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  • US Kiddie Commission puts porno Webmasters on notice

    'You sickos belong in prison'

    Several Puritanical alarmists sitting on the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) Commission argued during a meeting Tuesday that the US government should forcibly defend our tender sprouts from on-line filth by imprisoning the purveyors of electronic obscenity. "One well-placed prosecution could send a message to the providers …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 03:20

  • Via intros Cyrix notebook chip

    Via Technology Forum Celeron target of cunning plan

    The CPU division of Via is targeting Intel at the low end of the notebook market with a 76 square millimetre Socket 370 processor which it claims will give longer battery life and offer lower power consumption. The chip, which is based on the IDT-Centaur core, will be released at similar clock speeds to the Cyrix III processor …

    Channel 21 Sep 2000, 03:23

  • AMD updates notebook roadmap

    Via Technology Forum Only real men have fabs

    Chip firm AMD has updated its mobile roadmap for the 800 delegates attending the Via Technology Forum in Taipei. A presentation started by showing its wins using the K6 notebook chip, with NEC, Compaq, Sony, Fujitsu, Toshiba and E Machines. But AMD thinks that "significant" notebook market share growth is continuing in the …

    Channel 21 Sep 2000, 04:14

  • Taiwan rumour mill churns on

    Taipei Trancemeta, Elegent (sic) and more

    Gather together 800 engineers and you're bound to hear all sorts of rumours and speculation, some of which may be true but what way does anyone have of knowing? For sure we bumped, yet again, into a Trancemeta senior official in the Hyatt, but no one knew exactly why he was in town. He certainly wasn't there for the Via gig, …

    Bootnotes 21 Sep 2000, 08:25

  • Global Crossing and WorldCom can ADSL in UK

    British broadband revolution threatened by lack of shag pile and smoke alarms

    Britain's plans to open its telecoms market to competition and usher in an era of broadband communications is rapidly descending into farce. US telcos, Global Crossing and WorldCom, have scrapped plans to install their kit in local changes and offer competitive broadband services directly to consumers from next summer. …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 09:01

  • Hackers target US-Russian exercise

    Don't panic

    Hackers in the US attempted to disrupt a combined US-Russian exercise aimed at dealing with major natural disasters, reported AFP quoting the ITAR-TASS news agency. ITAR-TASS received its information from the Russian ministry of emergency situations. They probably received it form someone else in turn. According to reports a …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 09:35

  • Surfing Rabbit pulled out of the hat

    Back in yer hutch

    A Leicester telco has begun offering unmetered voice and Internet calls for residential users. According to a statement that fluttered into Reg's offices, punters can get 24/7 unmetered local voice calls for just £5.99 (plus VAT) a month. For an extra £4 (plus VAT) a month, punters can also get 24/7 Net access. Punters must …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 10:37

  • WinME sells 250,000 in first four days

    Which according to our calculations means there are 43.4 of them born every minute...

    Research outfit PC Data says that Windows Millennium Edition (WinME) sold 250,000 copies in the US in its first four days on the market. The company also predicts - we think we can see a finger in the wind here - that the product's on track to sell 400,000 in its first month. Rationally, four days sales data doesn't support any …

    Software 21 Sep 2000, 10:56

  • Is there a dark end for TheStreet.com?

    And other ebiz titbits

    Online financial information company TheStreet.com has admitted its summer relaunch has been a bit of a flop and ad revenue has been 'disappointing'. It is now 'evaluating opportunities' to link with other financial news providers. Content distribution deals have been held up by technical hitches. Travel booking site Ebookers …

    Business 21 Sep 2000, 11:02

  • MPs slam Blair's eGovt plans

    Can't be done, they say

    Politician's are losing confidence in the British Government's e-credentials and its promise to get all services online by 2005. A survey carried out by MORI on behalf of the World Internet Forum (WIF) - which is holding an international summit in London in November - claims that only 61 per cent of the 101 MPs questioned …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 11:26

  • Viglen: new focus and name but the same results

    PC builder moves away from public sector and onto education

    PC builder and Internet scout Viglen has released its year-end results - and they look much the same as last year's. Sales are down slightly from £90.1 million to £87.0 million, operating profit is up slightly to £3.0 million (from £2.8 million), profit before tax is down £0.6 million to £3.7 million and earnings per share is up …

    Business 21 Sep 2000, 11:28

  • Tiny goes AMD

    Another brick in the wall

    The dominoes continue to tumble as yet another OEM jumps from the good ship Intel Inside [Shurely "good ship Mixed Metaphor"? - Ed]. Tiny, one of the UK's largest PC outfits - with more than 130 stores and turning over $600 million last year - is adopting Athlon and Duron processors across its range. The system builder, until …

    Business 21 Sep 2000, 11:41

  • Industrial tribunal gets down and dirty

    Arbitrators suffer emotional turmoil over porn emails

    An Australian tribunal over the sacking of two Toyota employees for Net porn has included a blue movie and dodgy pics as evidence. When the two men were sacked, union members left the shopfloor in protest. At the tribunal, however, the presiding head ruled that those deciding the men's fate should see the porn in question. The …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 12:25

  • T-Online's boardroom battles

    CEO Sommer likes a fight

    There's management disagreement at T-Online, the German Internet service provider that is 83 per cent owned by Deutsche Telekom. It seems that the focus of the row is over management interference by DT CEO Ron Sommer about the desire by T-Online to expand in Europe. Two T-Online board members have resigned in the last month, " …

    Business 21 Sep 2000, 12:28

  • Celeron to go straight to 133MHz FSB?

    Do not pass 100MHz, do not collect £200

    If the spec for ABIT's bios upgrade for the BF6 and BE6 mobos is to be believed, future Celerons will have a FSB of 133MHz and not 100MHz [writes our pinch of salt correspondent]. World+dog has been expecting the next FSB jump for Celeron to be from 66 to 100MHz. Either Intel has a surprise up its sleeve or Abit is way off the …

    Channel 21 Sep 2000, 12:31

  • WorldCom: in or out of ADSL race?

    It might not have the backbone for the job

    There's growing confusion over reports that US telco, WorldCom, has scrapped its decision to offer broadband services in Britain once the local loop is unbundled (LLU). The issue has been muddied still further by a report from AFX this lunchtime which cites unnamed analysts as saying that WorldCom's IP backbone network simply …

    Data Networking 21 Sep 2000, 14:16

  • Doom 3 maestro speaks

    John Carmack gives graphic cards a going over

    John Carmack, the co-founder of id Software, top code creator and man behind the trail-blazing Doom shoot-em-up game has been talking to Voodooextreme.com and provided some grand info on where 3D gaming is going. It's pretty techy stuff - do you know your BSP based visibility algorithms from your pre-computed PVS? - but this is …

    Business 21 Sep 2000, 14:22

  • Dell debuts Itanium workstation

    Wireless notebooks and revamped Optiplex PCs too

    Dell is debuting its new PC, notebook and workstation lines today. The Round Rock-based company gave a sneak preview of its prototype Itanium-based workstation last night according to the US press, part of a batch of business boxes it plans to launch today. The Itanium workstation was shown as part of the Precision workstation …

    Business 21 Sep 2000, 14:47

  • Hardware Roundup Mobos slug it out

    Boxing clever?

    Although we somehow doubt that the ASUS A7V mobo really weighs in at 205 lbs, Sharky Extreme's head to head contest between it and ABIT's KT7-RAID in the blue corner, still makes interesting reading. Any mobo scoring 9.5 on a scale of 10 has to be worth a closer look. Those awfully nice VapoChill people will soon have Socket A …

    Hardware Roundup 21 Sep 2000, 14:58

  • Flesh sells unified messaging

    The old crowd pleasers never fail

    Most of the stands at Internet Telecom Expo 2000 in New York yesterday looked pretty tame - except for one. After all, there's only so much you can say or would want to hear about unified messaging. But the Me.net stand seemed to be drawing quite a crowd, which warranted closer inspection. After all, what did it have that the …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 15:00

  • WWWhere there's a wonk there's a way

    You tell us what you think about our new WWW terminology

    We ran a story yesterday we which hoped would solve the irritating need to repeat "double-u, double-u, double-u dot" every time you are talking about a Web site. Instead, we went for the word "wonk" and made the foolish mistake of asking you what you thought. Well, about 300 emails later, it's an even split. Some loved it, some …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 15:37

  • Official: WorldCom out of LLU race

    The uncertainty is over...or is it?

    WorldCom has confirmed it will not bid for space within BT's local exchanges as part of local loop unbundling (LLU) in Britain. In a semantic exchange the telco denied claims it had pulled out of ADSL in Britain. Instead, a spokeswoman said WorldCom had simply decided not to bid for co-hosted space within BT's exchanges. She …

    Data Networking 21 Sep 2000, 15:38

  • AT&T's death-blow to Microsoft TV?

    The fat lady is clearing her throat...

    AT&T has plumped for Liberate as its technology partner for the forthcoming stateside trial of interactive TV services, leaving Microsoft' costly global TV initiative all but out for the count. This doesn't mean that the final decision has been made, but it's as good as. The TV industry has a tight timetable for full roll-out …

    Business 21 Sep 2000, 15:42

  • Teenager pays back £200,000 over Net stock scam

    Kids today, eh? Tsk.

    A 15-year-old has agreed to pay back the $285,000 (£200,000) he made in profit from dodgy share trading on the Internet. Apparently, Jonathan G Lebed bought large amounts of cheap stocks and then hyped them up by sending emails to financial newsgroups. As soon as the price peaked, he sold them. It obviously worked as well …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 16:50

  • New economy luvvies get more money than you and think work is fun

    Benefits include massages and dry cleaning

    The future looks bright for dotcom flyers - the average bubble economy worker makes more than $100,000 a year while their boss runs around organising their dry cleaning. A survey has revealed there are 2.5 million black polo neck new media luvvy-types in the US. They love their jobs, they take their pets to work, they're young …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 17:12

  • Congress releases on-line privacy manual

    Miracle of the month: It's pretty good, too

    Unsure how on-line businesses track you and how you can thwart them? A bit foggy on re-mailers, identity managers, permission marketing, proxies, encryption? Well you wouldn't be alone. A new Congressional guide to privacy notes that among heavy Internet users a full twelve per cent don't even understand what a cookie does; and …

    Music and Media 21 Sep 2000, 21:06