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  • Intel confirms major chip shortages

    $8bn financials boosted by VC activities

    Demand exceeded supply for Intel microprocessors in the first half of this year, and that has led to an uncomfortable shortage of chips, CEO Craig Barrett conceded yesterday as the firm reported its Q1 financial results. That is leading Intel to spend more money investing in increased fab capacity, Barrett said. "While supply …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 07:03

  • AMD intros mobile K6-2+, K6-III+

    Comes with DSP Screaming Cindy 3DNow extensions

    In a bid to further increase market share at the expense of its bigger brother, Intel, AMD yesterday announced availability of notebook chips with K6-2 and K6-III handles. In a press release, the firm said that the chips, which are processors made with a .18 micron process, includes its PowerNow (formerly Gemini) battery …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 07:04

  • Privacy-loving space aliens put the smack down on SETI

    Hope they nail DoubleClick next....

    A SETI radio telescope has been destroyed and scientists fear that space aliens may be responsible, the Weekly World News reports. A "pulsating blue beam" streaked out of the sky and slammed into the 250-foot Rand Wilson telescope near Johannesburg, South Africa, lighting up the facility and a quarter-mile area surrounding it, …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 07:09

  • Register jumps into bed with iSyndicate

    A little bit of San Francisco comes to UK

    iSyndicate, the Internet world's biggest content syndicator, has opened for business in the UK, with a launch-roster of 12 publications. The cream of content includes the Financial Times, The Guardian, ITN New Media and, of course, The Register. San Francisco-based iSyndicate aims to provide "sticky" content for Web sites. It …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 07:28

  • Forrester maps out Euro Internet futures

    Graham analyses the analysts

    At an Executive Strategy Forum such as the one arranged by Forrester Research that has just concluded in Amsterdam, executives and dotcom practitioners should have been briefed on the event of the moment - the collapse of the world's tech stock markets. There were no charts analysing what had happened or how the collapse had …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 08:23

  • Hardware Roundup Spitfire pricing pops up on Web

    We shake out a few of the CobWebs

    At AMD Zone, there's info on some mobo upgrades as well as more information about the firm's mobile offerings, along with links to its own benchmarks. The chaps have also pointed to this page which gives pricing for AMD's up and coming Spitfire chippie. At Hard OCP, the lad has a major preview of the Voodoo 5500 AGP. Kyle had …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 09:05

  • Meet me on the holodeck

    Sun links with VR outfit, death by Powerpoint

    Tequila is a subject close to our hearts here at The Register, so we immediately warmed to the announcement yesterday that new Sun collaborator Trimension Systems had developed a 'virtual tequila environment', complete with worm. UK-based Trimension builds exotic display systems allowing car designers and geophysicists to …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 10:03

  • Ananova speaks… cyberrubbish

    More long-winded than a government minister

    Cybernewsreader Ananova uttered her first words today in what can only be described as the most over-hyped, anti-climatic waste of computational power since the flotation of lastminute.com. "Hello world, here is the news," is hardly the stuff of legends, as the PR junkies hoped it might be. Nor is the fact that it took so long …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 10:41

  • Intel backtracks on mobo recall

    Chipzilla in left and right hand dilemma

    What a difference a day makes. Intel yesterday officially informed the Register that the troubled Cape Cod mobos were set for recall. Here is an extract cut and pasted from the email: "Regardind CC820, they all are reworked or called back for rework. We will do a stepping on the MTH, but this is the normal errata process. …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 11:00

  • Blueyonder suffers curse of free ISPs

    Teething problems slow Telewest roll-out

    Telewest is suffering the curse of the free ISPs after it admitted that the launch phase of its blueyonder high speed Internet service is being slowed down because of "technical teething problems". According to the cableco's ISP, cableinternet (as blueyonder used to be called), Telewest expects its installation plans to return …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 12:18

  • Banking giants spend $1bn on UK Net venture

    Gunning for high value e-biz

    Two of the biggest name's in the global financial sector, Merrill Lynch and HSBC, are to spend $1 billion (that's more than £600 million) on an online banking division. The new venture, as yet unnamed, will be aimed at providing a range of banking and investment services to anyone with a spare $100,000 to invest – described by …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 12:22

  • Apple to buy DVD processors from C-CUBE

    Final parts being dropped into digital video strategy jigsaw

    Semiconductor company C-Cube will next week announce a major deal with Apple to supply the Mac maker with DVD processing chips, according to a report by CBS Marketwatch. Dan Scovel, a semiconductor analyst at Needham & Co, told CBS Marketwatch that C-Cube has been dropped hints over the last few months that it's been talking to …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 12:54

  • Satellite pics of US alien base hit the Web

    Millions of jelly-headed X-files fans wet themselves

    "The truth is out there, Scully." "I'd settle for a coherent plot, Mulder." But, blimey! The truth really is out there with the Internet publication of some satellite snaps of the notorious Area 51 - a top-secret US military base in the Nevada desert, just north-west of Las Vegas. The pics were taken with a Russian satellite …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 12:56

  • Mulford quits as Datrontech CEO to start ASP

    Big write-offs=big losses

    Mark Mulford has quit as CEO of UK distributor Datrontech to launch an Application Service Provider (ASP). The departure was announced as the company recorded pre-tax losses of £8.2 million for its year ended January 2 2000. This compared to profits of around £2 million the previous year. Sales were down 10 per cent or to £200.7 …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 13:00

  • IDC adds VA Linux Systems to server survey elite

    Market research giant 'clarifies' its mistake, but the numbers still don't quite add up...

    A red-faced IDC has admitted that VA Linux Systems is indeed one of the top five Linux server vendors, and that it's recent report to the contrary was... well... wrong. IDC released its report on the state of the Linux server market during Q4 1999 last week. It put Compaq in the lead, followed by IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 13:38

  • Virgin Net stops the clock – at £15 per month

    Which is nice

    Virgin Net is to trial 24/7 unmetered Net access for a flat fee of £15 a month, the company said today. Called Stop-The-Clock, the service is to be offered to 10,000 existing Virgin Net subscribers. If you're a Virgin Net user, expect to be contacted within the next couple of days - or not, as the case may be. The package …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 14:17

  • Staff at Murdoch new media arm attack lack of leadership

    All is not rosy in the Wapping e-garden, leaked memo reveals

    News Network -- the new media arm of Rupert Murdoch's News International -- has spent an arm and a leg in an internal exercise to find out what its employees think of the e-outfit. The results aren't good. A leaked internal memo from News Network's MD, Alasdair MacLeod, suggests all is not rosy in the Wapping e-garden. Employees …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 15:36

  • Canadian Feds charge Mafiaboy in DDoS attacks

    They seek him here, they seek him there....

    Canadian authorities have charged a fifteen-year-old boy with two counts of "mischief to data" for taking part in the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks which shut down popular Web sites such as Yahoo!, eBay, CNN and Amazon in February, and which finally brought a healthy scepticism of Internet security into the …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 17:05

  • Computer games award ceremony tonight

    And we know who the winners are (sort of)

    You're not an industry these days unless you have your own back-slapping awards ceremony, but the computer games industry has gone for a different approach. Billed as the industry's Oscars, the winners will actually be the ones that deserve the award (Hollywood will be turning in its designer grave). How come? All awards will be …

    Business 19 Apr 2000, 18:29