14th April 2001 Archive

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• Yahoo! is pornmonger no more

  Consumer pressure

  Two years ago, Yahoo! began flogging hardcore pornographic videos on its US Web sites, No-one, except for a few customers we assume, noticed, until last Monday, when the LA Times noted the relaunch of the portal's adult section. The news spread like wildfire, and in results week too; by Thursday, Yahoo! had been swamped by so …

  Media 14 Apr 2001, 09:44

• Who will give me $1 for Excite Europe?

  Portal staying, business exiting (maybe)

  Excite@Home, the consumer portal, is considering exit Europe. But Evan Rudowski, of Excite Europe, tells the FT that the company would "rather sell the business for $1 than withdraw from Europe after all the time and money we have invested." Excite is a second-tier player in Europe. The company turned over 30m Euros in 2000, …

  e-Business 14 Apr 2001, 10:31

• InQuest conducts Intel P4 pre-mortem

  HWRoundup Not cost-effective. Yet

  InQuest, the US semiconductor analyst outfit, has posted an analysis of Intel's strategy for this financial year. The P4 platform is not stable or cost- effective, and won't be until there is DDR-support, InQuest argues (be mindful that the company is a well-known Rambus naysayer) Apparently the i845 will only support PC100, …

  Hardware Roundup 14 Apr 2001, 10:46

• University raided in MP3 copyright action

  Students hostage to legislative blackmail

  A multinational recording-industry front group called the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has filed suit with the Tainan District Prosecutor's Office against fourteen students at Taiwan's National Chengkung University, accusing them of illegally copying and trading MP3 music files, the Taipei Times …

  Media 14 Apr 2001, 21:44