5th September 2000 Archive

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Channel

• AMD DDR boards to arrive October Intel DDR boards to arrive later on
• Duron 750 hits the streets Systems in the shops RSN
• PC Rambus RIMM future hangs on mobos But prices falling, supply good

Management

• British E-Envoy quits Family reasons cited
• Compaq ditches ProSignia range Revamps DeskPro and Armada lines
• Confirmed: IBM to roll with Crusoe TM5400 ThinkPads this year Happy Taipei fabbers spill the beans...
• Eight-year old floats his gambling dotcom He's off down the sweetshop
• Intel re-brands to spread net wider Channel conflict will occur
• Lycos Q4 losses grow eleven fold Marketing budget blamed

Music and Media

• ABN Amro e-banking service hacked Update But not much to worry about unless you're Net-stupid
• Amazon's new privacy regs may backfire It's official: You have no rights and they have no obligations
• BT considers legal action over hyperlink patent 'C off up or else
• Cray supercomputer for sale on eBay Sixteen GigaFLOPS if you need them
• eGroups responds to child porn worries "We will take all necessary steps"
• ISPA to rule on LineOne this week Oh, the an tis ee pay shun is just tooo much
• Marillion fans fund album after email appeal Fishin' for financing
• New e-mail Trojan reckoned a minor threat No tens of billions in damage estimates -- yet
• Punter nearly dies of thirst in CWAP demo Jalda is not quite the real thing
• UK sceptics tank dotcom flyers It's a sad, sad day
• We were wrong: sign up to the Nigerian ‘fraud’ email now We could all be multi-millionaires this time next week
• Web phone gamers to hit 200 million by 2005 Card games and bingo will be favourites

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Register denies ‘Private Eye’ slur It's a disgrace, says respectable Internet news service

Personal: Hardware Roundup

• HW Roundup AMD Duron 750 here Other musings over the muesli

Software

• Malicious code exploits unique Win2K function Another MS 'feature virus'
• Microsoft: ‘UK schools sitting on a time bomb’ Birmingham tops illegal software league
• MS could still be found guilty in Bristol antitrust case Analysis The jury said no case last year, but the judge is getting very uppity...
• MS recruits Vodafone for wireless mail partnership With that as well as Sun and IBM, it gives Vodafone pretty much a complete set...
• Novell to cut quarter of its workforce? It's a rumour we heard a few days ago, and it's got legs
• Palm Trojan Horse writer sued But it was all a ghastly mistake, says programmer