8th December 2000 Archive

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Channel

• Baby Pentium 4 materialises 1.3GHz part appears on secure Intel Web site
• Chipmongers vie for chip of the year crown It's a meat market, I tell you

Hardware: Data Networking

• Bluetooth range boosted to 50m And IBM has loads of ideas - some of them sensible
• BT sent ADSL enquiries to council helpline Probably just as useful
• Europeans text sex obsessed Less messy than the real thing
• Major outage hits Cable & Wireless INS Cisco routers to blame
• MS and DoCoMo launch wireless system you can't switch off Once it's got your credit cards too, you're expendable...

Management

• Apple ‘screwed up in education’ – Jobs New products will solve problems, staffers told
• Ask Jeeves when it will make a profit Answer: Q4 2001, meanwhile greater losses for this Q4
• Gateway untethers 1.4GHz P4 desktop Nice stocking filler
• Intel preps digital-audio player First glimpse due in Las Vegas next month
• Intel to miss Q4 targets Cancelled orders and sluggish demand
• No one wants chips or PCs Microsoft down, Motorola down, Intel, NatSemi, Apple, BATM...
• Pirates, conmen target PlayStation 2 buyers Even as buyers' bots bring vendor Web sites to their knees
• Quantum Corp lowers sights on HDD shortage Now back on ramp
• Seagate slashes drive returns It's given users fault-checking software
• Techie staff work longer but produce less Hours up, productivity down, spending down, wages up!
• Time installs revolving job doors Cuts employees, takes on staff

Music and Media

• Amazon.com drops link to Real IRA fund raiser It was after commissions
• Australian Web surfers sapped by con-man Tricked into paying for free Net access
• Catholic nostalgia goes hi-tech Latin liturgy on the Web
• Default logins posted on porn-defaced security site Updated Dripping with irony and other substances
• FTSE gets hacked Easy peasy apparently
• Le Freeserve keeps l'Unlimited Time product C'est la plume de ma tante
• Universal sued for alleged copyright infringement Sauce for the goose...
• Warner Brothers bullies girl over Harry Potter site Huge conglomerate behaves disgracefully

Odds and Sods: Flame of the Week

• Flame of the week Reg pays for sex Perfectly reasoned argument against reporter

Odds and Sods: Letters

• Readers' Letters Guns, shitty gifts and breasts Combine the three and you've got the Christmas experience
• Best of the Rest: AMD, Palestinians and aliens All of them with a unique perspective on life
• Some anti-Warner humour from Groucho Marx Very funny this - have a read
• The ongoing saga of Lara and her breasts This story seemed to spark some interest. Funny that...

Personal: Hardware Roundup

• Rock ‘n’ roller RAID controllers HWRoundup Plank spankingly splendid

Software

• Gates talks big on small IE6 cookie move Stressing the importance of privacy is so much easier than coding...
• L&H told where to stick its bankruptcy protection request Belgian court demands more financial info
• Microsoft's Y2K security holes – 93 and counting A 30 per cent productivity increase year on year...
• MS claims copyright on Windows bugs Stops BugTraq republishing security notices
• MS lures Palm coders with free drink Desperate for PocketPC apps