6th June 2000 Archive

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Channel

• Intel gives up on SDRAM version of Caminogate It's Rambus or nothing from now on
• MTH flaw forces Intel Timna delay Don't SOC it to me, baby
• Rambus misses Computex Dragonboat Computex 2000 DDR takes the Taiwanese biscuit

Hardware: Data Networking

• ASA probes NTL ad claims Prompted by a massive number of complaints (actually, only 13)
• Cellnet GPRS broadband offering sounds strangely narrow 27Kbps? Don't all broadband at once, obviously...
• Software upgrade cuts off ADSL triallists BT blames Alcatel
• Worm spams mobile phones ILoveYou copycat, with a twist

Management

• Board makers wonder if AMD, VIA can keep up Computex 2000 Will we have a demand-supply crunch?
• IBM preps Transmeta notebook The veils are almost off
• Intel 815e bursts into early existence Computex 2000 The 815e is now alive
• Jungle job cuts follow Software Warehouse merger De-duplication
• New technology in old Taipei Computex 2000 A quick scoot around the halls
• SETI challenge revisited Our reference Rambus system gets to munch through some work units

Music and Media

• ‘President Gore’ to put government on line Got a problem? Write your Webmaster....
• Which? slates online quacks Viagra prices too high
• C-R-A-P.com takes the B-I-S-C-U-I-T Hyphenated domain names for sale
• Consumer watchdogs fail the Spam Test Can't think, won't think
• Napster to sue bastard Offspring If this is what it does to its friends...
• RIP could wreck UK business, Chamber of Commerce realises The penny drops
• The Web is the platform, says Gates – carefully Ever get that feeling the platform's shifting from under you?
• TUCOWs pawn in Internet.com domain theft Spoof on the hoof

Odds and Sods: Register Full Coverage

• Computex 2000 All the stories from Taiwan's biggest IT show

Software

• DoJ accepts trivial MS changes, refuses all the big ones MS on Trial But Microsoft just keeps coming...
• DoJ rebuts MS filing, pulls Gates up on email deletion MS on Trial Reads like it was prepared by somebody who'd been burned once. Funny
• Is Gates planning a share stake shuffle ahead of an MS split? MS on Trial Some of the company's requests suggest that very thing
• Linux beats Microsoft to support superfast disks It's Ultra ATA/100-ready before the press release ink dries
• Windows ME to RTM next week, ship mid July Send Jim Allchin on extended leave, and things start to ship - funny that