5th March 2000 Archive

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Intel's boxed desktop roadmap revealed

Some new codenames to get your head round

As we've noted here many times before, Intel has several sets of roadmaps -- those for public consumption, those addressed to its partners and system builders, and those really secret ones that only its primary OEMs, such as the Dull Corporation, get. If you can manage to look at several sets of these together, it's possible to …

Business 5 Mar 2000, 11:04
Compaq to intro new desktop boxes

And range to get further refresh later

The PC manufacturing wing of Compaq is set to announce two fresh models in its 75xx range in the next two weeks, The Register has learned. Both models are based on Pentium III Coppermine technology, and our information is that market pressure, plus increased availability of Intel processors, has allowed The Big Q to roll out the …

Business 5 Mar 2000, 11:16
Craig McCaw cuts losses and abandons Iridium

U-turn leaves troubled satellite venture up a certain creek without a certain implement

Teledesic boss Craig McCaw's investment operation, Eagle River, on Friday abandoned its plan to invest in ailing satellite comms company Iridium. Eagle River had been pursuing a stake in Iridium for some time. After a last minute change of plan, Eagle River recently said it would pump $5 million, in co-operation with Motorola, …

Business 5 Mar 2000, 17:47
Alta Vista UK to launch free everything ISP

Except for £30 set-up fee

Alta Vista is to offer a free telephone access/no subscription fee ISP service in the UK. Operating from an 0800 number, the new ISP will charge customers set-up fee of £30. And that’s it. There’s nothing else to pay. We understand Lycos, CMGI’s fellow subsidiary, is poised also to announce the launch of a free telephone access …

Business 5 Mar 2000, 21:03
AMD puts Intel on 1GHz ropes – confirmed

Systems to be available from tomorrow

In the frantic battle between AMD and Intel to get a working 1GHz processor to market, it seems the bantam weight has dealt heavyweight Chipzilla something of an uppercut. A message has just appeared on its Web site here, saying it will launch its 1GHz Athlon processor tomorrow. The announcement also says that PC vendors will …

Business 5 Mar 2000, 21:25
AOL boss hangs out with Marxist guerrillas

...Or terrorists, as the State Department calls them

AOL has come up with a novel way of disposing of big-shot directors - send them into a war zone and tell them to start negotiating with Marxist guerillas. The ISP parachuted Jim Kimsey, its chairman emeritus, into a rebel-held village in Colombia where he met Manuel Marulanda, the founder and chief of FARC, the Revolutionary …

Business 5 Mar 2000, 22:38