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  • Via Apollo Pro 133 mobo sales start

    And it's in Japan, of course

    Motherboards using the contentious Apollo Pro 133 chipset have started appearing in Japanese electronics stores. According to this site, the chipset is being implemented in the Aopen AX63 Pro mobo at ¥16,800. The motherboard and chipset will support the 133MHz front side bus (FSB) which, according to the blurb is overclockable …

    Business 18 Jul 1999, 10:24

  • Bristol case: how MS escaped the guilty verdict

    MS on Trial No 'relevant market,' no monopoly, so no case, said jury

    Bristol's antitrust claim against Microsoft appears to have foundered at the first hurdle, with the jury deciding that there was no "relevant market" for operating systems for either technical workstations or departmental servers. If there's no relevant market, then there's no monopoly, so there's no antitrust case to answer. A …

    Business 18 Jul 1999, 12:48

  • Analysis: How MS used the WISE Trojan Horse against Unix

    MS on Trial The jury said it wasn't illegal - but it certainly wasn't nice

    Bristol may yet appeal after its loss against Microsoft (as of Friday, it hadn't come to a decision on this), but as the case stands it serves as an awful warning for companies doing business with Microsoft. A nice little business took it into an alliance with Microsoft, then it got sucked in deeper, and then the carrots started …

    Business 18 Jul 1999, 12:57

  • 600MHz Athlon stomps PIII in ‘preview’ tests

    FiringSquad's results indicate AMD could have a world-beater on its hands

    Hardware news and reviews site FiringSquad has produced a highly detailed "preview" of AMD's 600MHz Athlon, with benchmarks attached. In most of these it excels, and FiringSquad describes it as "an amazing product of engineering. By scaling results, it's clear that in most cases the Athlon is a faster processor than the Pentium …

    Business 18 Jul 1999, 14:14

  • Korean .gov hits out at Sun for Y2K overpricing

    Hospital gets hit by expensive software upgrade

    Tomorrow's Korea Herald is reporting that Sun is coming under attack from government bodies for allegedly overcharging for year 2000 upgrades. According to the newspaper, which quotes an official at the Ministry of Information and Communication, Sun is using double standards by offering public bodies free upgrades but charging …

    Business 18 Jul 1999, 14:26

  • Intel's PIII/600 for sale – applies price fork to AMD K7

    Updated Celeron 500 $190 retail, PIII/600 as little as $700

    Ingram Micro will start selling the Pentium III/600 .25 micron processor tomorrow at a price of $705. This is for a boxed unit containing a heatsink and fan, so haggling for the processor only would bring it down to about the $650/$660 level. Further confirmation that the chip is for sale has come from Japanese site Pricewatch, …

    Business 18 Jul 1999, 14:56

  • AT&T faces trench warfare over US open cable plans

    City by city, its broadband network could be pried open for rival ISPs

    American telecoms Titan AT&T may soon find itself in a tedious, and costly, campaign of legal trench warfare, defending its right to snub opportunistic hangers on to its newly-acquired cable networks. The nightmare scenario follows a recent US federal court decision in Portland, Oregon effectively forcing AT&T to make broadband …

    Business 18 Jul 1999, 15:01