30th December 1998 Archive
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AOL seeks damages in spam case
The company's litigation isn't stopping for Christmas...
AOL's anti-spam campaigning has moved up a notch, with the company seeking an injunction and punitive damages against a Californian man it accuses of sending millions of messages to its customers. Michael Persaud is being sued in Virginia, and is accused of "digital trespassing" and fraud. AOL claims he has been operating since …
Business 30 Dec 1998, 07:55
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SGI hunts escaped workstation spec
Can the company get the lid back on for another 12 days?
SGI has been having a little trouble getting its secret files back into the safe, following the escape of documentation on its new Intel workstations a few weeks back. Details of the machines have been popping up despite the company's best efforts in advance of their launch, due on 11 January. According to sources close to SGI, …
Business 30 Dec 1998, 07:56
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Microsoft attacks Intuit exec's testimony
But it hasn't actually been filed yet...
Microsoft has released a 'prebuttal' of as yet unreleased testimony to be given next week by Intuit CEO William Harris. Once upon a time (1994) Intuit was ready to sell out to Microsoft, but nevertheless Harris' testimony will accuse the company of setting out to wreck Intuit. The aborted 1994 deal between the two companies …
Business 30 Dec 1998, 07:59
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Gates hires actors to play real people
Hey, maybe Steve Ballmer's been acting all this time as well...
According to this morning's Guardian newspaper, Bill Gates has been having trouble with the concept of virtual reality. He's now so rich that if he needs to meet ordinary people, he just hires actors to play them. Gates took some friends on a rail trip across Montana recently, and in the restaurant car found himself accosted by …
Business 30 Dec 1998, 08:03
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Four years ago: Intel analyses flaw in Pentium
We analyse the Satan's use of the word flaw
On November 30 last Intel released summaries of the problem in the Pentium chip. These were extracted from a white paper dubbed Statistical Analysis of the Floating Point Flaw in the Pentium Processor (1994), a 32-page document. Careful analysis of the white paper revealed the following. The word flaw occurred a total of 38 …
Business 30 Dec 1998, 08:42
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All things must come to Passaro
Resigns as Citrix VP of worldwide sales
It seems only four years ago (it was four years ago, Ed.) that The Register, and Citrix' Mike Passaro and Ed Iacobucci decided to skip an Etre black tie event and go on the town instead. And so we did. Now we learn from Business Wire that Passaro, who can take his drink with the best of them, has retired from Citrix. Good luck …
Business 30 Dec 1998, 08:57
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Updated: LG Semicon – We will sue ADL
LG Semicon owes seven trillion won,US antitrust fears grow, foreign projects put on ice
The Korean press reported yesterday that LG was still pressing ahead with its plans to sue Arthur D Little (ADL), following a recommendation by the consultant that Hyundai have the lion’s share in a merged semiconductor company. But frantic attempts made by the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) to mediate in the row appear …
Business 30 Dec 1998, 09:43
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Compaq, IBM dump on Taiwanese PC manufacturers
Island could lose loadsa OEM business
Reports in the Taiwanese press said yesterday that both Compaq and Big Blue are to cut original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on the island out of their manufacturing loop in 1999. And other worldwide PC companies are likely to follow in a bid to slash their costs, affected by the much lower prices of PCs in the shops. The …
Business 30 Dec 1998, 10:27
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Cryogenic AMD K6-2 system clocks 500MHz
US company super cools chip
A US company has claimed it has developed a cooling system which will allow 400MHz AMD K6-2s to clock at 500MHz. It is selling a 110V system for both Win95 and Win98 and promises a 220V system early in 1999. The system, sold by Kryotech is called the Cool K6-2 and uses a 400MHz part accelerated to 500MHz using a proprietary –40 …
Business 30 Dec 1998, 12:01
