31st January 2000 Archive

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Management

• Bill Gates shot my Shark, says Ellison (again) Beast of Redmond totally responsible for NC flop, not Oracle's fault at all, honest...
• Camino chipset poses new lamps for old question Where does the new i820 leave Solano II
• Compaq eyes 50% Net sales Slashes prices on Deskpro range
• CTS 2001 already 50% booked Round-up of the highlights of last week's show
• Full CTS 2000 coverage intro
• Gates rules out outright MS purchase of content companies Co-op deals possible, and minority stakes still seem likely
• How Rambus lost the PC memory war Analysis Memory manufacturers would not be bumped
• Intel to go for McKinley before Itanium-Merced Updated Clock speeds on Itanium don't match chip needs
• IT exec left brain dead in bar attack Visit to Beijing show ends in tragedy
• Kinder, gentler NSA admits human frailties Yuckk....we much preferred the hard-ass routine
• Merry Quip cocks snook at telco cowboys Yee-hah! BT's cut-price outfit goes gunning for competition
• MS enforces Win2k TS licensing via Web ‘Clearinghouse’ Makes sure Terminal Services users have all paid the licence fee
• MS sells stake in SCO, and a chapter closes A long time ago, Bill Gates said 'Dos 2.0 is the bridge to Xenix.' Not a lot of people know that...
• MS-backed trade group backs MS with trial brief MS on Trial All getting a little circular, we reckon...
• Palm sets sights on $368 million (minimum) IPO Projected $16 share price will value company at $9.1 billion
• Psion, Motorola to co-develop Symbian Internet devices One day, the Symbian boys will stop agreeing for long enough to actually build something...
• Sega plans high-speed cable TV Dreamcast Net access Desperate attempt to compete with Sony's PlayStation 2?
• System builders take brunt of Intel PIII shortages Shortage, what shortage?