31st August 1999 Archive

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• Athlon mobos recalled Component problems blamed as Micro Star pulls its boards from Japanese market
• Bowie flogs download album Fifty retail sites take part
• Camino mobo pix found on Web It'll be the 27th of Sep, as predicted
• Chipzilla leapfrogs Chimpzilla in desert IDF My chip's faster than your chip, says Tweedlebong to TweedleAMD
• Computer science ‘cheats’ exposed at second Scottish university Software analyses 'their' work
• Corba Component Model gets thumbs up Might be a year late, but who cares
• European DRAM prices soar Good for vendors, bad for OEMs
• FlexATX mobos, Concept PCs make it to market Barbie Doll makes it but bad news for Ken
• Intel 810e to slow down Rambus adoption Acer exec casts doubt on futures
• Intel leaves 1394 out in cold, USB 2.0 exposed to desert glare Intel Developer Forum There's an awful lot of mythical buses in Palm Springs
• Intel pushes Rambus hard Intel Developer Forum Gelsinger gives update on Camino i820
• Intel to climb aboard unmetered bandwagon? Secret meeting with CUT
• Intel's Barrett shows Linux running on Merced silicon Intel Developer Forum ...but Win2000 evaluation period runs out...
• MS failed to spot Hotmail hack threat Security breach had been in the public domain since June
• Net child porn users searched for real-life abuse Government updates child abuse investigation guidelines
• Net/TV convergence myth exploded Researchers find contradictions in market's development
• NGIO, Future IO war over – System IO arrives Intel Developer Forum No more war, just more jaw - updated
• Nvidia unveils ‘256-CPU Cray’ GeForce 3D chip Company restates focus on chip design. It's not interested in board production -- for now...
• Pentium III/mobile at 0.18 micron to arrive fall Intel Developer Forum But Geyserville won't come with it
• Poet's daughter was first programmer… NOT Biography of Lord Byron's daughter makes interesting claims
• S3 unveils Savage 2000 War with Nvidia, 3dfx heats up
• Screaming.net takes legal cudgels against ‘copycat’ ISP GreatXscape 'infringes copyright' -- allegedly
• Seven Dramurai™ say they will make Rambus cheaper Intel Developer Forum But premium will still be 25 per cent more next year
• Sun to take on MS Office with free, Websourced Star Making StarOffice a Web app and giving it away could be a killer combination
• Toshiba to sell chip JV to partner Motorola Shake-up of Japanese giant's chip operation continues
• VGA dead: not many end users out of pocket Intel Developer Forum New lamps for old monitors arrive at 15 per cent premium