcript of the fifth and final day of DoJ witness consultant economist Dr Frederick R Warren-Boulton is available, it can be seen that there was a sea change in W-B's evidence. He was rejuvenated, and gave as good as he got from Michael Lacovara, a counsel for Microsoft. W-B responded well to government attorney …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 09:46

  • Big Blue bull(ish) about e-business

    Well, what did you expect?

    European businesses have a far more pragmatic approach to conducting business electronically than their US counterparts, according to the latest research from IBM. Big Blue's latest study reveals that 85 per cent of European companies believe they must invest in e-business or face competitive disadvantage. But the study further …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 10:06

  • Microsoft claims Sun-Netscape carve-up

    The pistol is smoking a little, but not as much as you might think

    Microsoft attorneys yesterday produced evidence that two years ago Sun and Netscape were engaged in one of the very activities Microsoft itself is accused of -- carving up the browser market. DoJ attorney David Boies dismissed the evidence -- Sun internal documentation -- as irrelevant, but an examination of the parallels and …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 11:53

  • Primax, Visioneer and Xerox in ménage à trois

    And they all live together in a gingerbread house with heart-shaped windows

    Visioneer is to buy into the ScanSoft division of Xerox and at the same time said it would sell its hardware outfit to Taiwanese company Primax. Primax will buy the hardware component for around $7 million and will call the subsidiary Visioneer. Visioneer will create a new company called ScanSoft, specialising in scanner …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 12:12

  • Channon walks out on ilion

    More trouble at networking distie as CEO quits

    Wayne Channon has resigned as chairman and chief executive of troubled networking distributor ilion. Serge van Gorkum, who was group product and marketing development director until June this year, has rejoined the company as group chief executive. As the founder of ilion's French subsidiary and a previous director of the …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 12:19

  • Palm III proves a hi-tech helper for car thieves

    I didn't say blow the bleedin' doors off...

    A 3Com Palm III and software that lets the handheld control TVs and VCRs through its infrared port are all you need to nick a car these days, it seems. Danish IT journalist Lars Sorensen made the discovery when testing the sofwtare's legitimate uses. The software samples a TV's remote control signals so it can replicate them -- …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 12:20

  • It's Jocks away for Osmosis

    Second regional office opens

    Osmosis has opened a Scottish office, in Livingston, its second regional division this year. The move comes six months after the hardware and software distributor started its Dublin office, becoming Ireland's first Authorised Microsoft OEM Product Distributor. Osmosis Scotland's general manager, Nick Grecian, described the …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 12:25

  • RBR Networks bouncing following increase in turnover

    One-time grey importer is now Cisco's new best friend

    Former beté noire of the Cisco channel, RBR Networks, has cited its single-vendor focus as the reason for the increase in its turnover by around 100 per cent. The company’s marketing director, Jos White, said turnover had gone from £26 million to £47 million and pointed to year-on-year growth of 175 per cent over the last five …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 12:30

  • Europe, US to harmonise encryption export controls

    Agreement ends long-running trade dispute

    US and European Union (EU) officials have reached an agreement on export controls for cryptography software, the New York Times has reported. According to US special envoy for cryptography David Aaron, quoted by the NYT, representatives of both blocs agreed to restrict the export of encryption software that uses keys of 64 bits …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 12:49

  • Arbitration panel to rescue LG, Hyundai on anti-dumping

    US will be forced to drop tariffs on SK firms

    Micron is likely to be disappointed at a decision by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) which will make the US government take LG and Hyundai off its anti-dumping list. According to a report in English language paper Korea Times, the WTO is likely to rule that a US refusal to take the companies off an anti-dumping list is …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 12:58

  • Cambridge IT firm sells out to South Africans

    Another UK firm succumbs to the lure of the Rand

    Black economic empowerment group PanTech has joined the ever growing list of South African companies hot on the acquisition trail in the UK. PanTech yesterday bought Cambridge-based Cruisequest, which will complement the South African company's IT division, BizTech. The UK consultancy and IT services company will become PanTech’ …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 12:59

  • Channon ‘throws himself on sword’

    Update: more on ilion CEO's sudden exit

    Wayne Channon has resigned as chairman and chief executive of troubled networking distributor illion group plc. Channon, who founded the company in 1989 is reported as saying that he recognised it was "time to go" before deciding to take the honourable way out. And although he took full responsibility for, in his words, " …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 13:05

  • Calluna hits first ever profitable month

    So much good news, a rights issue could be on the cards

    Too early for Calluna's long-suffering shareholders to crack open the champagne, but a jar or two may be in order to celebrated the first ever profitable month recorded by the niche hard drive developer. Scottish-based Calluna blames the operating profit achieved in October on rising sales. It did even better in November, the …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 13:12

  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Northamber

    Carry on camping

    Check out the latest range of portables at Northamber, the Chessington-based distie. Brushing past Northamber's fiercesome security force, a 40-strong contingent of travellers have set up camp in the company's car park. With satellite dishes on their caravans and road digging gear in tow, the squatters are settling in nicely …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 13:23

  • Hyperlink poaches Oracle man for MD

    Jenner excited by new role

    Hyperlink has appointed a new MD to help "ensure fast managed growth" at the Web agency, based in London's Covent Garden. Tim Jenner left Oracle UK more than a month ago, where he was regional director for Internet, intranet and decision support solutions, to take up the post. He replaces John Lambert who remains at Hyperlink as …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 13:24

  • PR man falls in love with politician

    It's lurve at first sight

    Pictured here is one of our favourite spin doctors, Mr Chaz Brooks (01483 277711) who bumped into Her Majesty's Leader of the Opposition at a heliport in London. His first words to William Hague? "Come fly with me." ®

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 13:43

  • Survey: online sales top $4.5 billion

    Don't you believe it

    Computer hardware and software, travel, and books account for more than three-quarters of all online sales notching up more than $3.5 billion in sales out of a total global spend of $4.5 billion in 1998. But the dominance of computer-related sales online -- which accounts for $1.65 billion or nearly 40 per cent of Net sales this …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 17:00

  • Good news for Dixons

    At last...

    High street retailer Dixons is set to rejoin the big boys in the FTSE 100 next week when the FTSE International meets to decide the latest quarterly changes to the stock market indexes. Dixons, which dropped out of the FTSE 100 in March, has done well recently as investors have flocked to the company. Most retail analysts are …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 17:42

  • Microsoft gets Caldera evidence excluded from trial

    Stephanie Reichel's MS v Caldera testimony ruled out, for now...

    Microsoft made a plea on Wednesday to have testimony excluded. It was not evident from the court transcript what this was all about, but The Register can reveal what was missed entirely by the media. Microsoft's Web site just happens not to mention a Microsoft Motion considered by the court on Wednesday. John Warden, the lead …

    Business 4 Dec 1998, 18:12