23rd August 1999 Archive

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• Akamai announces IPO plan Shares to net $86.25m in addition to the $61.5m company has had of Apple and Cisco
• Alpha board bolstered by Scottish Telecom connection Matthews' appointment follows £9.5m investment
• AMD Harley gets delivered to Compaq Pfeiffer Four years ago Mercy dash from Austin to Houston
• Compaq Alpha cuts pull rug from Microsoft's 64-bit NT Compaq still loves 64-bit NT, apparently, but just doesn't want to spend money on it...
• Compaq kicked Down Under over retail plans Decision to open its own chain of stores has provoked angry reaction in channel
• Compaq's Capellas, Pesatori talk OpenVMS turkey Those inside Q know, now you do too..
• DoJ trial summary damns MS with facts MS on Trial The DoJ's 800 pages contrast sharply with the MS version
• eBay bans $6500 Iridium share auction Way too risky to allow to continue, quakes online auctioneer
• Fujitsu teams up with Xeons Four and eight way servers to ship
• Gates puts $5bn more into charity pot Biggest gift by a living donor
• God's techies write to The Register Mobile phones in church? That's nothing...
• i820-Camino incompatible with graphics boards? Will Intel fix it by the end of September?
• Intel changes verification spexx on chipz Unilateral declaration of something or other on NEWSPEED
• Intel ships Profusion SMP chipset, announces large cache Xeons Eleven OEMs to announce later on today
• Making Markets founder making tracks Duthie sunning herself in California – nice work if you can get it
• Microsoft, Amazon and the Drugstore connection Pin money for Melinda Gates
• Mobile phones are next to Godliness BTCellnet pays to mount transmitter in church spire
• Net Finance News: 1-7 Aug 1999 intro
• Net Finance News: 8-14 Aug 1999 intro
• Online bankers take off Europe spanks US at Net banking
• Reader warns of Intel-NT overclock shock Reader's Letter Cunning Wintel plan puts spanner in works?
• Sanyo jumps on digital music bandwagon Player to support Liquid Audio, MP3
• Shortages in Taiwan are getting crucial, man Mobiles affected big time, too
• Surfing the Net makes you mentally ill But you're really in need of help if you're ready to swallow that one
• Tesco to launch cybercafes Every little helps
• Via may produce Alpha chipsets Another brick in the wall?
• Wireless alliance to boost Palm-cellular interoperability Nokia, Lucent and 3Com make intriguing bedfellows...