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  • Lucent chooses Netscape for wireless Web portal

    Zingo to provide start page for mobile users

    Lucent has hopped into the Netscape camp in order to build an Internet portal for mobile phones and organisers. The limited screen real estate of these devices means that they're going to need special-purpose Web technologies if they're going to browse the Web, so potentially this is a major win for Netscape over Microsoft. The …

    Business 6 May 1999, 08:10

  • Siemens turns to Fujitsu JV to save PC business

    Siemens has a factory, Fujitsu shifts them boxes - let's do the show right here...

    Siemens' embarrassing attempts to exit the PC business (Siemens seeks partners for PC plant) seem to be back on track, with the prospect of a joint venture company with Fujitsu. The German giant, which found out it hadn't been doing as wonderfully as it had previously though last year, has already tried and failed to pursue this …

    Business 6 May 1999, 08:12

  • IBM-Moto PowerPC deal isn't dead – honest

    But pushing harder into embedded might mean it's dead in parts

    The IBM-Motorola PowerPC alliance isn't dead after all. But that's what it says in the press release, so it seems reasonable to maintain one's doubts. The two partners have induced one Keith Diefendorf, editor in chief of The Microprocessor Report, it says here, to assuage our doubts about the ongoing viability of their PowerPC …

    Business 6 May 1999, 08:19

  • Red Hat hires top Netscape exec – did we say IPO?

    Eric Hahn is intended to take Red Hat places, and no doubt will be richly rewarded...

    Red Hat's campaign to add weight to its management has continued with the hiring of Eric Hahn, formerly of Netscape, as chief technology officer. He arrived at Netscape when the company bought his company, Collabra, and was general manager of Netscape's server products division. A couple of weeks ago we noted that Red Hat seemed …

    Business 6 May 1999, 08:22

  • Semiconductor sales hit $11.16bn

    The cause: the Asian rebound

    Global semiconductor sales hit $11.16 billion in March, an increase of 6.7 per cent on the same month last year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. That figure also represents a rather less impressive 2.4 per cent increase on February's sales. The Association cited the improving Asian market as the key factor …

    Business 6 May 1999, 10:13

  • Free phone Web access picks up Tempo

    High street store accuses rival of sour grapes as reports of fighting are denied

    Electrical retailer Tempo has denied that fighting has broken out in its stores among customers desperate to get their hands software for its groundbreaking subscription-free ISP Screaming.net. A report in today's Mirror has been dismissed as nothing more than sour grapes after the tabloid newspaper launched its own branded ISP …

    Business 6 May 1999, 10:33

  • Liquid Audio tunes into Net IPO frenzy

    But does it have much of a future?

    Digital music delivery company Liquid Audio is to go public -- a brave move, many would have thought, in the face of increased competition from some very big players indeed. Liquid Audio gave little away about the upcoming IPO -- it simply specified a June/July timeframe for the issue, and promised pricing and quantity details …

    Business 6 May 1999, 10:51

  • Simon Meredith writes…

    Column: A weekly column from leading channel journalist Simon Meredith

    This is the first in a series of regular, weekly columns from Simon Meredith. Simon is one of the most well-known and well-established channel journalists in the UK. Each week, here on The Register, Simon will turn his attention to some of the burning issues of the day. More information about Simon’s work can be found at his Web …

    Business 6 May 1999, 12:24

  • Datrontech to bring Novell to the SME masses

    Recruitment drive aimed at system builders

    Novell today added Datrontech to its list of UK distributors with the launch of its Novell Systems Partner Programme. The networking vendor spurned its existing distributors to appoint Basingstoke-based Datrontech to target an untapped market. It will sell Novell NetWare for Small Business and NetWare 5 products, and offer …

    Business 6 May 1999, 12:57

  • What happens when free ISPs are overrun and can’t support their users?

    Comment Our man on the receiving end tells it like it is

    The Register's Tim Richardson decided to put his email where his mouth is and sign up to Tempo's Screaming.net service. After losing all his old email and getting little or no help, he's not a happy bunny. Reports of fights breaking out in Tempo's stores may have been exaggerated, but then again... Tim writes: Screaming.net may …

    Business 6 May 1999, 13:48

  • Fujitsu leads Euro PC sales growth

    Survey The supermarket channel leads the way

    Europeans are buying more PCs than ever before, if the latest Dataquest figures are anything to go by. During the first three months of the year, European PC sales climed 20 per cent on the same period last year. Driving that growth were sales into the home -- while business-oriented sales grew just nine per cent, domestic sales …

    Business 6 May 1999, 15:39

  • Spam scams shift from Net to cellphones

    Cellnet, Vodafone customers inadvertantly reveal personal details -- Orange subscribers tempted with smut

    UK fraudsters have apparently changed their focus away from lucrative Internet scams and have begun targeting mobile phone users instead. One scam involves unsolicited premium line calls while another apparently swipes personal details from GSM handsets to nick free airtime. The first trick takes advantage of the group messaging …

    Business 6 May 1999, 15:47

  • Indian debt collector calls in the eunuchs

    Channel to take heed and bolster credit control departments?

    A cure for the spectre of bad debt currently stalking the IT industry may lie in the back streets of Bombay. In this Indian city, a debt-collecting firm has taken to employing eunuchs to embarrass those slow at paying up. The six eunuchs currently employed threaten to remove their saris, bringing shame on offenders, their …

    Business 6 May 1999, 16:29

  • Be IPO based on set-top box role for BeOS

    Fortune 'reveals' what we said back in March

    Be, developer of the self-styled 'media' operating system, BeOS, is to go public. According to unnamed Be shareholders, cited by Fortune, the company is on the verge of filing its IPO plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. One of those shareholders will be Chipzilla, which already owns a stake in the OS developer. …

    Business 6 May 1999, 16:31

  • New mobile operator to enter UK market

    Government to auction off fifth licence

    The DTI has announced that it is to let a new mobile phone rival penetrate the UK market. Five separate third generation licences for cellular phones are to be auctioned off by the Department of Trade and Industry. This will include a larger licence reserved for a new entrant, according to DTI telecomms minister Michael Wills. …

    Business 6 May 1999, 16:37

  • MS to take $5bn stake in AT&T

    Telco follows post MediaOne Comcast deal with pledge to back Win CE

    Microsoft is to buy into AT&T to the tune of $5 billion. In return, AT&T will put its not inconsiderable weight behind Windows CE, according to a Reuters report today. Some kind of Microsoft investment has been on the cards ever since it expressed it interest in ensuring Comcast, in which it also has a stake, won its battle with …

    Business 6 May 1999, 16:58