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  • Excite@Home raises $35m in greetings goodbye

    Not a bad return for $750m investment

    Troubled dotcom Excite@Home has flogged its online greetings card business bluemountain.com to the American Greetings Corporation for $35 million in cash. The deal will save ExciteAtHome a fair wedge in overheads, and it will also deliver much-needed liquidity at a time when hard cash is in short supply. Excite@Home said the …

    e-Business 17 Sep 2001, 09:26

  • Motorola completes 1.6GHz PowerPC G5

    Exclusive Apple readies G5 Power Macs with Bluetooth, USB 2.0, DDR SDRAM support for January

    Motorola taped out the PowerPC 8500 - aka the G5 - last week and is set to go into volume production real soon now at speeds of up to 1.6GHz - a higher clock speed than AMD's latest-generation, 'Palomino' Athlon is expected to ship at - The Register has learned. So claim sources said to be close to Apple, at any rate. The new …

    Mac Channel 17 Sep 2001, 10:34

  • Business broadband subsidised in Midlands

    Good

    Cash from a public/private sector initiative is being used to subsidise broadband access for companies in the Midlands. CW2000 - a project developed by Coventry University - has more than £7 million to make small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in Coventry and Warwickshire more competitive by exploiting networking. The …

    Telecoms 17 Sep 2001, 10:41

  • World Trade Centre to be removed from MS Flight Simulator

    Minor changes to Flight Sim 2002

    Images depicting the World Trade Centre are to be been removed from the next version of Microsoft's Flight Simulator game. Flight Simulator 2002, which is due out in the UK at the end of October, will omit representations of New York's twin towers on grounds of taste, after last week's attack on them which claimed the lives of …

    Assault on America 17 Sep 2001, 10:46

  • Bomb the ISPs – Daily Telegraph

    Taking liberties

    The Daily Telegraph is calling for the bombing of "uncompliant" ISPs "on foreign territory", in response to the atrocity in America. In an opinion piece, John Keegan, the newspaper's eminent defence correspondent, blames the Internet for facilitating the attacks. "The World Trade Centre outrage was co-ordinated on the internet …

    Assault on America 17 Sep 2001, 10:58

  • XP memory musing

    64MB, 128MB, 1GB - how long's a piece of string?

    Last week we reported what Microsoft was telling system builders and resellers about the memory needs of XP - 128MB is fine for most users, but you can survive on 64MB. Register readers have been mucking about with release candidate (RC) 2 of XP. Here's what they say about its memory sucking powers. I've recently tried RC2 on …

    Software 17 Sep 2001, 11:24

  • AMD's 1.4GHz Athlon MP drips into channel

    Updated UK workstation supplier has them, apparently

    AMD's upcoming 1.4GHz Athlon MP has surfaced on the Web ahead of the part's official launch. UK workstation vendor Transtec is currently offering two 1.4GHz Athlon MPs as an alternative to the single 1.2GHz chip is ships with its Transtec 1200 Linux-based system. The standard box costs £1820 exc. VAT ($2677) with one 1.2GHz …

    Channel 17 Sep 2001, 11:57

  • Intel renews Rambus patent licence

    Eliminates potential hindrance to shipping Brookdale DDR, presumably

    Intel has just renewed its patent cross-licensing agreement with Rambus - in plenty of time to prevent there being any impediment to the shipment of the DDR SDRAM version of its i845 chipset, aka Brookdale. Terms of the deal were not revealed, but Intel has obviously had to stump up some cash, hence the "positive material …

    Channel 17 Sep 2001, 12:19

  • AOL's Connie gets face-lift

    Still a 'prissy know-all'

    Connie - the annoying public face of AOL UK that has graced the company's ads since 1998 - has had a makeover. Instead of that stupid pudding-bowl haircut she now "sports a modern hairstyle by the top stylist at Trevor Sorbie" - whatever that means. Oh, and that digital frock of hers has been bagged up and sent to Oxfam. In …

    Music and Media 17 Sep 2001, 12:33

  • FBI condemns vigilante hacking

    It's a felony, folks!

    The FBI has issued a condemnation of "vigilante" hacker activity after the formation of a group dedicated to waging electronic warfare against countries they believe support terrorism. The Dispatchers, which includes more than 60 hackers and corporate defacers in its ranks, plans to disable to computer communications of states …

    Assault on America 17 Sep 2001, 12:47

  • VIA offers $1m aid to US

    It 'wanted to do something'

    VIA Technologies has offered to donate $1 million to the US to help with relief work. According to the Taipei Times VIA is waiting for a response from the US on how best to make its donation - in cash or in relief materials. The paper quotes VIA General Manager Chen Wen-chi saying: "We are saddened by the disaster so we want …

    Assault on America 17 Sep 2001, 12:53

  • US system builder groups merge

    Makes sense

    The North American System Builders Association has merged with rival lobby group IntegratorsOnly.com. The enlarged group has 6,500 members. The merger makes sense - originally NASBA was set up to represent the top 200 so-called white- box builders, while IntegratorsOnly.com looked after the smaller players. But manufacturers …

    Channel 17 Sep 2001, 13:00

  • Ex-Intel man pleads guilty to pinching chip secrets

    Didn't hand them over to Sun

    Erstwhile Intel Itanium engineer Say Lye Ow last week pleaded guilty to nicking the chip giant's trade secrets. The hearing, in the San Jose District Court, was something of a formality, Ow having been indicted by a US Grand Jury in March last year of violating the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. Essentially, that Act made the …

    Channel 17 Sep 2001, 13:06

  • Apple cancels Paris Expo

    Blames post-WTC fears for visitor safety

    Apple CEO Steve Jobs is not giving the keynote at next week's Apple Expo Paris because there isn't going to be an Apple Expo Paris. Blaming last week's terrorist atrocities in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, the Mac maker this morning cancelled the event. Apple says the safety of its users and developers are its primary …

    Mac Channel 17 Sep 2001, 14:09

  • Register Marketplace opens for business

    UK B2B resource for your IT purchasing needs

    Today marks the launch of a new Vulture Central service - The Register Marketplace. This is a joint venture with Acequote, the UK's No.1 B2B marketplace, according to Jupiter MMXI. And together we offer you a business-to-business trading platform which matches UK IT buyers and sellers. Save time and money and improve choice by …

    Site News 17 Sep 2001, 15:08

  • Wacom Graphire2

    Review Graphics pen, pad and cordless mouse combo

    Home PC users increasingly have access to graphics software previously only available to professional designers. Now the high-end accessories used by computer artists and CAD (computer-aided design) users are also becoming affordable options for consumers. The Graphire2, comprising cordless mouse, pen and pad, is one such tool …

    Personal 17 Sep 2001, 15:33

  • Global DSL kit market worth $10bn in 2007

    Amazing

    The global market for DSL equipment is predicted to be worth $10.4 billion by 2007, according to analysts from Frost & Sullivan. Last year the sector was worth $4.8 billion. With more than 700 million phone lines in the world the potential for growth in this sector is substantial especially with more and more countries making …

    Telecoms 17 Sep 2001, 15:48

  • DDos attack knocks out Alldas.de – for good?

    Homeless defacement mirror seeks brave ISP

    Alldas.de, the well known defacement archive, is once again looking for a home after a deal to move from its ISP fell through in the wake of a debilitating hack attack. Three weeks ago, Alldas was subjected to a week-long distributed denial of service attack which knocked the site - and its ISP Kvalito - offline. Kvalito …

    Security 17 Sep 2001, 16:08

  • Did US air emergency procedure aid suicide hijackers?

    Exclusive Cold-war-era crisis regulations in doubt

    During last Tuesday's suicide attacks in New York and Washington, the US Department of Defense (DoD), the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), and US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would have declared an emergency situation which, depending on its severity, would have invoked one of two little-known regulations …

    Assault on America 17 Sep 2001, 19:18

  • Games biz reacts to terrorist attacks

    Spiderman 2, Metal Gear Solid 2 and others pulled

    The gaming industry has, like the rest of the world, been coming to terms with the recent terrorist attacks in America and has decided to delay, cancel, redesign or withdraw some games which may be considered to be in poor taste as a result. This mirrors events elsewhere in the entertainment industry, with several movies and TV …

    Assault on America 17 Sep 2001, 21:53

  • Gaming industry apparently escapes New York carnage

    Safe and well

    Yesterday's terrorist attack on New York has shaken America, causing thousands of casualties and shocking the world. At this time our thoughts are with those who have lost friends and relatives in the disaster, and our best wishes go to all of our American readers at this difficult time. Since the explosions yesterday we have …

    Assault on America 17 Sep 2001, 21:54

  • Intel makes patriotic investment in Rambus

    Renews License, Ink

    Americans were urged to make "patriotic" investments over the weekend to prevent the stock market tanking, and good citizen Craig Barrett has taken up the call. Intel and RAMBUS, Inc have renewed their cross-licensing agreement for another five years. Little was disclosed on the deal, although Rambus' CFO Bob Eulau said the " …

    Business 17 Sep 2001, 22:27