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  • Motorola takes wraps off ‘Odin’ Symbian PDA

    Quarter VGA ARM gizmo to ship a year ahead of Palm-based version

    As Motorola showcased a mini-blizzard of new gadgets at a Developer Seminar in London this week, the company also detailed its first (inaudible) Symbian Quartz phone. We've corroborated these details with sources at Motorola. Although Project Odin, the joint Psion-Motorola initiative, covers a number of Quartz handsets, …

    Data Networking 26 Oct 2000, 06:49

  • Small firms don't get this Internet thing

    Help

    UK small businesses are losing money because of their failure to grasp the importance of the Internet as a communication and business tool, according to a KPMG and Microsoft study. A separate survey from Hewlett-Packard, published yesterday, suggests that European small businesses understand the importance of what it quaintly …

    Business 26 Oct 2000, 07:20

  • Mires of delay close around MS appeal trial

    The company has just a few teensie concerns...

    Is it our imagination, or are the mires closing around the Microsoft appeal? Both Microsoft and the DoJ seem to have agreed that the Appeals Court judges should get a technical briefing next month so that they can understand the issues better, but "a few concerns" raised by Microsoft serve to illustrate how an apparently …

    Software 26 Oct 2000, 09:11

  • Ellison: The ego has landed

    Bill Clinton 'more important than keynote speech' shocker

    Lord Ellison of Barking kept crowds at the Internet World show in New York waiting for 30 minutes yesterday while he chewed the fat with outgoing US President Bill Clinton, reports TechWeb. What advice on affairs of state Ellison gave the Pres is not reported. When Larry finally deigned to show up to give his keynote address he …

    Bootnotes 26 Oct 2000, 09:22

  • Europe votes on LLU today

    Can't you just feel the excitement? Nah, me neither

    The European Parliament is set to vote through a new EU Regulation today that could cut the cost of phone calls and Net access by as much as a 25 per cent. The EU Regulation on Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) has taken the fast track route through parliament following a decision at the Lisbon Summit in March this year, when the …

    Data Networking 26 Oct 2000, 09:43

  • Oversexed chipset strikes again

    Second baby for 815E due in new year

    Chipzilla must have been forcing Viagra tablets down the throat of its 815E chipset, for no sooner do we learn it has spawned a mobile offspring (Story: Son of Intel 815E arrives), than do we discover a second ankle-biter is on the way. Chinese hardware site PCPop has details of the forthcoming 815EP chipset which supports more …

    Channel 26 Oct 2000, 10:59

  • AOL-MSN hype war starts

    A suspicious absence of two-way satellite, m'lud...

    By a bizarre coincidence Microsoft mounted a "$1 billion" marketing campaign for the new MSN yesterday, while AOL retaliated with the launch of AOL 6.0. Microsoft will be blitzing the US retail channel with free MSN CDs, while AOL will be giving away CDs in about 50 retail chains. AOL gazumped the MSN announcement by claiming …

    Music and Media 26 Oct 2000, 11:01

  • System on a chip sales boom

    The more you squeeze on, the better it gets

    Sales of systems on a chip are booming, a trend which shows every sign of continuing according to a report from market researchers at Cahners In-Stat. Communications chips are the driver behind the market, and will account for 576 million units by 2004, the company said. In-Stat is forecasting a 31 per cent average annual …

    Business 26 Oct 2000, 11:21

  • PlayStation plunders Sony profits

    57 per cent drop due to PS 2 development, marketing

    Sony's profits continue to slide, dragged down by the titanic forces of the PlayStation 2 development and marketing budget. The profit fall this time round was 57 per cent, taking the Japanese giant's earnings down to ¥19.8 billion ($183 million), or ¥21.7 per share. For the same period last year, Sony posted earnings of ¥46.5 …

    Business 26 Oct 2000, 11:22

  • Motorola set to ship 600MHz G4?

    So says the rumour-mill, and only a year late...

    Motorola reckons it will be able to ship a 600MHz PowerPC G4 processor by early 2001, if alleged leaks from Apple-Motorola negotiations are to be believed. If the reports are accurate - they come from MacOS Rumors, so all the usual caveats apply - it will be about time. Motorola was looking at shipping 600MHz PowerPC 7400s - …

    Mac Channel 26 Oct 2000, 11:43

  • Spice Girls tune in to Napster

    Album sneaks onto MP3 service ahead to worldwide release date

    The Spice Girls - remember them? - saw their new album released two weeks early this week, when its eleven tracks made an unauthorised appearance on controversial MP3 sharing service Napster, we hear. Terrible stuff, we're sure, but there are enough pre-pubertal girls and spotty, adolescent males who like this stuff [Damn, he's …

    Music and Media 26 Oct 2000, 11:58

  • Big CRT flat screens do the biz for Samsung

    TFT to take over in 2005

    Sales of larger-sized flat-screen monitors has helped Samsung SDI boost its profits by 59 per cent. Net income for the three months to 30 September rose to 162 billion won ($142 million) from 102 billion won the same period last year. Sales increased 12 per cent to 1.05 trillion won ($920 million). Samsung SDI makes the …

    Business 26 Oct 2000, 12:17

  • Korean DRAM makers ‘want to force down prices’

    Yeah, right

    Samsung and Hyundai, the world's two biggest DRAM makers, are trying to persuade Taiwanese competitors to work with them in cutting DRAM spot prices, according to a peculiar story in the Commercial Times, of Taiwan. The newspaper quotes "a widespread rumour" that the Korean companies want to stimulate demand by lowering the …

    Business 26 Oct 2000, 12:50

  • iMac-style Sony PDA debuts on Web

    It's a Clié - but what kind of Clié?

    We don't read Japanese, so we're not entirely sure what Sony's clear Clié actually is - a next-generation system, a low-end version or merely an internal concept design? Whatever it is, there it is, for all to see on a Japanese Web site, which has posted a series of pictures of the critter. Any of the above suggestions are …

    Business 26 Oct 2000, 13:47

  • RSA encryption could have been British

    GCHQ didn't think it would make any money

    The British government missed out on the billions generated by the sales of public key cryptography, because it didn't realise an algorithm could be patented. The technology that led to the formation of RSA Data Securities, now thought to be worth around $2.5 billion, was independently developed some years earlier by British …

    Software 26 Oct 2000, 14:01

  • Disties, no – agents, yes

    Fees please

    Ingram Micro and Computer 2000, the world's two biggest disties, want to move from a wholesale to a fee-based model of doing business. And they in turn want to impose a similar model on their customers, Microscope editor Billy McInnes reveals. It makes sense. The classic wholesale IT channel model - distie buys stock from …

    Business 26 Oct 2000, 14:05

  • HWRoundup Creative's Annihilator2 Ultra clocked

    And more mobo mosh pit mashing

    So, Creative got hold of a video chipset, and they made a new card. The called it the Annihilator2 Ultra, and then they handed one over to Anandtech to review. Click here to see the resulting outpouring of verbiage. The new VT82C686B, which will work with both the KT133 and Apollo Pro 133A chipset, from VIA now has an …

    Hardware Roundup 26 Oct 2000, 14:11

  • Transmeta board makes room for Cisco CFO

    Get Carter

    Transmeta has elected Cisco CFO Larry Carter to its board of directors, the low-power x86 chip maker told world+dog today. Carter's experience will no doubt come in useful to Transmeta as it begins to move beyond its early set-up and development phase into a period of supplying and servicing real customers. Carter has been …

    Channel 26 Oct 2000, 14:17

  • Dr Spinola's TV preview

    Your guide to the best of the week's viewing

    Saturday Carly's Angels Check out the new series of action adventures as the feisty female scraps products, shrinks cubicle sizes and goes on a shopping spree for executive jets. Watch out for the hilarious cameo appearance by a lone Windows 2000 driver writer. Sunday Tom's Midnight Hardware Page A new dramatisation of the …

    Bootnotes 26 Oct 2000, 14:22

  • WinME sales surged in first week – then crashed horribly

    The Grand Old Duke of Redmond...

    The strong sales performance for Windows Me cited by Microsoft in its last quarterly report was apparently confined to just one week, according to Onechannel.net Channelmetrics data. Onechannel reports that online sales jumped over nineteenfold, to more than $1,000,000, in the first week, but promptly fell back to almost pre- …

    Software 26 Oct 2000, 14:25

  • eMachines slashes PC production

    Once bitten?

    eMachines, the Korean-owned, American-operated cheap PC maker, is cutting fourth quarter production by 20 per cent in anticipation of a tough time for PC sales in the US retail channel. eMachines may be more cautious than most - the company messed up big time over unsold inventory earlier this year. (The company grew like a …

    Business 26 Oct 2000, 14:38

  • Europe votes in favour of LLU

    Hurrah! Now what?

    The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of introducing legislation to speed up the process of Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) in Europe. The new legal framework - widely tipped to be carried - only needs the go-ahead from the member Governments of the European Union to become law. Although the new regulation …

    Data Networking 26 Oct 2000, 15:06

  • Buy a Russian space capsule for $2.2m

    Get it gift wrapped for $3.75

    If you've got $2.2 million to spare, treat yourself to a Russian space capsule. The Soyuz TM-26 is available at www.thespacestore.com. The Soyuz TM-26 descent capsule was flown to MIR by Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Soloviev and Pavel Vinogradov. They were the cosmonauts who performed emergency repairs to save MIR following the …

    Music and Media 26 Oct 2000, 16:10

  • Get to smell Britney Spears online

    Fall Internet World stinks!

    It may look like a futuristic sex toy, but the iSmell aims to show surfers just how much the Internet stinks. The product, from California-based outfit DigiScents, was today given an airing at Fall Internet World in New York. Although just a prototype, the idea is that surfers will soon be able to click and sniff via the holes …

    Music and Media 26 Oct 2000, 21:50

  • French help impulse e-shoppers spend their dosh

    Find any image on Net and we'll show you where to buy it, service pledges

    A French company has come up with a nifty idea for impulse e-shoppers. LookThatUP is showing off a service at Internet World that it says will show surfers where to buy any object after they click on its image on the Net. For example, Liz Hurley is caught on camera not quite wearing one of her famed dresses. The surfer sees it …

    Music and Media 26 Oct 2000, 21:56