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  • Britain to host major Net summit

    Net responsible for international co-operation

    The UK is to stage a high level international summit next year to discuss how governments can use the Internet to deliver key public services. A thousand delegates from the G8 group of industrialised nations, developing economies and major trading blocs around the world will attend the World Internet Forum (WIF) at Oxford …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 08:33

  • Sun, NTT to intro Java mobile games phone

    Service goes live in Japan by December

    Sun and NTT DoCoMo are to begin tests of a Java cellular phone system which can be used to download games, according to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper. The newest version of the i-mode cellular phone service will be tested in Japan in conjunction with Bandai games, and the service is intended to go live before the end of the …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 09:03

  • Who will pay extra $200 for i820-Rambus PCs?

    Acid test for Rambus to come soon

    System builders and integrators, faced with the imminent introduction of the i820 Camino chipset which supports Rambus RIMMs, are likely to wait and see rather than build machines using the expensive memory modules. Yesterday, we reported that Intel will release two mobos to coincide with its 27 September launch -- the Cape Cod …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 09:06

  • Slot 1 close to death as Intel's plans for CuMine unfold

    Flip chip S370 and different naming designations revealed

    Sources close to Intel's plans have revealed that when it introduces Coppermine technology next month, the chips will use a different naming convention as well as extra silicon bells and whistles. Documents seen by The Register show that Intel plans to release a whole rash of .18 micron processors, not only at higher clock …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 09:19

  • Today's hardware site roundup

    The wibby and wobbly web gives up its secrets

    Over at JC's, there is some very interesting information about copper technology -- both AMD's and on the Alpha. JC quotes a Taiwanese press report as confirming IBM is fabbing copper Alphas -- we reported this much earlier this year. It also adds that IBM has displaced Samsung as a supplier of Alphas. This is unlikely to be …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 10:07

  • Dealer sells 1000s of overclocked Celerons – with guarantees

    Sherriff's story smokes out the clockomaniacs

    Intel's thought police are likely to have a fit after it has emerged that a dealer in Italy is selling massively overclocked Celerons -- with his own guarantees. That emerged after a story about the electro-mechanics of overclocking written by Pete Sherriff yesterday. (Overclocking -- just say no) According to the dealer, he has …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 10:16

  • White House cypher proposal could upstage Congress

    Clinton finally decrypts the writing on the wall

    A palpably apprehensive, sweat-soaked bundle of Clinton-administration luminaries held a press conference last night to tout the White House's latest end-run around Congress in the realm of crypto exports. US Attorney General Janet Reno looked as if a gun were pressed against her back as she recited, with painful reluctance, the …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 10:41

  • Acer talks up XC again

    It's next year now

    Stan Shih, chairman of Taiwan PC giant Acer, has been talking about his XC idea now for nearly two years. But, if reports from the island are to be believed, the XC platform is now likely to see the light of day, bigtime, in March of next year. Shih, at last year's Computex trade show, outlined his plans for the XC and said that …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 11:20

  • Lexmark to source lasers from Taiwan

    But we don't know the manufacturer yet

    Reports in the Taiwanese press said that spun-off IBM subsidiary Lexmark is to use a local manufacturer to help produce its laser printers. The reason is likely to be cost reduction. Many US manufacturers use Taiwanese know-how to fulfil the demand for PCs and peripherals. The reports did not name which OEM will get the …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 11:27

  • France opens probe into MS Windows monopoly

    Wonders why you can't buy PCs without Windows. Now, there's a question...

    The French finance ministry has opened an investigation into Microsoft, according to the local press. Apparently it has come to the ministry's attention that it's well-nigh impossible to buy a new PC that doesn't come with Windows pre-installed, so the French authorities will be asking why this is, and whether it harms consumers …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 11:37

  • Flotation ahoy for Lastminute.com

    £400m value expected

    Lastminute.com is to go public next year, according to the FT, in a move that could value the company at more than £400 million. The big pink one said the last minute bargain Web site will appoint Morgan Stanley Dean Witter as its adviser and that the offer will take place within the next nine months. No one at Lastminute.com …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 12:19

  • Parents keep an eye on kids via Web

    School installs Webcam in infant school

    Bolton Nursery School in Greater Manchester has scored a nation-wide first, with a live Webcast from the children's playrooms via the school's new site. The site has been made as secure as possible - for rather obvious reasons - and parents need to enter usernames and passwords to access the video sections of the site. Nursery …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 12:23

  • MS should embrace Linux, buy Sun, dump Win2k

    But actually, this Linux outfit's blatant bid for publicity isn't as barmy as it sounds

    Microsoft should break itself up voluntarily, buy Sun and release its own version of Wine, the API wrapper that allows Windows programs to run on top of Linux. This, chutzpah-riddled British Linux developer GBdirect tells us, is how the company can avoid collapse over the next few years and come up with an adequate response to …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 12:34

  • Digital TV – broadcasting with one hand tied behind its back

    Puny transmitters shove pictures of digital cliff

    UK Culture Secretary Chris Smith pledged today that conventional analogue TV broadcasts will only cease when 95 per cent of homes have a digital receiver. He said the switch could take place sometime between 2006 and 2010, but told broadcasters at the Royal Television Society Convention in Cambridge that viewers' interests must …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 14:59

  • Matsushita to spend $300 million on LCD ramp up

    High demand prompts swift reaction

    Japanese consumer electronics giant Matsushita today said it plans to pump Y32 billion ($300 million) into TFT LCD screen production. Matsushita clearly reckons TFT displays mark the future of screen technology, not only for the IT world but for TV too. The bulk of the company's investment is going into a new TFT production line …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 15:19

  • AMD takeover rumours re-emerge

    But we don't think it's a goer

    Rumours are circulating in Germany that AMD may be snapped up by giant conglomerate Siemens. But AMD has said "it has no knowledge of such a move" and we think it's highly unlikely too. According to the speculation, Siemens is preparing to offer as much as $40 a share for AMD stock. That is double its current share value on the …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 15:34

  • IBM, SCO confirm Monterey Merced boot

    Another brick in the silicon wall

    IBM and SCO have just confirmed they have successfully booted Monterey on Merced silicon. On Monday this week, senior executives at IBM said they were close to booting the OS. It is the first commercial Unix, IBM claims, that has booted on Merced. IBM/Sequent said it was committed to producing product based on Merced at launch …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 15:52

  • Transmeta CEO scoffs at Amiga connection claims

    Claims that Amiga was to use Transmeta CPU are "off beat", claims Ditzel

    Amiga community conspiracy theorists went into overdrive this week following comments from the boss of mystery CPU developer Transmeta during an interview with Time magazine's Web site. David Ditzel, founder and CEO of Transmeta -- and employer of Linus Torvalds, creator of the open source OS, Linux -- told the site that ex- …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 16:04

  • IT big hitters to out-eBay eBay

    Combined mini-auction sites ready to roll

    eBay looks set to loose its monopoly on auctioning macabre items such as babies, kidneys, and the etchings of serial killers. A gaggle of IT companies including Microsoft, Dell, Lycos and Excite@Home are to attempt to compete with the giant online auction house by launching of a network of different tat-for-cash sites. It's …

    Business 17 Sep 1999, 16:32