13th July 2001 Archive

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AMD Q2 sales fall 16%

Sales warning realised

AMD warned us all to expect bad news this week, and last night it followed its warning with an announcement that Q2 sales were down 17 per cent on the previous quarter and 16 per cent down on the same period last year. Revenue for the three months to 1 July totalled came in just shy of $1 billion - $985,264,000, to be precise, …

Channel 13 Jul 2001, 09:35
Quark joins the Mac OS X waiting game

There's a new Mac OS? Sure. Whenever...

Quark has became the latest Mac kingmaker to opt for the comfort of the balance sheet over the pain of Steve Jobs' whiplash. The DTP stalwart will release its long awaited version QuakrXPress 5 on classic Mac, rather than risk a simultaneous release of both MacOS 9 and Mac OS X versions. "Going back to create a Carbonised …

Mac Channel 13 Jul 2001, 09:50
New Mexico pulls out of Microsoft anti-trust suit

Happy with Beast of Redmond's concessions apparently

The state of New Mexico has surprised many by pulling out of the antitrust suit against Microsoft, saying that it is happy with the company's recently announced concessions for XP. The Attorney-General for New Mexico, Patricia Madrid, said that the Beast of Redmond's announcement that it would not require Internet Explorer and …

Software 13 Jul 2001, 09:53
Juniper makes Q2 loss, but says Q3 and Q4 revenues won't slide

Who'd be in networking

Juniper Networks has made a Q2 loss but seems to think is dodging the worst of general networking slump. Its come out and said Q3 and Q4 revenues won't fall from those of its Q2. Yesterday Juniper posted a Q2 loss of $37.1 million. A year earlier it had enjoyed profits of $19.6 million. Sales for the period were 79 per cent up …

Data Networking 13 Jul 2001, 10:15
Rambus revenues, earnings plummet

Big quarter-on-quarter falls driven by downturn in DRAM prices

Rambus yesterday reported a 25 per cent quarter-on-quarter drop in Q3 revenues as the decline in the memory market led to a big cut in the memory company's royalty income. Income was down over 52 per cent on the company's previous quarter. Revenue for the three months to 30 June totalled $23.3 million, an increase of 31 per …

Business 13 Jul 2001, 10:29
Taiwan chip sales fall in June

Opinion divided for Q3

Taiwan's chipmakers failed to see the anticipated rise in sales last month. TSMC sales slipped to NT$8.515 billion ($240 million), slightly lower than May's NT$8.55 billion, Taiwan's Commercial Times reports, via Asiabiztech. The figure represents a 29 per cent drop compared to June 2000 for TSMC, which had hoped sales would …

Channel 13 Jul 2001, 10:40
FOTW Friday 13th Pt. 437

Thomas C. Greene is 'paid MS stooge'. Again

Well, Thomas C. Greene really landed himself in the flame pit with his recent article Steve Gibson really is off his rocker. There's nothing like telling it straight, a principal to which Al Franco II also adheres: Your reasoning SUCKS! Just because kids can already get guns and shoot each other, doesn't mean we should make …

Letters 13 Jul 2001, 10:44
Carphone Warehouse founder retires at 37; lives the easy life

The Ringo Starr of phone shop tycoons

One of the founders of Carphone Warehouse, Guy Johnson, has decided to leave the company and "retire" at 37, spending more time with his young family. He can of course because on top of the £10 million he made from the company's float last year, he also has 11 per cent of the mobile retailer's shares - currently worth £123 …

Business 13 Jul 2001, 11:09
Future ditches 140 UK jobs

Wants to save £8.5m a year

Bath-based Internet and computer magazine publisher - the Future Network plc - has axed 140 jobs from its UK operation in a bloody Friday-the-thirteenth cull. The losses are understood to come from across Future's operation in a bid to help save the company around £8.5 million a year. Centralised support staff and workers in …

Business 13 Jul 2001, 11:39
Canon PowerShot A20

Review Digital camera

Canon's PowerShot A20 caters for novices on a tight budget. To keep costs down it's been stripped of features and, in the highly competitive low-end market, it struggles to make an impact. It's good to see high 2Mp (megapixel) quality in the sub-£300 price range, but the market has shifted so quickly that now it's not enough to …

Personal 13 Jul 2001, 11:50
Ballmer is Fester and we can prove it

Pictoral evidence mounts

'Ballmer doesn't look like Uncle Fester' MS flack lashes out So, is Steve Balmer Uncle Fester or what? Maria Helm offers convincing proof. Uncanny. Then we have Mr X, who notes: In the states there is a ongoing ad campaign for beef, (probabily not very big in europe at the moment) the tagline of the campaign is "Beef …

Letters 13 Jul 2001, 11:53
AOL-Time Warner back in takeover talks with IPC

New media giant after magazine publisher. God help us all

AOL-Time Warner is back in takeover talks with UK magazine publisher IPC. The new media giant is looking to snap up some old media in a European acquisition spree and the price looks to be between £1 billion and £1.25 billion. IPC is best known for titles like Loaded and NME but publishes about 100 others and together with Emap …

Business 13 Jul 2001, 11:59
Gartner sees civil lawsuit brewing over WinXP

New features tempt fate...

A civil lawsuit is likely to be filed against Microsoft over some of the features being built into Windows XP, says Gartner Group. In a research note published this week analysts Michael Silver and Thomas Bittman say that Microsoft's loosening of OEM licensing arrangements regarding IE is just "one more step" in the legal …

Software 13 Jul 2001, 13:54
Guninski finds new ActiveX security hole in OXP

Outlook strikes again...

Bug hunter extraordinary Georgi Guninski has posted a tetchy warning of a new security hole in Office XP. As Georgi says, "MS Office XP - the more money I give to Microsoft, the more vulnerable my Windows computers are." In this case Office XP installs an ActiveX control called "Microsoft Outlook View Control." This exposes a …

Software 13 Jul 2001, 14:17
Easy-off.com escapes violation

Stelios Haji-Ioannou fails to rip off knickers

Our previous correspondence on good old Stelios Haji-Ioannou and the 'easy' domain name malarkey provoked further email traffic. First up we have Pat O'Shea, who'd like to set the record straight about his mate Stel: I have recently had business dealing with Stelios, and EasyGroup and our efforts in producing a new air travel …

Letters 13 Jul 2001, 14:37
Napster down until futher notice

Has to show court it can block all copyright material

Napster has to block every single copyright song it does not have permission to be allowed to be shared over its network, the music sharing company was ordered this week. And it has to stay offline until it can show the US District Court that it can enforce the ban perfectly. So ruled Judge Marilyn Hall Patel on Wednesday. …

Music and Media 13 Jul 2001, 14:42
Wtf is a 'farmer's blow'?

Calling all mucus experts...

We're used to strange correspondence down here at the Vulture Central Mailbag, but Tim Rushing has set a new standard: My question has nothing to do with computers, technology or anything that really matters, which, of course, is why I thought of writing to The Register. I even tried phoning a pub in Ireland and one in England …

Letters 13 Jul 2001, 14:45
Reader gets feisty in a WinXP/IE Babylon stylee

Well, you think of a better headline then...

MS surrenders! IE not integrated with WinXP after all Oh blimey, the WinXP/IE palaver has called one Alan W. Rateliff II to arms: (My ranting and raving opinion...) People are dumb and will believe anything, and let everyone walk all over them. Lawyers are even worse because they don't really understand what's going in, just …

Letters 13 Jul 2001, 14:49
MS chases Windows licence fee from kids charity

But charity begins at Redmond

Reports are coming in from our cousins in Australia that Microsoft has extended its software licence crusade to include kids' charities. South Australian charity PCs for Kids - which hands out second-hand PCs to poor and disadvantaged people - has apparently been receiving calls from MS' lawyers insisting that they cough up the …

Business 13 Jul 2001, 15:30
Readers' Letters CD website attempts to bribe Reg

Friday 13th proves unlucky for Internet wideboy

Right, everyone knows that we at the Reg will do anything for money. Well almost anything. What we won't do is respond to the following kind of solicitation. Names have been removed to protect the guity from any kind of free publicity whatsoever: I am running a Website to sell my music CD's. The idea is that you can order the …

Letters 13 Jul 2001, 15:49
Ofcom gets Govt Go-ahead

About bloody time too

The Government has given the green light to create a new all-encompassing single regulator for the media and telecoms industries. Today it published the Office of Communications Bill which paves the way for the creation of Ofcom. If the Bill passes smoothly through parliament Ofcom should be up and running in 2003. A draft …

Music and Media 13 Jul 2001, 16:02
Napster bends over and takes it from Metallica

Grovelling apology ends legal action

Napster has settled its few remaining differences with Metallica, the rock band that sued the music sharing company last year and first forced it to block the sharing of copyright material - by booting off anyone who offered Metallica songs. There appears to be little to the settlement than a cessation of hostilities in return …

Music and Media 13 Jul 2001, 16:37
MS security chief talks raw sockets with the Reg

Blackhat: And agrees with us, not surprisingly

In the course of covering the Blackhat and Defcon conferences here in sunny Vegas, I had occasion to sit down with MS Security Program Manager Scott Culp, who, I'd heard, has become a fan of our Steve Gibson raw sockets coverage. It's not every day that The Reg and Microsoft can discuss a topic on which we agree in large part, …

Software 13 Jul 2001, 18:34