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  • Chip sales to grow 23% in 2002, says analyst

    Driven by cash-rich consumers

    Consumer spending, one component of the economy that has continued to grow (so far) despite the recession, will lift the semiconductor industry out of the doldrums next year. So says US-based market watcher Semico Research, which reckons 2002 will see chips sales reach $200 billion, up 23 per cent on the company's estimate of …

    Channel 6 Sep 2001, 09:16

  • Linux smartphone heads for Europe

    PalmPalm in the Palm

    Samsung's Linux based smartphone will appear in Europe, although a date for the launch hasn't been set yet. The compact device, which resembles Motorola's Accompli 008 only with a colour display, is expected to ship in Korea in January. Much like the Nokia 9210, it will be bundled with a camera attachment. For now it's CDMA …

    Personal 6 Sep 2001, 09:22

  • Kingston ADSL cap ‘will not be actively implemented ’

    Finally, the telco deigns to speak

    Kingston Communications has (finally) got in touch with El Reg to try and clarify its position on capping usage for its new ADSL service. Apparently, the 700 MB Downstream quota is not an enforced limit but an acceptable usage amount. Said Tony Nalder, marketing operations manager, Kingston Communications, in an email: " …

    Broadband 6 Sep 2001, 09:28

  • Rambus seeks 18-month Micron trial delay

    Wants its appeal against Infineon verdicts to be judged first

    Rambus wants its legal action against Micron to be put on ice for up to a year and a half. The case is due to come to court on 29 October, when Rambus' allegations the Micron flouted its SDRAM patents will be judged. However, the memory technology developer this week asked the presiding judge, Roderick McKelvie, to delay the …

    Channel 6 Sep 2001, 09:29

  • Mozilla chief missing, presumed pink-slipped

    Updated Netscape adrift?

    Mitchell Baker, lead of the Mozilla browser project, appears to have been laid off by employer AOL-TW. AOL acquired the rights to market the Netscape browser in 1998, and has underwritten much of the open source development work on the project, which after years of rewrites is finally, it's generally agreed, getting there. …

    Software 6 Sep 2001, 09:32

  • NTL semantically challenged

    Broadband definitions we have known

    El Reg has been sent a copy of one of ntl's marketing brochures - speed, power and control...introducing ntl broadband internet. And it makes interesting reading. Apparently, with ntl broadband internet you just "click on your browser and www.woooosh, you're away". Sounds terrific, doesn't it - especially since the cableco's …

    Broadband 6 Sep 2001, 09:47

  • Intel's Q3 sales unlikely to beat Q2 – Wall Street

    Chipzilla to revise guidance downward

    Intel forecast its Q3 sales will come in somewhere between $6.2 billion and $6.8 billion when it posted its Q2 fiscals on 17 July, but CFO Andy Bryant is expected by Wall Street to narrow it down to the bottom end of that range when he issues a revised sales guidance statement this evening. On the basis of the Intel internal …

    Business 6 Sep 2001, 10:00

  • Toys R Us sells out Xbox pre-orders in 30 mins

    Won't say how many, thouth. Not a lot, we reckon

    Toys R Us and its online store manager, Amazon.com, yesterday claimed that they had sold all of their initial batch of Xbox consoles within 30 minutes of the units going on sale. Cue whoops and hollers of joy from Xbox buffs and Microsofties, but what does Toys R Us' bulletin really say? Not a lot, actually, since neither …

    Personal 6 Sep 2001, 10:19

  • Orange triples its profit

    But share price dribbles

    Orange's results were officially posted this morning after last week's accidental earnings leak. While earnings were known to have jumped 102 per cent, the main figure you'll want to know is that the mobile phone company has seen its operating profit triple to £514 million. This all comes on the back of a huge 52 per cent …

    Business 6 Sep 2001, 10:58

  • iomart losses widen

    Oh well

    Scottish broadband provider iomart has reported increased losses for the first six months of the year despite increasing turnover by two thirds. For the six months to June 30 turnover was up 76 per cent on H1 2000 to £2.7 million. However, pre-tax loss for the same period increased from £1.7 million to £3.3 million. Earlier …

    Broadband 6 Sep 2001, 11:21

  • ‘Busty blonde’ email lawyers face lawsuit

    Sued for sex and race discrimination

    Two London lawyers face a lawsuit over an email in which one of them asked for a 'busty blonde' as a replacement for their black secretary. The case, which could be the first in the UK to establish if an email is grounds for a discrimination claim, involves an email sent hours after the woman announced her resignation. "Can we …

    Media 6 Sep 2001, 11:31

  • Tech companies to suffer again in FTSE100 review

    Marconi obviously, but what about Telewest, CMG, Energis...

    Yet more technology companies are to be kicked out of the FTSE100 index next week as part of the regular review. Okay, so this is a piece of anti-news* but following yesterday's total collapse of Marconi shares, it has become clear that the former giant is to be removed from the listing for the first time since the index's …

    Business 6 Sep 2001, 11:35

  • Blueyonder suspends Code Red infected users

    Updated Tough but fair?

    Cable broadband outfit blueyonder is taking a tough line on dealing with the Code Red by suspending consumers found to have been infected by the worm. In a notice to customers, blueyonder states that infection of some of its customer's machines "has at times resulted in poor performance for our users" and poses a "significant …

    Security 6 Sep 2001, 11:53

  • VIA to sample successor to C3 next quarter

    Nehemiah nearly here

    VIA will sample the next generation of its x86-compatible C3 processor, codenamed Nehemiah and expected to ship as the C4, next quarter. The chip, which the Taiwanese chipset maker announced earlier this year, is designed to run at up to 1.3GHz. Fabbed at 0.13 micron, the part contains 128KB of L1 cache and 256KB of L2. …

    Channel 6 Sep 2001, 12:11

  • Atlas Flyer 3400

    Review Budget notebook

    The Atlas Flyer lives up to its name, swooping in to beat all rivals with a blistering WorldBench score and a ridiculously low price tag. It comes with a 1GHz Pentium III flip-chip processor twinned with 256MB of RAM. However, its WorldBench score of 161 beats all rivals. Even better, it costs a reasonable £1000. The Atlas …

    Personal 6 Sep 2001, 12:53

  • Wanadoo losses widen

    That's good news apparently

    Wanadoo - the French Internet outfit which also owns Freeserve - reported increased losses today despite improved revenues for the first six months of the year. It made a Net loss of E102 million in H1 2001,compared to E67 million during the same period last year. Total revenues increased to E689 million from E456 million. …

    Business 6 Sep 2001, 13:59

  • NASA hacker ‘rolex’ jailed for four months

    Hard time

    A hacker has received a four month prison sentence for breaking into servers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Associated Press reports that Raymond Torricelli, 20, from New York, was also asked to pay a fine of $4,400 to the space agency after pleading guilty to the 1998 crime. At the time of his arrest, we reported …

    Security 6 Sep 2001, 14:00

  • Pegasus Opera sales beating forecasts

    Systems Union back in the black

    Systems Union, which supplies mid-range accountancy software systems, today said it had managed to drag itself back into the black. The company posted a pre-tax profit of £679,000 (seven pence per share) for the six months ended 30 June 2001, compared to losses of £96.5 million (£1.15 loss per share) for the same period the …

    Business 6 Sep 2001, 14:03

  • Nvidia confirms September nForce ship-date

    Abit, Asustek, Gigabyte and MSI lined up to launch mobos too

    Nvidia will ship nForce this month, allowing mobo makers to ship boards based on the Athlon chipset by "the end of September", according to a company spokesman. Abit, Asustek, Gigabyte and MSI will all be producing nForce-based boards, the spokesman (cited by ExtremeTech) added. All of which ties in nicely with the recent …

    Channel 6 Sep 2001, 14:43

  • DoJ abandons MS split, but wants court to check WinXP etc

    How good have you been since the trial, Bill?

    The US Department of Justice won't be asking for Microsoft's break-up any more, nor will it be coming back for another go at the tying of IE to Windows, which was one of the matters sent back to the district court by the appeals court for further consideration. The DoJ will however be pressing for "prompt, effective and certain …

    Software 6 Sep 2001, 16:04

  • Man executed for using the Net

    Murdered mum after e-ticking-off

    A 22-year-old unemployed man has been executed for murdering his foster mother after she chastised him for using the Internet too much. Zhao Jieqi, who lived in east China's Zhejiang Province, stole 2900 Yuan (£240) from his foster mother so he could fund his online activities at cybercafes. When she found out about the money …

    Media 6 Sep 2001, 16:55

  • EU releases Echelon spying report

    It exists and the UK has a lot of explaining to do

    The report by the European Union into the Echelon spying network, released yesterday, has concluded that not only does the network exist but that it can prove its existence. It also calls on the UK to pull out of the system - jointly run by the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia - to prove its commitment to the EU. The huge …

    Media 6 Sep 2001, 17:04

  • NHS email system up the spout

    Power surge blows out data centre is the official explanation

    The NHS' email system has been up the spout since Saturday, preventing thousands of doctors, nurses and management from communicating everyday matters and causing extensive housekeeping delays. The official explanation is that a power surge at a BT datacentre knocked out the main NHS email servers. The backup system did kick in …

    Data Networking 6 Sep 2001, 17:06