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  • A year ago: Serious questions remain for Intel about business conduct

    We take a closer look at the Catto case

    Intel has now provided The Register with a statement concerning Ken Catto's expulsion from Intel newsgroups, but regrettably this addresses none of the major issues. Catto, of Portland, Oregon VAR Select Micro Systems (SMS) was thrown off the groups and the Intel IPD programme for "abusive language" and profanity both on the …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 08:10

  • Allchin takes a beating over video

    And as the trial transcript shows, he didn't do that well on the old integration issue either...

    We conclude the story of last week's dramatic events when Microsoft was caught faking a demonstration to the court. (Full Video Transcript) Jim Allchin, bruised by David Boies' relentless cross examination, went into a rehearsed redirect examination from Stephen Holley. Allchin probably had a poor lunch, since he had spent most …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 08:26

  • Silverberg to return in MS split into four divisions

    MS on Trial The mystery man's 19 month sabbatical may be drawing to a close

    Microsoft president Steve Ballmer is set to announce a shake-up that will reorganise the company into four divisions and see the return of Brad Silverberg, a pivotal - but so far largely silent - figure in the events being covered by the antitrust trial. Silverberg headed development of Windows 95, but has been on extended leave …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 08:31

  • AOL will not jump on freebie bandwagon

    Says it is still picking up subscribers

    AOL -- the UK's largest Online Service Provider -- has confirmed it has no intentions to follow the lead of LineOne and scrap its subscription charges despite facing growing pressure from the subscription-free Internet service providers. A spokeswoman for AOL said that unlike LineOne, AOL was "steadily acquiring members" and …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 08:47

  • How MS tried to dig itself out of video hell

    MS on Trial Unfortunately, demo two seemed to be full of legal holes as well...

    The DoJ had arranged that Felten, his two former students, and some DoJ lawyers were at the Washington offices of Sullivan and Cromwell at the appointed hour of 8.30pm last Wednesday for the videotaping of the demonstration. They were kept in the ground floor lobby for some two hours, and denied access to the sixth floor …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 08:57

  • MS video II – full transcript, again…

    MS on Trial All regretably unscientific and pointless, it would appear...

    What follows is the judicial command performance of the re-running of the Felten discredited video claims. Because of the editing that previously took place, including the undeclared switching between machines, the video taping was allowed to run non-stop in the presence of DoJ witnesses. Allchin: Today is February 3rd, 1999. I …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 09:01

  • Conclusion: DoJ spin bowls MS video clean

    MS on Trial Most spectacular government victory since Kuwait, says observer

    The DoJ team is learning a few tricks from Microsoft. Having had its own witnesses intimidated by senior Microsoft staff sitting in the front row of the courtroom and known to its witnesses, who better to invite to sit in the front row last week than Edward Felten and his boys, who had detected the sleight of hand in the video. …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 09:03

  • Intel slashes Celeron prices – again

    AMD will be hurt -- again

    Intel cut the price of its Celeron entry-level processors yesterday, as preparation for the introduction of its 433MHz part. But although the date of the introduction of the Celeron 433MHz remains 28 February, an Intel representative said that it would now be released in mid-March to allow the latest price changes to filter …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 11:14

  • AMD to call K6-3 the ‘AMD K6-III’

    There will be trouble ahead! And AMD reacts to Intel prices

    Sources close to AMD in Japan told The Register today that the K6-3 is to be called the K6-III, using Roman numerals. But that is likely to spur Intel to fury, given that it insisted AMD did not call the K6-2 the K6-II, a suggestion to which AMD agreed. At the same time, dealer selling prices of AMD parts showed that the smaller …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 11:51

  • Big Blue, Big Five to unveil Net music system

    Project Madison potential threat to MP3 and even SDMI

    IBM and the 'big five' global music companies -- Universal, EMI, Bertelsmann, Time-Warner and Sony -- will today finally pull the wraps off Project Madison, the secret Big Blue-led development of a piracy-protected Internet music delivery system. The announcement will also cover the commencement of the first public trial of the …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 12:14

  • LG Semicon-Hyundai merger could happen next week

    LG Semicon strikers go back after "special bonus" and job guarantee

    Reports in the Korean press said today that the LG Semicon strikers in the peninsula have returned to work after they were given guarantees of two years' employment and a "special bonus" of six months payment. That means that the merger is now likely to go ahead by next weekend, according to local English language newspaper The …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 12:15

  • How Allchin exposed video fiddle last Monday – but nobody noticed

    MS on Trial He actually blurted it out a couple of seconds before Boies launched his attack

    When we reported the Microsoft video "fraud" last week (MS admits video wasn't real), we said we were sure we'd seen an earlier Microsoft admission that the performance testing of Felten's program had not been conducted over a live Internet connection. Our thanks are due to reader David Cardinal, who re-found it for us in …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 12:20

  • Rational president obeys MS call to colours

    MS on Trial Or, as he put it, does his duty as a citizen

    Michael Devlin, president of tools maker Rational, had his half-day in court. For him, it was clearly a marketing exercise and a call to the colours by Microsoft. His direct testimony read like a sales brochure, included a promotional video, and included only the very kindest things about Microsoft. Devlin claims that agreeing …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 12:34

  • Nintendo legal rumblings provoke boycott call

    Action against emulator developers would be a "public relations fiasco"

    PC users keen play games using emulation software have been urged to boycott Nintendo in response the Great Satan of Italian Plumbers' statements that is considering legal action against the two developers of the latest N64 emulator, UltraHLE. The call came from Classic Gaming, a Web site devoted to emulation. "In light of …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 13:05

  • The future's looking Orange for Microsoft

    Software Stan likes the look of your mobile phone

    BT and Microsoft are today expected to put their faith in the wireless Internet access market today and announce a UK deal. According to today’s Financial Times, the two were believed to be in talks last night. If it goes ahead the deal will be the software giant’s first move into telecommunications in the UK. The deal is …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 15:11

  • Anti-abortion fanatics threaten use of Web cam

    Pictures of women using clinics will be posted on sites inciting violence

    The anti-abortion fundamentalists behind the Nuremberg Files -- a Web site that issued death threats to more than 200 US doctors who performed terminations --have vowed to take their crusade to Europe. Extreme pro-life activists have said they will take pictures of women visiting abortion clinics in the UK using a Web camera and …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 15:26

  • No such thing as a free PC

    Users given hardware for nothing, but must agree to suffer advertising bombardment

    Free-PC.com is giving away computers for free. Literally. In a $10 million experiment,California-based Free-PC.com is doling out 10,000 Compaq Presarios to punters prepared to share their intimate buying habits with the company. No doubt, the demographics have to be right too. Free-PC.com ain't saying what people have to be to …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 16:08

  • Doubts still remain over unclothed PIIIs in Japan

    What is the voltage, we ask ourselves?

    After taking a quick decco at pages we reported over the weekend as having genuine Pentium IIIs, Intel was still maintaining they were not the genuine article this morning. Intel UK said serial numbers on the chips did not match the genuine article. And a reader from the US said: "The top left picture of the 'PIII' in Japan has …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 16:15

  • Rise chip results leak – and they're not good

    The FPU mark is 688 -- the core is slow

    Details leaked from Rise Technology demonstrate that its mP6-266 chip is not as fast as first hoped. This will come to a disappointment to PC mobile manufacturers which had hoped to incorporate the chip into their systems. According to test results we have already seen, the Rise core is something of an underperformer at CPU Mark …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 16:51

  • WinCE catches up with Palm

    Survey 3Com/Palm still market leader, but Windows CE sales growing faster

    3Com remains the leading vendor of palmtop computers, but Windows CE devices are finally showing signs of catching up. That's the picture of the world palmtop market, according to market researcher Dataquest's 1998 figures, released today. 3Com's Palm Computing subsidiary took 40.1 per cent of the palmtop market in 1998, down …

    Business 8 Feb 1999, 17:30