30th August 1999 Archive
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Intel's Grove admits Rambus will take time
Only for a small proportion of the PC universe
In an interview on CNN TV last Friday, Intel's chairman Andy Grove, acknowledged that it will be some time before Direct Rambus technology becomes part of the PC mainstream. Speaking in an interactive debate using telephones and email, Grove also forecast a continuing shrinking of silicon technology but using aluminium, rather …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 01:08
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NVIDIA to go for huge tranny count
Speeds like a bee
NVIDIA will announce on Tuesday details of its next generation part, numbered NV10. The technology will differ greatly from TNT2 with hardware extensions, according to Registersources. Instead, it will be new silicon, with as many as 23 million transistors and 200 BOPs -- more than the upcoming Merced and current Athlon and …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 01:26
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MySQL now open source
High speed database server released under GPL
MySQL, a multiuser, multithreaded SQL database server developed to handle very large databases an order of magnitude faster than major vendor products, is being released under a GPL. The SQL in this case is the real structured query language, and should not be confused with a Microsoft product that usurps the SQL name. A 1970s …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 06:42
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MS advertorial slammed by mag trade body
Forbes and WSJ ads investigated under ASME code of ethics
Microsoft has been castigated by the American Society of Magazine Editors for producing an advertisement for Microsoft Daily News that "looks like editorial", according to Marlene Kahn, the executive director of ASME. The advertisement appears as a sidebar at a number of Web sites, including Forbes, Dow Jones and the Wall Street …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 06:44
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RSA-155 code cracked
And here's the solution, happy campers...
The security system used in Internet transactions has been cracked as a result of an international effort at the Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, CWI) in Amsterdam. The project was co-ordinated by Herman te Riele. The RSA-155 code (so-called because the …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 06:46
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Microsoft to relaunch MSN in Europe
It's probably a scam to trash Rick Belluzzo's performance-related bonus...
According to a report in the Berlin newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag yesterday, Microsoft will relaunch MSN in Europe sometime in the next 12 to 18 months. Bernard Vergnes, the Microsoft VP for the UK and Europe, says MSN will start anew. Country manager Gregory Gordon said that a service could kick off in October. AOL has already …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 06:48
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Sun to announce purchase of Star Linux outfit
As rumoured earlier, the German developer is becoming a sunbeam...
The rumour (see story) that Sun was going to buy Star Division for its office suite will probably be confirmed tomorrow. Sun said it will be making a significant strategic announcement on Tuesday in New York, and has been doing some behind-the-scenes briefings. It is now believed that the deal was signed on 11 August. Last year …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 06:51
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HP to roll out Linux-based thin clients
Boost for the OS in the enterprise
Hewlett-Packard will announce a range of thin client devices under the brand name Entria later today, hedging its bets with a CE-based model and two Linux-based variants. But the Linux ones sound more interesting. The Entria G uses a 166MHz Cyrix MediaGX chip and is intended to use CE for remote application execution in Windows …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 07:57
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MS to unveil wireless e-book design
Ah, but will it ever ship?
Microsoft will announce plans for a tablet computer this week at the Seybold conference, according to an article in today's New York Times. As always, the company says it has no plans to build the device itself, but that it intends to work with hardware companies to build and sell it. Ominously, there seems to be no timescale …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 08:00
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Future looks for jam tomorrow in Netscape Online deal
Free content for free ISP
AOL Europe is upping the distribution ante for its Netscape Online free service. This time it’s signed up consumer publishing house Future Network, to distribute its sign-up disks on its 60 British magazines (combined monthly circulation 2.1m). Future Network is settling for a Jam Tomorrow kind of a deal, in which no money …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 10:15
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AMD attacks Intel Celeron with 500MHz K6-2
Signs Big Blue as customer
Chip manufacturer AMD confirmed it has introduced a 500MHz version of its K6-2 processor, with OEM prices at $167/1000. That positions the processor against the Intel Celeron chip family in terms of pricing. At the same time, AMD said IBM will use the part in some members of its consumer Aptiva range. While AMD ramps volumes of …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 13:18
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Micron to push high end Rambus memory Q3
Samples 356MHz/400MHz parts
Chip manufacturer Micron claimed it will deliver fast and competitively priced .18 micron Rambus memory in the autumn. But in a company statement, Micron stressed that it will also support competing products including PC-133 parts, to its customers. The company said that it has started samplying 356MHz and 400MHz chips at …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 13:33
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Qualcomm wins Motorola legal, starts new one
US judge gives summary judgement in Q phone case
The Qualcomm Q phone does not infringe Motorola patents, a US judge has said, in a ruling that could affect future designs of mobile phones. At the same time, Qualcomm expanded its own legal action against Motorola, claiming that three products breach licensing agreements. Judge Napoleon Jones, a San Diego District Court judge, …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 13:53
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Intel to demonstrate Merced silicon tomorrow
Intel Developer Forum Will it manage to run Win64 as well as Linux?
The CEO of Intel, Craig Barrett, will today demonstrate the company's 64-bit Merced chip in silicon rather than simulation. Barrett will open the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) with a keynote speech and position Merced as a solution for high end services, including e-commerce. Intel will also announce a further series of IA-64 …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 18:41
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Massive security breach affects Hotmail users
Updated How's this one going to be fixed, long term?
A catastrophic breach in Hotmail security means that anyone who has one of the freebie mail accounts can have his or her emails read by others. At the same time, the breach means that once people have logged into the system, they can send, receive and delete emails using that account to their heart's content. The breach, just …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 20:11
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Intel says Via bigger threat than AMD
Intel Developer Forum But execution will see Chipzilla through
Senior Intel VP Pat Gelsinger said at a round table meeting today that the company saw Via as a bigger threat than AMD. In a pre-eve briefing before his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) tomorrow morning, Gelsinger said there were several factors which made the company paranoid about Via. He said: "We're …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 21:47
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Intel to roll Camino i820 details out this week
Intel Developer Forum Launch date is a little later
Chip giant Intel will use its Developer Forum this week to give its Camino i820 chip a boost as launch date nears. The chipset, delayed for around six months, will include a random number generator, support for smart cards, so called boot integrity services and Internet protocol security. But the real question is how Intel will …
Business 30 Aug 1999, 22:03
