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  • IBM caught tagging San Fran streets with Linux ads

    City fathers less than thrilled

    IBM has been touting its flavor of Linux for servers with what can only be described as graffiti, by stenciling peace-signs, hearts and penguins (symbolizing peace, love and Linux) on San Francisco city streets, IDG.net reports. Apparently, Big Blue failed to get permission in advance and the city is taking a dim view of the …

    Business 20 Apr 2001, 05:14

  • In bed with Keith Chegwin

    Cheggers launches live internet show

    Former television presenter Keith 'Cheggers' Chegwin has announced the launch of his latest media venture - a live internet show from his bedroom. The show - which goes out daily from 0700 to 1900 BST - will feature "celebrity guests, competitions and interactive games". Chegwin started his career in kids' TV. He will, …

    Bootnotes 20 Apr 2001, 08:47

  • BTopenworld denies it's ‘sidelined’ consumers

    But admits that it is courting broadband business users instead

    BTopenworld is to concentrate on offering broadband services to businesses instead of consumers, the Internet division of the monster telco confirmed today. Although BTopenworld won't refuse cash from consumers, it has made a strategic decision to target SMEs instead with all marketing cash geared towards business users. …

    Telecoms 20 Apr 2001, 08:47

  • Transmeta revenues defy industry trend

    Losses didn't, through

    Transmeta's revenues continue to grow - not hard when you start at zip - while its loss widened slightly during the first three months of fiscal 2001. So, revenue for the period, which ended on 31 March, reached $18.6 million, up 50.2 per cent on the previous quarter's figure of $12.4 million. Neither is a vast figure in chip …

    Business 20 Apr 2001, 09:41

  • Tesco offer shifts 400 iMacs a week

    Updated But Apple's still miffed

    UK grocer Tesco's latest trial run selling iMacs has come to an end, with 2000 machines being sold in five weeks, the store has claimed. A pretty good result, you'd have thought, but Apple's not too happy about it, Macworld UK reports. The Apple vs Tesco spat began before the iMacs were brought into the grocer's chain of …

    Mac Channel 20 Apr 2001, 10:21

  • Despite PC slowdown, Microsoft results nudge past expectations

    Beast of Redmond making nearly $6.5 billion a quarter

    Microsoft has just nudged ahead of expectations in its Q3 results, pushing up the share price up by as much as 6.5 per cent. The company reported revenues up 14 per cent (on Q3 last year) to $6.46 billion, against an expected $6.3 billion. Operating profits jumped 9.6 per cent to $3 billion. The software giant said revenues …

    Business 20 Apr 2001, 11:12

  • Egg still on target to break even in Q4

    A rare case of good dotcom news

    Egg claims it is "on track" to break even during Q4, the British online bank announced today. Releasing its Q1 2001 figures this morning the e-bank reported that operating income was up 14 per cent to £36.5 million compared with Q4 2000. Pre-tax loss was down a smidgen by £0.4 million from £38.3 million to £37.9 million during …

    e-Business 20 Apr 2001, 11:13

  • Ericsson sacks 12,000 after revenue slump

    But Sony still likes it

    Ericsson has announced it will lay-off 12,000 staff in a bid top return to profitability after it announced disastrous results today. The mobile manufacturer saw its shares fall 13 per cent when it announced a Q1 loss of SKr4.9 billion (Swedish krona = £338 million). This was actually just slightly better than expectations of a …

    Business 20 Apr 2001, 11:14

  • Intel 1.7GHz P4 due Monday, at $350 – sources

    Industry mouths speak

    Intel is set to launch the 1.7GHz Pentium 4 on Monday, blitzing prices across the P4 range into the bargain, according to numerous industry sources. It's certainly prices that will attract the most attention at the chip's debut. Earlier this month, Taiwanese Web site C-Tech claimed the part would debut at $352 - less than half …

    Channel 20 Apr 2001, 14:08

  • CyberNanny Web site defaced with obscenities

    Internet filtering firm reacts slowly to swearing on its own site

    The Web site of a firm which provides Internet filtering software has been defaced with a string of obscenities. CyberNanny's site was defaced by a hacker called Hackweiser yesterday, but still features a prominent notice stating that it has been compromised and its admins "may be 'trying' to figure out what the fuck has …

    Music and Media 20 Apr 2001, 14:11

  • World Online/Tiscali begins ‘massacre of UK employees’

    Jobs cuts part of major UK consolidation

    World Online UK is to make 53 people redundant in what has been described as the start of a "massacre of UK employees" following the company's take-over by Italian telco Tiscali last year . Employees at the company's call centre in Ramsgate, Kent, were told yesterday and are the first to go following World Online UK's decision …

    Music and Media 20 Apr 2001, 14:14

  • Greece and Belgium are the weakest links in MS Hacks

    Prime Suspectz

    Two regional Microsoft Web sites have been defaced in a pair of attacks that call into question the ability of the software giant to enforce a global security policy. Locally hosted sites in Belgium and Greece, which redirect traffic to Microsoft's corporate servers, have been sprayed with graffiti by hackers in separate …

    Security 20 Apr 2001, 14:18

  • Dell steals Compaq's crown

    Top PC vendor in Q1

    Dell became the world's top selling PC vendor in Q1, netting 13 per cent market share. Despite a quarter of sluggish PC sales growth across the industry in general, the direct computer seller saw shipments rise 30 per cent to 4.1 million. Meanwhile, the world's PC shipments grew less than three per cent compared to Q1 the …

    Business 20 Apr 2001, 15:47

  • BT suffers major Web security scare

    Services suspended after upgrade

    BT has suspended the services available from its Web site after an upgrade to its site went horribly wrong. Details are still sketchy but an upgrade to BT's site, which sources suggest involved improving security measures for access to customer phone bills online, had exactly the opposite effect. A number of Register readers …

    Business 20 Apr 2001, 16:22

  • UK Govt shuts e-govt portal

    Tut tut, and this the Govt of e-govt

    The Government is to shut down its award-winning open.gov.uk Web portal - best described as the front door to Britain's e-government services - in July. News of the closure was published on a small, rather amateurish notice on the portal earlier this week advising users that the service will be "gradually withdrawn over then …

    Music and Media 20 Apr 2001, 17:12

  • Computer fires man

    Organic life form checked out and checked out

    DIY supershed B&Q is not content with positively vetting job applicants with its telephone virtual interview system. No. The company has now decided to allow its hi-tech cyberpersonnel department to sack people it has already employed. Carl Filer, 18, failed B&Q's "personality profile" telephone test, after he had already …

    Software 20 Apr 2001, 17:14

  • Political cyberterrorism: Labour is Conservative

    And everyone pretends not to know about it

    The general election is hotting up and the Internet will play a big part in it. Odd then that the Web address www.newlabour.co.uk points to arch enemy www.conservatives.com. What's going on here? A man known as Robert Parker owns this URL that, quite frankly, many many people are likely to tap in if they want to know more …

    Election 2001 20 Apr 2001, 17:22

  • BT bills go open source

    Major online security blunder

    BT suspended the services available from its Web site for two hours today after an upgrade to its site went horribly wrong. An upgrade to BT's site, which sources suggest involved improving security measures for access to customer phone bills online, had exactly the opposite effect. A number of Register readers have written to …

    Security 20 Apr 2001, 17:35

  • Top US lawyer seeks mobile-phone cancer cash

    Sues 25 companies

    The US lawyer famed for wrangling billions of dollars in damages out of the tobacco industry has started legal action against a stack of mobile phone companies. Peter Angelos yesterday filed class-action lawsuits in state courts in Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia, The Washington Post reports. They accuse major mobile phone …

    Business 20 Apr 2001, 20:24

  • Silicon Investor posters can stay anonymous

    First Amendment applies to chat rooms too

    A US judge has ruled that surfers accused of posting negative messages about a company on the Internet in the hope of lowering its share price can remain anonymous. US District Judge Thomas Zilly said the first amendment applied to the Web, and this included the right of a person to speak without revealing their identity, AP …

    Music and Media 20 Apr 2001, 22:02