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  • London still best place in UK to get rich

    Rolling in IT

    The streets of London town may not be paved with gold, but they're still the best place in the UK to find a top paying IT job. This 'revelation' comes from a survey of UK salaries, which shows that London-based IT directors can earn up to £202,000 per year. This hefty pay packet belongs to IT directors in the telecoms and new …

    Business 11 Jul 2001, 07:59

  • Thus posts improved numbers

    Well, well, well

    Shares in Scottish telecoms and Internet outfit - Thus - rose a tad in early trading amid news of increased turnover and narrowing losses. Announcing Q1 results for the three months ended 30 June the telco said turnover was up 32.4 per cent year on year to £67 million. At the same time first quarter earnings reduced from …

    Business 11 Jul 2001, 09:43

  • Durlacher burned by dotcoms and telecoms

    Will make 'substantial trading loss' for year

    New technology backer, Durlacher, is going to post a 'substantial trading loss' for the year ended 30 June, because the market hasn't been going well, and in fact 'worsened over the past few months.' And things aren't going to improve too quickly. In a statement the company said: "The current market environment [in the …

    e-Business 11 Jul 2001, 10:08

  • Psion sacks 250; delays Bluetooth; runs from consumers

    Business restructure

    Psion announced today it will sack 250 staff in a shake-up of Psion Digital, after disappointing handheld and phone sales. It will also put back the Bluetooth products it said it would launch this year to next year, due to slow take-up. The mobile computer company will concentrate from now on on big business, next-gen digital …

    Personal 11 Jul 2001, 10:25

  • Compaq warns of 4,000 more layoffs

    Europe blamed

    Compaq is to axe another 4,000 staff due to the PC sales slump. The worldwide layoffs will take effect by the end of this year, and bring Compaq's proposed job cut total for the year to 8,500, or around 12 per cent of its workforce. Compaq said "worsening economic conditions in Europe" were to blame for the move, which will …

    Business 11 Jul 2001, 10:33

  • Lucent to lay off 30% of senior managers

    Ex-workers go postal with bomb threats

    Beleaguered telecoms manufacturer Lucent has said it will lay off three in 10 of its top managers as part of a wide ranging restructuring program designed to cut its operating expenses. The firm plans to split into two main businesses - landline and wireless - both of which will focus on selling network infrastructure kit to …

    Data Networking 11 Jul 2001, 10:51

  • Why ICANN's domain dispute rules are flawed: Part I

    The history and problems with the policy

    The Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is an exceptionally important Internet process and stands to become all the more important in years to come. It is being adopted by new top-level domains; ICANN and WIPO are pushing it into the wider international arena and country-code TLDs; and the European Union plans to adopt it …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2001, 11:52

  • Why ICANN's domain dispute rules are flawed: Part II

    More problems with it. And what is the future?

    This is the second part of our in-depth rundown on why the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy - the rules used by ICANN and WIPO to decide who should own a particular domain - are flawed and why a fast and effective overhaul is essential before it is taken as the de facto policy on domain disputes. We covered the first five of …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2001, 12:15

  • Intel pulls shipment of high-end server chip

    900MHz Xeons in fall over mode

    Intel has suspended the shipment of a top of the range server processor after the discovery of a bug that could cause servers to crash. Deliveries of Intel's Pentium III Xeon 900MHz processor with 2MB of level 2 cache, which began shipping in March, have been on hold since April, but Intel has only just confirmed the problem …

    Channel 11 Jul 2001, 12:19

  • SGI takes a hit

    Loses CFO, downgraded to underperform

    Analysts Salomon Smith Barney downgraded SGI an 'underperform' yesterday, taking the stock below a dollar. Silicon Graphics said it would be reviewing its business plans, again, and predicted that revenues for the quarter ending June 30 would be between $430 and $440 million, resulting in a loss of between $70 and $80 million. …

    Business 11 Jul 2001, 12:34

  • SlowCoMo recalls iMode phones again

    Third time unlucky

    For the third time this year, NTT DoCoMo is to recall iMode mobile handsets for repair. On this occassion 100,000 units of the Panasonic "Digital Mova P503i HYPER" iMode phone are being recalled, with stock in the channel suspended for ten days for a software fix. The phone will not receive incoming calls or emails …

    Data Networking 11 Jul 2001, 12:41

  • BT in digital TV deal

    BT 'running scared', says NTL

    BT is to offer bundled digital TV services alongside its residential telephone service in a bid to compete with the UK's cable companies. The marketing tie-up of the newly-rebranded ITV Digital (formerly ONdigital) and Sky Digital will mean that BT can offer its punters telephone and Internet services plus a choice of digital …

    Business 11 Jul 2001, 13:31

  • The Internet is the root of all evil

    Destroyer of marriages, corrupter of the weak

    It's a sad fact that in the modern world - well, the modern media - everything either has to be an evil, corrupting influence, destroyer of children and rapist of culture. Or it is the saviour, the Christ-figure that will makes our times the greatest in all humanity. Because the Internet is such a leap in communication, both …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2001, 13:44

  • Sony Clié PEG-S300/E

    Review Palmtop PC

    You've got to hand it to Sony – it knows how to make an attractive gadget. Its latest lovely-looking creation is dubbed Communication, Link, Information and Entertainment – or put simply, Clié. As with all Sony products, the Clié has been well marketed and hits the shelves amid plenty of promotion. But can it possibly live up …

    Personal 11 Jul 2001, 14:21

  • NEC plans to be first with 0.10 micron chip

    Taking orders in early 2003

    NEC has shown off the technology for 0.10 micron processors it plans to have in production by the start of 2003. The chips will be used in next gen consumer electronics devices, mobile phones, and Net servers. NEC has teamed up with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to jointly set the processor design rules, high- …

    Channel 11 Jul 2001, 14:36

  • IRS tries to tax outer space

    'Now my advice for those who die, declare the pennies on your eyes'

    Tax officials in Los Angeles have come up with a great idea to swell their coffers - taxing companies for their goods in outer space. By goods, read satellites orbiting Earth. According to the leeches in Los Angeles County, eight satellites that belong to Hughes Electronics can be classed as "moveable property" and as such they …

    Business 11 Jul 2001, 15:00

  • 42 million US workers log on in June

    And they're spending longer online

    More than 15 per cent of Americans spend their time surfing the Net from the workplace. The number of employees accessing the Internet at the office grew to 42 million in June, up 23 per cent on the previous year, according to a survey by Nielsen/NetRatings. Last month US workers each logged onto the Net an average of 43 times …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2001, 15:07

  • Europe bottles spam ban

    Don't complain - you elected them

    A European committee has blocked plans to outlaw unsolicited commercial email dealing a major blow to anti-spam supporters. An amendment tabled by UK Labour MEP and former Eastenders soap star, Michael Cashman, was adopted by the Citizens' Rights and Freedoms, Justice and Home Affairs Committee earlier today. It means that …

    e-Business 11 Jul 2001, 15:08

  • DRAM nosedive continues

    128Mb chips going cheap

    Prices for 128Mb memory chips continued to nosedive last month for both the spot and contract markets. The 30-day rolling average prices of 128Mb DRAMs for May 24 to June 22 for contract users fell to $3.57 in North America, $3.25 in Europe, and $3.57 in Asia, Nikkei Market Access reports, via Asiabiztech. This was a drop of 7 …

    Channel 11 Jul 2001, 15:35

  • Mobile operator HQs raided over price-fixing

    OFT! Get on the floor! Down! Down! Down!

    The headquarters of all the four main mobile operators in the UK - BT Cellent, One2One, Orange and Vodafone - have been raided this afternoon by officers from the EU's Competition Directorate, escorted by members of the Office of Fair Trading. A further four offices in Germany were also raided. The officers are investigating …

    Business 11 Jul 2001, 15:44

  • Overhyped ThinkPad memory deal

    IBM makes a lot out of little

    IBM is making the most of the memory price crash by doubling up the SDRAM on some ThinkPad models and pretending the deal is a once in a life time opportunity. The special offer is running for just one week and ends on 16 July - so if you rush you can get a 700MHz Celeron ThinkPad I Series with 128MB SDRAM (up from 64MB) and a …

    Personal 11 Jul 2001, 15:47

  • WinXP pricing leaks again? SA bids $286 for Pro

    All these people just making it up, while MS hasn't decided yet. Right...

    As reported here earlier, Amazon has pulled prices for Windows XP from its site; it has subsequently stopped taking pre-orders for XP - allegedly until Microsoft has set the prices for the product. Well, ahem. Are we expected to believe that Amazon had some kind of corporate brainstorm and just made up prices for XP? If Amazon …

    Software 11 Jul 2001, 16:05

  • Netscape ruling a boost for online privacy

    SmartDownload equivalent to a free newspaper, says judge

    The case against online snooping by AOL through its SmartDownload software has had a further boost thanks to the decision by a federal judge that people are not bound by the company's online contract as they did not actively agree to it. The SmartDownload software comes packaged with Netscape Communications (AOL bought Netscape …

    Music and Media 11 Jul 2001, 17:03

  • Adobe on Apple: It's a family thing

    Ancient grudges, rows and pointless bickering, then?

    Adobe has refuted suggestions that it's cool about the current state of Mac OS X, telling us today that Illustrator and InDesign will be the first to appear on Mac OS X. If there are strains between the two giants, Susan Prescott, Adobe's Veep of marketing for cross platform publishing, was putting the best possible face on the …

    Mac Channel 11 Jul 2001, 18:46

  • Intel goes back to the future for memory

    Blobby circuits

    Intel is placing its bets on a technology it invented in 1970 for next generation memory. Ovonics Unified Memory (OUM) bears the imprimatur of Gordon Moore, and Intel highlighted a paper he co-authored more than thirty years ago on amorphous semiconductors*. "Why are we doing it again? I keep getting asked that, even by my …

    Channel 11 Jul 2001, 21:00

  • MS surrenders! IE not integrated with WinXP after all

    The hell it does...

    Microsoft hooked the rotting corpse of Netscape to a drip feed today by almost - shock, horror - agreeing with a court that said it had done Bad Things. The company statement simply repeats what the appeals court said rather than saying the appeals court was right, but a whole bunch of stuff it had previously insisted was non- …

    Software 11 Jul 2001, 21:56