30th June 1999 Archive

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Management

• Analyst claims Apple ‘iBook’ to launch 21 July Saloman Smith Barney man's predictions follow Register's own
• AOL forges deal with eMachines Alliance to promote Compu$erve, paves way for AOL-brand Net appliance
• Apple limits own iMac sales to boost channel Analysis First fix your inventory then fix your channel
• Barrett takes Merced date to the last day of June It will tape out today, he will insist
• Benchmark battles – now Linux beats NT A 'real life scenario' test by c't mag does a good job of putting things in context
• Bets on in HP-Compaq race Runners and riders declared
• Charities profit from pirates' ill-gotten gains Microsoft giving 'til it hurts
• Compaq ekes out more domain names The new ones make a change from things with Nonstopinfront
• Control Data to be snapped up by BT Updated: US reseller to form part of Syntegra
• Freeserve escapes bug threat Hole in IIS lets hackers slip through
• French telco intros free Web calls Limited service from France Telecom as free calls movement begins to snowball
• Gates, Barrett to speak to world+dog today Can we expect an announcement that Merced samples are shipping?
• Hardware site petitions Intel over SMP Celerons Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it...
• Intel goes hardcore with Xeon A year ago Company predicts 8-way systems by end of the year
• Judge denies first MS motions in Caldera case MS on Trial Caldera CEO optimistic of complete victory
• Mobo makers wavering over Intel-Via lawsuit But Via-UMC deal may allow them to snap up Cyrix
• Motorola takeover rumour propels Proxim stock Shares just miss 52-week high
• Move to 12-inch wafers likely slow Dataquest warns transition could take quite some while
• MS in frame in 4m user ‘racism’ class action bid Has someone been monkeying with MS Publisher?
• Naked Apple Palm PDA seen on Web Newt-o-palm prototype revealed?
• Net-only dealer sets out Euro-stall In France, opening in the UK and Germany
• Oftel spurns calls for Net regulations Consumers are getting the service they want, apparently
• Packard Bell to lay off 200 staff Desperate dash back to profitability continues
• Parliamentary Web group with no site Efforts to improve UK digital economy get two cheers
• Penguin hits out at ‘artificial’ Linux benchmarks But in that case, maybe Penguin shouldn't have attended them...
• Pirates relax as MS man changes job Anti-piracy man sets his sights on improved press coverage
• Seagate in sales doldrums Soft business for hard drives
• Via buys Cyrix Updated Will continue to develop and market Cyrix chips
• Via-Cyrix deal all about patents Analysis The mystery is in the history
• W3C ratifies XML spec Get ready for the real e-commerce revolution...
• Will IBM buy Sequent, will Compaq use Merced? Birmingham, England, offers clues....
• Win98 SP1 now out for download – in parts Are the morlocks having trouble integrating it into one big pile, then?
• Woman hacks into husband’s PC – literally Computer rage? You ain't seen nothing yet
• Yahoo! hijacks its users' content It's all a load of TOS