22nd October 1999 Archive
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MS and Nokia deals help Spyglass prospects
Small company, small browsers, smaller loss
Spyglass has reported a 49 per cent Q4 revenue growth for the quarter ended 30 September, and a financial year net loss of $1.9 million on revenue of $30 million, compared with a loss of $10 million the previous year. After three quarters in profit, it seems that Spyglass has now transformed itself since it changed its strategic …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 06:29
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Cognito expands into Internet email
Talks up takeover opportunities
A nationwide wireless data network that has been profitable since 1994 and made profits of circa £1.5 million last year bucks industry trends completely. Cognito has managed just that -- and now it has launched an Internet email service for its customers. Cognito uses proprietary technology -- including its own Messager …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 07:00
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Acer to centralise distribution in Holland
No more product shipping out of Taiwan
Acer plans to consolidate its worldwide warehouse operations into one plant in Holland. The vendor said it would stop shipping notebooks from its Taiwanese base to warehouses in each individual country from January, and PCs from mid-2000. Instead, it intends to send incomplete product from Taiwan to its assembly plant in Tilburg …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 08:28
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Queen's Web site runs on Linux
Red Hat in the frame for a Royal Warrant?
Shame on us - we've apparently been asleep at the switch, and it's fallen to Germany's c't</> to notice that the big house down the road from Register Towers runs its Web site on Red Hat. As c't notes, The Official Web Site of the British Monarchy trundles along on Red Hat 5.2 and Apache 1.1.3. Stung by c't's discovery we …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 09:21
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Symbian partner Motorola chooses OS-9 for smartphone
What you support and what you ship can be two separate things...
Despite all the buzz about Symbian in the mobile market the company's EPOC isn't getting an entirely free run, even from its shareholders. Motorola has just announced that its next generation Timeport P1088 smart phone, due out in January, will run Microware's OS-9. The Timeport is a dual band GSM phone which uses Java …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 09:34
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Psion Revo doesn't work with Motorola phone
Update Register readers offer their suggestions
Psion's latest handheld, The Revo, is a wireless wonder. Hook it up to a mobile phone (via the IR ports) and send all that data over the Internet. On the Psion Web site, you can find a long list of Revo-compatible phones. This includes the Motorola L7089 mobile phone. Unfortunately, the L7089 does not work with the Revo, as …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 11:04
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ATI posts modest growth for Q4 1999
Sales up, profits up but Wall Street unfazed
ATI recorded a modest rise in profits and revenues for its fourth fiscal quarter, reported yesterday. Already the world's largest graphics chip company, with a good but hardly glowing product line, you can't expect ATI to show the kind of financial leaps and bounds made by young pretenders like Nvidia, and, indeed, Wall Street …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 11:12
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UK Net access as cheap as US
Off-peak figures tell one story, while peak-time rates read like a Steven King novel
It's just as cheap to access the Internet in the UK as it is in the US, according to a report just published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). People who use the Net during off-peak hours are on a par with their counterparts in the US, a fact that throws serious doubt on the arguments put …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 11:36
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Free calls keep users online for longer
Screaming.net figures back up what we always suspected
There's further evidence today -- if proof were needed, of course -- that reducing the cost of dial-up Net access will increase the amount of time people spend online. People who use Screaming.net, which offers off-peak toll-free access to the Net, stay online for an average of 45 minutes a day -- almost as much as the daily …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 11:37
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Compaq switches tack on networking
Pulls out of networking access market
Compaq is pulling out of the networking infrastructure market. A letter sent out to resellers and customers this week claims that the PC giant can no longer provide the broad spread of networking products demanded by customers and that it is walking away from the market altogether. The letter says: "It has therefore been decided …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 11:49
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Receivers called in at CHS Electronics UK
...It looks bad
CHS Electronics PLC, the British arm of distie giant CHS, has fallen into the arms of the receivers. Simon Michaels and David Gilbert of BDO Stoy Hayward have been appointed administrative receivers at CHS Electronics Plc by Deutsche Financial Services. It doesn't look too voluntary. We'll tell you more, Monday.®
Business 22 Oct 1999, 14:35
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Freeserve ADSL trial to cost £60pm
Full service set to roll in spring 2000
Freeserve is to charge Net users £59.99 for its ADSL broadband service -- but this is only a trial price and could change once it's rolled out next year. The trial is due to go live in December -- a month later than planned -- before being rolled out in the spring of next year. According to an email from Neil Sansom, marketing …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 14:45
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MS trial – verdict due next Friday
MS on Trial Our Graham makes death-defying predictive leap -- ooooh...
We can reveal that Judge Jackson will issue his findings of fact next Friday, 29 October, according to a source in a position to know about these things. Microsoft has been stepping up its lobbying efforts in preparation for adverse findings, with lobbyists at the ready in all states that are participating in the linked case …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 15:52
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Mesh PC spec confirms Coppermine features
733MHz, check; 256K on-die L2, check; 133MHz FSB, check...
Confirmation of Intel's upcoming Coppermine Pentium III have come courtesy of UK PC vendor Mesh which today announced its first desktop based on the part. As anticipated, the PIII will ship at 733MHz -- "with faster processor speeds in the pipeline", Mesh warns; according to Intel's pitch at Microprocessor Forum, 800MHz and …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 16:25
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Sony, Sharp create optical 1394 for portable devices
Takes cable length to 10m with connector small enough for MP3 players
Sony and Sharp are to co-develop a slimline, optical version of IEEE 1394 (aka FireWire) for portable devices such as digital cameras and music players. The technology will combine Sony's iLink (it's name for 1394) with Sharp's Optical Mini Jack plug specification, which is essentially the optical equivalent of a standard 3.5mm …
Business 22 Oct 1999, 16:52
