1st January 1999 Archive
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Compaq to demote tier one resellers…
...and further DEC heads rolled this week
Sources very close to Compaq told The Register that the firm is to take action as early as next week to reduce the number of its tier one resellers. Channel players are up in arms at the changes, which means that a number of their top resellers (but not the very top ones like Computacenter) will be downgrated to master reseller …
Business 1 Jan 1999, 11:32
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Four years ago: Why Intel wouldn’t withdraw the lot
PR disaster equivalent to San Francisco fire of 1904
While Intel acknowledged that the muckup over the Pentium FPU bug was a PR disaster equivalent to the San Francisco fire of 1904 last week, there are very good reasons why it won't simply swap the lot out. A total recall would be dangerous for the entire PC industry, according to an insider at Intel last week. Intel still …
Business 1 Jan 1999, 11:36
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Wall Street Journal has ground hogmoney
Number fails to click over - by Jock McToshiba
Logging into the WSJ on New Year's Day, noticed that the front page at The Wally showed 31 December 1998. Inside, it's OK...but could this be a sign of things to come? Like, at the end of this year, will all news Web sites click over to the first of January 1900? If so, we can start all over again and run stories like 100 Years …
Business 1 Jan 1999, 13:54
