4th May 2001 Archive

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Channel

• AMD plots 15 May server, mobile Athlon launch Looks like Palomino's going to be led out to the course
• Boxed P4 shortages? What shortages Plenty around
• Compaq UK does its bit for price war May Madness
• Evesham loses Luke Ireland Corny joke man's got a new venture
• Ideal underpins AMD biz with ASUS franchise Mobo a gogo
• Knife hangs over 73 Computacenter jobs But this is a positive story...
• Nvidia takes control of workstation graphics biz Snapping at ATI's heels
• Samsung launches ‘custom’ Rambus RIMMs Multi-channel, too

Hardware: Data Networking

• Consumer GPRS is going to be a dog in the short-term Dead slow data speeds
• Lucent workers busted for inside tech swindle Selling US trade secrets to China -- again
• Mobiles blamed for Fat Kids Artery in Furs

Management

• BT boot sale offers more bargains Roll up! Roll up! We still need £5 billion
• BT builds for the future Watford to become major telco centre
• Intel pays students to go and work for someone else From P4 to P45*
• Israeli BOFHs flock to sign up as spies Mossad hunts for workers among dot com fallout
• NEC results, a tale of two halves Scaling back
• Psion tells investors about state of its handheld business And 2.5G networks. Oh dear

Management: Games Industry

• Daily Radar.com falls off screen Another games site is switched off

Management: e-Business

• May you live in Excite.com times Portal could shut, says Business Week

Music and Media

• AOL UK stung by BBC investigation Punters not happy with free trial
• Blueyonder cuts cost of broadband Strings attached as ever
• British dame donates £10m to start Internet Institute University of Oxford gets green light to study cyber-society
• EarthLink founder crashes, burns in fraud probe And takes several other Scientology dupes with him
• Microsoft UK 0wn3d Prime Suspectz going for a record
• Official: BT not anti-competitive Joy at BT Centre as removal men eye up the place

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Student wins first SMS poetry competition Inspired by granny. Aw bless.

Security

• US ‘National Security’ surveillance up in 2000 Secret court authorizes FBI bugs and black bag jobs

Software

• AOL in cahoots with Compaq, HP to derail WinXP, .NET? Plan to defang Windows Experience while spreading smut about bugs
• Exploits for several million Microsoft servers posted This oughta be a blast....
• Mundie retrofits Net visionary tag to Chairman Gates Just a point release from having invented it, apparently
• Napster ponders Microsoft as technology partner And tried to get Bill Gates to buy it, apparently
• Show us the source, then Mr Mundie – developers Letter to Hobbyists reaches Version 3.0
• Stop! Don't install Easy CD Creator 5 til you read this story Latest version can wipe out Win2K machines