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  • Logitech ignores PC slowdown

    Cordless sales are cookin'

    Mice mogul Logitech doesn't seem to be suffering from the PC market slowdown. For Q4, ending 31 March, net profits rose 51 per cent to $14.2 million, up from $9.4 million for the same quarter last year. For the year profits were up 61 per cent at $48.4 million. And Logitech said it expects sales for fiscal 2002 to grow …

    Business 24 Apr 2001, 07:51

  • Rambus changed RDRAM patent to include SDRAM – Infineon

    Rambus vs Infineon The trial begins...

    Rambus' alleged attempts to manipulate its patents to give it control of SDRAM technology went right to the top of the company, chip maker Infineon claimed yesterday. The Siemens spin-off made the claim during an opening statement as it prepares to defend itself against Rambus' charge that it ripped off the memory developer's …

    Channel 24 Apr 2001, 09:59

  • Now DoCoMo having trouble with 3G

    Network launch put back

    NTT DoCoMo - the Japanese company behind the only successful WAP-style phone service, iMode - has delayed the launch of its 3G network until October. The service was due to be the world's first by being launched at the end of May, but the company has been beset by technical difficulties and has decided to delay the main launch …

    Data Networking 24 Apr 2001, 10:18

  • Cisco boss slashes salary to $1

    Former VP charged in $10m fraud scam

    Cisco chief exec John Chambers has cut his salary to $1 because he wants to share the financial pain of his shareholders and employees. Cisco's value has bombed by more than $400 billion since March 2000 as its share price has crashed. So Chambers is making this symbolic gesture, according to The Times. Last year his basic …

    Business 24 Apr 2001, 10:23

  • Sexy emails drive ex-Royal aide to murder fiancee

    Cricket bat and kitchen knife

    Sexy emails between a fiancee and an unknown woman in Las Vegas caused ex-Royal aide Jane Andrews to beat and stab her lover to death, the Old Bailey heard yesterday. Jane, who was the Duchess of York's personal assistant for nine years, found the emails when long-term boyfriend Thomas Cressman was on a stag weekend. There were …

    Bootnotes 24 Apr 2001, 10:46

  • Dixons confirms Kalms retirement

    Becomes President in Sept 2002

    Dixons has confirmed that Sir Stanley Kalms will retire as executive chairman of the business at the company's AGM in September 2002. He will then be made El Presidente of the company - a non-executive position. He'll be two months short of his 71st birthday. Press speculation has it that he'll go earlier if headhunters are …

    Business 24 Apr 2001, 10:48

  • Intel to cut 1GHz Mobile PIII prices…

    ...but not 'til June

    Intel will cut its Mobile Pentium III prices by up to 44.5 per cent next quarter when it releases the 0.13 micron PIII family, codenamed Tualatin. The 1GHz Mobile PIII's price wasn't changed during Intel's last round of cuts, on 15 April, but it will come down to $401 from $722, a fall of 44.5 per cent, in Q3. At the same time …

    Channel 24 Apr 2001, 10:58

  • Mobo makers to follow P4 price cuts with cheaper boards

    P4 price reductions boosting demand - just about

    Intel's next round of Pentium 4 price cuts, which will take place on Sunday 29 April, will be quickly followed by motherboard price reductions, Taiwanese mobo makers have said. According to mobo companies cited by DigiTimes, P4 motherboards currently shipping for around $160 a pop will drop to $150 and under next month. At the …

    Channel 24 Apr 2001, 11:18

  • Excite@Home seeks global broadband domination

    Ha! Not on these figures it won't

    Excite@Home's boast of becoming a global broadband player appears to be ringing a little hollow today following the publication yesterday of its Q1 results. At the end of March the outfit recorded some 3.2 million consumer broadband customers. However, of these only 333,000 were recruited from its global operations outside of …

    Telecoms 24 Apr 2001, 11:23

  • E3 must love GameCube or we'll kill it – Nintendo

    Console may be canned if it's not the hit of the show

    Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi has made a startling revelation about the GameCube's future. Speaking to a Tokyo newswire, Mr. Yamauchi, who is normally over-zealous about such matters, went so far as to say that "if we are unable to see a positive response at E3, this will have a disastrous impact on Nintendo... and we may …

    Games Industry 24 Apr 2001, 12:04

  • AXIA Athlons spotted at online reseller

    1GHz chips capable of running at 1.5GHz with simple tweak

    The term 'AXIA' may be unrelated to the insurance company of nearly-the-same name, but buying an Athlon with this product code will certainly give you piece of mind for the next couple of years. The whole AXIA thing arose almost overnight recently when Overclockers.com started experimenting with the latest revision of the …

    Business 24 Apr 2001, 12:05

  • Apple Powerbook is not airport ‘ bomb’

    Owner 'very drunk', something in the bag

    Relax, owners of Titanium G4 Powerbooks, you have nothing to fear when you walk through airport security. Residues reportedly found on the Apple laptop which shut Burbank airport, for six hours on Friday night did not come from the titanium case - but from the computer bag in which it was held, the LA Times reveals in an …

    Mac Channel 24 Apr 2001, 12:15

  • No more I Love You viruses

    Updated UK govt boffins to the rescue

    The bad days of global email viruses are over, if a crack team of software scientists are to be believed. The defence evaluation and research agency (DERA) is due to launch a piece of software today called ::Mail that will prevent email viruses from spreading by controlling what is sent out from email programs, instead of what …

    Security 24 Apr 2001, 12:25

  • E-minister slams IT recycling claims

    'Unfounded and simply not credible'

    Patricia Hewitt, the e-commerce minister, has slammed claims in Sunday Business that retail prices for electronics and IT goods could rise by up to 20 per cent following new EU recycling laws. In a letter to the paper, she said the allegation is "unfounded and simply incredible". Hewitt attacks a number of assumptions in …

    Business 24 Apr 2001, 13:19

  • Tiscali buys yet another ISP

    Is this news?

    Tiscali - the Italian telco that can't resist gobbling up European ISPs - is to swallow another one. This time it's agreed to buy surfEU - a pan-European ISP and portal that has a strong German presence - for E69.6 million (£43.43 million) in cash and shares. Tiscali said it would cough up around E18.7 million (£11.67 million …

    e-Business 24 Apr 2001, 14:18

  • IBM buys Informix for $1bn

    Group's remains launched as Ascential

    IBM is paying $1 billion for Informix's high-end database management system business, allowing the software company to dedicate itself to creating database applications. The cash purchase will see IBM integrate Informix's code development, customer service and support, and sales teams into Big Blue's own groups. Informix …

    Software 24 Apr 2001, 14:30

  • CBI to lobby against anti-IT bill

    Updated 'No single person' can explain why draft includes sysadmins

    The Confederation of British Industry is to enter the fray regarding a new Bill about to go through Parliament that could require all IT professionals to apply for a licence from the Home Office. The Bill's aim is to tackle people such as bouncers and wheelclampers, who currently work unlicensed, with corresponding detrimental …

    Business 24 Apr 2001, 14:56

  • Keep George Dubya alive

    Palm game gives president Tamagotchi treatment

    Play with your own personal Dubya president in a new game for Palm handhelds. You can get Bush Jnr to pass bills, flirt with interns, eat a Texan bar-b-que (chicken), blow people up (the Vatican if you fancy), beat up Al Gore or get steamingly drunk, depending on what mood you're in. But like the Tamagotchis of …

    Software 24 Apr 2001, 15:34

  • LCD monitor prices chopped in half

    IT fashion accessory becomes affordable to the masses

    The average price of flat-panel monitors has halved over the past year, according to IDC. And thanks to supply finally starting to catch up with demand, combined with the slump in PC sales growth, LCD monitors prices look set to continue to fall. "Flat-panel monitors are going to become all the rage," said Roger Kay, IDC …

    Business 24 Apr 2001, 15:47

  • Pubes more offensive than ntl ad – just

    Sadly no room for 'short and curlies' gag

    Cableco and ISP, ntl, was responsible for publishing one of the most complained-about adverts of last year according to the annual report from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The advert - part of a direct mail campaign for "a free Internet service" - was fourth in a list of adverts that drew the most complaints from …

    Music and Media 24 Apr 2001, 15:50

  • Tech sector fingered by ad watchdog

    Again

    Telecoms and computer companies have been singled by the advertising watchdog for making claims they simply cannot deliver. In its annual report for 2000 the Advertising Standards Authority received 1,158 complaints about the adverts published by companies in this sector - up slightly from the 1,028 received the year before. …

    Business 24 Apr 2001, 16:37

  • Sony storage roadmap sees DDS out

    Plans to squash 1Tb into 8mm using AIT

    Sony Electronics has unveiled a ten-year roadmap for its Advanced Intelligent Technology (AIT), which includes plans to ditch any further development of Digital Data Storage (DDS) technology. The company expects its next generation AIT-3 drives to be on the market in the third quarter of this year. These drives will offer up to …

    Business 24 Apr 2001, 17:26

  • CERT defends vulnerability info restrictions

    Full disclosure increases hack attacks

    The long-debated question of whether software and network vulnerability data should be shared freely and immediately re-surfaced recently, as Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), formerly the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), announced hooking up with a private-industry organization called the …

    Security 24 Apr 2001, 20:10