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  • Numeritech semi floats: share price flies

    Sub-micron technology breaches wavelength probs

    A US firm which creates proprietary technology which it claims will assist yields for semiconductors at processes of .18µ (micron) and far below went public on Nasdaq at the end of last week. Numerical Technologies (ticker: NMTC), works on technology that will circumvent lithography problems that occur creating semiconductors at …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 05:52

  • Inprise claims wrongful conduct in Iona lawsuit

    They're not getting on

    Inprise/Borland has filed a lawsuit against Iona alleging that Iona has engaged in "a pattern of wrongful conduct", that it has "wrongly solicited" employees, diluted the trademark, interfered with customers, libelled the company by spreading misinformation about its products and services, and engaged in unfair competition. The …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 07:12

  • Java bureacracy reforms itself

    Let's form a committee

    Sun expects to have JCP 2.0, a revised draft of its Java Community Process, ready by the end of the month. A "blue ribbon" panel of Java users is developing the standard for Java licensees to review. But will this go far enough to satisfy criticisms about intellectual property rights? In an announcement last week, 13 companies …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 07:18

  • Net regulators close in on rogue domains

    Squatters and pirates ejected from cyberspace

    Cybersquatters are facing defeat as a result of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This was the conclusion to be drawn last week at the inaugural meeting of Cyberbe@t, a series of events for the intellectual property community arranged in London by Virtual Internet …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 07:37

  • Rambus could use 4:1 split to fuel acquisitions

    And memtech outfit fights back at its critics

    A Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing made by semiconductor technology firm Rambus last week, has revealed the board of directors' thinking about splitting its shares 4:1 in May. The SEC form 14A, was filed by the corporation early last week, and shows that the split, which was decided upon when the share price …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 09:07

  • ARM pulls SOCs up with Infinite buy

    Shows 157 per cent rise in profits in Q

    ARM Holdings has bought a Infinite Designs, a privately-held Sheffield firm specialising in system on a chip (SOC) designs for digital signal processing (DSP) wireless and multimedia. The firm suggested further investments in the area were likely. News of the acquisition comes hard upon a 157 per cent increase in net profits and …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 09:29

  • DDR memory gets Infineon, Samsung, Via boost

    Infineon samples, Via affirms, Samsung bears witness

    The spun off chip division of Infineon said today it has started sampling 256Mbit double data rate (DDR) memory chips to its customers, while chipset firm Via said it will use the DDR PC2100 spec in its future products. Infineon says it was shipping the samples, which feature extensively in future Intel server and workstation …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 09:43

  • The Net could eat us all – Archbishop of York

    Potential for evil

    Another senior holy man has stepped forward to knock the Net -- still, it makes a change from Net users bashing bishops. The Archbishop of York warned that the Net could bring a plague of locusts and other such biblical disasters upon the world unless Net users repent and wear sackcloth. In an interesting theological split, …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 10:37

  • John Lewis suit looms over Dixons PC supply exclusives

    Packard Bell and Compaq involved too

    John Lewis may sue rival Dixons over anti-competitive practices in the PC market. The department store chain has taken legal advice from a top QC and is considering either suing Dixons directly or taking the Office of Fair Trading to court. It is upset about Dixons signing exclusive PC supply agreements with vendors Compaq and …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 11:05

  • Via to buy S3 graphics chip operation

    Full details coming later today, says chipset company

    Via will today "announce its decision to purchase US-based S3's graphics chipset unit" today, according to a report in Taiwan's Commercial Times. The question is, does this mean Via will announce it has bought S3's chip division, or that it has decided to buy said operation. These are not, you'll note the same thing at all. That …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 11:46

  • World Online flat fee ISP is Screaming by any other name

    Only now it's called Freedom 24

    World Online has started offering unmetered access to the Net a month after first signalling its intention to offer a 24/7 flat-fee service in Britain. The price structure is called Freedom 24 and offers all the usual bits and bobs associated with such services. The Freedom 24 service is based on the Screaming.net model …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 12:43

  • Action cuts Web prices as profits sink

    Operating benefits of dotcom channel

    Action Computer Supplies has cut prices on thousands of products sold through its Web site to try and keep up with online PC sellers. The London reseller today reduced prices on 18,000 IT products and services sold on action.com. It claimed the move would make its kit sold on the Web up to 30 per cent cheaper than typical high …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 12:47

  • MS may be forced to give away Explorer source code

    MS on Trial Microzilla here we come...

    The government intends to ask that Microsoft be forced to license the source code to Internet Explorer as part of its proposed remedies package, according to a story in today's Wall Street Journal. Microsoft would be forced to offer royalty-free licences on demand, allowing rivals to make their own modifications and improvements …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 13:18

  • AMD's Spitfire victim of own performance

    Thunderbirds will have to go-go at same time

    Sources close to Advanced Micro Device (AMD) said that the firm's up-and-coming Spitfire range of microprocessors are forcing the firm's hand on its integrated cache Thunderbird chips. Thunderbirds are versions of the Athlon microprocessor with large level two caches, which come in Slot A configurations. Caches for the T'birds …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 14:25

  • MS slammed for abandoning W3C standards in IE 5.5

    WaSP gets very splenetic indeed on the matter

    The Windows version of IE 5.5 has come under heavy fire from the Web Standards Project (WaSP), a grouping of web developers which lobbies for standards and an end to fragmentation in browser development. WaSP accuses Microsoft of abandoning Web standards it has publicly committed to supporting, and instead "focussing on …

    Business 10 Apr 2000, 14:38