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  • AMD wins 1GHz price war

    But new battle lines forming

    Peace will break out on the 1GHz microprocessor front in the continuing war between Intel and AMD on the 5 September. AMD has taken a little while to perfect its price weapon but on that day will drop the price of its 1GHz Athlon to $495 and its 800MHz Athlon to $190 in quantities of 1000, according to one of its US OEMs, …

    Channel 11 Jul 2000, 08:01

  • Drambusters fly against Rambus

    Return of the Jedec: Rambusters

    US reports said that the five biggest semiconductor firms, the so-called Dramurai, are preparing a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against US intellectual property firm Rambus. The goal, the reports say, is to prevent Rambus Inc from sitting pretty on patents for synchronous memory and double data rate memory. …

    Channel 11 Jul 2000, 08:29

  • Dr Tom overclocks T'birds, Durons and Athlons

    AMD can lock its multipliers all it likes

    As usual, we do the legwork around the land where the ware is hard so you don't have to. Tom has found a way of overclocking the socket processors from AMD. Go here to find out the right settings for the copper bridges. The good doctor says that these techniques will work for any motherboard. Tweaktown has also posted a similar …

    Hardware Roundup 11 Jul 2000, 09:37

  • Dunblane – the author speaks

    Ambulance chasing IT journalism: The record set straight

    Investigative journalist Pete Warren responds to Computer mags -- or ambulance chasers? The characters mentioned in the letter: Tony Collins - Computer Weakly's investigative journalist (big on Chinook helicopters and Wessex health authority) Bill Boyle - former news editor of Computing, former editor of PC Week and PC …

    Bootnotes 11 Jul 2000, 09:39

  • Milkmen get to service the e-community

    And not just bored housewives...

    The local milkman will soon be harnessed for delivering goods such as computers, CDs, toys and trainers, as well as the usual two pints of goldtop and a dozen eggs. Yesterday saw Express Dairies sign a deal with m-box, an online home shopping company. Express will use its national network of delivery centres and electric milk …

    Business 11 Jul 2000, 10:19

  • MS and Toshiba huddle to create e-book standard

    One more integration before they call me off...

    Another day, another integration. Microsoft has shown every sign of betting heavily on the e-book as a one way to get Windows CE to succeed, and now the company has struck a deal with Toshiba to co-develop LCD technology optimised for portable electronic devices that can be used to download books. It's not entirely clear what …

    Software 11 Jul 2000, 10:43

  • IBM pays off Time

    Coughs up £13m compensation

    British PC retailer Time Computers has won a victory over IBM in a £13 million dispute. The legal feud kicked off between the two PC heavyweights after Time claimed IBM UK allegedly supplied it with faulty computer components. The two were set to fight it out in the High Court in London yesterday, but a settlement was reached …

    Business 11 Jul 2000, 11:22

  • German ruling loosens MS lock on reselling of Windows

    Does this mean MS OEM and licence agreements are illegal?

    Microsoft's ability to sell a whole new operating system with every PC that ships, and to block the growth of a secondary/secondhand OS market, has been checked slightly - in Germany. A German appeal court has ruled that Microsoft can't stop dealers selling software it intends should ship only with new PCs separately. But the …

    Software 11 Jul 2000, 11:25

  • $377m S3-Via deal won't happen before August – official

    Taiwan's regulators concerned about venture's scale

    The $377 million joint venture between Via and S3 has stalled over Taiwanese government concerns about the scale of the deal, it has emerged. S3 admitted last week that Taiwan's regulators had delayed their decision on whether to authorise the JV, which the company had originally planned to have in place by the end of June. …

    Channel 11 Jul 2000, 11:46

  • Cyberphobic Brits won't touch Net with yours

    Twenty five per cent of population afflicted

    A quarter of adult Brits will not touch the Internet with a bargepole, a survey has revealed. Nearly 15 million have no plans to use the Web, with many people citing cost and sheer uselessness as the reasons behind their choice, according to the third Which? Online survey. Whe are far from being a nation of Net luddites - 33 …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2000, 13:08

  • Sick Incubator market gives birth to research

    Stating the obvious and some other ebiz tiddlers

    The over-hyped under-funded Internet Incubator Fund phenomenon may be collapsing around its ears, but there's money to be had in researching the topic. Step forward IDC, which says Incubators will need to develop "highly differentiated, value-added services to compete for and successfully grow their services". Now why didn't we …

    Business 11 Jul 2000, 14:21

  • Dell shoots WebPC

    Quietly kills its seven-month old baby

    Dell Computer has pulled its WebPC line just seven months after it was released onto the consumer computer market. The Texas manufacturer launched the low cost PC, which targeted home Internet users, back in November. The flat-panel screen and oval-shaped computer were supposed to woo the design conscious PC buyer, it even …

    Business 11 Jul 2000, 14:29

  • Come with me inside… Cable & Wireless

    We check out one of those new-fangled data centres

    This May, Cable & Wireless reappeared from a self-imposed exile and told the world how it saw the future of the Internet. After running through its latest results, CEO Graham Wallace told the assembled masses C&W's new business focus. Out went the consumer business and everything else that didn't fit in. Now, C&W would be an …

    Data Networking 11 Jul 2000, 15:31

  • FBI spying easier thanks to Y2K

    Hello? Is this thing on?

    In the course of covering Washington politics for several years we've noticed that it's often the casual throw-away comments made by Establishment players during press conferences and hearings which can lead to a discovery for journalists. One ominous little comment which we heard back in June, and dutifully reported here, …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2000, 15:34

  • 1GHz war not over, Intel claims

    High volume PIIIs to halve in price by October

    Only one day after we received information from a US OEM of a price drop on AMD 1GHz Athlons in early September, we have now learned that Intel will take retaliatory action the next month, in a classic Tweedledum-Tweedledee move. June roadmaps seen by The Register indicate that August will see Intel finally ramp up production …

    Channel 11 Jul 2000, 15:34

  • Cat faces jail for Net fraud

    ZDNet/Ananova/fascists are implicated

    When we first read about Ziggy the stock-holding cat of ********* [sorry dotcom company name deleted for legal reasons - Ed] we thought it was just an unimaginative, pathetic PR attempt to get free publicity. In fact, we were going to run it as "the world's worst press release" but so stiff was the competition that we thought …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2000, 16:03

  • ISPs fly to continent to escape RIP

    Suncream optional

    Two more ISPs have threatened to up sticks and move their email systems overseas if the government goes ahead with its planned Web snooping plans. London-based ClaraNet is having internal discussions to shift its server infrastructure to its Paris office. It is concerned about government access to keys, and it says if this part …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2000, 16:29

  • C&W CEO answers Reg criticisms

    Oh, and we ask e-minister Patricia Hewitt a solitary question

    We went to the launch of Cable & Wireless' new data centre in Swindon today. While there, we managed to have a cosy chat with the company's CEO Graham Wallace and took the opportunity to raise criticisms we levelled in May over his company's new business focus. This whole ASP malarkey is going to take years to get going "Yes, …

    Data Networking 11 Jul 2000, 16:36

  • The Internet is dead. Long live the Internet

    You always knew big business would run it in the end

    It doesn't really matter how it happened, the means to the end, but yesterday's announcement by the World Intellectual Property Organisation that it would "study ways" of stopping people registering URLs to which they have "no legitimate claim" can be seen as the death of the original Internet. You may have forgotten those …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2000, 16:51

  • Win a stake in a dotcom startup or watch Star Trek Voyager

    We chose Voyager

    This week we will be following Channel 4's E-millionaires Show, bringing you our thoughts on the show and the ebusinesses proposed by its 15 contestants. The winning business will get £1 million to burn. Viewers have the chance of getting an equity stake in the venture. We are poised, foot drawn back, ready to kick to death …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2000, 16:53

  • Network downtime costs planet $1.6 trillion

    ...Or so lunatic PwC survey claims

    Naughty hackers and computer viruses cost the global economy $1.6 trillion in the last year, according to a shock-horror survey from PriceWaterhouse Coopers. That is $4.4 billion per day, $182 million per hour or $51,000 per second. John DiStefano, the man in charge of the research, bases the calculation on the amount of …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2000, 22:22