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  • Compaq's Rosen steps down

    Text of email says it all

    From: Chairman, Ben Rosen Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:27 PM Subject: Retirement To: Compaq Worldwide Team For the past 18 years, including 17 as chairman, I have had the honor of serving on Compaq's Board of Directors. I have watched you create one of the true pioneers of the high technology industry and a major …

    Business 29 Sep 2000, 07:09

  • 850 chipset delays Pentium 4 launch

    Updated Tehamagate - it really takes the Garibaldi biscuit

    A flurry of behind the scenes activity at the Intel Corporation has failed to convince tier-one vendors they should stand up on 30 October and pledge their whole hearted support for the Pentium 4 platform. And the problem, once more, lies with the chipset rather than the so-called "brains of the computer", the microprocessor. …

    Channel 29 Sep 2000, 07:30

  • Benhamou quits as 3Com CEO

    Ten-year 'privilege'

    Eric Benhamou is to quit as 3Com CEO after ten years. He will be succeeded by Bruce Claflin, 3Com president and COO, at the end of the year and will remain chairman. "I believe it is in the best interest of a company and its leader, to self-rejuvenate. It's been my privilege to serve as 3Com's CEO for ten years, a long time in …

    Business 29 Sep 2000, 07:40

  • Wanted: non-criminal hackers for new security start-up

    iXSecurity launches in the UK

    Guardian IT this week launches in the UK an anti hacking unit, iXSecurity, which promises to find any holes in British corporate networks that hackers could sneak in through. iXSecurity provides penetration tests of internal and external networks. A consultant will carry out the test from a client's site, although the external …

    Music and Media 29 Sep 2000, 07:47

  • Halifax opens Net bank doors – two months late

    ...and only the telephone bit

    Halifax, the British mortgage bank, today opened the telephone bit of its new Internet banking business IF.com (it stands for Intelligent Finance - yes, really), only two and half months late. And still there is no sign of the IF.com's Internet facilities springing into action. Halifax pulled IF.com's launch, less than 24 hours …

    Music and Media 29 Sep 2000, 08:39

  • Apple Q4 earnings to take a kicking

    Profits down by a third

    Apple isn't going to make anywhere near as much money this fiscal quarter, the company worriedly told the world yesterday evening after Wall Street had closed for the day. The quarter, Apple's fourth of fiscal 2000, ends on Saturday. The reason? Poor demand across all territories, said CFO Fred Anderson, thanks to what he …

    Mac Channel 29 Sep 2000, 08:57

  • Motorola sues AMD CEO-in-waiting

    Staff hire irks former employer

    Motorola is suing Hector Ruiz, Jerry Sander's anointed successor at AMD, and one-time Motorola employee, for "luring away" a senior finance executive from his old company. Motorola accuses Ruiz, AMD chief operating officer and president, of breaking a deal to refrain from poaching Motorola staff; it is demanding the return of a …

    Business 29 Sep 2000, 09:11

  • Apple denies Cube is cracking

    But it is mouldy...

    Apple does seem to be having problems with its PowerPC G4 Cube. Not only has the tiny desktop machine not been selling as well as the company had hoped, but Apple's customer services department is being bombarded by concerned customers questioning the Cube's build quality. Since the Cube began shipping during the middle of …

    Mac Channel 29 Sep 2000, 09:50

  • Hijacker beaten to death with mobile phone

    They do things differently in China

    A hijacker was bludgeoned to death by "fellow" passengers wielding a mobile phone. The make of the phone is not known. The hijacker had attempted to take control of a Xinhua Airlines Boeing 737 flight from Baotou in Inner Mongolia to Beijing. The plane landed safely and all 143 passengers (we assume this does not include the …

    Data Networking 29 Sep 2000, 09:55

  • Chip tester TransEDA floating nicely

    Shares bumped up 67 per cent in first day's trading

    Newly floated chip tester, TransEDA has made its investors very happy yesterday as its shares pole-vaulted from their start value of 50p to an impressive 83.5p. This valued the company at £42 million and made a paper profit of 67 per cent for investors allocated shares in the company. TransEDA develops software used by lots of …

    Business 29 Sep 2000, 10:07

  • Europe to OK $135bn AOL/ Time Warner merger

    But EMI/Warner deal set to be nuked, claims insider

    European Commission anti-trust officials have decided to let the $135 billion AOL and Time Warner merger go ahead after all, but the merger operation will not be allowed to take over EMI's music operation. The plan, leaked to Reuters by a Commission insider, follows earlier claims that the EC was planning to block the AOL/Time …

    Business 29 Sep 2000, 10:10

  • Breakup remedy was Microsoft's own fault, says trial judge

    And he might be hinting that the government case will go pear-shaped...

    Microsoft trial judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has blamed the company's intransigence for his imposition of structural remedies, including a split into two separate operations. At an antitrust conference in Washington yesterday he told reporters that breakup had not been his preferred remedy, but made it clear felt he'd been left …

    Software 29 Sep 2000, 10:36

  • IBM, Toshiba team on Linux cluster systems

    Ally to sell clustered NetFinities

    IBM and Toshiba are to co-operate on the promotion of Linux cluster systems, the duo announced today. The deal brings Toshiba's DNCware ClusterPerfect clustering software and IBM's NetFinity server hardware, a combination that both companies will bring to the Japanese server market. The product will be offered as a Linux-based …

    Business 29 Sep 2000, 10:53

  • The rest of the stuff

    Mix it up, dat's what we say

    [A few words from people that read our diverse mix of news, all contained within the bubble of IT] "However, most of the time these fuel cells don't explode." Fuel cell to power notebooks and mobile phones And you say it yourself in the article that the problem with Apollo 13 was with the oxygen tank. It other words, it wasn' …

    Letters 29 Sep 2000, 10:56

  • There is no ‘F’ in Rambus, Ink

    Not RIMMs, they're RIMMs with a view

    A jolly little thread on The Register forum reveals just how jealous Rambus, Ink is of its intellectual property rights. One of our readers posted a message suggesting that Ramboost, Ink might have put some money into the Rambusite but that, its webmaster is absolutely not the case. When he started covering Rambust, Ink in the …

    Bootnotes 29 Sep 2000, 11:27

  • Photocopy your stack of CDs

    For pirates wanting that professional touch

    Although it is meant for genuine marketing people, O'Dixion's 'CD photocopier', Digimatic, will certainly prove useful to people in the software piracy business. The printing device is designed for automatic duplication of CD batches from a master CD or from an image stored on a hard drive. It prints at 1440 dpi and can take up …

    Business 29 Sep 2000, 12:02

  • Bad road planning could stunt Silicon Fen

    UK high tech development threatened

    High tech development in the whole of the UK could be impeded if the planning of Silicon Fen is mishandled, according to research published this week. In The Cambridge Phenomenon Revisited, Segal Quince Wicksteed researchers warn that greater clarity is needed from the government about what the public sector is planning for …

    Business 29 Sep 2000, 12:19

  • WorldSport falls into Net oblivion

    And other ebiz tales

    Worldsport Networks Europe is going into liquidation after receivers failed to find a buyer. The London company, which provided news and information services for sports federations, called in the receivers on July 6. At that time it had 180 employees, 60 of whom were promptly laid off. At close of play numbers were down to …

    Business 29 Sep 2000, 12:47

  • Only uneducated Yanks respect copyrights – study

    Confirmed: US education corrupts morals

    As we've always suspected, the less time you spend in American schools, the more likely you are to hold on to some semblance of the civic morality which Nanny struggled to beat into your thick skull during your blissful years in the nursery. Thus it comes as no surprise that forty-five per cent of US college graduates should …

    Music and Media 29 Sep 2000, 14:05

  • WinME sanity and praise

    Pros, cons, hints and tips

    [We ran a story discussing the pros and cons of upgrading to Windows ME, and also gave an account of some of the bugs that have been encountered so far. You lot had a few suggestions and questions.] Windows bugs ME - should you upgrade to MS' latest? I HAVE NOTICED AN ERROR IN YOUR ARTICLE "As most of you know who have …

    Letters 29 Sep 2000, 14:21

  • Californian faces 100 years in jail and £10m fine for false press release

    Emulex not happy

    A 23-year-old California man faces 100 years in jail and a $10 million fine for trying to defraud investors in Emulex. Mark Jakob was yesterday indicted by a Federal grand jury on 11 counts of securities and wire fraud, AP reported. The indictment charges him with making more than $241,000 from the scam - where an apparently …

    Music and Media 29 Sep 2000, 14:26

  • Readers' Letters A quiet one this week

    But that don't mean what we got ain't good

    No Flame of the Week I'm afraid. Can't understand it. It's not like we haven't been trying to rile you all :-). But we do have some interesting comments on online dating, Windows ME, explosions and the US obsession with trying to kill everyone that doesn't worship the stars and strips. How to get a shag online We think we've …

    Letters 29 Sep 2000, 14:35

  • End of road for CharlotteStreet

    Makeover for Women's portal

    Associated New Media is binning CharlotteStreet, the brand name for its women's portal, in favour of a new identity as femail.co.uk. The relaunch is supposed to take place in a couple of months time. At last the company, part of the Associated Newspapers Group, has had the sense to leverage off Femail, a popular section in the …

    Business 29 Sep 2000, 15:38

  • MP3.com launches email war on Congress

    Find out how to lobby your political candidate here

    MP3.com has launched an email offensive aimed at hassling Congress to let users store and listen to music online. The company, currently caught up in a wrangle over charges of copyright infringement, will use the "Million Email March" to support a bill introduced this week by three congressional representatives. If this act ( …

    Music and Media 29 Sep 2000, 16:36

  • Brits buy 3.6 million mobile phones during summer

    Orange carrot most appealing

    Brits bought an extra 3.6 million mobile phones between June and September, figures due out next week are expected to show. This estimate from Deutsche Bank would top the 3.4 million new subscribers for the second quarter of the year and bring the UK mobile phone population to 34 million. Market leader Vodafone is tipped to …

    Data Networking 29 Sep 2000, 20:34