23rd February 1999 Archive
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Intel FlexATX motherboard to use 810 chipset
Intel Developer Forum Form factor suggests death of Slot One inevitable
At a technology briefing at the Intel Developer Forum today, the company showed its FlexATX motherboard and said it was 30 per cent smaller than the MicroATX design. The motherboard is intended to fit into a variety of different form factors, said Steve Whalley, head of desktop product group initiatives in the US. Intel will …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 00:03
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Intel says Linux unstoppable
Intel Developer Forum But, says senior VP, not on the desktop
Pat Gelsinger, senior VP of desktop products at Intel US, told The Register today that projections showed that Linux is growing fast as a platform for the server market. But Gelsinger, who tomorrow will deliver the first keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum, said he thought it was unlikely that the phenomenon would have …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 00:19
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Intel stresses four Ss in style counsel
Intel Developer Forum "Kicking" Pat Gelsinger talks the talk
In a wide-ranging presentation covering the state of the PC market, Pat Gelsinger, senior VP of the desktop product division of Intel US, said that his company was focused on speed, security, simplicity and style. The "four Ss" will be the backbone of his keynote speech at the Forum tomorrow morning, he said. "We will argue that …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 00:45
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Samsung to build ARM9 system on chip
And the company plans to support Windows CE from Q3
Samsung Semiconductor is to develop system-on-chip products using the ARM9TDMI and ARM920T cores. The chips will combine ARM core, embedded memory and mixed signal technology, with the ARM9TDMI core being available from Samsung in Q2, and the ARM920T in Q3. Samsung will be aiming the system-on-chip products at PDAs, smartphones …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 09:25
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MS exec claims Gates was wrong – ex-MS exec?
MS on Trial Dan Rosen suffers the embarrassment of being abandoned by the prosectution because he's discredited enough already
Microsoft's latest defence witness apparently crashed and burned yesterday as DoJ attorney David Boies stopped cross-examination in mid sentence, and said he had no further questions. Dan Rosen, Microsoft general manager of new technology had been shot down already as far as Boies was concerned, and machine-gunning him in his …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 09:27
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MS trial to recess over March
MS on Trial The judge and prosecutor have other fish to fry, but they'll be back...
Judge Jackson has being doing his best to keep to The Register's timetable for the Microsoft trial. As we predicted, strenuous efforts are being made to complete the Microsoft witnesses' evidence this week. Judge Jackson has firmed up his commitment to hear a criminal case (at the moment, the Microsoft case is a civil case), and …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 10:25
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Motorola readies semiconductor division spin-off
Great Satan of Car Radios makes non-core logic product group more buyer-friendly
Motorola has confirmed it is to spin off its Semiconductor Components Group (SCG), part of the company's Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) business group. The plan, first mooted in an internal memo leaked to US magazine Electronics Buyers' News, will see the SCG, which is based in Geneva and handles Motorola's discrete logic …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 11:37
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Web-friendly phone unveiled by Nokia
Can be used to download email, browse Net and access news services
Nokia today launched its first multimedia phone for Internet access. Based on the wireless application protocol (WAP), the Nokia 7110 Media phone can access everything on the Internet via a mobile computing device. The dual-band GSM 900/1800 handset was launched this morning at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. Nokia …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 11:48
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3Com nabs NTX for $90 million
Acquisition completes 3Com's LAN telephony line-up
3Com yesterday forked out $90 million for US-based network-based telephony systems specialist NBX. The deal brings to 3Com the small-to-medium sized business-oriented voice and data network integration products it needs to fill out its LAN telephony line. Last year, it teamed up with Siemens to develop and market high-end …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 12:02
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Apple to ape Sony PC product strategy
Macs to be made more easy to connect to and use consumer electronics kit
Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs yesterday reiterated his plans to strengthen the company's brand image by following the example of Sony. Jobs' comments appeared in interview with Japanese business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun. His specific interest in Sony centres on the way it has offered PC products that are not only well- …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 12:32
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Ideal wins Alpha configuration award
New accreditation gives distie factory-standard approval
Ideal Hardware’s sister company, UniSolve, has been awarded accreditation from the Compaq Certified Integration Programme (CIP) - a Unix system channel configuration scheme. It follows the launch of True64 Unix and means UniSolve is able to configure Compaq Alpha Server Unix and OpenVMS systems to Compaq factory standards. There …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 12:37
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RealNetworks releases Linux content tool
Linux-based RealProducer optimised for live audio and video encoding
RealNetworks has released a beta version of its content-creation application RealProducer Plus G2 for Linux. The company also announced today the final version of the software for Compaq's Tru64 incarnation of Unix, and the final release of the more advanced RealProducer Pro G2 for Windows 95/98/NT. RealProducer Plus is …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 13:09
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Compaq cuts off Web resellers
Distributors told not to supply the ‘no value’ sites
The world’s number one PC maker has hit out at online resellers, saying they offer the customer "no value-add." In an unprecedented move, Compaq has severed all links with resellers who sell its Presario range of home PCs over the Web, but who do not also have a real-world outlet. In this week's Computer Reseller News, Mike …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 15:44
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UK handset start-up sets sights on Chinese market
In the year of the rabbit, Sensei is hoping it's still good to talk
The UK's only mobile phone vendor, Sensei, said today it would launch its first digital cellular handsets later this year. The company was set up last June to break into this already saturated sector. Aiming at this year's anticipated premium markets, China and Europe, it will bring out mobile handsets for the corporate market …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 15:52
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Intel's Otellini teases world with PIII benchmarks
Intel Developer Forum But facts and figures as rare as hens' teeth
Senior Intel VP Paul Otellini kicked off the Intel Developer Forum this morning with claims that the Pentium III will deliver vastly higher speeds. But Otellini did not go into great detail, reserving real benchmarks for the official release of the Pentium III this coming Thursday. Otellini said that three different software …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 16:27
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BT free ISP customers find sting in the tail
Software fails to prompt users to hang up call
Telecoms industry watchdog Oftel is snapping at BT's heels in a bid to get the telecoms giant to fix teething troubles with ClickFree, its new subscription-free Internet access service. A report in today's Daily Telegraph revealed that a software glitch in BT ClickFree could be responsible for users running up enormous phone …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 16:56
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Yu demonstrates 1GHz chip, talks roadmap talk
Intel Developer Forum Is there liquid nitrogen behind the curtain?
Albert Yu, a senior VP at Intel US, demonstrated a microprocessor running at 1GHz. We said he would in our story 1GHz Intel story takes on Alice-like dimensions. But attendees at the Intel Developer Forum were not permitted to peep behind the scenes to see whether or not it was using Kryotech temperature-reduction technology. Yu …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 17:20
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UK ISP buy-up sees CIX gets its kicks
NT hosting capability is key to deal
Compulink Information eXchange (CIX) the ISP beloved of so many UK journos, has snapped up the customer base and hosting assets of Connect 2Internet, another UK ISP. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, is one of a number of acquisitions planned to boost CIX's presence in the UK ISP market. Graham Davies, CIX sales and marketing …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 17:41
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Intel says Direct Rambus delayed
Intel Developer Forum It will be Q3, says Gelsinger
Senior Intel VP Pat Gelsinger said this morning that the delivery of Direct Rambus memory was undergoing something of a hiccup. In his keynote speech at the Forum, Gelsinger said there were "slight delays" in the platform. That means that supplies of Rambus Memory are not likely to arrive until Q3 of this year, said Gelsinger. …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 17:53
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Pentium III serial number hackable
Andreas Stiller figures method out
Germany's c't magazine is reporting that the Pentium III ID serial number can be cracked. Andreas Stiller, a senior journalist at the magazine, has figured out a method to do it. In his news story, Stiller is reporting that Intel has confirmed his method works. ®
Business 23 Feb 1999, 18:10
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Microsoft's OEMs could strip out IE shell, says MS exec
MS on Trial But only after they've strictly adhered to the MS boot sequence.
The man who pays the rent at Microsoft spoke today -- and curiously, one of his suggestions was that Microsoft's OEM customers might care to install Caldera's DR-DOS on their machines. It's an interesting notion that may come back to haunt veteran Microsoft OEM boss Joachim Kempin, but we'll get back to it later. He also …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 18:16
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Powerleap throws hat into K6-III upgrade ring
Promises Q2 shipping date
And the winner of the race to produce the first AMD K6-III upgrade kit is -- not Evergreen for once -- but fellow US upgrade specialist Powerleap. To be precise, Powerleap is not the first to market, merely the first to announce product, something altogether different. Powerleap K6-III upgrade CPUs are priced according to speed …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 19:01
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Lion roars because of Intel chip pricing
Intel Developer Forum Big German distie forced to buy AMD chips
German distributor Lion said today it was forced to sell AMD chips because of channel conflict which Intel has failed to resolve. Karl-Heinz Muller, general manager of networks and systems at Lion, said that large shopping chain Aldi was selling systems using PII/400 and PII/450 systems at a price Intel would not give his …
Business 23 Feb 1999, 22:38
