24th June 2000 Archive

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FCC balks at AOL/Time Warner wedding

Not using the M-word....yet

On Friday, just after AOL and Time Warner shareholders gave their overwhelming final blessing to the proposed $123 billion merger, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spoiled the party by demanding additional information from both companies in its investigation into issues related to competition, Reuters reports. The …

Music and Media 24 Jun 2000, 04:32
Intel: an apology

Yep, Mikey got it wrong again

Last week the Register published a story headlined Intel's Barrett: I will retire. The story contained factual inaccuracies for which we would like to unreservedly apologise. The story alleged that CEO Craig Barrett was known internally as "The Ice Man". We now accept that this is entirely wrong and wish to apologise for any …

Business 24 Jun 2000, 09:55
Intel: an apology

Yep, Mikey got it wrong again

Last week the Register published a story headlined Intel's Barrett: I will retire. The story contained factual inaccuracies for which we would like to unreservedly apologise. The story alleged that CEO Craig Barrett was known internally as "The Ice Man". We now accept that this is entirely wrong and wish to apologise for any …

Bootnotes 24 Jun 2000, 09:56
Quantum debuts cheaper Fireball

It's quiet and slow - so kind of like a snail...

Following the discovery that the consumer will sacrifice hard drive speeds for cash, Quantum is adding another low-budget, low-speed drive to its Fireball family. The Fireball lct20 follows the fairly recent addition of the Fireball lct15. Where the lct15 has 30GB of storage, the lct20 has 20GB per platter, and runs slightly …

Business 24 Jun 2000, 10:00
Micron holds out in Rambus patent game

No parallels, necessarily

Hitachi may have come out of the patent trenches with its hands up, Toshiba may have surrended to Rambus, the Great Satan of IP, but Micron has not yet given up the ghost, it emerged late yesterday. Responding to a question as to whether Micron would now license DDR (double data rate) and SDRAM (synchronous memory) patents, …

Channel 24 Jun 2000, 10:46