24th March 1999 Archive
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Intel steps up Microsoft-Merced recruitment drive
Redmond a port in any storm
In a bid to ensure Merced has a run for its money before McKinley swamps its chances, Intel is recruiting a large number of IA-64 engineers. And adverts posted earlier this month show that it is seeking to step up its recruitment rate at Microsoft in Seattle, too. Intel is offering a large number of posts in areas relating …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 10:37
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SGI ramps Linux route
Jobs for the OSS boys
Adverts posted on slashdot.org by SGI indicate that the company is taking much more than a passing interest in the Linux operating system. The company is looking to recruit staff working on Linux kernel development. SGI says that "experience with multiprocessors is a plus". Applicants who get the jobs will, according to the ad …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 10:40
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IBM signs licence for ARM7
A year ago Deal gives ARM entree to custom solutions market
posted 24 March 1998 IBM Microelectronics has licensed Advanced Risc Machines' ARM7 for use in its custom silicon products. The deal gives IBM's semiconductor arm access to the ARM7TDMI processor core, which includes ARM's Thumb code compression extension, which is intended to produce 32-bit performance at 16-bit prices. …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 10:40
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More Alpha details seep from Compaq sieve
Pfeiffer's NDAs obviously don't bite like Intel's
Once more we have received NDA details of Compaq's future plans on microprocessors and operating systems. And although we have already published quite a lot of this information already, the info does not come this time from our mole deep in Texas. It is from an NDA'd presentation towards the end of last year. According to the …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 10:42
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Schmidt at Brainshare: Novell gunning for MS
And apparently someone's still running NetWare 2.0, nine years on. Is this a (78 rpm) record?
Eric Schmidt said in his keynote at Novell's Brainshare in Salt Lake City this week that there was still a user running NetWare 2 after nine years - longer than NT has been announced; a NetWare 3 installation that has been running non-stop for 2,347 days; and a NetWare 4 installation running for 894 days. This epitomises one of …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 10:53
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You don’t have to be mad to work in IT, but it helps
Survey catches glimpse of what life is like for the staff of the hi-tech world
Anyone who wants to know what it's like to work for a major technology company but is simply far too sane to try it for themselves, should take a look at a new book which claims to lift the lid on working for "cyber giants." Aimed at the curious -- and the downright nosy -- the authors of Vault Reports Guide to the High Tech …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 11:07
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Yahoo! scraps charge for Web access in UK
Portal giant may take free service into other countries
Leading portal Yahoo! has become the latest high-profile company to offer a subscription-free Internet access service in the UK. Yahoo! Online -- which is free of charge for users except for a 50p a minute charge for help desk support -- is funded from revenue generated by the interconnect charge and replaces Yahoo! Click which …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 11:27
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Free Web access war between the bookworms
Waterstone’s steals WH Smith’s thunder by rushing forward service
Waterstone's -- a keen favourite with UK bookworms -- has denied that it brought forward the launch of its own branded subscription-free Internet access service to spike similar plans by its rival WH Smith. An announcement due to be made this coming Friday had to be hastily brought forward after the story was leaked to the press …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 11:30
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Intel a monopoly – official
AMD just forgot to tell us
The PC Data figures on x.86 chip market share, certainly on the face of it, show AMD in a rosy hue. But dig a bit deeper and you'll find the truth. And, as you all know, the truth will out. PC Data figures show that Intel's market share of the $1,000 to $1,500 slice of the PC market is greater than 65 per cent. Intel's market …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 12:09
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MacOS X technology comes early with QuickTime for Java
Brings Java a mature multimedia platfrom and paves way for Java-based MacOS app development
Apple has released a Java version of its would-be standard multimedia platform, QuickTime. The public beta release, available now from Apple's Web site, allows developers to present and manipulate QuickTime data through their own Java applications. The software is essentially a Java applet that presents the QuickTime API as a …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 12:12
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Just Fancy That!
Shurely shome coinshidenshe...
"Speculating on the contents of Intel's roadmap is one of the joys of IT journalism. Sometimes people get it right. Mostly they don't." - Intel's magazine Intelligence, March 1999 "One of the joys of being Intel is that it can write its own roadmap. Mostly it gets it right, but sometimes it doesn't" - PC Magazine, May 1999
Business 24 Mar 1999, 12:18
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More ISP giveaways hit the high street
Throw in a fat bloke in a red suit and we can call it Christmas
HMV has become the UK's first music retailer to offer punters subscription-free Internet access. "This is a massive step in HMV's Internet strategy," said Stuart Rowe, general manager of HMV Direct and E-Commerce. "By teaming up with Yahoo! we have become the first music aligned ISP in the UK, which means that customers using …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 12:25
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3Com Q4 results up tenfold
But still disappointing, said company execs
3Com yesterday recorded a tenfold increase in profitability when it posted its Q3 1999 results, a figure that matched the company's warning, made earlier this month, that profits would be down. Revenue for the quarter, which ended on 26 February, was $1.411 billion, up 13 per cent on the same period last year. 3Com posted a …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 12:38
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Web site reveals speed camera locations
UK drivers can look forward to years of happy, high speed motoring – but look out for that tree
UK drivers can look forward to dodging speeding fines thanks to a full list of speed camera locations published on the Internet. The Association of British Drivers (ABD), which stands up for the rights of motorists, has a mission to publicise all 2,000 speed camera sites on its Web site. It invites car users to report new speed …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 12:49
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Samsung to pick Amazon.com's brains, officially
Amazon.com parachutes in 'advisors' to aid Samsung's Korean online sales
Samsung's Korean retailing division has formed a partnership with Amazon.com to speed the Internet bookseller's move into the Korean market. The deal specifically relates to Amazon.com providing its retail services through Samsung's Internet shopping site. Aamzon.com will also "pass on its online sales expertise", shorthand …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 12:49
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UK man convicted of cyberstalking
Hell hath no fury like an anorak scorned
A spurned lover, who used email to stalk his ex, made legal history when he was convicted yesterday. Cambridge graduate Nigel Harris, 23, became the first person in the UK to be prosecuted for cyberspace harassment. Harris was told to stay away from his former partner Claire Dawson in a ruling by Horseferry Road magistrates’ …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 13:03
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Infogrames grabs Gremlin for £22.9 million
French games publisher takes over ailing British developer
French games developer Infogrames has bought loss-making British games company Gremlin for £22.9 million in cash. Gremlin became a well-known name in the UK gaming community with its innovative sports titles, and went on to become popular with investors when it floated on the British stock exchange in July 1997. However, a lack …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 13:11
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Koreans raise the Anti-Microsoft standard
Save our software - first published 10 July 1998
Korean protesters against Microsoft -orchestrated plans to scrap the country's leading wordprocessor - are putting their money where their mouths are. The Korea Venture Business Association (KVBA) says it can raise the money needed to safeguard the future of the programme, called Ah Rae Ah Hangul. The KVBA said it could meet …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 14:09
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Chinese state software company to take on Microsoft
Local OS will force MS to cut Chinese WinCE prices, apparently
Microsoft has an operating system competitor in China: the Peking Software and Engineering Centre, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. During his sixth sales visit to China this month, Bill Gates unveiled a Chinese version of Windows CE (or Venus, as it is known locally) for a set-top box. Some 90 per cent of Chinese …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 14:49
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Sun to find home for ex-Netscapers
New software divisions will employee staff made redundant by AOL
Sun will today announce a new e-commerce and corporate software division, to be staffed by people due to be laid off when AOL's acquisition of Netscape goes through, according to a report in today's USA Today. The announcement will follow AOL's much-anticipated statement of its plans for Netscape, which has been the subject of …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 14:59
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Ex-AltaVista staff set sights on new horizon
Launch application for remote office access via Web
Eighteen former employees of the Digital UK AltaVista development team have set up an Internet company to develop and market a new Web-based application. Details of the new product are being kept under wraps until its official launch next month. Early indications suggest that the application will allow Net users to access their …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 15:33
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IBM capitulates to EMC
Battle of storage giants ends with Big Blue the loser
For the last five years, EMC has grown in the corporate storage arena while IBM has shown all the signs of flagging. Now Big Blue has finally capitulated to its upstart rival and has signed a five year deal worth an estimated $3 billion. EMC is to buy in IBM hard drives for its popular Symmetrix systems. It formerly used Seagate …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 15:46
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Electronics Boutique latest to offer free Web service
More free ISPs than you can shake a modem at
The growth of subscription-free Internet services is spreading faster than bugs in a Petri dish. Electronics Boutique (EB) - which sells computer software and video games - announced today that it too was to launch such a service. Called In2Home it is no doubt aimed at tech-heads keen to be linked to the trendy retailer. The …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 15:53
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LG scores big flat screen win with Dixons
To be seen in your high street RSN
The Korean press is reporting that LG has secured a deal with UK high street chain Dixons worth millions of dollars. LG claims that it won nearly $20 million worth of orders from different European players at the CeBIT show in Hannover over the last week. The deal means that flat screen monitors, which have taken a long time to …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 15:59
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UK .gov slammed for cheap PC idea
Problem is phone calls too expensive. Doh.
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said in the budget earlier this month that he will offer poor British families re-cycled PCs so this country does not fall behind in the information revolution. But now his plan is being slammed because of the high charges of phone calls in this country. In the US, local phone calls …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 16:17
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Intel Xeon problems found on Japanese site
Stone the crows and strike us pink
Once again, our friends at JC's pages have struck lucky. This time, they found some information on a Japanese site which is particularly interesting about the Xeon/III and managed to get it translated. According to the information, the Pentium III/Xeon in four way systems will eventually use a 133MHz bus. But Intel is having …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 16:30
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Mystery Intel litigation found on WWW
Just who are all these people?
A federal case was launched on the 18th of March against a vast number of defendants including the Intel Corporation. But the case is far from black and white, although by the look of it it refers to employment law. Nevertheless, Black and White do come into the case. The information comes from Company Sleuth, which offers an …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 16:55
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WH Smith teams up with Microsoft, BT for free ISP service
But you'll still have to pay for the books
WH Smith has signed a deal with BT and Microsoft to create a portal and subscription-free Internet access service but denies it's a knee jerk reaction against Waterstone's entry into the market today. A spokesman for WH Smith commenting on the news that rival bookseller Waterstone's was set to become an ISP told The Register …
Business 24 Mar 1999, 17:08
