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  • How will the verdict hit the MS stock price?

    MS on Trial It may be goodbye to beating the street

    Microsoft's investors know very well that the company will not be able to make nearly as much money with its conduct closely monitored by the DoJ and Judge Jackson. A restrained Microsoft may therefore find itself unable to produce that little bit of extra revenue to "beat the Street" (financial analysts love this of course, and …

    Business 8 Jun 2000, 07:08

  • Bill Gates dismisses Judge Jackson's ruling

    MS on Trial On trial and in denial

    When Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates enacted his entry procession into the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday, flanked by both US Senators from his home state, both glowing with pride, the tedious liturgical airs of this exercise only accentuated our impression of a man severely out of touch. The Prince Bishop of Redmond …

    Software 8 Jun 2000, 07:14

  • The fat judge sings: will the Supremes kick in?

    MS on Trial Attention turns to appeals process

    Taking a seize-the-bull-by-the-horns approach, Judge Jackson says: "Microsoft officials have recently been quoted publicly to the effect that the company has done nothing wrong' and that it will be vindicated on appeal. He "is well aware that there is a substantial body of public opinion, some of it rational, that holds to a …

    Software 8 Jun 2000, 07:24

  • How will the verdict hit the MS stock price?

    MS on Trial We may be kissing goodbye to beating the street

    Microsoft's investors know very well that the company will not be able to make nearly as much money with its conduct closely monitored by the DoJ and Judge Jackson. A restrained Microsoft may therefore find itself unable to produce that little bit of extra revenue to "beat the Street" (financial analysts love this of course, and …

    Software 8 Jun 2000, 07:24

  • Breakup it is – judge signs off DoJ MS proposal

    MS on Trial Now for that fishing trip...

    Where were you when you heard about the Final Judgement on Microsoft? Yes, it was one of those moments in history. Judge Jackson had two choices: either he could accept the DoJ proposal in its entirety, or modify it. By doing the former, he avoided the need for producing a lengthy memorandum to explain his actions, and confined …

    Software 8 Jun 2000, 07:24

  • Timna mobos spotted in Taipei

    Computex 2000 Horseless carriage a loveless marriage

    Several manufacturers are exhibiting Timna motherboard units at their suites in the Grand Hyatt next to the Computex Trade Fair. But, as revealed earlier this week, the boards are like an old fashioned carriage without a horse. The Dobbin in question in this case is the Timna processor, which Intel confirmed will be unavailable …

    Channel 8 Jun 2000, 09:44

  • AMD Slot A death threatens stock crunch

    Computex 2000 Gigabyte denies piles of mobos

    Motherboard manufacturers are performing a difficult juggling act during the rapid phase out of Slot A in favour of Socket A for the AMD Athlon and are putting pressure on the chip maker to keep on making the parts. After the release of the Thunderbird Athlon at the beginning of this week, which coincided with the simultaneous …

    Channel 8 Jun 2000, 09:44

  • CallNet 0800 stands ground on FRIACO

    Won't hang-up telephony model

    CallNet 0800 has confirmed it will not be ditching its telephony-based net access model despite earlier reports claiming it may be "forced to change its entire business model". A spokesman for the company said CallNet 0800 was assessing its business model on a "day-by-day" basis. He said he couldn't rule out the introduction …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 2000, 09:55

  • Amex sets debt collectors on ex-Boo staff

    Shafted by the small print

    Former Boo.com staff are slowly discovering how much they have been shafted by their ex-bosses. Yesterday's Times newspaper revealed that 17 ex-employees of the failed online sportswear retailer may be forced to pay for debts run up on company credit cards. The individuals, ranging from the founders of the company to junior …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 2000, 11:21

  • Tories elect Net to save Pound

    Lucky not to have fingered Euro by mistake

    William Hague dropped in to a hi-tech London venue yesterday to launch an online petition to save the British Pound. The Tory leader was flanked by political heavyweight, Michael Portillo, and Francis Maude in the basement of the Silicon Rooms. Together, they each sat down at a PC and tapped in their e-commitment to sterling. …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 2000, 11:37

  • Intel: “Buy your mobos from someone else”

    Death of Cape Cod leaves gigantic hole in Chipzilla's mobo plans

    When we asked an Intel Europe spokesman a couple of days ago which mobo he recommended we use for our 750MHz Coppermine processor now that Cape Cod has gone to that great fishmonger in the sky, his response was interesting: "There are loads of 3rd party boards that you can use." So there we have it – if you want to use SDRAM, …

    Business 8 Jun 2000, 12:56

  • Online flirting will send you straight to hell

    Hail Marys ricochet around the dotcom world

    Flirting online is the devil's work and akin to flesh and blood adultery, the Catholic Church has declared. Logging on for an amorous chat with someone other than your spouse amounts to online adultery and is a sin in the eyes of the Church,a ccording to Italy's top weekly Catholic mag Famiglia Cristiana (Christian Family). …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 2000, 13:44

  • lastminute.com in CWAP deal

    it was only a matter of time...

    lastminute.com is to offer its just-in-the-nick-of-time bucket services to Continental Wireless Application Protocol (CWAP) mobile phone users. The British dotcom has signed deals to offer localised CWAP services with two of Europe's largest mobile phone operators, T-Mobil (Deutsche Telekom MobilNet) and France Telecom ( …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 2000, 14:50

  • Cheaper TFT screens on the way

    May finally see off CRTs on the desktop

    NatSemi and Samsung are working together on the development of thinner, lighter displays for notebook PCs which the companies claim will eventually replace traditional desktop monitors. The development follows a technology licensing deal - dubbed the Mount Blanc Project - signed last summer that gave Samsung the use of key …

    Business 8 Jun 2000, 14:53

  • 101 jobs go in dog-eat-dog dotcom world

    E-outfit must have been barking up the wrong tree

    The "sudden collapse of confidence in worldwide dotcom sector" has been blamed for the loss of 101 jobs in Northern Ireland. Lution -- an incubator outfit for embryonic dotcoms -- only managed to stay alive for ten months before pulling the plug on its business. And this from an e-outfit that claimed it was "helping to build …

    Business 8 Jun 2000, 16:05

  • Kewill buys US systems integrator

    For $45 million

    London-based systems integrator Kewill Systems has bought US group EVCOR for $45.5 million (30.2 million pounds) in cash and stock. The deal, through Kewill's subsidiary Kewill Electronic Commerce, involves $30 million (19.9 million pounds) cash, with 952,542 shares. An extra $15 million (9.9 million pounds) depends on EVCOR's …

    Business 8 Jun 2000, 16:08

  • Oftel kicks butt

    C'mon then if you think you're hard enough

    Oftel has banged the heads together of a number of telcos and hardware suppliers after they failed to agree to technical guidelines for unbundling the local loop. The public and embarrassing ticking-off of some of the biggest names in the Net industry -- including BT, MCI Worldcom, Energis and NTL -- is further evidence that …

    Music and Media 8 Jun 2000, 16:09

  • Dixons buys a piece of Sugar's e-m@iler

    Finger on the tech pulse, apparently

    Dixons Group has bought 20 per cent of Amserve -the Amstrad subsidiary responsible for the "E-m@iler"machine. The 15 million pounds deal is split two ways - the retail giant is paying 3 million pounds cash, while also agreeing to provide a service support and distribution package - courtesy of its 1,000 UK shops - valued at 12 …

    Business 8 Jun 2000, 16:54

  • Gates: 'I could have saved MS if I'd taken the stand'

    MS on Trial How many words for 'deranged' do they have in Redmond?

    The extent to which Bill Gates does not get it became even more abundantly clear this morning, when he suggested on ABC's Good Morning America that if he'd made a personal appearance at the trial, it all could have been different. Tom Lehrer gave up satire when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize and frankly, we begin to …

    Software 8 Jun 2000, 17:40

  • Intel ATA driver makes PC run like the clappers

    Register writes favourable Intel story

    Now I realise you Reg regulars believe that us vultures have a serious and radical down on whatever it is that Intel is doing. But this could not be further from the truth. Chipzilla has posted an updated UltraDMA driver here. This is designed for the Caminogate chipset and the VC820 mobo in particular. We tried the new …

    Software 8 Jun 2000, 17:57

  • MS ships Love Bug patch – do you feel lucky?

    Doesn't break your systems after all. So it's your fault when virus hell ensues...

    Microsoft finally shipped the Outlook 'Love Bug' patch today, and from the sound of it the delay in getting it out has allowed time for a climb down from the original 'take them out and shoot them' approach. Rather than blocking everything that looked even slightly like it was packing iron - as originally planned, in a knee- …

    Software 8 Jun 2000, 20:33