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  • HP, Oracle, Cisco are terrorist targets, warns SF mayor

    Thanks, Willie

    If the perpetrators of last week's atrocities in Manhattan and Washington are at a loss how to follow-up last week's attacks, San Francisco's flamboyant Mayor Willie Brown has a suggestion. He's advised that leading Bay Area technology companies make excellent targets, and named names, helpfully pointing suicide bombers in the …

    Assault on America 18 Sep 2001, 07:42

  • Befuddled by file systems, browsers, computer history?

    A Star Is Born

    At first sight, it looks harmless enough. But we think we have another cult of Mahir ("I Kiss You!") proportions on our hands. It's a column on ZDNet's Tech Channel: but don't be discouraged: it's a kind of technical Valhalla, where the remains of a great battle between ignorance and bad reasoning are dumped before the reader …

    Bootnotes 18 Sep 2001, 07:44

  • Tesco.com to make profit this year

    A dotcom success story - hip! hip!

    Tesco.com, the ecommerce operation of Britain's biggest supermarket chain, is on the verge of making a profit. Announcing half-year results to August, Tesco.com notched up online sales of £146 million - 77 per cent up on last year. Its grocery-based home shopping service made "good profits" the company said. Overall though, …

    e-Business 18 Sep 2001, 09:06

  • ‘We are at war’ – Dubya

    Opinion Does the word 'Vietnam' mean anything to you?

    Official Washington has been buzzing with the language of belligerence since this weekend. The President, who, incidentally, isn't authorized to declare war, declared war. He also did something we've not seen since the Vietnam era - he promised victory. "My administration has a job to do... We will rid the world of evildoers," …

    Assault on America 18 Sep 2001, 09:50

  • AltaVista sheds 160 jobs

    Appoints new CEO

    Ailing AltaVista Inc has axed a third of its workforce in a bid to cut costs and keep it on the straight and narrow. Some 160 jobs are to be lost, according to Reuters leaving just 340 people to run the outfit. That's on top of the 450-odd jobs axed in the last year as the once great dotcom brand slips further and further into …

    e-Business 18 Sep 2001, 09:54

  • Nintendo sells 300,000 GameCubes in three days

    Says terrorist attack won't affect US launch

    Nintendo flogged 300,000 GameCube's in the three days following its launch in Japan on Friday. That's two thirds of the 450,000 units it shipped for the console's debut. The US release is set for 18 November and the company still expects a successful launch in spite of the recent terrorist attack which is likely to knock …

    Games Industry 18 Sep 2001, 09:55

  • Intel patent payments save Rambus' bacon

    Turns loss and revenue decline to profit and income increase

    Well now we know. Intel will pay Rambus $40 million a year for the next five years under the terms of the pair's latest patent licensing agreement. As we noted yesterday, Intel not only extends its right to build RDRAM-based chipsets - most notably the upcoming Tulloch product, the successor to the i850 - but now has the right …

    Channel 18 Sep 2001, 09:58

  • BT Wireless – aka mmO2 – still a bit shaky

    Bringing you up to date on what's going on

    BT Wireless - now known as mmO2 - is still having a somewhat rocky time as analysts remain unsure of its future, particularly whether it could be subject to a hostile takeover. In the most recent valuation by Goldman Sachs, it has been valued at £7 billion - some fall from the original figure of £15 billion, the thought-to-be- …

    Data Networking 18 Sep 2001, 10:22

  • AMD names next Athlon after Windows XP

    Updated Athlon XP, anyone?

    AMD is taking its lead from the Beast of Redmond, and in a desperate bid to imply new, relevant and up-to-date technology, will name its next desktop processor the Athlon XP - after Microsoft's new version of Windows. So say our industry sources, and confirmed by an item over at DigiTimes - which seems more interested in the …

    Channel 18 Sep 2001, 10:30

  • DDR demand drives up Nanya's August sales

    Bucks industry trend

    Taiwanese memory maker Nanya has said it realised revenues of between NT$850 million and NT$900 million ($24.59-26.04 million) last month on the back of strong sales of 256Mb SDRAM chips and various DDR memory parts. That makes it the only memory maker from Taiwan to experience an increase in sales during August, local paper …

    Channel 18 Sep 2001, 11:20

  • WTC attack delays MS case another week

    At the request of both parties...

    The deadline for Microsoft and the government to file a joint status report with the District Court has been extended to this Thursday, in the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center. According to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the extension is at the request of both parties; Microsoft lawyers Sullivan & Cromwell has offices …

    Software 18 Sep 2001, 11:24

  • Afilias extends/ delays .info roll-out

    Troubled system hit harder by US atrocities

    Afilias - the registrar behind the new .info top-level domain name - has delayed/extended its roll-out of new addresses for three days. Citing the US terrorist attacks, the company will now allow trademark holders to register corresponding domains until 21 September, as opposed to 18 September previously. All such addresses …

    Music and Media 18 Sep 2001, 12:31

  • BTopenwoe cuts cost of installing ADSL

    Rebrands, launches ad campaign

    BTopenworld has finally announced it is to cut the cost of ADSL installations following BT Wholesale's decision to halve the cost of installing broadband for three months from October 1. The price cuts affect BTopenworld's Home500, Business500 and Business 500+ services and will reduce the cost of ADSL installation to £75 for …

    Telecoms 18 Sep 2001, 12:33

  • Hitachi CML170

    Review Flat-panel monitor

    Saving desk space is a good reason for buying a flat-panel monitor, but for some it's about making a fashion statement. With that in mind, the attractive midnight blue Hitachi CML170 makes an instant impression and should rise to the top of many a wish-list. Of course, we wouldn't recommend that you purchase any PC product on …

    Personal 18 Sep 2001, 12:56

  • HP fills out in the mid-range

    Features culled from Superdome

    Hewlett-Packard has filled out the gaps in its Unix range with the launch of a mid-range server that includes features culled from its high-end Superdome boxes. The HP Server rp8400, which ships with between two and 16 PA-RISC 8700 processors, includes memory "chip kill" technologies as well as high availability clustering …

    Hardware 18 Sep 2001, 13:25

  • UK jobs will go in AltaVista shakedown

    But it won't say how many

    A statement just released from AltaVista admits that some of the 160 job losses it announced this morning will come from its European headquarters in the UK. In the statement, AltaVista says it will pull its US shopping.com site into the AltaVista search engine, resulting in 160 jobs cuts - on top of the 450 already announced …

    e-Business 18 Sep 2001, 13:27

  • Hedgers or terrorists behind pre-attack stock selling?

    James Bond scenario or business as usual

    In what sounds like a plot from the latest James Bond movie, financial authorities around the world are investigating stock exchange data for strange share price movements in the days and hours previous to the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. The suspicion is that whoever was responsible for the attacks - …

    Assault on America 18 Sep 2001, 14:23

  • IBM maps out database sales campaign

    'People have had enough of Oracle tactics'

    With Oracle's results showing further slippage, IBM is feeling pretty bullish about its prospects. Marc Dupaquier, IBM's worldwide VP for data management solutions sales, told IT-Analysis.com how he intends to exploit this slip and why Informix and Linux are key to it all. What's the state of the DB2 market right now? We are …

    Hardware 18 Sep 2001, 15:07

  • Nokia launches useless service!

    Inflatable dartboard, anyone?

    Nokia is pleased to announce its Nokia Multimedia Terminal Gateway from Q4 this year, that will enable mobile operators to deliver multimedia messages to non-multimedia phones - i.e. the ones that you and I have got. That's amazing! A gateway that can send images, text, music to phones that previously only had a plain text …

    Data Networking 18 Sep 2001, 15:20

  • Compaq name to go, will trade as HP

    Memowatch Did you already know that?

    Forgive us if we've been a bit slow on picking this up, but we don't recall reading it anywhere else. Compaq will trade under the Hewlett-Packard name when the merger is completed In a memo to its UK trade partners Compaq has said that the merger is expected to be completed in the first half of next year and, "when completed, …

    Business 18 Sep 2001, 15:21

  • IBM axes 130+ Lotus positions

    Thirty days to find new jobs

    In the final dissolving of Lotus in parent company IBM, Big Blue has got rid of at least 130 staff. Oddly, it hasn't felt it necessary to tell anyone else about it. The staff were told on Friday that their positions no longer existed, but this does not constitute sacking - merely a restructure - according to a spokesman for the …

    Business 18 Sep 2001, 16:10

  • Real streams for earthbound delegates

    Conference Call

    RealNetworks is streaming its annual conference for delegates who "may be prevented from travelling, but still want access to the content". The Real Conference opens for business in Seattle on September 24 and 25 and costs $199.95 to access live. The ability to participate interactively is promised. Real is to donate $25 to …

    Music and Media 18 Sep 2001, 16:30

  • Era of picking your own PDA draws to a close

    Security concerns force firms to standardise

    Firms may soon mandate the use of particular handheld devices and mobile phones in order to establish some kind of control over security risks. That's the view Symantec's director of wireless strategy, Jason Conyard, who is encouraging firms to develop security policies to combat mobile security threats such as hacking into …

    Security 18 Sep 2001, 16:46

  • Teenage Mutant Nimda email rides the Code Red worm

    Updated again AV tools light up like a Xmas tree

    A mass mailing email worm that contains exploit components from the infamous Code Red worm has appeared on the Internet, and appears to be spreading fast. Nimda, which spreads though an infected email attachment, appears at the user's In-box with a random subject line and no body text. It comes with attachments called readme. …

    Malware 18 Sep 2001, 16:53

  • Speed-bumped AMD Athlon MP to launch next month

    1.53GHz part out on 9 October

    AMD's Athlon MP will ship at 1.53GHz - not the much-touted 1.4GHz - The Register has learned. And the part will officially launch on 9 October, just ahead of the Athlon XP on 12 October. That means the part isn't available now, contrary to what European workstation supplier Transtec has been advertising on its Web site. This …

    Channel 18 Sep 2001, 17:00

  • Terror attacks usher in copy controlled hardware

    A Wake Up Call

    Senator Hollings' SSSCA legislation - which makes copy-controlled hardware mandatory (and circumventing it illegal) - has received remarkably little attention since it was revealed ten days ago. No petitions, no EFF Alert (as yet), and very little public uproar. But according to Andre Hedrick, who publicly fought attempts to …

    Personal 18 Sep 2001, 20:40

  • HP parades the PA-RISC 8700

    Shows off some servers

    HP gracefully side-stepped questions about the Compaq merger at its launch of a new mid-range server at Cupertino today. Today also marks the coming-out party for the PA-RISC 8700, more of which anon. The RP8400 fills a gap in the mid-range, at around 16 CPUs, but we wondered if that's because there isn't really any demand for …

    Hardware 18 Sep 2001, 22:35