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  • Bush admin to make hacking a terrorist offence

    Washington über alles

    US Attorney General John Ashcroft went to Capitol Hill Monday afternoon to sell the Bush Administration's new slew of anti-terror laws to the House Judiciary Committee. Among the many provisions to make the entire US populace an Enemy of the State and therefore subject to suspicion were two which nearly gave me a stroke: one …

    Assault on America 25 Sep 2001, 09:00

  • Compel suffers brutal IT downturn

    And SCH wants money back

    Compel, blames a "brutal" downturn in the IT industry for turning in a loss of £13.4m for the year to June 30. And it ain't getting any better - The Welwyn Garden City reseller reports "very difficult" market conditions in July and August. September is seeing some improvement but "this is not mirroring the normal post summer …

    Channel 25 Sep 2001, 09:04

  • Intel unleashes 2Ghz Xeon

    Server sibling sidelined, but workstation part steams on

    The 2Ghz Foster Xeon is alive. A version of the processor aimed squarely at dual processor workstations, gets rolled out today. It uses the 860 chipset and RDRAM memory, uses the Pentium 4's 400Mhz FSB and will be priced at $615. This much you probably already know. Last week Intel confirmed that its server counterpart was …

    Channel 25 Sep 2001, 09:37

  • Lower estimates for AMD and Intel after US tragedy

    Weak back to school sales and international crisis affect chip firms

    Disappointing PC sales at the start of the school year and side effects of terrorist attacks against the US have prompted financial analysts to peg back forecasts for both AMD and Intel. Thomas Weisel Partners (TWS) reckons that the industry will grow just 2 per cent instead of the 12 per cent expected on the strength of back …

    Channel 25 Sep 2001, 11:08

  • Vizzavi rubbishes reports of ‘widespread’ job cuts

    Simply not true

    Vizzavi has moved to quash reports that it is on the verge of announcing "widespread" job losses in its multi-platform Internet portal business. The Guardian claims that the cuts are needed to reduce costs at the operation which has, by all accounts, not shone brightly as a dotcom star. The newspaper also claims that Vizzavi's …

    Music and Media 25 Sep 2001, 11:09

  • Guildsoft has new owner

    Plymouth Sound

    Guildsoft, the only distie from Devon that we've ever heard of, has changed hands. Called the BVRP Software Group, the new owner is described as a "world-leading publisher of communications software". It's based in France and has subsidiaries in 10 countries. BVRP is paying $1.4 million to Guildsoft's former owner, Datawatch, …

    Channel 25 Sep 2001, 11:10

  • Top Web design firm Deepend goes under

    Gongs a-plenty couldn't save it...

    Multiple award-winning UK Web design firm Deepend has gone into liquidation with the loss of all its 90 staff. At a meeting yesterday, staff were told that due to uncertainty over the US terrorist attacks and a slowdown in the market, two main investors in the company had backed out, leaving it no option but to go into …

    Music and Media 25 Sep 2001, 12:09

  • Consumers more confident, savvy about ecommerce

    $16bn to be spent by US during Q4

    Consumer confidence in ecommerce and the Internet is growing despite the effects of the weakening economy, according to a joint survey by Yahoo! and ACNielsen. It seems consumers are becoming more confident about disclosing their credit card details online and more trusting that goods they've ordered will be delivered. And it …

    Music and Media 25 Sep 2001, 12:26

  • Virus exploits fears over war on terror

    Vote mass mailer is destructive, but not fast spreading

    A destructive virus, which tries to exploit anxiety generated by approaching military action, has been released on the Internet. Vote, a mass mailing virus that affects only Windows PCs, normally comes in an email with the subject line "Fwd:Peace BeTween AmeriCa And IsLam !", inviting users to "vote" on peace by clicking on an …

    Malware 25 Sep 2001, 12:31

  • Online ad sales slide

    Uh oh, back to dotcom doom and gloom

    There's depressing news about the state of the online advertising market in the US following the publication of key data that shows that ad revenue fell by 7.8 per cent in the first half of the year. An independent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on behalf of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) found that online ad …

    e-Business 25 Sep 2001, 15:44

  • MS vows rewritten IIS, more patches

    Exclusive Read what sales staff will tell you tomorrow, today

    Microsoft has been stung into action by Gartner security analyst John Pescatore's conclusion that businesses should ditch IIS - the Beast's own web server - for safer alternatives. Redmond is telling its sales channel that a rewrite of IIS is underway for version 6.0, and will introduce interim security measures along the lines …

    Security 25 Sep 2001, 15:46

  • Dabsxchange bans secondhand MS software

    Auction site moves on piracy

    Online auction site Dabsxchange is to stop people offering second-hand Microsoft software for sale on the site, because it believes the vast majority of it is likely to be pirated. Dave Atherton, managing director of reseller Dabs.com, which runs Dabsxchange, said it was making the stance because people are offering Office …

    Channel 25 Sep 2001, 15:54

  • Real and Napster catch portalitis

    Online music providers go all fat and horrible

    What a dismal future looms ahead for music lovers, if online subscription services turn out anything like promised. Real Networks already has a pay-per-view model - and its own Digital Rights Management framework - in place. And in Napster, the industry has a 'brand' name everyone's heard of, which likewise is gearing itself …

    Software 25 Sep 2001, 15:55

  • E-minister calls for lower broadband prices

    Singles out BT to drive change

    The elusive E-Commerce Minister Douglas Alexander today called on the telecoms and Internet industry to cut prices and help stimulate demand for broadband. In particular, he singled out BT to "exploit (its broadband) investment more aggressively" in a bid to get Broadband Britain on track. He said that BT should follow the …

    Telecoms 25 Sep 2001, 16:01

  • OFT to review MS licensing terms

    MS 'surprised and disappointed'

    The Office of Fair Trading is to review corporate IT customer claims that Microsoft's new software licensing terms are anti-competitive. On Friday (Sept 21), The Infrastructure Forum expressed its concerns over MS' new policy in a letter to Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt, and asked that the company be referred to the OFT. We …

    Software 25 Sep 2001, 19:04

  • Broadcom preps networking crypto acceleration

    Go Faster stripes supplied by nCipher

    Broadcom is to embed cryptographic acceleration technology from nCypher into its networking chips. As encryption becomes more widely-used in securing communications over the Internet, networking kit has to quickly process and manage the flow of encrypted traffic. Vendors, most notably Intel, already supply chips that offload …

    Channel 25 Sep 2001, 19:15

  • AMD shuts fabs, fires 2,300

    Slams on the brakes

    Yesterday, New York investment bank Thomas Wiesel Partners noted that AMD was, in terms of sales performance, riding the PC recession rather better than Intel its bigger and richer rival(this is relative - Intel still sells three times as many CPUs and at higher average prices). Today, AMD announces that it is shutting down two …

    Channel 25 Sep 2001, 19:49

  • McNealy salutes Phil Rosenzweig

    Makes emotional tribute to NY staff

    Scott McNealy was overcome with emotion at the launch of his firm's StarCat monster server in New York today, as he saluted the Sun employee killed on Flight 11. The Sun boss fought back tears as he paid tribute to the bravery of his staff and their determination to keep doing business after the terrorist attack on the city two …

    Business 25 Sep 2001, 20:29

  • Gelsinger anointed Intel CTO

    New job for coming man

    Intel, one of the world's great technology companies, made do without a CTO for 33 years. How did it manage? It's got one now - a man who looks like he's being groomed for the top. Intel bigwig Pat Gelsinger is being fitted for an even bigger wig as the company's first Chief Technology Officer. Gelsinger, 40, he will co- …

    Channel 25 Sep 2001, 20:59

  • Sun shows off mainframe chasing 106 chip StarCat

    Swinging hot swapping

    Sun saved a small surprise for everyone at the launch of its big fat mainframe-chasing StarCat unix server in New York. It unveiled the box, also known as the SunFire 15000, with 106 900MHz UltraSPARC III copper processors. All the pre-launch speculation suggested a 72 processor box (apart from The Register which said there'd …

    Hardware 25 Sep 2001, 21:20