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  • How Intel spreads its risks…

    Column Overegging the chip omelette

    The day was, and it wasn't that long ago, that Intel was perceived as a one product company. That product was the x.86 microprocessor and we noted some four or five years back how it was extending its tentacles into other areas of the PC industry, including, or especially, the networking business. From a position of being …

    Business 31 Oct 1999, 16:37

  • Intel sues FIC, Everex as Via legal action mounts

    FTC exhorted to re-investigate Chipzilla for anti-competitive practices

    Intel has expanded its legal war against Via Technologies by filing a bevy of fresh lawsuits against the Taiwanese chipset maker as well as companies that have adopted Via's products. As predicted here in mid-September, legal action has been extended to include mobo manufacturers, including UK and Singapore companies, and …

    Business 31 Oct 1999, 20:34

  • Oh where oh where has CNET UK gone?

    Oh where oh where can it be

    So what about CNET, the massively complacent American cable TV to Web property group, which is supposed to ignite the UK any day now. Originally, CNET was supposed to launch in the UK in August, but then delayed until November, because of the difficulty in finding suitably qualified. journalists, according to an article in The …

    Business 31 Oct 1999, 23:26

  • 'Virgin Mobile worth £1.4 billion without selling a single phone'

    Eye-popping ST headline

    Virgin Mobile is worth £1.36 billion and it hasn't sold one phone. Who is responsible for this ludicrous estimate? Look no further than broker Investec Henderson Crosthwaite, which bases its claim on sales projections up to the year 2009. That's right, 2009. This is the year that Virgin Mobile should have 3.65m customers. Oh, …

    Business 31 Oct 1999, 23:34

  • UK PC retailers don't rip off customers

    Dixons in the clear

    Surprise, surprise, British computer retailers have been cleared of ripping off their customers. Brits pay more for their PCs because they buy higher spec machines than other Europeans, according to The Office of Fair Trading. This is not exactly a huge surprise. In March, someone in the know briefed the ST on what the result …

    Business 31 Oct 1999, 23:39