26th September 2001 Archive

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• Micron nets big loss

  Inventory writedown

  Micron Technology, the American DRAM maker, has produced a whopping net loss of $576m for its Q4, with plunging memory prices largely to blame for the deficit. A large amount of the loss - $466 million - comes through the company's decision to write down its inventory of works in progress and finished goods, reflecting the …

  Channel 26 Sep 2001, 05:58

• Black Box buys Northants dealer

  In-fill

  Black Box Corporation, the US networking reseller, is working its way up to full UK coverage through a interesting - or unique we should say in these straitened times - of infill acquisition. Last month, the company bought a small cabling specialist in Cumbria. This month it has bought a small networking installer in …

  Channel 26 Sep 2001, 06:13

• Sage acquires US outfits

  Portfolio in-fill

  Sage is bulking up its US portfolio of software for SMEs with the acquisition of Micro Information Products. MIPs makes fund-accounting software for non-profit and government organisations, and the acquisition takes Sage into these market sectors for the first time in the US. ®

  Business 26 Sep 2001, 06:41

• Losing Your Edge? Take The BOFH Test

  Episode 25 There is no right answer

  It's been a while and rumours are that you're losing your edge! DO you still know what a full set of service manuals is, and how hard to hit a user with them when they're annoying you? This simple test MAY help you get your edge back. 1. You get into work at 8:17am to find someone waiting for you impatiently. Everyone knows …

  BOFH 26 Sep 2001, 07:17

• Excite@Home chops 500 workers

  Surely all the dead wood's gone by now?

  Struggling Excite@Home is to axe 500 jobs in its ongoing battle to cut costs and keep its business afloat. However, the move has only intensified speculation that the operation is facing bankruptcy and some rumourmongers claim that Excite@Home could file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection within the next two weeks. The job …

  e-Business 26 Sep 2001, 08:55

• Face-scan outfit rushes to exploit WTC atrocity

  Visionics strikes while the iron's hot, and profitable

  We've heard of price gouging by retailers of American flags, 'Infinite Justice' mouse pads, and Bin Laden bin liners; but face recognition outfit Visionics takes the prize for bottom-feeding on America's bereavement, fear and anger. The company that brings us the FaceIt crowd scanning package says it's ready for the patriotic …

  Assault on America 26 Sep 2001, 09:10

• CMGI loses $1.3bn

  Heavens

  CMGI - the Internet parent whose siblings include AltaVista - lost more than $1 billion last quarter as the company reported increased losses and falling revenues despite continued restructuring at the company. Net loss for Q4 ending July 31 was a massive $1.28 billion compared to a net loss of $963.3 million in Q3. Net …

  e-Business 26 Sep 2001, 10:36

• Consumer groups to call for defanging of WinXP

  Hurts consumers, threat to civilisation etc, same old story...

  Four US consumer organisations are poised to damn Windows XP later today, and to offer their thoughts on the measures the courts should take to protect the public from the Beast. At a Washington press conference the Consumer Federation of America, the Consumers Union, the Media Access Project and US Public Interest Research …

  Software 26 Sep 2001, 11:25

• BT Anytime not ‘reliable’

  ASA ruling

  The advertising watchdog has ticked off BTopenworld for describing its unmetered dial-up service, BT Anytime, as "reliable", after users protested that they couldn't use the service. A number of people complained about a banner ad which read "BT Anytime for a fast, reliable service" after they had problems accessing and using …

  Media 26 Sep 2001, 11:28

• Sun declares war on TPC benchmarks

  In for a long campaign?

  Sun Microsystems won't be releasing any industry-standard TPC benchmarks for its new Sun Fire 15000 Server. It's going to take its bucket-and-spade and play in the application-specific sandpits, such as the SAP, Oracle Apps, PeopleSoft benchmarks. At the Sun Fire launch yesterday it cited SAP, SPEC's Java benchmarks and the …

  Data Center 26 Sep 2001, 12:01

• Internet Security: We're all responsible

  Ecommerce minister calls for team effort

  Government and business should team up to improve Internet security, ecommerce minister Douglas Alexander said today. Opening the Information security Solution Europe conference in London today, Alexander advised delegates to exercise greater awareness of Internet security, in light of the America terror attacks. "In an …

  Security 26 Sep 2001, 12:49

• Oftel strengthens mobile price controls

  Winged watchdog comes of age

  Oftel has tightened price controls on UK mobile operators today in its long-awaited report into the market. It has strengthened a price formula that will see mobile companies reduce the price of calls in real terms and will save UK consumers an estimated £800 million in the next four years. The winged watchdog has amazed many …

  Data Networking 26 Sep 2001, 12:56

• Mac loyalists get free OS X 10.1 Upgrade

  Well, some of you anyway

  As expected, Apple has rolled out the long-anticipated speed update to OS X, 10.1. Both Server and Client editions get their update. The release improves Finder and OpenGL performance and adds the ability to watch DVDs and burn data CDs, Samba support and much else too, including new printer drivers. Apple has rewarded …

  Mac Channel 26 Sep 2001, 13:04

• Easynet says DSL demand is up

  Just like its revenue and losses

  Easynet claims there is "clear demand" for broadband services among business users and expects demand to increase in spite of overall market conditions. The broadband ISP said that it had more than 7,400 business DSL customers - up from just 500 a year ago - and that the increase in orders for DSL is a result of greater …

  Broadband 26 Sep 2001, 14:02

• Broader surveillance won't prevent terrorism -Schneier

  Interpretation

  The clamour for wider surveillance measures has been deafening in the wake of September 11. To date, opponents against such moves have argued mostly on civil liberties grounds. But the case against can also be made on the grounds that more surveillance simply won't work. That's the analysis of Bruce Schneier, founder and chief …

  Security 26 Sep 2001, 15:03

• MS targets Linux, Mac rivals with IIS astroturf

  'Vulnerabilities also exist elsewhere' Really?

  When we revealed the delightful bulletin yesterday that Microsoft has sent its salesforce, defending its Internet Information Server (IIS), we rather deviously kept one section under wraps. It's a list of vulnerabilities in rival products, apparently listed because "switching from IIS to another platform does not eliminate …

  Security 26 Sep 2001, 16:29

• Friends of Sun rally for Passport-killer

  They all agree it would be a jolly good thing

  Sun has been hinting for weeks that it's rustling up support for an alternative to Microsoft's version of single-sign-on for web transactions, and it went public today. The Liberty Alliance Project's mission is quite a mouthful: to create "an open, federated solution for network identity - enabling ubiquitous single sign-on, …

  Data Networking 26 Sep 2001, 19:22

• Intel takes VIA P4 Patent War to UK, HK, Germany

  Pour encourager les autres

  Intel has slapped suits against VIA and sundry allies in Germany, the UK and Hong Kong. It accuses VIA of infringing eight Intel patents with the P4X266 chipset and VIA's new C3 processor. By adding the C3 processor to the patent charge sheet, and by taking the battle to so many countries, Intel is clearly in little mood for …

  Channel 26 Sep 2001, 20:47

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