31st July 2000 Archive
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ServerWorks pivotal in Intel-Rambus chipset tale
What is the nature of this strange beast?
Intel and the biggest PC vendors in the world are relying on ServerWorks, a maker of chipsets, to help sell servers during 2001, so making the mysterious firm a key factor in the memory politics currently plaguing the industry. A little while back, The Register published information about server roadmaps which showed that Intel …
Channel 31 Jul 2000, 08:08
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FIC shifts focus to mobile phones
Let's hope they don't have a wooden heart
Taiwanese firm FIC (First International Corp) is to move into producing mobile phones, according to reports from the island. The firm, which is a major supplier of motherboards to PC manufacturers -- Compaq is one of its biggest customers -- is to plunge $64 million (NT$ 2 billion) into a project that will see the first mobiles …
Business 31 Jul 2000, 08:38
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Microsoft Network grows in sea of red ink
MS Analysts Brave talk, but no numbers from Belluzzo...
Consumer group vp Rick Belluzzo has the unenviable task of running Microsoft's billion dollar consumer business, and it continues to bleed. At last week's analysts meeting hee painted a picture of an improving situation, but gave the game away when he said: "our numbers continue to grow through the distribution agreements that …
Software 31 Jul 2000, 10:05
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Gates on speech recognition: a long road still to travel
MS Analysts Needs the whole Windows trip before it works, natch
Speech recognition software, and to a certain extent handwriting recognition and machine translation, have been a sore point at Microsoft for some time. An enormous amount has been spent on research in these areas, but still there is no sign of a product. Speaking to financial analysts recently about .NET, Gates said that " …
Software 31 Jul 2000, 10:08
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MS' Ballmer: Linux is communism
MS Analysts After a short silence, Motormouth is back, folks...
Steve Ballmer was the only person to raise the issue of Linux when he wrapped up Microsoft's annual financial analysts meeting in Seattle, although he put Sun and Oracle ahead in terms of being stronger competitors. They of course are 'civilised' competitors - but the Linux crowd, in the world of Prez Steve, are communists. …
Software 31 Jul 2000, 10:10
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AMD confirms Corvette plans
Putting all the roadmaps together
A senior executive at AMD has confirmed that it has plans to release low power mobile versions of its Athlon and Duron processors in the fourth quarter of this year. But the confirmation, made by Ben Anixter, a VP at AMD, and quoted in news.com, does not provide details of the roadmap, exclusively revealed here in The Register …
Channel 31 Jul 2000, 10:11
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Via puts weight behind 1394, DDR
Technology forum announced..
Chip and chipset company Via said it is to hold its first technology forum in Taipei in mid-September. And, at that forum, the company is proposing an "open value" technology platform for the Net which will include support for 1394 "Fireware" and double data rate (DDR) memory. The firm said that the two day forum, on the 20- …
Channel 31 Jul 2000, 10:21
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Dr Tom's still loves Celery
It's hard, it's rock, of the class it's cock
Tom's Hardware has a guide to overclocking the Celeron. Despite the recently released Duron edging the Celery out of the way at the budget end of the market, the old reliable from Intel still has a place in someone's heart. Point and click to find out why. Meanwhile, Sharky's takes a butcher's at the P3 1.13GHz CPU. The first …
Hardware Roundup 31 Jul 2000, 10:33
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Clickmango.com goes titsup.com
Another day, another dotcom flushes itself down the lavvy
Clickmango.com, the British online health and beauty e-tailer fronted by Absolutely Fabulous star Joanna Lumley, has an incurable case of the dotcom jitters, the e-company confirmed today. A statement issued this morning confirmed that the rigor mortis has already set in. "Clickmango.com has confirmed this weekend that it is …
Business 31 Jul 2000, 11:14
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Flame of the Week: an apology
It's our own fault - we thought you'd read the words
We would like to apologise unreservedly for over-estimating our readers' intelligence. We also extend our condolences to those who choose to use sentences to build up an understanding of context. We refer of course to last week's Flame of the Week. Titled "Flame of the Week: BOFH is absymal" and with the subhead "A very well- …
Business 31 Jul 2000, 11:24
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Europe to get tough on cybercrime
Listen to the villains shaking in their boots
European politicians are to get tough on cyber villains by introducing new laws to combat kiddie porn, fraud, drug dealing and online terrorism. The new laws are set to be introduced later this year, according to a meeting of Euro ministers in Marseilles at the weekend. Despite the rhetoric, Euro politicians admitted that they …
Music and Media 31 Jul 2000, 11:26
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Thus grows sales, makes a loss
QXL partners up with Lycos
Amazon.com is getting ready to open in Japan. An Asian call centre will be up and running by the end of this year in Japan and a Japanese-language site will be available by next spring. Meanwhile, Amazon.co.uk has also added a new software store and new PC and video games store to its site. ISP Thus saw sales grow six per …
Business 31 Jul 2000, 11:34
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Reg welcomes new addition to nest
Fledgling vulture opens her eyes to the world
We're sure you'd all like to congratulate top Reg man Drew on the birth of his fifth little drewlette. Named Sadie, she weighed in at a hefty 8lbs 11ozs. Better half Sian is fit and well and will have Drew's undivided attention for the next few days. Our thoughts are with you Sian. ®
Bootnotes 31 Jul 2000, 11:36
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An apology
It's our own fault - we thought you'd read the words
We would like to apologise unreservedly for over-estimating our readers' intelligence. We also extend our condolences to those who choose to use sentences to build up an understanding of context. We refer of course to last week's Flame of the Week. Titled "Flame of the Week: BOFH is absymal" and with the subhead "A very well- …
Flame of the Week 31 Jul 2000, 11:40
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What's @ all about
Originates from Italian wine merchants
Computers, in their modern non-Charles-Babbage form, may only have been around for a few decades, but some of the terminology has been with us much longer. Historians in Italy have traced the origins of the @ symbol back to a Florentine merchant, writing in 1536, acording to The Guardian. Giorgio Stabile, professor of science …
Music and Media 31 Jul 2000, 12:02
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Las Vegas murder – juror's Palm Pilot misconduct
The Mob, money, topless dancers and PDAs
Two convicted Las Vegas murderers may get a retrial after a juror allegedly read details of the case courtesy of a Palm Pilot. The case - your everyday Las Vegas tale of a dead casino magnate, $15 million in buried bullion, a topless dancer lover, the Mob and a drug overdose - was last week hit by allegations of juror …
Music and Media 31 Jul 2000, 12:23
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Petrol price pressure builds
How the Net is changing our lives: no.24
We revel in innovative uses of the Internet at The Reg, and here is another great example. One the eve of the proposed boycott of petrol stations in order to highlight the huge tax that the UK pays on each litre of petrol, Web site www.petrolbusters.com has brought home the empowering use of the Internet. It's not the greatest …
Music and Media 31 Jul 2000, 12:49
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Gates & Co describe long, hard code to .NET
MS Analysts $200 a year, to you...
The theme for Microsoft's financial analysts meeting last week was "the road to the .NET" but it still seems that real plans are sketchy, and the paradigm shift that it is supposed to represent is still being invented. Gates' speech was not exactly the stuff to excite financial analysts; far from pitching them exciting new ideas …
Software 31 Jul 2000, 14:14
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Rambus claims 1GHz RIMM breakthrough
Here we go again
The news carousel has started spinning ever faster with a claim from intellectual property company Rambus that it has succeeded in developing memory that runs faster than one gigahertz. According to a release, the 1066MHz memory is born out of standard 800MHz RIMMs and will be aimed at giving 2.1Gbps of memory bandwidth. …
Channel 31 Jul 2000, 14:16
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Win ME – not bad at all
Worthwhile upgrade for Win9x users
September 14 is the date when the Windows Millennium Edition, or Win ME to its friends, hits the streets. The latest (and last) version of Win9x, should perhaps be more accurately named Windows 98 Third Edition, as it is more of a service pack than a new operating system. But there is enough new and improved stuff on the CD to …
Software 31 Jul 2000, 14:22
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Umax drivers stuck in neutral
Scan(t) Win2K support
Umax customers are not happy bunnies. People have been waiting up to six months for any kind of driver support for their Umax Astra 2000U scanners to run under Windows 2000. The good news is that there is a driver available on the UK site that will work with the 2000U, although it is designed for the 3400U. Nick Shaw, a …
Business 31 Jul 2000, 15:34
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Get yer girders online
Heavy industry takes to dotcom like duck to water
Manufacturers are spending as much on IT as on plant and equipment, a survey claims. Traditional old economy companies ploughing funds into new technology to keep up with rivals made IT a joint top ranking spending priority for the first time in 12 years. This is according to a survey of 300 companies worldwide by US-based …
Music and Media 31 Jul 2000, 16:14
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Barclays online cockup
The bank that likes to say "have a look at someone else's account"
One of the UK's largest banks has shut down its Internet banking operation following at least four security breaches earlier today. Four of Barclays Online million plus users were confronted with financial details of other customers when they logged in this morning. The service had been upgraded over the weekend and it appears …
Music and Media 31 Jul 2000, 17:57
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Intel 1GHz flood ready to splash
1.13GHz intro just a taster
Intel formally introduced its 1.13GHz Pentium III to its customers over the weekend but the chip is likely still to be in short supply, although the 1GHz Pentium III floodgates are shortly to open. The 1.13GHz Pentium III, while it puts Intel technically into the lead over its competition AMD on raw megahurtz speed, will be …
Channel 31 Jul 2000, 18:17
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Oftel is a joke (with a crap punchline)
Director General too nice for our good
This really is the final straw. Oftel has finally produced its guidelines on local loop unbundling. Since this is one of the most important telecommunications issues the UK has ever seen and an essential aspect to the Internet's progression, we thought we'd spend some time looking at it. Subsequently, we have read the entire " …
Data Networking 31 Jul 2000, 18:37
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Porn sites face credit card fraud fines
Will the sex industry swallow this?
Porn sites which rip off sex-surfers are to be handed an ultimatum by credit card groups - clean up or cough up. No, not their material. Online sleaze operators must fix their fraud record or face monthly fines of $5,000. Europay International, which is owned by 9,000 British and continental banks and acts for Mastercard in …
Music and Media 31 Jul 2000, 18:37
