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  • AMD K6-III thrashes Intel on Linux compilation

    Sixteen per cent faster, hardware site claims

    Hardware site CPU Review has published a set of benchmarks which claims that the Linux kernel compiles 16 per cent faster on an AMD processor than an Intel chip. According to reviewer Bill Henning: "The fastest x86 CPU I've tested to date (April 12, 1999) for kernel compilation is the AMD K6-III/400. While it is priced about 3.8 …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 06:22

  • Motorola shows gains in Q1

    Claws way back in semiconductor market

    US giant Motorola said that its first quarter financial results show that it is returning to profitability in its chip business. Overall, Motorola showed turnover of $7.2 billion, with net profits of $171 million. That represents a five per cent increase in revenues from the same period last year. Net margin on its products was …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 06:33

  • Puffajackets get reprieve as Psion Dacom wins big deal

    A year ago Curl gone but IBM deal on cards

    From The Register No. 73, April 1998 Psion plc subsidiary Psion Dacom is set to strike a massive deal with a major OEM which will mean further re-organisation at the company. Last year, it struck a deal with Dell, exclusively reported here in The Register. The fresh deal freshly follows the rapid departure of David Curl, …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 06:57

  • Apple and Intel: the canary pecks back

    Remember Star Trek?

    A flood of emails and articles on the World Wide Web has prompted the Intel engineer that said Apple and Intel are cuddling up to respond to critiques. The engineer, who tipped us off about the story on Sunday, said: "I am a regular reader of Macnn and AppleInsider "The funny thing about the article and the message boards at …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 08:55

  • Dyson sweeps back into ilion faculty top spot

    Co-founder of training facility moves back to take reins

    ilion faculty will replace former MD Julia Jones with company old-timer Gary Dyson. Dyson was one of the original co-founders of Persona Group along with Wayne Cannon. He launched the training and services faculty business as part of Persona 10 years ago. Dyson, who left ilion Group in 1992, will rejoin the Chessington, Surrey- …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 11:34

  • Phone war breaks out as One-2-One takes on BT

    Who needs a phone in their home

    One-2-One has chopped call rates by up to two-thirds, targetting BT in an all-out price war. Last night’s move saw the mobile phone operator planning to cut off-peak charges to 2p a minute nationwide. This will make it cheaper than BT – which charges 4p per minute for long-distance evening calls. One2One, the UK’s fourth largest …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 11:38

  • Linux camp slashes out at ‘NT beats Linux’ survey

    Microsoft paid for the 'maimed' survey, now it looks like Mindcraft is going to pay for it too...

    A Microsoft-sponsored test has 'proved' that the combination of Windows NT and Microsoft Internet Information Server outperform Linux and Apache as a Web server, and Linux and Samba as an SMB file server. Unsurprisingly the survey has come under withering (and, it appears, justified) fire from the Linux camp. The test was …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 11:39

  • Microsoft launches MP3 killer

    RealNetworks had better watch out too

    Microsoft last night launched itself into the digital music arena with the long-awaited unveiling of Windows Media Technologies 4.0 (WMT), which the company has just made available in beta form on its Web site. At the core of WMT is the MSAudio compression scheme, which the company claims generates files half the size of those …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 11:48

  • Seagate Q3 profits up

    But Q4 revenue growth may be slow

    Hard drive manufacturer Seagate continued to distance itself from last year's financial turmoil with its latest quarterly results, posted yesterday. The company posted a profit of $82 million for Q3 1999, ended 2 April, after taking a $60 million hit for the closure of its plant in Livingston, Scotland. This time last year, …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 12:06

  • Gates: ‘store your digital life records on the Internet’

    And you couldn't make it up -- they're putting his Altair code in a paper bag made out of lead

    Bill Gates displayed his famous tin ear once again when, on donating $20 million to Massachusetts Institute of Technology he announced that in the future people will store their "digital life records" on the Internet. We presume that's version 1.0 of this particular claim, as in recent times Microsoft's performance has led us to …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 12:20

  • Palm widens scope for cloners

    Palm clones due in "six to nine months", says president

    Palm Computing president Robin Abrams this week restated the company's plan to license the PalmOS platform to third-parties, but this time the message came with a clear change: the current licensing regime is far wider than the one set in place six months ago by then acting general manager Janice Roberts. Palm's original …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 12:30

  • Gung-ho US lawyers attack German Web man over holiday picture

    Family snap of the Grand Canyon sparks over zealous litigation

    Heavy-handed lawyers in the UK and US have forced a leading German software developer to close his Web site over a copyright dispute despite admitting that some of the allegations were false. Lawyers acting for IPIX (Interactive Pictures Corporation) have until this afternoon to substantiate the charges and submit evidence of …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 16:25

  • Microsoft qualifications make your staff more attractive

    More attractive to your competitors, that is

    Training Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) gives huge returns on investment, but may lead to your staff being poached, according to IDC research. Today’s report, presented at a London press conference, showed businesses training employees to MCP status raised their productivity while cutting PC failure by 50 per cent. IDC …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 16:32

  • Pfeiffer very unhappy about Intel Merced

    Eckhard shakes his head and says sorry

    Our stringer at Compaq Innovate said today that Eckhard Pfeiffer, CEO of the company, refused to demonstrate the Intel Merced emulator. Instead, Pfeiffer demoed Windows NT64 on the Alpha platform, while blatantly snubbing Merced IA-64 solutions, as predicted here. Pfeiffer, forced to demonstrate an emulation Merced platform at …

    Business 14 Apr 1999, 19:30