17th June 2000 Archive

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Intel downplays PC-133, Screaming Cindy, on notebooks

Notes from the Santa Clara folks

Internal Intel roadmaps seen by The Register indicate that notebook chips which will be launched next Monday -- as exclusively revealed here last January -- are just the thin end of a DDR (double data rate) wedge from Chipzilla Central in Santa Clara. Further, Intel is not overconcerned with Transmeta, the notes reveal, but is …

Channel 17 Jun 2000, 01:34
Online chat ends in knife attack

Gives a new meaning to cut and paste

A Chinese man has been jailed for stabbing a fellow Net user after the pair argued in a chat room. The two men - from Yingkou city in Liaoning province - decided that hurling insults at one another simply wasn't good enough, so they decided to meet face-to-face to settle their differences. But when Huang He gave "Qi Qi" (that …

Music and Media 17 Jun 2000, 07:22
It's a fixed wireless auction thing

Govt. cash cow No. 94

E-commerce Minister Patricia Hewitt has released details of the government's plans to auction radio spectrum for broadband fixed wireless access. There will be three licences available in each of the 11 English licence areas and in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Successful bidders will be limited to one licence per area …

Data Networking 17 Jun 2000, 07:26
HW Roundup Via mobos, T'birds, Celery 2s

Everything is lovely in hardware land

Two grade 'A' reviews to have a peek at on 3dHardware. The site has nothing much bad to say about either the 700MHz thunderbird Slot A or the the Athlon 850. While we're looking at the CPU arena, Gamebasement has a review of the Celeron 2. Apparently those bad sports at Intel didn't like everyone getting the same performance …

Hardware Roundup 17 Jun 2000, 07:49
Intel mobile plans for next nine months unfold

Bluetooth, Solano-2M, faster clock speeds and power probs

Intel will introduce two SpeedStep based mobile Pentium IIIs in September at speeds of 800MHz and 850MHz, according to a roadmap we viewed at Computex last week. Further, as we pointed out in a separate story earlier today, it is positioning Bluetush technology for businesses, home and road-warrior activity. In addition, a …

Channel 17 Jun 2000, 09:40