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  • Kizoom WAP site promises ‘joined-up travel’

    But only UK train timetabling offered so far

    The launch today of a personalised travel information service from UK-based Kizoom threatens to bring something that is actually useful to your WAP handset. Even more unusual is that it is up and running now and has been tested for all makes of phone and browser. Aimed at the traveller out and about, the service lets you …

    Business 21 Apr 2000, 09:42

  • SGI loss widens beyond expectations

    MIPS to blame thanks to delayed 400MHz R12000, says company

    SGI saw its loss widen and sales fall during its third fiscal quarter, the troubled hardware vendor admitted yesterday. Revenues for the quarter totalled $563.7 million, down nine per cent on the figure of $619.2 million SGI recorded for the same period last year. Q3 2000 also saw SGI's loss reach $18.1 million. That's …

    Business 21 Apr 2000, 09:44

  • Metallica lets second uni off the hook after Napster ban

    Indiana University dropped from piracy, racketeering and corruption suit

    Indiana University yesterday followed the example of Yale to re-impose a ban on controversial 'seek, locate, download' MP3 music software Napster. Like Yale, Indiana's move was made in response to the legal action launched last week by metal band Metallica. On Wednesday, Metallica said it would remove Yale from its lawsuit, …

    Business 21 Apr 2000, 09:45

  • UK government to investigate ‘thief’ IBM

    Won't make any bloody difference - but it's good to see

    Following an impassioned plea in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Patrick Nicolls, the DTI has launched an inquiry into alleged patent infringement by IBM and speech recognition company Dragon Systems. Nicolls championed the case of AllVoice, a Devon-based company which claims IBM pinched its technology while feigning …

    Business 21 Apr 2000, 09:51

  • Apple shareholders OK two-for-one stock split

    Analysts up earnings expectations, share price targets

    Apple's shareholders yesterday sided with the company' board and approved its much-anticipated two-for-one stock-split. Such a split has been expected for some time, ever since Apple's share price, propelled by its consistent profit and revenue growth over the last year or so, and Wall Street's broader keenness on hi-tech stocks …

    Business 21 Apr 2000, 10:39

  • Microsoft Q3 profits up ahead of Street expectations

    Massive investment sales comes in handy

    Microsoft yesterday beat Wall Street expectations by two cents a share, thanks to a 23 per cent rise in third quarter profits. Net profits for the quarter reached $2.39 billion, up from $1.91 billion for the same period last year. Those figures translate into earnings of 43 cents a share and 35 cents a share, respectively. Mind …

    Business 21 Apr 2000, 10:40

  • Intel to adjust prices on 23 April, confirms Q3 availability

    Not across the board, so to speak

    Boxed motherboards from Intel are hard to get, we know, but the ones system builders can get will be reduced in price from 23 April. That will go some way towards fighting smaller competitor AMD, which is to take an axe to its prices next Monday, as reported here earlier. Earlier this month, Intel told its system builders that …

    Business 21 Apr 2000, 11:07

  • NeoMagic quits notebook graphics market

    Forced out by ATI's rather better chips

    Notebook PC graphics specialist NeoMagic is pulling out of the business that made its name, beaten off by the major 3D graphics chip companies. Instead, it's going to focus on wireless networking. NeoMagic has pretty much controlled the notebook graphics market for the last couple of years, but as market analysts cited in an …

    Business 21 Apr 2000, 11:24