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22nd September 1999 Archive

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  • Consumer heavyweights race to build UK women's portal

    Only women read

    Consumer publishing houses are crowding into the UK's underdeveloped Women's website sector. We say "underdeveloped", because no mass-market web site for women actually spring to mind. But in coming months, there could be four or five heavyweight companies jockeying for position in this market. IPC, the UK's biggest consumer …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 06:59

  • Paranoid Pentagon plans for possible Y2K sneak attack

    Watch out for countries with old, computer-free tanks...

    Pentagon planners clearly have time on their hands, as well as their minds. A Defense Department planning memo sent from the Joint Chiefs of Staff last week deals with the possibility of a sneak attack on the US being made under cover of Y2K chaos. The memo apparently went out to US commanders throughout the world, and lists all …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 08:41

  • DoJ stiffs Gates one last time as trial closes

    MS on Trial And everybody says what everybody's said already...

    Everyone seems to have performed as expected during the Microsoft antitrust trial closing arguments yesterday. The DoJ said Microsoft was an anti-competitive monopoly, Microsoft's attorneys and courtroom steps spin doctor said the DoJ hadn't proved its case, and the judge... Well, some people had been hoping Judge Thomas …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 08:46

  • School's out for Viglen as results show healthy growth

    Sales up, profit up, education still very key to performance

    Viglen Technology has posted steady growth for its end-of-year, saying sales to the schools market remained a focal point of its operations. The London-based systems builder saw sales rise to £90.1 million for the year ended 30 June 1999, against £87.2 million the previous year. Pre-tax profit was up slightly to £4.2 million …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 09:19

  • Cabletron gets equity backing from Compaq

    Two enter into networking partnership

    Compaq and Cabletron are to work on a joint initiative which sees Compaq make an equity investment in its new partner. The two will work to reposition Cabletron's Spectrum network management business. The deal follows Compaq's buyout of Digital last year. Digital's networking division had been bought by Cabletron. Through the …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 09:20

  • Coppermine not sampling yet

    733MHz part now due next month

    Intel may have had a working Merced on show at its developer forum a few weeks back, but sources within the chip behemoth report that the next CPU, scheduled for launch next month, has yet to find its way to OEMs. The delay is possibly caused by the bringing forward of the 700 and 733MHz parts, originally due at the end of the …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 10:00

  • HP's Fiorina lands $90m in shares and stock options

    You're so rich, you probably think this story's about you

    This is greedy. Carly Fiorina, HP's new hotshot CEO, is to receive stock and options worth up to $90 million, as part of her pay package. HP is to dole out the shares over a four-year period. We can assume there's some performance-related hurdle to overcome. Ex-Lucent exec Fiorina also gets $1 million annual salary and an annual …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 10:43

  • 3Com cost cutting pays off

    Palms up, modems down

    3Com wrongfooted analysts yesterday by posting Q1 net income 38 per cent up on the same period last year. The Street had anticipated flat year-on-year earnings. The profits leap had more to do with cost-cutting, or "operational improvements "than with soaring sales. The company's commodity NIC and modem businesses are continuing …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 11:21

  • Loot boss slams QXL IPO

    No place for Hollywood-style values, he says

    The MD of loot.com has slammed the prospective valuation of rival auction service QXL.com. "I'm very much against hot-air internet stock valuations AND I do not believe that this is the right time for investors to invest in the internet," Graham Tolhurst said. "Businesses, including internet-based businesses, should be founded …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 11:34

  • Amiga CEO confirms software-only strategy

    Company's plan has "nothing" to do with original Amiga

    Amiga CEO and president Tom Schmidt has come clean about the company's new direction. As reported previously, the company is getting out of the hardware business to pursue a multi-platform middleware strategy. In his latest Executive Update, posted last week, Schmidt takes the hints he dropped in his previous Update a stage …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 12:14

  • Have we got news about you

    Want to know what you're up to? Who you gonna call

    We all know The Register's a bit of an oracle, but it comes to something when we're the first place businesses read about what they're up to. Yet that's exactly what happened to one of our beloved memory distributors this very afternoon. After dutifully logging onto our newsfeed for his daily dose of IT entertainment, (surely …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 12:22

  • US software exports illegally subsidised, rules WTO

    And Microsoft may have been a major winner...

    The World Trade Organisation has ruled against a US tax scheme designed to boost exports, and according to Brussels, US software companies have been prime beneficiaries of what the WTO now says is an illegal subsidy. Do we hear the M word? Well yes, we do. Noises coming out of the EU's Directorate General for Trade (DGT)indicate …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 12:37

  • AMD K7 mobo supply halted by Taiwan quake

    Early successes of new chip could be severely dented by lack of boards

    One of the industry's prime candidates to suffer in the wake of the Taiwan quake turns out to be AMD. Currently riding high on a wave of success following the launch of the Intel-bashing Athlon, Chimpzilla may be about to have the carpet pulled out from under its feet. Commenting on the disruption caused to motherboard …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 13:28

  • 3dfx slides Napalm/Voodoo4 back a quarter

    Nvidia, S3 rub hands at prospect of Napalm-free Xmas

    3dfx CEO Greg Ballard has confirmed that the next generation of the company's Voodoo 3D acceleration technology, codenamed Napalm, has been delayed. Ballard's latest statement, posted as an email on a public financial forum (assuming it's genuine, of course), said that 3dfx has begun to "inform investors that we have determined …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 14:34

  • Web regulation called for at Net's birthday party

    Not too much, not too little, but some rules are needed

    The Internet blew out 30 birthday cake candles today, trumpeting that the clicks and mortar revolution had only just begun. Those assembled at the debate to celebrate the Internet's 30th anniversary in London this morning included speakers from ISP UUNet, Jungle.com and the government. They voiced fears over excessive …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 16:35

  • Jungle.com gets yer juices flowing

    Online wine-a-rama is next stop for Bennett's latest venture

    Junglejuices may sound like a dodgy Caribbean cocktail, but it is to be the latest venture from IT entrepreneur Steve Bennett. Jungle.com plans to launch Junglejuices in January to sell online wine, according to Bennett, the Web site's founder and chairman. He hopes to create the world's largest ever online wine tasting …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 16:59

  • Craig Barrett presents award to overclocker – Hardocp

    intro

    Check out HardOCP for the award presented by Intel's Craig Barrett to Jason Au, for his school science project on -- overclocking! The link's a wee bit old - dating back to May, but we think it's worth reviving for all you overclockers out there. Chipzilla is really on your side.®

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 18:08

  • US Senate Y2K Committee underwhelmed by preparations

    Does the buck stop on 1/1/00?

    Widespread Y2K catastrophes are unlikely, but the number of non-fatal inconveniences and service interruptions caused by computer stuff-ups will be far more numerous than anticipated, according to a report released today by Senate Y2K Committee Chairman Robert Bennett (R--Utah). The chief problem is widespread readiness self- …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 19:35

  • Easynet muscles into BT ADSL trials

    BT appoints up to a dozen ISPs

    Easynet has jumped into the ADSL fray, joining Freeserve in the great BT trials. The ISP, the UK’s biggest remaining independent, is offering businesses in London and Manchester ADSL connections for six months -- but is only charging for three months. This will cost customers around £2,000, David Rowe, Easynet chairman and CEO, …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 20:39

  • Red Hat CEO lambasts ‘feudal’ software industry

    How silly's that?

    "In most businesses in the free market the customer is in charge. But in the computer software business a company can behave like a feudal landlord. They rule by controlling access to knowledge." The Guardian 18 September. Red Hat's Bob Young certainly knows how to give good quote, and he's a history graduate to boot. And it …

    Business 22 Sep 1999, 22:08