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  • FICkle finger points to Transmeta fete

    Computex 2000 Open that door, damnit!

    Thanks to our friends at Mobile Linux for pointing us to the fact that First International Corporation (FIC) is showing a Transmeta-based device at Computex this week. Armed with this solid piece of information, we therefore tramped to the Grand Hyatt next to the conference centre here in Taipei, and took the lift to the 25th …

    Channel 7 Jun 2000, 10:33

  • Mosel predicts rapid death of SDRAM

    DDR will take its place. Wot, no Rambus?

    Memory company Mosel Vitelic said today it has introduced 64Mb double data rate memory (DDR) and forecast that during the second half of this year, the standard will displace current PC-133 memory modules. Rajit Shah, worldwide VP of sales and marketing at Mosel Vitelic, said that his firm anticipated PC memory sales to be very …

    Channel 7 Jun 2000, 10:33

  • Willamette to have triflingly short shelf life

    Computex 2000 Watch out, Tulloch is coming

    For all the fanfare made by Intel about its up-and-coming IA-32 processor codenamed Willamette, it has emerged that another IA-32 processor will displace it within a period of four months or so. Willamette is scheduled to appear towards the end of this year, at clock speeds rising to 1.4GHz but conversations with a number of …

    Channel 7 Jun 2000, 10:33

  • Spicy PC gossip from Old Taipei

    Computex 2000 AMD and its chipsets, the 840 fiasco reality and DDR vs Rambus

    Despite others' perception, quite often journalists hunt in packs and then share ideas with each other so that a jigsaw picture of what's really going on can be assembled. Chatting to a hack here who was at the AMD intro of the T'Bird in Taipei, and he said one of the speakers had made a strange comment about Via using AMD as a …

    Channel 7 Jun 2000, 10:33

  • Linux racked by sub-$1000 frame

    Computex 2000 Here comes commoditisation

    ServeLinux has introduced a rack mounted 2U server costing less than $1000, claiming a breakthrough in the market. The server, called the Rackmount 2U, has support for two Socket 370 processors, SCSI, dual Lan, RAID and can also take up to four hard drives. The SCSI/RAID controller board in the server allows for hot swap, hot …

    Software 7 Jun 2000, 10:33

  • Beanie Babies maker threatens Quake clan

    Throws its toys around

    The maker of Beanie Babies has threatened to sue a Quake clan for naming itself after its cuddly creations. Ty Inc sent a letter via Washington lawyers Gardner, Carton & Douglas to the owners of domain name clanbeaniebabies.org. It instructed the company involved, Addictive Software, to "immediately cease use of the …

    Music and Media 7 Jun 2000, 10:33

  • MS shoots off last volley, now it's back to the judge

    MS on Trial Even Microsoft's lawyers reckon it's time to knock this on the head...

    In a surprise move, Microsoft has filed its response to the response to the response a day early. And the company's Reply to plaintiffs' response to Microsoft's comments on their revised proposed final judgment is for once a short one. Microsoft's legal team may well be tired and limited to repeating its arguments, in the …

    Software 7 Jun 2000, 10:43

  • JavaOne 2000

    Annie Kermath's Guide to the latest Sunfest

    9 June AT&T trials JavaTV 6 June Gritted teeth welcome for new Java licensing

    Register Full Coverage 7 Jun 2000, 11:37

  • Unmetered access just a few weeks away, says BT

    Telco heels to watchdog call

    BT has confirmed it will comply with Oftel's directive and offer wholesale unmetered access to the Net "within a few weeks". A spokesman for the telco said: "We have agreed to Oftel's directive and will introduce it (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination or FRIACO for short) in due course. The BT spokesman explained a …

    Music and Media 7 Jun 2000, 13:44

  • Ballmer ducks UK press as verdict hits

    Updated Another scheduling triumph - but he's still in the country

    Steve Ballmer was due to meet the pressin London today, but just as Judge Jackson announced that he'd deliver his final verdict at 3pm Eastern yesterday, into our mailbox came the cancellation. And we can't help feeling that some supernatural power must have guided whoever thought up the title of the event that isn't going to …

    Software 7 Jun 2000, 15:38

  • Ex-army major offers dotcom sanctuary

    Escape from RIP

    A retired British Army major is planning to offer refuge to companies sick of government meddling in the Web. Roy Bates and his family have lived on the concrete fortress of Sealand - moored six miles off the Essex coast - since 1967. The Sealand platform, originally built to keep the Germans out during WW2, was declared a …

    Music and Media 7 Jun 2000, 16:23

  • Gritted teeth welcome for new Java licensing

    JavaOne Renegade HP and IBM snipers still shooting from the clock tower

    At JavaOne today, representatives from HP, IBM and Compaq denied they'd ever even heard of openserver.org, the self-styled "standards body" they created six weeks ago to wrest control of Java from Sun. But partisans remain in both companies. IBM said it wouldn't be basing its San Francisco frameworks on Enterprise Java Beans …

    Software 7 Jun 2000, 17:09

  • Microsoft blocks cloners' from streaming media format

    So there goes your air supply...

    Microsoft has warned open source developers off using its ASF streaming media format. The author of VirtualDub, an open source video capture and editing package which reverse engineered the ASF format, has dropped ASF support after a call from Microsoft's Windows Media group. Avery Lee, the author of Virtual Dub, says he …

    Software 7 Jun 2000, 17:09