13th October 1999 Archive

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Intel chief: 64-bit could take ten years to conquer desktop

And Moore's Law isn't dead after all

Gordon Moore is alive and well -- and so is his law, Intel boss Craig Barrett said at the Gartner ITExpo in Orlando yesterday, dismissing the recent suggestion by an Intel engineer that Moore's time was up. In fact Barrett envisaged five more generations before the limits of CMOS technology were reached, when the signal to noise …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 06:37
Intel still king of x86 jungle despite Q3 slip

Never mind coppermine, it's a goldmine, no bananas

Chipzilla staggered to its full height yesterday and bellowed aw-wooh-aw-wooh-aw as it released Q3 financial earnings that only marginally disappointed Wall Street. (Yeah, we know that it was Tarzan that made that noise, but you get the picture.) And Craig Barrett, the rough and tough CEO of Intel, said that it expected its …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 08:39
i840 Carmel mobo details leak

For a few dollars less...

Sources close to Intel's plans have said that the company will release its Carmel (i840) chipset towards the end of the month, and, at the same time, introduce a motherboard aimed at the workstation market. The board, dubbed the OR840, is expected to cost around $250 for the boxed version and will support up to two Intel CPUs. …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 09:11
Gates to tangle with BBC's top attack interviewer

We feel sure somebody in the (Microsoft) Great Man's office has blundered...

If you'd like to suggest a question to be put to Bill Gates by Jeremy Paxman in an interview on Sunday (BBC2 television, 20:00 BST) then just send an email to paxmanvsgates@bbc.co.uk It's unlikely that Gates will walk out in the middle of the interview as he did five years ago on the US Eye to Eye show, but we can but hope. Gary …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 09:26
Intel Coppermine mobiles: we got the prices

Meanwhile Geyserville has a name-change...

Informed sources have now confirmed the introduction of two high-end Coppermine mobile parts which will arrive at the same time as Intel launches its desktop and Xeon versions of the .18 micron technology. The 450MHz Pentium III/mobiles will cost $360 each when bought in boxes of 10, and $350 each when bought in boxes of 100. …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 10:37
Porno filth removed by clean-living Register

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This page replaces the original link from the story Mobo giant hosts secret porn site The Register has removed the Danish text that appeared on "Martin's homepage" because it contained explicit hardcore material of a perverse and disturbing nature. It tells of the first sexual encounter of "Martin" and two ladies at a party. …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 11:03
Quantum kicks C2000 into touch

Distie's deals with rivals lead to parting of the ways

Computer 2000 has been dropped as a Quantum UK distributor, in the midst of the broadliner's efforts to ramp up its components business. The contract was terminated on 1 October -- Computer 2000 claimed the two companies were heading in "different directions" in the market. In a company statement, Quantum director for Northern …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 11:21
Charity begins online

UK ISP aims to raise funds by getting good causes on the Net

Twenty heavyweight UK charities have pooled their resources to create an online community and an ISP in a move that could help raise money for worthy causes. Not only does Care4free give charities such as Save the Children, the Terrence Higgins Trust, the Cancer Research Campaign and the World Wide Fund for Nature their own Web …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 11:42
MS out in cold as Symbian and Palm team up

Updated World domination beckons as dream ticket forms

As predicted here (in both cases), 3Com has struck a deal with Symbian, and Nokia has licensed the Palm OS. But it's not a matter of 3Com buying its way into Symbian - instead, it's the company's Palm subsidiary that's coming on board via a cross-licensing deal. The objective is to put together Symbian and Palm technologies in …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 11:45
USB 2.0 to reach 480Mbps – official

Target speed set with draft specification release

The USB Promoter Group yesterday released the draft specification for USB 2.0, taking the target data transfer rate up to 480Mbps, a fortyfold increase on the current version's throughput. Released to delegates at the USB Developers Conference, the new spec. calls for full compatibility -- forward and backward -- with USB 1.1, …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 12:01
Another top exec quits Ingram

COO joins Hyperion as president

Ingram Micro saw its president and COO jump ship yesterday to run software company Hyperion Solutions. Jeffrey Rodek quit following three years at the US distributor, adding to Ingram's woes. He will be chairman and CEO of Hyperion, where he has been a board member since last January, according to a statement by Ingram. Ingram …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 12:06
Gateway opts for MIPS-Linux for Web server offering

Old Wintel loyalist strikes deal with Cobalt Networks

Long-standing (if often somewhat reluctant) Wintel loyalist Gateway has announced what appears to be a shock defection to Linux and MIPS. The company has signed an with Cobalt Networks whereby Cobalt will supply it with "server technologies" for a new range of Gateway server appliances. Cobalt produces a MIPS-based range of …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 12:29
Intel inside Taiwan's Insyde BIOS

An interesting tale of Intel investment

Chip giant Intel, which already has more than the number of engineers it needs after it got out of the discreet graphics business, has plunged some of its funds into a Taiwanese startup, Insyde. The company specialises in system level software and BIOS for both Internet appliances and notebook computers, as well as power …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 12:33
Motorola Q3 profits up 730 per cent

Iridium still draining dollars, though

Motorola bosses were in a jubilant mood yesterday as the company met analyst expectations with a Q3 profit way in excess of the one it reported for the same period last year. The company posted earnings of $332 million for the quarter, up from the $40 million is posted for last year's third quarter. Sales for the quarter …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 12:35
Porno hacker fingered by AOpen

Investigation points to outsider as source of hidden porn

AOpen Inc, which unwittingly hosted hardcore pornographic material on one of its FTP servers, was the victim of a cracker, The Register has learnt. An initial investigation into the incident by the giant computer peripherals company has ruled out any notion that the XXX material was put there by someone from within the company. …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 12:38
Gates' Euro 99 tour: If it's Wednesday, its Monaco

But what the world needs is the Bill and Larry show

It was not billed as the Bill and Larry show at Telecoms 99 in Geneva, but the protagonists would certainly be great performers if they got together. Gates said that W2K would be "available very, very soon" (which sounded like a double amber signal), while Ellison remarked that "They claim Windows 2000, not putting a man on the …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 12:52
Porno cyber squatters target Intel

Intel Inside? Maybe, but that ain't all...

Intel was caught with its pants down today after discovering it was satisfying hard core porn fanatics. Not wanting to miss out on the multitude of IT addicts trying to log onto Intel's Web site, a porn site has opened up offering its services under the guise of intel-inside.com. Innocent voyeurs may well wonder why they ever …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 14:59
Massive ecommerce spending boom predicted

Jump of 300 per cent to hit next year

Online shoppers are expected to spend $31.2 billion this year -- an increase of nearly 300 per cent on last year. Such explosive growth is nothing compared to what analysts at Dataquest think will happen in the next couple of years. According to these Net watchers, by 2003 the figure is expected to exceed $380 billion. They …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 15:46
US computer glitch issues raft of entry visas

IT skills shortage? No problem, just let your unskilled computer staff issue a load of visas to tech workers

US government bureaucrats can't count -- it's official. They were supposed to dish out 115,000 visas for techie people to come and work in the country last year -- but ended up doling out up to 20,000 more than the US government said it could. At the moment bureaucrats are busy totting up exactly how many people have entered the …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 16:18
Palm Pilot TCO is $2.7k a year, says unhinged report

Gartner recommends sending the tab through the roof by letting IS loose. No, we don't make this up...

Data released yesterday reveals that TCO has entered the Twilight Zone of research topics. And maybe Gartner Group along with it, as the research outfit has come up with the shock news that a $450 PDA "can cost an enterprise nearly $2700 per year." Shockingly, the humble Palm Pilot scores an appalling $2690 on this scale, while …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 17:18
Windows Millennium headed for dead pile?

Microsoft denies the rumours absolutely, but they're curiously compelling...

A rumour that Microsoft is going to cancel Millennium seems to be spreading through the industry. The Register heard it via several beta testers a few days back, while Paul Thurrott of WinInfo heard the rumour at Internet World. But after reporting this (as rumour), Thurrott was deluged by Microsoft denials. The gist of the …

Business 13 Oct 1999, 17:24