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  • InQuest extends chip conference schedule

    January venue this time round

    The organisers of InQuest said that they will hold a Platform 2000 conference on the 26th and 27th of January in San Jose. The conference focuses on technology initiatives, partitioning and integration strategies, bus standards, system architectures and market segments, said Bert McComas, one of the organisers of the conference …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 08:13

  • Is Intel sorted for Es?

    Opinion Land of confusion

    It's been some time since The Sherriff took a cheap shot at Chipzilla's marketing goons, so we reckon they're well overdue for a slapping, as some English chums might say. What is it about Intel that it seems hell bent in confusing the world+dog at every opportunity? Not content with launching ten processors a week, Chipzilla …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 08:22

  • Intel beset by further Coppermine, chipset delays

    Even the largest customers can't get hold of the stuff

    Lack of fast Coppermine chips from Intel is causing even big players in the PC industry to drastically adjust their schedules, costing them time, money and face. Reliable reports say that Intel will not now be able to ship its 700MHz Pentium III part until January 2000 at the earliest, while there are also availability problems …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 08:44

  • Cambridge gets its MiTs on £70m

    Government bankrolls hi-tech link-up

    The government is to spend £70 million over the next five years on a link-up between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MiT) and Cambridge University. The two techie powerhouses will form a joint institute aimed at encouraging UK entrepreneurs. The joint venture will also develop higher education courses and attempt to …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 09:52

  • Computer mags – or ambulance chasers?

    Death grist to the editorial mill

    We like Computer Weekly and Computing. Not because they're first with the news (the Web has put paid to that) but because the politics of the venerable rival IT pubs remains hugely entertaining. A case in point are the stories that cause the most controversy inside the papers amongst the journalists. But they don't involve …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 10:05

  • Big Q Wildfire spotted at DECUS beanfest

    Capellas wears licence plate on DEC neck

    Terry Shannon, who knows Compaq, and before it DEC, better than anyone on the planet, is filing daily reports on the conference at his Web site Shannon knows Compaq. Being a good friend of the The Register, however, he has kindly allowed us to nick some of his content for our readers. According to Shannon, Compaq CEO Michael …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 10:06

  • IR35 battle lost, but war continues

    NIC clause gets through amid political in-fighting

    The controversy over disability benefit in the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill has seen the first measure of the IR35 tax change pass through unnoticed. The troubled Bill -- lauded as the House of Lords' last stand -- was returned to the Commons for a second time yesterday, but this time without the amendment that a change in …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 10:30

  • easyEverything – except for the changing tariffs

    Prices change depending on the length of the queue

    easyEverything has changed its cybercafe tariffs to charge punters more in busier periods. Rates were previously £1 per hour to use one of the terminals in the company's rapidly expanding Internet cafe empire. But a representative of the company said demand had grown so strong that a "yield management" system was implemented …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 10:54

  • ASA slaps Virgin for offensive ad

    Watchdog bares teeth, snarls at IT adverts

    An advertising leaflet written in blood by Virgin Interactive Entertainment gave the ASA something to get its teeth into this month. Virgin sent out an unsolicited mailing for a computer game in an envelope with four bullet holes on the front and holes surrounded by blood on the back. It contained a letter, a CD, and a smaller …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 10:55

  • Just in time for Xmas – Microsoft Monopoly

    Board game or bored game, you decide

    The company behind the world's most popular board game has denied it is considering changing its name after Friday's ruling by the Department of Justice that Microsoft is a monopoly. A spokeswoman for Hasbro, which produces the ever-popular game Monopoly*, said there were no plans to rename it "Microsoft" in recognition of the …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 10:56

  • Divorcees do it on their desktops

    Virtual lawyer scoops six per cent of total divorce applications

    More than 1,800 people have filed for divorce in the last 10 weeks using a new automated legal service available only on the Internet. Although Desktop Lawyer was only launched in July, it provided a whopping six per cent of all the UK's total divorce petitions during the same period. More than three-quarters of those people who …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 12:08

  • No price hike climb-down at CTS

    The show must go on

    The organisers of next year's Computer Trade Show have resisted calls to postpone price increases for exhibition space, but are promising to increase the number and quality of resellers at the event. David Barr, sales manager for CTS organisers iMark, said his company was aiming to get between 6,000 and 6,500 resellers to the …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 12:28

  • Chipzilla's Coppermine – we've got one

    First Gander and it works

    You might not be able to actually buy a Coppermine Pentium III right now, but early results from the RegMark Institute suggest you might want to put an order in - at least for one of the 100MHz FSB variants. As one of the lucky few to have a 700MHz/100MHz FSB CuMine to try, we can report that it runs just fine in an Intel Sun …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 12:36

  • Porn pager alerts parents

    Spy in the PC keeps tabs on what kids get up to

    A new software package that warns parents if their children are being solicited by paedophiles is to be released at COMDEX next week. Cyber Sentinel acts as the eyes and ears of parents when they can't be there to supervise their children when the wee ones are logged onto the Net. If their kids are under threat from paedophiles …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 13:01

  • Acer Labs to build GeForce 256 killer into North Bridge

    Deal with ArtX paves way for significant shift in OEM 3D market

    Acer Labs has brought Nintendo's 3D graphics partner, ArtX, on board to help it integrate a graphics controller into the chipset vendor's core Socket 7 logic. According to a report in EE Times, we're not talking standard end-of-its-life graphics technology here. One of the key features of ArtX's offering is the kind of …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 13:13

  • Games console demand boosts high street coffers

    Retailers still complaining of lean times

    The console war between Sega and Sony helped boost flagging UK retail sales in October. Demand was strong for the Sega Dreamcast console, particularly in the first few days following its release last month. And Sony cut its PlayStation price, which also helped raise slow sales growth in the high street, a survey by the British …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 13:21

  • Asus votes solidly for Athlon mobo

    How more eloquent can you get?

    Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer Asus told our Taipei correspondent that his company was still continuing to support the K7M. Senior executives at the firm denied that it was withdrawing support for the mobo, or that Intel had put pressure on it. And so, if you turn to this Athlon mobo page here, you will see a ringing …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 13:41

  • Anonymous Apple dealers slam vendor online

    But will it do any good?

    British Apple resellers have banded together to form a united front in opposition to the Mac maker's policy toward its UK channel. Or have they? According to UK trade title MicroScope, the Independent Apple Dealers Association (IADA) has set up a Web site to complain not only about the companies decision to pull out of Apple …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 14:18

  • AMD pumps up Athlon speed to 1GHz for Comdex

    .18 micron 800MHz,750MHz for Comdex, anti-Intel ad campaign starts

    Chip contender Advanced Micro Devices is now expected to demonstrate a 1GHz Athlon using a .18 micron process technology at next week's Comdex/Fall exhibition in Las Vegas. At the same time, it will announce availability of the 750MHz Athlon, and is likely to show a .18 micron 800MHz part, either on the stand or behind closed …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 14:36

  • BT U-turns on unmetered Net access

    Well, it had to happen in the end

    The inevitable has finally happened. BT has buckled under the strain of public opinion and announced it is to "to reduce dramatically the cost of dial-up calls to the Internet". Although the exact details of the arrangement are still uncertain, the deal could mean that ISPs would be able to offer unmetered access to the Net for …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 16:14

  • Zona says MS browser war victor: Oops! Another monopoly…

    MS on Trial Stop me before I monopolise again

    With exquisite timing, Zona Research has announced the end of the browser wars. Microsoft won, and a dead-pan Zona says there's no need to carry on chasing market share stats. But being declared the victor is hardly going to be an unalloyed pleasure for Microsoft. The company took flak for many things in Judge Jackson's findings …

    Business 9 Nov 1999, 19:40