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  • Storage is dead dull, right?

    That's not true...examples follow

    If you are running out of space to stow your garden mower or possibly you want to shove all your press clippings in a skip, storage suddenly becomes all important. Land fill sites are another storage dilemma, as monitors, fridges, PCs and the like are obsoleted, need to be put somewhere without spending billions on rockets. …

    Business 5 May 1999, 04:25

  • Caldera claims MS emails proof of illegal competition

    MS on Trial And the Caldera emails do seem a lot heavier than the ones the DoJ released...

    Court filings by Caldera earlier this week claim that Microsoft internal documentation shows that the company used a series of misleading and anti-competitive strategies to damage sales of DR-DOS. The rival operating system was a strong challenger to Microsoft's MSDOS prior to the release of Windows 95, and Caldera (which ' …

    Business 5 May 1999, 07:34

  • Windows 98 Second Edition to be released today

    First mentioned in March, out in May, as we suggested. It's taken MS about two months to develop - apparently.

    Windows 98 Second Edition will be announced today, making it indisputably Microsoft's fastest ever operating system development. It goes into manufacturing this week, and is expected in the stores next month, with a US price of $89.95. But it will be possible for existing users of Windows 98 to buy an upgrade CD via Microsoft's …

    Business 5 May 1999, 07:41

  • NatSemi to ‘announce Cyrix sale’

    Shock Horror, ZD scoops the world

    NatSemi is to sell Cyrix less than two years after buying the company, according to PC Week Online's Lisa DiCarlo. Quoting sources, DiCarlo reveals NatSemi will tell the world today that it's put its system-on-a-chip vendor on the block. The company has scheduled early morning calls with analysts to announce the move, she says. …

    Business 5 May 1999, 07:43

  • Rolls-Royce emailers' jobs still in jeopardy

    Allegedly "inapproporiate" emails may lead to sackings

    Fourteen staff at Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group are still waiting to hear whether they will keep their jobs after they were suspended more than a fortnight ago for allegedly sending email that contained "inappropriate material". A spokesman for Rolls Royce would not disclose the exact details of what constituted "inappropriate …

    Business 5 May 1999, 09:45

  • Egghead.com loss narrows

    Humpty Dumpty's fall no so great this time

    US software retailer Egghead, reborn last year as an ecommerce-only operation, yesterday saw its loss fall by nearly two-thirds. For its fourth quarter 1998, ended 3 April, the company lost $12.8 million, compared to $35 million this time last year. Egghead notched up sales of $42.3 million, well up on the $26.6 million it made …

    Business 5 May 1999, 10:34

  • Al Gore says Web violence had hand in highschool massacre

    But it's bullets that kill people, not POPs

    Vice President Al Gore is expected to pander to public pressure today when he delivers some choice words about the corrupting influence of the Internet on young minds. According to a report by CNet, a White House representative confirmed that Gore would deliver some carefully chosen words about the "Net, violence and parents" in …

    Business 5 May 1999, 11:00

  • Unix creator lambasts Linux

    Linux no more than an anti-Microsoft backlash, claims Thompson

    Ken Thompson, co-writer of Unix, has gone on record to damn Linux as little more than a "backlash against Microsoft" that will ultimately prove to be unsuccessful. Interviewed by the IEEE Computer Society's house magazine, Computer, Thompson was asked for his thoughts on the Linux phenomenon in light of his own experience with …

    Business 5 May 1999, 11:04

  • HP confirms Merced retreat

    McKinley, McKinley, it's got to be McKinley

    Sources at Hewlett-Packard today confirmed that it will skip supplying Merced to its customers and instead move directly to the McKinley platform, when that is released. When HP launched its upward-compatible version of its N Series a few weeks back, which includes a chipset for the IA-64 platform, it also said it would continue …

    Business 5 May 1999, 11:08

  • Infineon exec damns DRAM glut feeding Koreans

    Expanding production for a near-saturated market "should not be tolerated"

    Infineon Technologies -- the semiconductor business formerly known as Siemens -- has slammed South Korean DRAM manufacturers for pumping memory into an already glutted global marketplace. Interviewed by Semiconductor Business News, Infineon VP of operations Andreas von Zitzewtiz, said: "Korean companies supply 40 per cent of the …

    Business 5 May 1999, 11:22

  • Xircom to take WinCE to enterprise

    Corporates want to network handhelds, apparently

    Portable connectivity specialist Xircom is hoping to give Windows CE -- and itself -- a boost with a new line of network connectivity devices for the platform. The products are designed to connect to WinCE 2.0 devices through a standard CompactFlash port, though Xircom said it will supply an adaptor for machines only equipped …

    Business 5 May 1999, 11:47

  • Comcast yields to AT&T over MediaOne

    Updated But defeat brings $1.5 billion and two million subscribers as pay off

    Comcast has agreed to allow AT&T to go ahead with its $56.4 billion takeover of US cable company MediaOne, a 50 per cent shareholder in UK cellular provider One-2-One and owner of 30 per cent of UK local cable TV company Telewest. AT&T's bid for MediaOne was finally accepted yesterday, but the prospect of a raised bid from …

    Business 5 May 1999, 11:55

  • Wicked3D breaks free from hardware biz

    Company to focus on multi-card acceleration software and becoming as famous as 3dfx

    US developer Metabyte is to transform its Wicked3D hardware division into a software only operation, the company said yesterday. The move will see the company discontinue its 3D graphics card and stereoscopic 3D system -- though support for existing customers will be maintained -- and focus on the software behind them. That's …

    Business 5 May 1999, 12:23

  • NatSemi exits PC CPU market

    Cyrix not to be sold after all -- at least not yet...

    National Semiconductor is getting out of the PC processor business, as predicted, but not quite in the way everyone had anticipated. Instead of selling off its Cyrix subsidiary, NatSemi will sell off its majority interest in its South Portland, Maine 0.18 micron fab, and make many of its x86 processor people redundant. Some 550 …

    Business 5 May 1999, 12:48

  • HP buys Dazel

    It's the digital workplace man

    Hewlett Packard has bought Dazel, an electronic software delivery company based in Austin for an undisclosed amount. Just a few days ago it bought a storage company, and it's got its big storage gig here in NY, NY in an hour's time. The company will become part of HP's LaserJet division. We just headed across 42nd St under HP …

    Business 5 May 1999, 13:43

  • One-2-One to spend £50m on expansion

    Future’s looking bright as 2,000 jobs created

    Mobile phone company One-2-One will create 2,000 jobs around the UK through a £50 million investment plan. The first area to benefit will be Scotland, where a new call centre in Greenock will produce 800 new jobs. In addition to the Greenock centre, due to open in August, the mobile phone company will add 500 jobs to its …

    Business 5 May 1999, 13:57

  • New body to end cyber squatting

    Trademark infringement to come under fire

    The owners of domain addresses that have been hijacked by porn sites could be among those to benefit from the introduction of new rules governing trademark abuse on the Internet. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) published its report last Friday setting out a series of recommendations aimed at curbing the abuse …

    Business 5 May 1999, 13:59

  • Ingram to up its prices

    Charges increase across the channel

    Ingram Micro will join the ranks of distributors raising prices, blaming restructuring and channel service improvement costs for the move. Investments are being made in ecommerce, sales training and white-box assembly lines. Ingram said it needed to fund these measures, but believed resellers would benefit in the long run, …

    Business 5 May 1999, 14:12

  • AOL tees up toll-free call service

    Comes clean about 0800 trial

    AOL UK has finally buckled under the pressure of the UK ISP market and has admitted that it is testing a new pricing package which would give users toll-free telephone calls to access the Net. AOL refused to confirm any details but a Reuters' story published earlier today said it had been conducting trials of 0800 freephone …

    Business 5 May 1999, 14:30

  • Building firm makes more money from Web stocks than from stock-in-trade

    Too busy making money to do any work? You’re not alone

    A small Hong Kong building company specialising in ceramic building materials has made a small fortune by selling its shares in an Internet company. According to a report by Bloomberg, Companion Building Materials Holdings (CBMH) Ltd made more money in a single day selling its holding in an Internet company it bought last year, …

    Business 5 May 1999, 15:17

  • Chipzilla speaks. What you will be using in 2001

    Double pumping coming your way RSN

    Those awfully nice people at Intel have decided what we all should be doing with our hard-earned cash in a coupla years’ time. And, surprise surprise, it involves handing over loads of cash for shiny new IA64 systems. Despite HP’s ‘McKinley or die’ approach, Merced still looms large in Chipzilla’s own road maps. In the middle of …

    Business 5 May 1999, 15:47

  • New high-end Intel systems coming your way

    … more codenames to learn

    Through the mists of time comes swimming a whole bunch of new Intel codenames for Xeon, Foster and Merced systems. For low end servers in late Q3, expect to see the single processor Mimosa and dual CPU Pine and Hemlock boards using 133MHz FSB and the 820 chipset. Higher up the scale come the Willow 2-way and the Koa 4-way, both …

    Business 5 May 1999, 15:49

  • Mini ThinkPad's a-coming today

    But only in the US for now

    IBM will announce its WorkPad z50 today, a Windows CE-based handheld PC. The long-awaited 2.6 pound device is a 'Jupiter'-class clamshell design. This means it looks like a dwarf version of the IBM ThinkPad notebook, yet is bigger than most typical CE handhelds. Its size can be compared to Hewlett-Packard's Jornada 820 and LG …

    Business 5 May 1999, 16:36

  • EMC and HP: war declared

    Hewlett Packard says EMC technology old

    The full extent of the rift between HP and EMC in the storage market emerged today at a press conference in New York. Describing EMC's technology as an ageing and proprietary technology, Marilyn Edling, general manager of the enterprise systems group at HP, also confirmed it had struck a partnership with Hitachi Data Systems and …

    Business 5 May 1999, 17:19

  • HP to pour $50 million into storage Eurochannel

    Resellers will sell Hitachi big box

    As part of its initiative to grab leadership in the storage market, HP said today it will spend $50 million on a European initiative. And the company confirmed it will allow some, at least of its channel to resell the MC256 enterprise box. Patrick Bonelli, sales and marketing manager of the storage group Europe, said that HP had …

    Business 5 May 1999, 21:12

  • ARM intros DSP chip

    Processor core enhanced

    UK company ARM has introduced an addition to its chip line which supports DSP and control software. The ARM 9E, said the company, is aimed applications that need a mix of control and digital signal processing (DSP). Typical applications include DVD drives, voice over IP, hard disks, mobile telephones, modems, PDAs, Internet …

    Business 5 May 1999, 21:35