23rd April 2001 Archive

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Channel

• 1.7GHz P4 launch price will prompt further cuts Intel confirms other P4 prices to fall next weekend
• And so to the Intel P4 1.7 Gig One for the bloopers tape: 'It is still a little slow..'
• Infineon to start churning out 300mm wafers in second half German giant polishes Dresden fab
• Intel 1.7GHz P4 ships at $352 Confirmed
• Intel Foster poses for snap Iwill Yeti ensnared
• Rambus tried to deceive patent office – Infineon Case comes to court today
• Samsung Electronics enjoys Q1 profit jump In spite of memory slide

Hardware: Data Networking

• Isle of Man pitches for world's first 3G network It'll never work in time

Management

• Compaq AlphaServer claims SAP record Small print: mid-range category
• Compaq wields cost axe Capellas warns of tough Q2
• e-Pen signs death warrant for bigamy Good
• Gates no longer richest man on planet And IT tycoons suffer in the UK (but not all)
• Gateway quits OfficeMax Pulls out of 1,000 stores
• IBM claims latest p-servers put Sun in the shade But the ebiz RS6000s don't have partitioning
• Mobile phone chaos on Friday Do it now because you can't remember the numbers anyway
• NASA jet to hit Mach 10 Forget flying cars, we want a piece of this
• Ringtones cost music industry $1m a day Diddle-ee, diddle-ee, diddle ee, dee
• SGI axes 1000 jobs in bid to break even Times is 'ard
• Stanley Kalms to retire from Dixons Headhunters are calling

Music and Media

• Britain warms to the Net Aaaaaaaahhh
• Napster looks to audio fingerprints to monitor MP3 shares Licenses Relatable music analysis code
• PR company loses Web site. Completely Some Yanks seem to think they own it
• Protest sites galore! Power to the people! Little man bites back on Net (still)

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• BT and AOL UK in (another) slanging match Tension breaks out ahead of 'Bandwidth Aid'
• NASA grounds Pope PC rocket boffins gag Supreme Pontificate
• UK Jedi get green light Well, sort of...

Personal: Hardware Roundup

• 1.7GHz P4 spanks 1.33GHz Athlon in Quake 3 HWRoundup Hardware sites seem to like it

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple Powerbook ‘bomb’ shuts airport Titanium 'residues'

Security

• Netscape SmartDownload opens up PCs to attack DumbDownload
• SDMI cracks revealed Banned in America

Software

• IBM boosts Linux support in AIX 5L P-p-p-put a penguin in your p-server
• Travel clampdown kills trade show Who said recessions were bad?