18th June 1999 Archive

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Intel gets Coppermine cobble-wobbles

Too many Celerons make for low ASPs

The overflowing coffers of Intel generally garners are likely to be one coin short of a lottery win this year, a major analyst group is warning. Analyst group Credit Suisse First Boston is lowering earnings estimates because it is predicting problems with Coppermine coupled with too high sales of Celeron processors. The group …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 07:44
3Com, Aether form wireless data ISP

Windows CE gets joint billing with PalmOS

3Com has formed a joint venture with wireless comms specialist Aether Technologies to offer wireless data solutions to corporates, according to the Wall Street Journal. Called Open Sky, the company will focus on providing wireless access to the Internet and corporate networks via handheld devices -- essentially we're talking a …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 09:59
HP veteran Ann Livermore tops CEO shortlist

Lew Platt's replacement to be announced any day now

Hewlett-Packard has come up with a shortlist of three candidates for the job of CEO, sources close to the company have claimed. The list comprises one internal candidate, HP long-timer Ann Livermore, and two others from outside the company. The sources, cited by Reuters, refused to identify the other two candidates, suggesting …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 10:10
MS pushes write to congress campaign via Windows Update

Updated 'Soo.. I wrote mine and said to nail them to the cross...'

Back in May 1995 Bill Gates signed off his Internet Tidal Wave document with: "Customers will come to our 'home page' in unbelievable numbers and find out everything we want them to know." (Full analysis) This is one of our all-time favourite Bill Gates quotes, and this week its meaning became even clearer, when Microsoft added …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 10:14
Novell slashes SCO stake

80 per cent of shares sold -- rest to follow next month

Novell ditched over 80 per cent of its shareholding in the Santa Cruz Operation yesterday, and looks set to get rid of the rest. The networking company sold 1,363,750 shares, leaving its stake at just 300,000 common shares. And SCO CFO John Luhtala said he plans to buy the remain shareholding as soon as SCO has released its …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 10:21
EMI selects Liquid Audio for digital music system

Major label's online music plans begin to take shape

Britain's biggest music label and one of the world's 'big five' recording companies, EMI, has chosen Liquid Audio's Liquid Tracks as its digital music format of choice. Details of the deal emerged from Liquid Audio's IPO filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, according to US newswires, but hints that EMI was keen …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 10:36
Life not so fab at Intel

Analysis The process that shagged me

This writer, on his Vespa zooming to the Twisted Wheel in Manchester in the 1960s, well remembers the time when fab meant something really ace. But life is far from being fab at Intel, it appears. After a relentless and ruthless round of price cutting throughout the first six months of this year, it now appears that the strain …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 10:59
Packard Bell looks to iMac clone for survival

Last chance to make good before NEC pulls plug?

Packard Bell NEC has beaten Dell to release a Wintel-based clone of Apple's iMac, and is almost certainly the PC company's last chance to turn its financial situation around. Dubbed the Z1, the machine sports an all-in-one design centring on an 15in LCD screen. It also features an 8.4GB hard drive, 96MB RAM, 56kbps modem, four …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 11:06
Major MS Web Server security hole exposed, plugged

Bug-fix terrorism? Whatever next?

Security outfit eEye has roused Microsoft's ire and garnered itself some cheap publicity by going public with information on what it says is a serious security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0. The move hasn't helped the company's relationship with Microsoft any, but it seems to have triggered the …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 11:33
Register storms on to new heights

Page impressions soar on your supersoaraway site

We have just received our independent audited readership for the month of April from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). The figures show that during April we had over 2,418,000 page impressions. That shows a dramatic rise over our previous audit in February, which showed that we had 1,400,000 page impressions. The figures …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 11:48
Intel confirms mobile price reductions

Slash and burn time again

As predicted here some months ago, Intel made a set of price reductions on its mobile processor parts last weekend. The new prices are as follows, for thousands of units. The new 400 MHz costs $530. The 366 MHz part was $530 and now costs $316, a 40 per cent decrease; 333 MHz was $316 and is now $187 a 41 per cent drop; the 300 …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 12:00
Cisco fall-out sees ilion sue Ciscom

Staff lay-offs too

ilion is seeking "substantial damages for losses... in connection with an irregular transaction" from its customer, Ciscom, a Cisco reseller At the same time it is making 15 people -- ten per cent of its UK workforce -- redundant, following the loss of its Cisco contract earlier this month. The new executive management team led …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 12:13
‘Cooked’ MS memo II – DoJ chases missing emails

MS on Trial Missing material may involve lawyer, broad arrows

The Register has now obtained copies of the DoJ's motion covering Microsoft's attempts to enter a fabricated Bill Gates memo as evidence (Cooked memo I) - and it doesn't look good for the defence team. Discussion of the motion was originally intended to take place this week, but will now probably happen next. Ominously, as …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 13:30
Corel predicts Monday's Q2 results announcement

Expect profits of 14 cents per share, $70.5 million revenue, says CFO

Corel today said that it expects to report revenues of $70.5 million on Monday when it posts its financials for its second quarter, ended 31 May. The company also said it expects to post a profit of 14 cents a share. That compares with the 14 cents a share loss on revenues of $63 million it posted for the same period last year. …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 14:41
AMD-Alpha collaboration firmed up

Slot B, Tsunami chipset, et al

Samsung subsidiary Alpha Processors Inc (API) will next week demonstrate a one gigahertz system which will arrive in volume this time next year. The system will not be cooled by Kryotech and runs at room temperature, we can confirm. Our source saw the system demoed at Kiheung, in Korea, this week, and the firm will transport the …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 15:28
Intel denies allegations on K7 mobo pressure

It's unethical. And it never happens

Reports from the Asian Pacific region that Intel was putting pressure on Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers to delay their K7 implementations were firmly squashed today. The reports, which we have been unable to confirm, suggested that the select Big Five Taiwanese firms were being asked, nicely, to hold up their production of …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 16:03
Strike a light! Philips sells off semi division bit

There's bulbs in that there country

Dutch company Phillips said today it will sell its CoolRunner line to Xilinx. It didn't say how much it will get for the transaction, but the letter of intent says the deal will be a done deal by July. The Philips semi people will be kept on by Xilinx, the Dutch company said. But Philips will keep Fast Zero Power technology and …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 16:03
Motorola offers royalty-free M-Core licences

But only to Japanese OEMs, which isn't as daft as it might sound

Motorola today announced it is licensing its M-Core embedded processor architecture to Japanese OEMs free of charge. The move was predicted by The Register back in March. Under the terms of the deal Japanese companies can license Motorola's technology free of charge for products that will ship only into the domestic Japanese …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 16:13
Iomega predicts huge Q2 loss

So much for the turnaround...

Just a week after insisting to members of the UK IT press that it has turned the corner and is well on its way to rude health, Iomega today warned that it will post a loss for its second quarter. It also said it was shutting two US manufacturing plants. Job losses there and at other US locations would total 450 redundancies, …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 16:26
AMD and Intel meet in lavatory

One hand washes another

It was our first year anniversary party last night. Don't ask most of us why, we're actually five years old in August, and we moved into Maddox Street in March last year. But a party's a party. Sure enough, folks from AMD and Intel tipped up but try as we might, we couldn't get them to stand together in a photograph. Imagine our …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 16:34
Geologist indicted for sending, receiving child porn via Net

Earth scientist rocked for getting rocks off

Yale University geology and geophysics professor Antonio Lasaga was today indicted on multiple charges of disseminating kiddie porn via the Internet. The charges stated Lasaga had received thousands of images of child pornography over a one-year period, and that he was in possession of floppy disks, a hard disk and two …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 16:38
Geologist indicted for receiving child porn via Net

Earth scientist rocked for getting rocks off

Yale University geology and geophysics professor Antonio Lasaga was today indicted on multiple charges of disseminating kiddie porn via the Internet. The charges stated Lasaga had received thousands of images of child pornography over a one-year period, and that he was in possession of floppy disks, a hard disk and two …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 16:42
Congress at your Fingertips – how MS lobbies via the Web

MS on Trial A fascinating and intricate machine is marshalling support

Microsoft's addition of a write-in campaign facility to Windows Update (Earlier Story) is interesting enough, but if you check out how the campaign is being run, who's running it, and what the objectives are, it gets even more interesting. You don't need Windows 98 or even Internet Explorer to play, because the Microsoft Freedom …

Business 18 Jun 1999, 16:57