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  • Symbian accelerates IPO plans

    NASDAQ listing plan gives Psion a FTSE boost...

    Symbian is stepping up its plans for an IPO. According to a report in the Sunday Telegraph, the company has drawn up a more aggressive timetable for floating the privately held company, at the behest of its largest shareholder Psion. The report suggests that a public offering is "expected early next year" and fingers Credit …

    Software 19 Jun 2000, 07:20

  • Ten years hard – Microsoft's long antitrust struggle

    MS on Trial And nothing bad happened till the other month - didn't they do well?

    Happy tenth anniversary, Microsoft: it's now ten years since news first broke that you were under antitrust investigation. It's been a long battle, and it's by no means over yet - but the point is not so much that Microsoft has been under investigation for over a decade, but that it's been able to hold off serious corrective …

    Software 19 Jun 2000, 08:00

  • Intel's Timna has dead duck look'n'feel

    The system on a chip deal that's a canard

    Behind the scenes at the Computex show a fortnight ago, some folk were shown Intel's not-so-up-and-coming Timna system on a chip device. Gigabyte was less cautious, and showed a Timna motherboard in its suite in the Hyatt, although a suit brought his hand up in front of our digital camera just before we caught it for posterity …

    Channel 19 Jun 2000, 08:14

  • HP driver saga: Get your own back

    HP doesn't support 80 min CDRs - but we know a man who does

    The Great Stan of Printers has decreed that its CD writers will not support 80-minute CDs. Lucky then, that the HP-8100i and HP-8110i are not manufactured by Hewlett-Packard at all, but come from Sony and are all but identical to its CRX100E product. So identical, in fact, that when reader Mark Tannert found out that Sony had …

    Business 19 Jun 2000, 08:52

  • Microsoft's Cairo reborn as killer eye-candy

    DesktopX - the OEMs best friend?

    Stardock has opened its kimono to give us a first glimpse of DesktopX, an attempt to recreate some of the features of Microsoft's abandoned - and now mythical - Cairo operating system. In the early nineties, with SOM and OpenDoc winning a lot of mindshare, Microsoft began to talk up its successor to Windows NT. Building on NT, …

    Software 19 Jun 2000, 08:55

  • Linux beating Win64 to Itanium punch

    No wonder Intel has a Linux fetish

    Jamie Minnotto, who headed Tandon (remember them?) ten years back, had his own troubles with Intel, even in those days. But he was always reluctant to have a pop at the chip firm. After all, in a phrase that still works today, he said: "You don't tread on the tail of a tiger, do you?" Well, Microsoft may not be a tiger nor …

    Software 19 Jun 2000, 09:14

  • Microsoft buys Myth maker Bungie

    Acquisition to focus on X-Box work - so will the Mac developer's promised Mac support end?

    Microsoft has bought a Mac games developer to kickstart the development of games for its upcoming X-Box console. The Beast of Redmond's target is Bungie, best-known for its Myth family of fantasy combat games, but which achieved fame and fortune for the Marathon trilogy, a sequence of Mac-based first-person shooters release in …

    Software 19 Jun 2000, 10:13

  • Demon to offer ADSL next month

    It ain't cheap though

    Demon Internet is to start offering broadband ADSL Net access from next month, the company formally announced today. Prices for the always-on service start at £49.99 a month - a tenner more than the equivalent product form BTopenworld. Installation costs start at £150. Despite this price difference (it's staggering to think …

    Music and Media 19 Jun 2000, 11:34

  • AMD Duron leaves Celery stuffed

    Dr Tom and the rest love it

    There is only one topic up for discussion in Hardware Land today: the release of AMD's budget CPU, the Duron. Benchmarking tests from AMD look encouraging with the Duron beating the Celeron by as much as 25 per cent at the same clock speed. The processor is available in 600MHz, 650MHz and 700MHz speeds with 128KB of level one …

    Channel 19 Jun 2000, 11:47

  • Enemies of MS in plot to burgle supporters. Not

    Trashgate moves a conspiracy too far

    Last week Ted Bridis of the Wall Street Journal broke a notably bizarre story about mysterious people attempting to bribe cleaners to give them the trash from pro-Microsoft lobbying group the Association for Competitive Technology. Today the story became even more bizarre - or possibly, slightly tragic - as the WSJ follows up …

    Software 19 Jun 2000, 11:49

  • DoJ argues against splitting MS appeal

    MS on Trial Filings, we got filings...

    The DoJ has suggested to the Court of Appeals (the posted document mistakenly says "District Court") that it should not go along with Microsoft's attempt to split the DoJ's and States' cases. Even if the Court of Appeals reads the terms of the Expediting Act to agree with Microsoft's contention that the States' case could not be …

    Software 19 Jun 2000, 12:20

  • Philip Crawford to head up InterX

    Shares leap as it posts £4 million loss

    InterX's share price shot up 170 pence this morning as it recorded its end-of-year results and announced plans to replace its CEO. The company also announced plans to replace its CEO James Wickes with Philip Crawford - who will take up the position on 1 August. Crawford is currently a non-executive director of InterX and …

    Business 19 Jun 2000, 12:32

  • Euro Commission to investigate AOL Time Warner

    And other titbits from the virtual economy

    The European Commission is set to investigate the proposed ¢80 billion merger between AOL and Time Warner, according to The Times. The four month antitrust investigation would examine the implications brought about by major deals between media and Internet companies. No one at the Commission was available for comment this …

    Business 19 Jun 2000, 13:00

  • Tougher sentences planned for Net child porn offenders

    Five years, £5000 fine

    Online kiddie fiddlers and pervs will receive longer sentences and increased fines if new Government legislation is introduced. Home Office ministers are currently drafting stricter penalties for those found guilty of downloading child pornography from the Net. E-paedophiles can expect to get up to five years in jail plus a £ …

    Music and Media 19 Jun 2000, 14:03

  • BT claims ownership of hyperlinks

    US to pay for British invention

    British Telecommunications (BT) claims it owns the patent to hyperlinks and wants ISPs in the US to cough up hard cash for the privilege of using them. The monster telco believes a patent filed in 1976 - and granted in 1989 - proves it owns the intellectual property rights to those natty little devices that link Web content …

    Music and Media 19 Jun 2000, 15:08

  • First Intel 815E mobo hits the streets

    Easton's a modern girl, apparently

    Today's the day for the new Intel 815 and 815E chipsets as we predicted here. What we didn't predict (well, we have to leave 'em something to announce) was the arrival of Chipzilla's first mobo using the 815E. The Easton, or D815EEA to its friends, is an ATX board based supporting FC-PGA Pentium III processors with 133 and …

    Business 19 Jun 2000, 15:09

  • Intel confirms details of new mobiles

    Two SpeedSteps to heaven

    As predicted by The Register here, Intel today duly takes the wraps off two new mobile Pentium IIIs and a trio of mobile Celerons. The new mobile 750/600MHz Pentium III (the second figure is the battery optimized Geezerville aka SpeedStep rating) uses less than 2W of power at 1.35V in battery operation, and costs $562 in 1000- …

    Channel 19 Jun 2000, 15:30

  • THUS squeals to watchdog about BT

    Handbags at dawn

    THUS - the telco parent of Demon Internet - has run to Oftel whinging that BT is cross-subsidising its ADSL products. It claims the wholesale cost of ADSL is more than BT charges its retail customers. Demon announced today its ADSL service would start at £49.99 - a tenner more than a similar offering from BT. An unnamed …

    Music and Media 19 Jun 2000, 16:17

  • AOL's secrets of spin revealed

    Post hack-attack advice

    While still trying to get over the embarrassment of last week's hack attack, AOL's secrets of spin have now been leaked online. On Friday, the US ISP said hackers had gained access to an undisclosed number of member accounts via a virus attachment sent with emails. It has still not disclosed exactly how many accounts were …

    Music and Media 19 Jun 2000, 16:22

  • US appellate court rejects DoJ motion

    More 'process' in the offing

    The US Court of Appeals on Monday rejected a US Department of Justice (DoJ) motion to dismiss Microsoft's desired stay of Judge Jackson's order to split the company. On Friday, the Department argued that Microsoft skirted judicial procedures by asking the appellate court to stay Judge Jackson's remedies before he had ruled on …

    Software 19 Jun 2000, 18:28