25th May 2000 Archive
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Judge Jackson tames the Beast
MS on Trial How about a three-piece Microsoft?
It was an interesting day in court. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson started things off by refusing to hear Microsoft arguments to dismiss the government's case, but headed swiftly into a surprising discussion of the merits of breaking the company into three divisions rather than two as proposed by the US Department of Justice (DoJ …
Business 25 May 2000, 09:45
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OK, but who gets to keep Flight Simulator?
MS on Trial The software trades make hay in May
"[A]ll these separate entities are parts of an organism, members of a single great business. Tear them apart and who knows what will become of them?" No, that's not Gates, Ballmer or Neukom, but Standard Oil speaking in very similar circumstances in 1909 - just one of the gems unearthed by the Computer and Communications …
Business 25 May 2000, 09:45
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What the Hell is… Intel Online?
It took three gos to find out but we've got it
Mike Aymar, president of Intel Online Services, gave Internet World 2000's first keynote and a beauty it was. While we were all wondering exactly what the "Internet application hosting subsidiary of Intel" was going to do, he seemed more occupied with regurgitating the same old Internet future guff. Did you know the Internet is …
Business 25 May 2000, 09:45
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South African man shoots PC
Extreme IT rage grips former Apartheid-riddled country
South Africa is a very dangerous place to live if you are a computer. One PC so outraged its South African user that the man took his gun out and shot it - repeatedly. A colleague who witnessed the IT rage tantrum said the killer shot the machine "to smithereens" out of sheer frustration. This wanton attack came to light after …
Business 25 May 2000, 09:45
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IO, IO, it's off to Zion we go
PCI-X and other mysteries
A slide seen on an Intel roadmap earlier this week has spelled out its plans for input-output (IO) processors until the end of next year. This quarter, and right up until the end of this year, Intel is relying on its 80960 for eight way, four way and dual processor platforms. There are three flavours of these. The 80960RN …
Business 25 May 2000, 09:50
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The Beast whinges
MS on Trial Sniff...
When Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson returned from lunch on Wednesday, he blew Microsoft's mind. The Beast had been busy arguing that it needed a good six months more to mount a proper, lingering defence. "This case has been pending for two years," a florid Jackson shot back. Then he ordered the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to …
Business 25 May 2000, 09:55
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ATI says expect Q3 loss
Margins plummet on global component shortage
ATI yesterday said it expects to make a loss for its third fiscal quarter, due to end next week on 31 May. The market-leading 3D graphics company blamed the loss - which it anticipates to be in the region of 6-7 cents - on a global shortage of components. It also expects to see a $56 million inventory write-down and as yet …
Business 25 May 2000, 11:28
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Intel: Who exactly is running the show?
Opinion Lights on, nobody home
Headless chickens are all very well if you're talking about one chicken that has unfortunately had its head chopped off and made into a pie. If you're talking about a multinational, multibillion dollar corporation employing more than 70,000 people, having no one in control is a tad more significant. We were wondering today if …
Business 25 May 2000, 11:36
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Ace-quote.com sold for cash
DM85 million to you, squire
Ace-quote.com, the only Welsh dotcom we've heard of, has sold itself to German Company DCI for DM85 million in cash. The deal should provide a nice turn on investment for Antfactory, the Internet incubator, which recently pumped in 900,000 quid, in return for an undisclosed (but minority stake) Acequote's existing management …
Business 25 May 2000, 14:13
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Chipzilla chops Xeon pricing in half
Readying the world for Itanium?
With today's launch of Cashcades, the Xeon with 1MB or 2MB of on-die L2 cache, Intel has slashed prices for its high-end server/ workstation processors. Until today, the fastest 2MB cache part was rated at 550MHz and priced at a whopping $3692 in 1000 unit quantities. Now you can order a 700MHz part with 2MB on-die L2 for a …
Business 25 May 2000, 14:13
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MS Love Bug patch catches flak
Upgrades all round before you can run it
Microsoft's Love Bug patch for Outlook has already been criticised for being too drastic a solution, but now it's coming under fire from Gartner for both this and for the complexity involved in deploying it. After years of being abused for taking a cavalier attitude to security, now Microsoft is taking flak for getting the fix …
Business 25 May 2000, 14:13
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VA Linux revenue grows over 700 per cent
Loss widens over 600 per cent
Linux hardware specialist VA Linux Systems saw revenues rise 705 per cent during its third quarter, which ended 28 April. The snag: the company's loss grew too - by 506 per cent. For the three-month period, revenues grew to $34.6 million from the $4.3 million, the company recorded this time last year. Its loss, meanwhile, …
Business 25 May 2000, 14:16
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The three flavours of Intel's Willamette chip
And the sad truth about the 1GHz CuMine III
The roadmap which has provided us with so much interest this week, is also interesting about Willamette and the way the Pentium III CuMine platform will gradually be displaced by the next rev of IA-32 architecture. In fact, according to notes we took, there will be a total of three Willamettes available by the first quarter of …
Business 25 May 2000, 17:04
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Harvard dropout Gates achieves double doctordom
In humanities, but it's just the category name...
Bill Gates has yet to complete his undergraduate work at Harvard, but he'll collect his second doctorate next month - this time in humanities from the private Rikkyo University in Tokyo. A representative of the university said that Gates had "contributed to today's computer science technology" and added that he had "given much …
Business 25 May 2000, 17:06
