18th February 1999 Archive
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AMD admits K6-III called K6-III
Updated Now Web Stalinists airbrush out the URL...
AMD has admitted its K6-3 is called the K6-III. Its own Web site had the information up but now the URL is returning a server error! (See AMD to call K6-3 the 'AMD K6-III'). If you went to AMD's FAQs about the K6-III you will have seen that AMD had finally admitted the fact. Many of you will have seen this page but see it no …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 09:37
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$399 PC outfit aims for $1bn sales in 99
Korean-backed EMachines plans to make it faster than any company in history
Korean-backed low-cost PC operation EMachines plans to go public around the end of the year, and is aiming to become the first start-up to crack $1 billion in sales in its first 12 months. The company, set up in the US as a joint venture between Trigem and Korea Data Systems, sells PCs for as little as $399 through retail …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 10:11
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Andreessen wasn't paying attention at key meeting – MS exec
MS on Trial Please sir, he was doing his email instead... Please sir...
Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen couldn't have taken accurate notes of the infamous 'browser carve-up' meeting of 1995 because he was doing his email instead, claims Microsoft exec Dan Rosen. Andreessen's notes of the meeting, where Netscape alleges Microsoft offered a deal whereby MS got the Windows browser market and …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 10:13
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Chase: AOL ships IE so it can hurt MS case
MS on Trial It helps MS' browser share to hurt Microsoft. Redmond's a psychological snake-pit...
Despite its takeover of Netscape, AOL decided to continue its deal with Microsoft over Internet Explorer until 2001. But it only did this in order to help the Department of Justice win its antitrust case against Microsoft, says MS VP Brad Chase. Chase's paranoid reasoning is all too characteristic of senior Microsoft execs. As …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 10:15
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Compaq to get EMEA shake-up?
Nigerian outfit opens soon
One nice thing about going to see Eckhard Pfeiffer, Compaq's CEO, whenever he makes an appearance at the gruesome Landmark Hotel, is that you get to chinwag with foreign journalists you only see at gigs like this. And so The Register found itself chatting to a colleague from other climes in the Great Western Bar in Marylebone …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 10:31
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1GHz Intel story takes on Alice-like dimensions
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
UK Journalists are cynical in the extreme. Be clear and firm about your arguments -- from Intel's internal publication Working with the European Press Intel is now denying that it will demo a 1GHz .18 micron chip by year end. Or should that first par read: Intel is not denying that it will demo a 1GHz .18 micron chip by year end …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 11:17
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Videologic jumps into bed with Aureal
Race is on for European retailers
Aureal Semiconductor has recruited Videologic to the A3D sound chip camp, in a deal which will see the two companies pitch head to head in the European retail market against Creative Labs. Videologic has begun shipping the new Aureal-powered SonicVortex2 soundcard through its distribution and retail channels. This will retail in …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 12:35
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IBM confirms Linux deal with Red Hat
Alliance covers support, marketing and hardware optimisation for Linux
Big Blue and Red Hat revealed today details of their business alliance, forged to provide, market and support Red Hat's Linux distribution on IBM's desktop and server hardware. As anticipated, the deal will see the two companies collaborate to offer what they term "enterprise-level" technical support, long seen as one of the …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 12:47
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HP comes over all aggressive with direct PC sales
Brio will be offered over the Web
Hewlett-Packard (HP) plans to adopt a more aggressive sales approach which will see the vendor sell its Brio PC range direct over the Web. The vendor has said it will actively seek contact with its customers and that it will shift its emphasis away from PC product development to sales and support. HP’s critics have accused the …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 13:35
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AOL names Andreessen chief tech officer
His mission: to spread harmony among AOL and Netscape staff
AOL has confirmed that Netscape co-founder and CTO Marc Andreessen will become its overall chief technology officer provided the merger between the two companies proceeds as planned. Andreessen will essentially become AOL CEO Steve Case's tame tech pundit. His role, said AOL, is not to oversee the company's ongoing technology …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 13:38
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Japanese chip production investment stalls
Top five producers' spend on plant, kit to stay flat through 1999
Japan's five leading semiconductor producers do not intend to expand chip production during 1999, a report in Japanese business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun has claimed. The manufacturers -- NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Fujitsu -- are currently preparing their spending plans for the coming financial year, due to begin …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 14:05
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Compaq CEO sets time for Alta Vista IPO
Search engine company has "six months" to prepare, says Pfeiffer
Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer has given the company's Alta Vista subsidiary a six-month deadline to ready the Internet search engine for its IPO. Speaking to the French newspaper La Tribune, Pfieffer reiterated the grand strategy for Alta Vista he outlined in the UK earlier this week (see Pfeiffer to re-engineer Compaq as Internet …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 14:40
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NatSemi Cyrix licenses Rambus for Jalapeno
x86 core's performance so dependent on memory speed Rambus deal essential
National Semiconductor's Cyrix subsidiary yesterday said it had licensed Rambus' Direct DRAM memory interface, and that it planned to support the technology in upcoming system-on-a-chip products. Cyrix executive VP Jean-Louis Bories said the decision to license Rambus memory technology was prompted by the bandwidth requirements …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 15:33
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Hyundai exec admits Rambus shortage
RDRAM, RDRAM -- wherefore art thou, RDRAM?
Hyundai Electronics VP of marketing Mark Ellsbery yesterday added his voice to the chorus of memory producers and chip-set vendors predicting limited availability of Rambus Direct DRAM throughout the year. "There will be a shortage of RDRAMs in 1999," he said, words that echo the warning given on Tuesday by the head of Fujitsu's …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 15:50
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MS only decided to integrate IE in March 97
MS on Trial This email seems to smoke more than a little...
The Register can exclusively reveal that the actual decision to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows 98 was not made until at least 28 March 1997, contrary to many claims and thin documentation from Microsoft. The evidence is in an email to Microsoft witness and vp Brad Chase dated 27 March 1997 from Kumar Mehta, who does …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 16:11
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Connectix plans Windows launch for PlayStation emulator
And Internet multiplayer support coming too
Connectix president Roy McDonald yesterday confirmed the company is developing a Windows version of its controversial Mac-based PlayStation emulator, Virtual GameStation (VGS). Ever since VGS was launch back at the beginning of January, there has been much speculation that Connectix would follow up its Mac release with a Windows …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 16:26
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Woman has virtual affair on Internet
Jealous husband nearly kills her - literally
A man who stabbed his wife nine times after she had "cybersex" with another man has been found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm by a West Australian Supreme Court. Father of three Barry McCormack stabbed his wife with a 22cm steak knife but said he did not intend to kill her, although he had thought about it at the time, …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 16:35
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NT4 not Y2K safe thanks to delayed patch
But Microsoft in denial, big time
Microsoft is attempting to play down allegations that the CD version of Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Windows NT 4 might not see the light of day for another three months. SP4 is the missing link in making NT 4 year 2000 compliant, any delay in its release could have dire consequences for anyone planning to install it and then run …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 16:37
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Gladiator enters storage arena
Volume-mapping device aimed at growing SAN market
Storage vendor MTI Technology will ship its Gladiator 6700 fibre channel device next week, targeting the storage area network (SAN) market. The scaleable RAID storage system allows customers to start at 218Gb for $149,000, and extends to 1Tb for $459,000. It also has a volume-mapping facility which allows a large storage array …
Business 18 Feb 1999, 17:32
