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  • Infineon (Siemens) accused of deliberate patent theft

    And Payne goes incandescent in Rambus case

    Documents now available on the Rambusite show that the real reason the patent trial between Rambus and Infineon is delayed is because a fresh deposition accuses Siemens Semiconductor, which spun off Infineon as a separate unit, of deliberately and knowingly appropriating its technology. The trial, which was supposed to start …

    Channel 22 Mar 2001, 07:54

  • AMD shows 1.5GHz Palamino at Cebit

    Updated Intros 1.3/1.33GHz Athlons, shows dual systems

    As expected, AMD has used the beginning of the CeBit trade show in Germany to introduce versions of its desktop Athlon microprocessor at clock speeds of 1.3 and 1.33GHz. But, and thanks to our friends at tecChannel for this, it is also demoing a 1.5GHz Palamino machine as well as a dual Athlon system at the humungous and often …

    Channel 22 Mar 2001, 07:59

  • Jury in on 1.3xGHz Athlon benchmarks

    HWRoundup We get Athlon's Foot, trudging round

    All the hardware sites have been waiting for AMD to press the RELEASE button on the 1.3 and 1.33GHz Afflon non disclosure agreements (NDAs). So here's a roundup of sites that have reviewed the parts. --------------------cut here------------------- AMD Zone. With a name like AMD Zone, which has stuck with Chimpzilla almost from …

    Hardware Roundup 22 Mar 2001, 10:18

  • Apple confirms MacOS X updates coming soon

    Updated iTunes, iMovie 2 ready for downloading Saturday

    Expect MacOS X updates throughout the Spring and Summer, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said yesterday, as the company adds all those features user expect to get out of the box but won't. The first fully operational version of the new Macintosh operating system goes on sale on Saturday - though we note that a number of stores in the US, …

    Mac Channel 22 Mar 2001, 10:25

  • Micron cuts kit spend on ‘slight’ profit

    Investing $300m less on new equipment while DRAM demand still slow

    US Dramurai Micron Technology yesterday cut is proposed spending on new chip-making equipment and facilities after revealing it had made a profit - just - for its most recently completed fiscal quarter. For the three months to 1 March - Micron's second quarter of the current fiscal year - the company recorded sales of $1.051 …

    Channel 22 Mar 2001, 11:38

  • Handbags at dawn – HP blasts back at Sun

    Serengheti not there yeti

    HP lost little time responding to Sun's jibes after the latter launched its new Serengheti servers yesterday. "Sun has done a tremendous job - you have to tip your hat to them," HP's director of worldwide marketing Mark Hudson told us, before listing a number of reasons why he thinks its momentum might stall. Some of his points …

    Business 22 Mar 2001, 11:46

  • Motorola, Ericsson, Siemens team on cellphone gaming

    Want to define a universal mobile gaming system

    Mobile phone giants Motorola, Ericsson and Siemens have unified their efforts to turn the cellphone into a portable gaming platform. The result is a plan to define a "universal" - ie. open - mobile games platform. The partners announcement of the initiative is remarkably short on detail, largely because it's really just them …

    Games Industry 22 Mar 2001, 12:11

  • Reg backs Bonfield

    Don't resign, we urge

    The Register is backing Sir Peter Bonfield's decision to stay put amid mounting pressure for BT's CEO to resign. In this time of crisis for Sir Peter, we're sure such support will come as a real comfort. After all, being at the helm when his company racked up £30 billion in debt while the share price dropped by more than two …

    Business 22 Mar 2001, 12:12

  • Lastminute execs spend their own cash shoreing up business

    Buy £110k worth of shares

    Lastminute.com's high profile management stumped up some of their own cash to boost confidence in the business. Chief exec Brent Hoberman, and chairman Allan Leighton, each coughed up £50,000 on shares in the business. Martha Lane Fox, chief operating officer, invested £10,000. Yesterday the company had a market value of £75 …

    e-Business 22 Mar 2001, 12:30

  • France Telecom recovering from debt sickness

    Orange does well, Wanadoo doesn't

    France Telecom has released its annual results, with net profits for 2000 of £2.3 billion (£2.15 a share) and a reduced operating margin of 14.4 per cent from 16.5 per cent. The profits were slightly lower than expected and saw the telecom giant's share price fall 0.34 per cent. The company went out of its way to assure people …

    Business 22 Mar 2001, 13:02

  • China to get 130 million DSL lines

    And why not...

    China is gearing up for a broadband revolution after its dominant telco signed a deal with Alcatel that will enable it to supply 130 million DSL lines. Alcatel announced today it had entered into an agreement with China Telecom, China's largest teleco and service provider, to deploy jointly DSL across the country. The …

    Telecoms 22 Mar 2001, 13:08

  • Telewest right to pull out of LLU

    Losses widen

    Telewest claims it was right to concentrate on developing services for its own network rather than entering the "uncertainty" of local loop unbundling (LLU). However, it is still toying with the idea of reselling DSL but without the cost or aggravation associated with installing kit in BT's exchanges and supplying broadband …

    Data Networking 22 Mar 2001, 13:18

  • Be signs Sony

    We knew it before, but now Be's allowed to admit it

    Be has finally admitted that Sony has licensed its BeIA Net appliance-oriented operating system. Terms of the deal were not made public. Sony will be using the software in its Mac-like eVilla appliance, which it launched earlier this year. At the time, Be said Sony would be using BeIA, the result of a "memorandum of …

    Software 22 Mar 2001, 13:45

  • European Parliament continues Echelon investigation

    This time the legality

    The European Parliament will continue its investigation into the Echelon spying system today in Brussels. A temporary committee was set up half way through last year when reports of the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand-sponsored spying system entered wide circulation. The European Parliament will decide what it should do …

    Security 22 Mar 2001, 13:58

  • Logitech emasculates mice

    No cord, no balls

    Here's another milestone in mouse technology. Swiss manufacturer Logitech has come up with the Cordless MouseMan Optical - which promises "no ball to clean and no cables to tangle". The product is scheduled to ship in early April and will be priced at $69.95. The mouse uses Logitech's Palomar digital radio technology, which …

    Business 22 Mar 2001, 13:59

  • Citrix buys mystery XML portal co

    But what's that green liquid?

    Citrix is to acquire back office integration outfit Sequoia Software. It's Citrix' biggest acquisition since its stock crashed a year ago, coinciding with a boardroom coup that ousted founder Ed Iacobucci. The cash deal values Sequoia Software at $184.6 million. Sequoia produces XPS, a messaging portal that's transport neutral …

    Software 22 Mar 2001, 14:23

  • Queen gives dotcoms the royal thumbs down

    We have lost £30,000 from the bubble bursting

    A company in which the Queen invested £100,000 is to drop its .com suffix due to poor sales. The value of Liz's stake in Getmapping.com - a company which sells aerial photographs of the UK - has slumped from a high of £900,000 to just £70,000 following the dotcom collapse. However, the company only uses the Internet as a shop …

    e-Business 22 Mar 2001, 14:24

  • Music industry tracking individual MP3 file sharers

    Users monitored and sharing activity recorded

    The music industry's secret anti-Napster software, formally known as Internet Anti-Piracy System, less formally as Media Tracker, has been brought out of the shadows. The software, developed by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), mimics all the commonly used and less-well-known file-sharing clients …

    Music and Media 22 Mar 2001, 14:49

  • MPs give Oftel a boot up the backside

    Winged watchdog blameless... this time

    Oftel's been told to pull its finger out and quickly resolve the disputes currently dogging the roll-out of ADSL in Britain. The Department of Trade and Industry Select Committee looking into Local Loop Unbundling said that it is "important that BT is not awarded a de facto competitive advantage". In a critical report …

    Telecoms 22 Mar 2001, 15:17

  • Western Digital intros 80GB hard drive

    Spinning at 7200rpm

    Western Digital has announced its 80GB, 7200rpm, EIDE hard drive at CeBit. The three platter WD CaviarT is currently being tested by OEMs and is expected to start shipping in April. Noise wise the CaviarT has tested registered 33dBA in Western's own labs. The WD Caviar 7200rpm family now includes 40, 60 and 80GB capacities …

    Business 22 Mar 2001, 16:21

  • Zimmermann plays down PGP flaw

    And sticks it to Czech discoverers

    Phil Zimmermann - creator of the OpenPGP encryption software - is playing down a flaw discovered in his hugely popular program, saying that someone would still need access to your hard drive to break the code. Two Czech researchers, working for their country's National Security Authority, claimed to have found a way to bypass …

    Security 22 Mar 2001, 16:33

  • AMD issues fresh, bracing Cebit roadmap

    Analysis Europe means a lot to Chimpzilla

    Chip contender AMD has issued a fresh roadmap to coincide with its introduction of its 1.3 and 1.33GHz Athlons earlier today. At Cebit, it also demonstrated dual Athlon systems and a 1.5GHz chip with a core named after a breed of horse dubbed Palomino. The 30 page document claim AMD is still on target for its Morgan and …

    Channel 22 Mar 2001, 17:19

  • Schwab chops up to 3,400 US jobs

    Easy come...

    The Charles Schwab Corporation is to axe up to 3,400 jobs in the US, the discount stock trader announced today. The outfit blamed the economic downturn saying that between 2,750 to 3,400 jobs would have to go - 11 to 13 per cent of the company's workforce. At this stage it's not known how many jobs will be lost as part of …

    e-Business 22 Mar 2001, 17:33

  • WinXP Beta 2 in not delayed again drama

    Code virtually done and dusted for a whole extra 48 hours

    The great WinXP Beta 2 roadshow showed clear signs of degenerating into farce today, as a build that was ever so nearly, nearly shippable as Beta 2 last night, maybe any minute now, somehow magically translated itself into Beta 2 code "ready to roll" and "on track" for shipment on, er, Friday. Bear in mind, friends, that …

    Software 22 Mar 2001, 19:30

  • GameLoft shuts portal, lowers overheads

    So the loft's a mezzanine now, right?

    Online gaming outfit GameLoft has decided to ditch its Internet portal. "Seeing no profit perspective in the exploitation of its Internet portal, GameLoft has decided to discontinue this activity while reducing significantly its overhead," the outfit said in a statement. "Gameloft will now on [sic] concentrate on exploiting …

    Music and Media 22 Mar 2001, 21:27

  • Fujitsu Siemens unveils entry-level Solaris/SPARC server

    Still SPARCing away...

    Fujitsu Siemens Computers has used CeBIT to launch an entry-level, single processor addition to its Primepower range of Solaris and SPARC chip-based servers. The PRIMEPOWER 100N, unveiled at the technology extravaganza in Hanover today, is aimed at users who need a mainframe kind of server. The product uses the company's …

    Business 22 Mar 2001, 21:28

  • IETF rebuffs SSH creator

    No joy for the Swiss Family Fschk, either...

    The creator of the ubiquitous secure access protocol ssh says he is considering legal action in his attempt to protect his trademark, after being rebuffed by Internet standards body the IETF. Tatu Ylönen originally published his secure shell software - used to secure Telnet, web and FTP sessions - under a free software license …

    Music and Media 22 Mar 2001, 21:28

  • Oz learns 3G lessons from Europe

    Telecoms down under under-cut auction price

    Australia's telecoms companies have benefited from Europe's 3G lunacy and coughed up just £0.4 billion (sterling) for the next-generation mobile service. Rather than stack up crippling debts and put their jobs at risk, CEOs down under have paid just above the reserve price of £0.37 billion to gain access to 3G technology. Not …

    Data Networking 22 Mar 2001, 21:28

  • Strange Rambus lights upset children

    Aliens in there, or screaming Cindies?

    Rambus moved from Mountain View to Los Altos recently but it seems that whatever the company does, and wherever it goes, it causes uproar and cafuffle. According to the Los Altos Town Crier, local residents are up in arms because of continuous noises and the "consistent glare of interior lights" in the Rambus complex at the …

    Bootnotes 22 Mar 2001, 21:33