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  • Inside the MS trial part 2: the Keystone Cops go into action

    Both Jobs and Grove eminences gris, apparently...

    The fast move into the trial phase presented the DoJ with a problem; it had expected at least a year before trial, and had no witnesses lined up. Reback told Heilemann after a meeting with Klein: "If I were Joel [Klein], I'd have been pissing my pants right then." Nobody wanted to testify, for fear of retribution. The first …

    Software 25 Oct 2000, 07:27

  • Inside the MS trial part 1: how they brought Gates to tears

    Much useful inside dope revealed in Wired special report

    Bill Gates broke down and cried at a Microsoft board meeting on 24 January 1999, after delivering "an extended and emotional tirade" against the DoJ, Judge Jackson, and the circumstances that had befallen the company. So says John Heilemann in a 52-page article in the November issue of Wired, entitled "The truth, the whole truth …

    Software 25 Oct 2000, 07:29

  • Evasive Envivid nukes site, goes silent

    Famous Five press-release a Transmeta appliance, then remove it

    Envivid, which yesterday claimed to be partnering with web appliance manufacturer Frontpath to produce a Transmeta BeOS appliance, today removed references to Frontpath from its web site, and ducked any further questions by claiming it was "entering into a quiet period". All but the front page of the Envivid website has been …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 07:39

  • Transmeta speed debate – damned lies and benchmarks?

    Information in this story may be 30 per cent inaccurate...

    Transmeta notebooks have been available for a week now, and although it's been a fascinating week for benchmark mavens, the casual punter hasn't been much enlightened. Why? Well three serious IT publications have run benchmarks for Sony's new Crusoe laptop in the past week, published them... and disavowed the results …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 09:27

  • Quantum HDD ops in the red

    Disappointing

    Quantum lost $19.5 million on its hard disk drive operations in its second fiscal quarter, despite a seven per cent rise in revenues to $824 million. The company described the loss as "disappointing" but claimed that things would be better next quarter, moving towards a break-even point. Quantum shipped nine million drives …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 09:29

  • LetsBuyIt.com in double-billing slip-up

    But it's sorted now

    LetsBuyIt.com has admitted that it's been bugged by a billing problem but has insisted that the error has only affected a handful of punters. Those hit were billed twice for a purchase giving them a nasty shock when they opened their credit card bills. LetsBuyIt.com - the etailer that offers bigger discounts depending n the …

    Music and Media 25 Oct 2000, 09:31

  • Napster launches Mac MP3 app

    Updated It's actually someone else's code

    Napster has made the first public test version of its controversial MP3 music sharing software available for the Mac. The software - version 1.0b1 - is designed for MacOS 9, but will also run natively on MacOS X, thanks to its use of the Carbon API. However, such use is unsupported, Napster said - it doesn't yet have any MacOS …

    Mac Channel 25 Oct 2000, 09:35

  • Citizen PDA-for-PDAs debuts on Web

    French site gets first sight of Handspring Visor module

    Citizen's PDA-for-a-PDA module, discussed recently by Handspring's Donna Dubinsky, has made its first appearance out of the Japanese company's labs. French Handspring-oriented Web site VisorGuide has a couple of shots of the device, snapped at the recent Paris launch of Handspring's colour Visor Prism. Dubbed the Citizen Kids …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 10:01

  • Amazon losses ease up

    Sales grow 79 per cent

    Amazon is happy with its Q3 results as losses have been less than expected. This was attributed to it cutting shipping expenses and sales growing by 79 per cent. The company lost $68 million in the three months to the end of September compared with a loss of $79 million for the same period a year earlier. Sales hit $638 million …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 10:11

  • HWRoundup A mobo with an adjustable multiplier?

    And a super small Gigabyte mainboard

    A claimed "worldfirst" today from the guys over at BX Boards, as they get up close and personal with the Asus A7 Pro VIA KT133 AGP 4X Socket A mainboard. Apart from the ludicrously long winded name, this has one feature you will certainly approve of: Multiplier Adjust. Check it here. Tweaktown takes us through the finer …

    Hardware Roundup 25 Oct 2000, 11:18

  • Compaq profit jump marks business u-turn

    Selling strong across all lines

    Compaq has reported Q3 profits jumped sharply on the back of strong sales across all its lines. The news didn't stop its stock slipping by four per cent, and though it expects strong growth to continue into Q4, it has reduced full-year earnings forecasts to adjust for impact of the week euro. Revenue forecasts remain the same. …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 11:19

  • DTI body seeks resellers for SME advice

    Technology Means Business

    Technology Means Business (TMB), a new Government-funded body which provides technical advice to SMEs, is calling on resellers to apply for accreditation for its professional industry standard. Armed with the qualification - "it takes as little as a month" - IT resellers join a national register of TMB advisers. This list is to …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 11:24

  • IBM touts price-per-seat PC

    For big companies only

    IBM Global Financing has launched Price-per-Seat, an all-in-one bundle of hardware, software and services, wrapped into a per PC price. Price-per-Seat is aimed at companies with more than 500 PCs - and the kit doesn't have to come from IBM. Price per unit contracts are essentially an updated type of lease finance (traditionally …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 11:24

  • Japanese nuke boffins buy $1m Compaq super'puter

    High N-R-G research

    Compaq is to sell a $1 million super computer to the Japanese government. Researchers on the AJERI project - a nuclear energy project - are likely to use it to run simulations to aid them in their research. Typically companies will buy one for research purposes, rather than to beat Gary Kasparov at Chess. For example, the …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 11:25

  • Intel cuts P4 pricing again

    And 'secret' price cuts firm up

    It's not even in the shops yet, but Chipzilla has made yet another price reduction on the forthcoming flagchip Pentium 4. Figures leaked to hardware site OC Workbench reveal that the 1.4GHz P4 will now debut at $625, while its big brother 1.5GHz will set you back $795 in 1Ku quantities. Only a couple of weeks ago, Chipzilla was …

    Channel 25 Oct 2000, 11:36

  • Mesh washes hands of Carrera

    'We're not going to talk again'

    Mesh has slammed the receivers for Carrera, the almost defunct PC assembler it was in the frame to buy, for changing the rules of the game during negotiations. Mesh marketing manager John Hendrick said that a deal negotiated with the receivers was at the point of being signed, when they changed the deal. Hendrick said: "We had …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 12:59

  • Sun sneaks into enemy UPnP camp

    Only joined for the free technical data, says exec

    Sun has joined Microsoft's Universal Plug and Play initiative, the UPnP Web site discretely noted t'other day. A bizarre move, you might think, given Sun's Java-based Jini technology is a direct rival to UPnP. Both technologies are designed to allow network-connected devices to interoperate and communicate with each other on a …

    Software 25 Oct 2000, 13:22

  • Logitech sales boost down to non-mice devices

    PC video cameras and joysticks do the biz

    Mice maestro Logitech has reported a 43 per cent Q2 sales surge to $190 million. The good result is down to the company freeing itself from the new PC sales market, where its mice are bundled with the latest boxes, and branching out into making other peripherals. PC video cameras and game control devices have done well for the …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 13:48

  • Intel relaxed over email security

    Simple denial of service method could clobber baby email servers

    Intel's dinky little eMail Station, part of the InBusiness range it inherited from Dayna, turns out to be susceptible to simple denial of service attacks, but the chip behemoth doesn't seem to care a Hell of a lot. The eMail Station has a 2GB hard disk and a NatSemi(!) 486 CPU and is aimed at small businesses wanting to support …

    Music and Media 25 Oct 2000, 14:12

  • Computacenter founder has ‘Dallasty’ sense of style

    Expensive home is fit for JR

    Computacenter co-founder Peter Ogden has been enjoying publicity from both the Sun and the Daily Mail as he owns a very pricey des res in the fourth most expensive place in the world. Ogden has a home in Sandbanks, near Poole, in Dorset. The Mail got on the case first and called Ogden's mock Georgian home 'South Fork', after the …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 14:32

  • Intel: Bluetooth ‘too expensive’

    Updated Goes with cheaper alternative for wireless keyboards, mice

    Intel has rejected Bluetooth and Home RF wireless technology for its new range of consumer wireless PC peripherals on grounds of cost. The new peripherals are currently only available in the US. The Intel Wireless Series includes a gamepad, mouse and keyboard which talk to the PC via a USB base station which can support up to …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 15:09

  • Sub £10 ZX Spectrum games console with N64 style controller

    Updated This years' Xmas must have

    The top selling games console at Christmas is unlikely to be a player offering 36 old ZX Spectrum titles - but at £9.95 the retro gamer could do a lot worse. The player was spotted for sale in a giant Poundstretcher style warehouse of crap in Wolverhampton. The games console has a controller that had been directly copied off …

    Business 25 Oct 2000, 15:16

  • Teleworkers dream village goes bust

    How green screen was my valley

    Britain's first village designed for people embracing the concept of teleworking has been put in receivership because almost after a third of the homes remain unsold. The 39 home hamlet was built at Crickhowell in rural Wales. Buyers were promised a telecentre with fibre optic links to each of the homes as their way to access …

    Music and Media 25 Oct 2000, 17:12

  • Sniff me, I'm yours

    Fashion statements

    Skimpily clad waifs pranced down the catwalk at today's Fall Internet World sporting some bizarre wireless technology outfits. Hi-tech badges, watches and glasses were all on show at the New York event, complemented by silver bikinis and space-age metallic ensembles. There was also a batch of shiny prototype Net-enabled …

    Music and Media 25 Oct 2000, 21:41

  • Internet ‘bigger than Industrial Revolution’

    A million Spinning Jennys turn in their graves

    AOL top knob Barry Schuler today claimed the Internet would be more important than the Industrial Revolution. Speaking to attendees at Fall Internet World in New York, he said the "Internet Revolution" would "transcend the Industrial Revolution on the effect on mankind". Schuler, who is president of the US ISP's Interactive …

    Music and Media 25 Oct 2000, 21:41

  • Net ‘privacy’ bill rewards data marketers

    The large print giveth and the small print taketh away

    It started as an anti-stalking measure inspired, in part, by the shocking murder of a 20-year-old New Hampshire woman named Amy Boyer, whose twisted stalker tracked her down by purchasing her Social Security number from an on-line broker. It had been altogether too easy for the man to get the information he needed; thus when …

    Music and Media 25 Oct 2000, 22:24