8th August 2001 Archive
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TSMC expects chip market to grow 20% next year
World's biggest foundry still optimistic
The market downturn notwithstanding, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's optimism continues unabated. Newly appointed deputy CEO F C Tseng yesterday said he expects chip sales to grow 20 per cent during 2002. That's something of a rebound, marking a near complete reverse of the dip experienced this year when …
Channel 8 Aug 2001, 10:18
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Pop star slammed for Dope Wars plug
Moral Panic ensues
Pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor loves playing Dope Wars, an enthusiasm that has landed her in hot war with the Daily Record. The mass-market Scottish tabloid accused her of glamorising drug dealing by making favourable comments about the computer game. Ellis-Bextor said she was a regular player of the popular game Dope Wars, …
Music and Media 8 Aug 2001, 10:30
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Apple stops legal attack on alleged secrets leaker
Worker Bee agrees to buzz off
Apple has settled its legal action against an ex-staffer who allegedly leaked company secrets. Actually, it withdrew its action some time ago, but the papers have only recently been filed with the court and made public, as CNET has just spotted. In return for dropping the case, ex-Apple employee Juan Gutierrez, better known by …
Mac Channel 8 Aug 2001, 10:32
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Log on with the pigeons
Safest park bench in Britain opens for business
For those who've ever felt a burning urge to log on in the middle of a park, life just got better. Yesterday residents of Bury St Edmunds were given a cyberbench. As we explained in July, this is a normal brown wooden bench fitted with four modem sockets where surfers can plug in their laptops. The seat is part of a trial by …
Music and Media 8 Aug 2001, 10:35
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The fattest ever fat cats?
Eat the rich at Rhythms NetConnections
Execs at Rhythms NetConnections in the US awarded themselves $4 million in bonuses just three days before seeking bankruptcy. In filings made to the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the Chapter 11 bankruptcy, acting CEO Steve Stringer is to take a salary of $400,000 with a "retention bonus" of $2.73 million, reports …
Business 8 Aug 2001, 10:37
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PC Direct sticks two fingers up at former employer
Sacked staff none-too-plussed with VNU
Staff at computer magazine PC Direct have had the last laugh at Dutch publisher VNU in its last issue. Staff were unhappy to hear the company had decided to shut the mag and sack all the staff, just weeks after it had pulled in a new team and revamped the title. However, in what some staff claim is proof that the publisher …
Bootnotes 8 Aug 2001, 11:45
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Samsung to mass produce 256Mb RDRAM
0.13 micron RDRAM by end of the year
Samsung is moving into mass production of 0.15-micron 256Mb Rambus DRAM. It has said the move to 0.15-micron, from 0.17-micron will improve yields by 30 per cent, and cut costs. Samsung thinks the move will boost 256MB DRAM demand, and so it plans to introduce a 0.13-micron Rambus DRAM by the end of this year and a 'market …
Channel 8 Aug 2001, 11:46
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Don't work on 24 August, it's National Slacker Day
Organised apathy for the masses
Seeing as we're sat in silly season, where there's no news to be had so all the nuts and freaks coming rushing out for moments of temporary fame, we would suggest you visit Slackerday.com. The site is battling for a National Slacker Day on Friday 24 August, in which, well, in which everyone just sort of stays in bed and takes …
Business 8 Aug 2001, 11:50
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.Net may yet close the open source movement
Hidden Patents?
A few weeks ago Project Mono was announced. Led by Ximian, the Linux desktop application provider, Project Mono was initiated to develop an open source version of Microsoft's .Net development platform. This would allow open source developers to quickly and easily deliver .Net compatible software on Linux platforms. The ongoing …
Software 8 Aug 2001, 11:50
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Zen and PlusNet cut cost of DSL
Calm down, it's hardly worth the bother
PlusNet and Zen Internet have responded quickly to BT's shock news yesterday that it is to cut the cost of wholesale broadband access for businesses. Both ISPs say they will pass on the £5-a-month cut for BT's business-class IPStream products. Although the modest price cuts have been welcomed, critics still accuse BT of …
Telecoms 8 Aug 2001, 11:51
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Acrobat virus delivers Bum's Rush
Peachy Keen
Virus writers have turned their sights on Adobe Acrobat: the result is a Peachy, a worm that infects PDF files. Peachy is a Visual Basic Script (VBS) worm which virus writers have embedded in a document that challenges user to "find the peach" among a series of pictures of naked female buttocks. Gullible users double-click on …
Malware 8 Aug 2001, 11:59
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Toshiba slashes DRAM output
Chip giant blinks
Toshiba is to slash DRAM production at its Yokkaichi plant in Japan by 60 per cent due to oversupply and flagging demand. The Japanese manufacturer said today it would close one of its production lines at the plant at the end of next month. Most of the 300 staff hit by the move will be transferred to another production line at …
Channel 8 Aug 2001, 12:09
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ATI Radeon 200 debuts on Web
Spex, pix....
ATI's upcoming R200 chip - almost certainly to ship as the Radeon 2 - has appeared on the Web over at Korean site Brainbox, which has details and piccies of an engineering sample AGP 4x board based on the new graphics processor. The site's information shows the R200 to be fabbed at 0.15 micron. ATI's board contains 64MB of …
Channel 8 Aug 2001, 13:56
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2GHz P4 PCs to hit £999 in September
Impending price cut to trigger commoditisation
The arrival of Intel's 2GHz P4 and its expected price drop to $400 on 28 August should lead to some interesting PC pricing. One major UK PC builder, who isn't prepared to go on the record just yet, believes we'll see £999 ex VAT PCs built around the 2GHz P4 by late September. These will come with 256Mb RAM, 80GB hard drive and …
Channel 8 Aug 2001, 14:54
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Freeserve still threatens to move to Algeria
Un beau geste...?
Freeserve is still threatening to export its Internet operation overseas and run it from Algeria, Britain's biggest French ISP confirmed today. The threat - regarded as empty rhetoric by many industry watchers - is still in place following high-level talks yesterday between senior executives at Freeserve and Customs & Excise …
Music and Media 8 Aug 2001, 15:09
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FBI chief Mueller lied to Senate about key-logging
Off to a great start
New FBI chief Robert Mueller's testimony before the US Senate during his confirmation hearing last week, to the effect that he had no understanding of key-logging technology, sounded very wrong to us. We were hoping that he was just exhibiting naiveté when, under questioning from US Senator Maria Cantwell (Democrat, Washington …
Security 8 Aug 2001, 18:59
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MS appeals to US Supreme Court
'That fat bastard shanked us'
Microsoft is trying to convince the US Supreme Court that it got shanked so badly by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that it deserves an entirely new trial. The Court of Appeals did recognize Jackson's bad behavior, but also let some of his findings of fact stand. MS is arguing that Jackson did such a poor job on the bench that …
Software 8 Aug 2001, 20:23
