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  • Sun revamps workgroup servers

    Updated Daktari ships while Cherrystone slips

    Sun completed its server lineup with new UltraSPARC III-based workgroup servers today. Although Ed Zander had promised both the eight-way Daktari and the four-way Cherrystone boxes (which we first told you about here) only Daktari is ready, with the Cherrystone machines a surprise postponement. Daktari is officially the …

    Hardware 29 Oct 2001, 08:02

  • Intel cuts P4, PIII prices by up to 29%

    AMD still expected to follow suit

    Intel cut the prices of selected Pentium 4 and Pentium III desktop processors, and some Xeon and PIII-S server chips yesterday, as we reported some time ago. The price cuts can be found in our 'reminder' item from Friday. One point: in the end, Intel also reduced the price of its 1GHz PIII, so we've added that to the original …

    Channel 29 Oct 2001, 10:10

  • Intel Processor Products, Prices

    Official line-up as of 28 October 2001

    Following the handful of price cuts Intel made on 28 October, here's how Intel's processor product line currently stands. We've broken them down by market and by processor type, and included up-to-date official prices, which are based on bulk orders of 1000 chips. With cuts coming to the mobile product line coming very shortly …

    Channel 29 Oct 2001, 11:17

  • MS pirate gets two years jail and $500K fine

    Ouch

    Paul Stamatis, a trafficker in counterfeit Microsoft software over the Internet, was sentenced Thursday to two years in jail, and was ordered to pay $500,000 in restitution to Microsoft. Stamatis was arrested in February last year, along with two other Californian men, Robert Gaboury and Chia Yu Ku, Reuters reports. Ku had …

    Channel 29 Oct 2001, 11:46

  • Salmon Days: Speeds and Feeds

    Fillet of Soul

    As of 10am this morning, 28,296 people have seen the trailer for Salmon Days, our BOFH-inspired live-action comedy epic, which went live last Thursday. This is, we are told, a huge number in the UK world of video streaming. We think it's a nice start. The trailer will stay up for another couple of weeks, so if you were unable …

    Site News 29 Oct 2001, 12:02

  • Euro PDA sales fell 34.5% in Q3

    Recession-hit punters waited for PocketPC 2002?

    PDA makers are having a tough time selling product in Europe. According to the latest figures from market watcher Gartner Dataquest, PDA sales were down 34.5 per cent during the third quarter of the year, compared to Q3 2000. After Q2's meagre seven per cent growth, it's clear that the slump in demand seen earlier this year in …

    Personal 29 Oct 2001, 12:07

  • Intel gears up to phase in DDR 845D chipset next month

    And phase out the PC133-based 845

    Intel is set to ship its DDR-based 845D chipset in volume next month and not Q1 2002 as originally planned, according to sources close to Taiwan's major mobo makers cited by DigiTimes. And the chip giant will ship the part at pretty much the same price as the current, PC133-based 845. That, coupled with Intel's own admission …

    Channel 29 Oct 2001, 12:38

  • Stop ‘whingeing’ about broadband – BTopenworld chief

    TMA There's enough to start the revolution

    The head of BT's Internet business called on the industry to stop "whingeing" about the lack of supply of broadband and to get on with the business of making broadband Britain a reality. Speaking at TMA 2001 in Brighton this morning, Andy Green, chief exec of BTopenworld, said that the UK was one of the most advanced ebusiness …

    Telecoms 29 Oct 2001, 12:56

  • Virgin Mobile adds to anthrax scares

    Does this mean Sir Richard Branson will get seven years?

    Virgin Mobile has caused hundreds of customers to leap out their chairs in the last few days as a company notice sent to their homes in an envelope has been opened to reveal a strange white powder. Despite UK citizens being nowhere near the state of anthrax panic that the tabloids have reported we are in, several readers have …

    Bootnotes 29 Oct 2001, 13:17

  • Cable & Wireless close to buying Colt Telecom

    But both keeping schtum

    Cable & Wireless is very close to buying Colt Telecom if a report in Belgian newspaper Financieel-Economische Tijd is to be believed. According to the paper, quoting a source close to the talks, both companies are coming to the end of negotiations and a deal could be announced within six weeks. It does warn that the deal could …

    Business 29 Oct 2001, 13:20

  • Ex- ICANN CEO outrages with 11 September outburst

    Uses ICANN election newsgroup

    The former president and CEO of Internet overseeing body ICANN, Mike Roberts, has angered members of Internet community including an ICANN director, a well-respected computer scientist and various lobby groups with a political diatribe on the 11 September terrorist attacks, posted on a newsgroup for the At-Large Study group. Mr …

    Assault on America 29 Oct 2001, 14:15

  • Spread the broadband gospel

    TMA And lo, it will come to pass

    Britain needs "broadband evangelists" to spread the gospel according to hi-speed Internet access. Speaking at TMA 2001, Grant Neville, director of broadband systems at Nokia Networks, said the market needs stimulating and that Brits just aren't as vocal or as passionate as other nations about broadband. "There is not enough …

    Telecoms 29 Oct 2001, 14:23

  • BTopenworld's broadband satellite service kicks off next month

    TMA Nationwide by April

    BTopenworld will make its two-way broadband satellite service available nationwide from next April, said chief exec Andy Green. The service is due to be made available in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and Northern Ireland early next month before being rolled out to the rest of the country in spring next year. Details …

    Telecoms 29 Oct 2001, 14:32

  • ATI unveils underclocked Radeon 8500

    250MHz 8500LE for OEMs only

    ATI has launched a cut-down, OEM-oriented version of its second-generation Radeon graphics chip, the 8500. The new chip, the 8500LE, runs at 250MHz, compared to the 8500's 275MHz clock speed. The LE's speed, claims ATI, will "satisfy even the most power-hungry game or application", which makes you wonder why it bothered with a …

    Channel 29 Oct 2001, 15:29

  • Western Digital inches along

    Drives still profitable

    Hard drive maker Western Digital posted a turnover of $440.9 million, with a loss from continuing operations of $4.1 million for its first quarter ended September 28. Its operating loss in the same period 2000 was $35.5 million, showing a decent gain, while revenue saw slight growth from the $424 million recorded in Q1 last …

    Business 29 Oct 2001, 15:44

  • Fire alarm disrupts TMA 2001

    TMA No one hurt

    Hundreds of people poured out onto the streets of Brighton this afternoon following a fire alarm at the Metropole Hotel. At 2.45 pm GMT delegates attending the TMA 2001 conference were forced to evacuate the building as two fire tenders parked outside the hotel to attend the alarm. There was no panic as people left the …

    Bootnotes 29 Oct 2001, 16:03

  • Dell punts out pre-built $599 WinXP PC

    No upgrade option

    Dell has entered the low cost pre-built PC market - a break from the build-to-order model it's built its market dominance on. The Dell SmartStep 100D costs $599. The basic configuration includes WinXP, a 1 GHZ Intel Celeron, 128 MB SDRAM, 20 GB hard drive, speakers, a 15 inch monitor, a modem, and six months of AOL Internet …

    Personal 29 Oct 2001, 19:27

  • 100Mbps – long range wireless through wind, rain, snow

    TMA Pigeon-friendly lasers for last mile links

    Technical innovations in free space optics can allow organisations to reliably set up laser communications links that reach up to 5km. LaserBit Communications has developed patent-pending power compensation technology, which it says could allow infra-red (780nm) signals from its lasers to preserve connectivity despite adverse …

    Data Networking 29 Oct 2001, 19:36

  • Ethernet bites back in bid to halve BT leased line prices

    TMA In it for the long haul

    Telecoms outfit neosnetworks hopes to cut BT's leased-line prices in half with faster services built on what is believed to be the first deployment of a long-haul Ethernet network in the UK. Manchester-based ISP C2i is using long-haul 10Mbps Ethernet services based on neosnet, neosnetwork's backbone network, to extend its …

    Data Networking 29 Oct 2001, 19:40

  • Vodafone take Notes on mobile services

    TMA Mobile biz aps for road warriors on the way

    Vodafone has launched a service that will allow Lotus Notes users to pick up email on their mobiles. The service, available at the end of November, will allow access over both GSM and GPRS mobile networks to Lotus Notes email, calendar and directory applications, and comes as an extension to the mobile operators OfficeLive …

    Data Networking 29 Oct 2001, 19:43

  • Samsung goes mad on memory chips

    Can SRAM and flash memory save its bacon?

    Samsung has set itself the target of becoming the world's second biggest semiconductor maker in the global market by 2005, up from its current position of fourth. The Korean giant aims to raise its share of the overall memory chip market (DRAM, SRAM, flash, etc.) to 30 per cent, targeting $20 billion in sales for this segment …

    Channel 29 Oct 2001, 19:46

  • Win-XP vs Red Hat 7.2

    Dumb and patronizing vs high-strung and demanding

    I've had no end of fun this weekend installing and uninstalling and reinstalling and reuninstalling Windows-XP Home Edition and Red Hat 7.2 Personal Edition, both of which launched last week. I won't get into the Pro editions because most buyers in that market know what they want. Electronic Babysitter However, if you're a …

    Software 29 Oct 2001, 21:43

  • Integrity disappears as Microsoft closes SF showcase

    Hurry, hurry

    Bay Area kitsch-collectors were scrambling to their VW Beetles this week, as word spread that Microsoft's showcase store in San Francisco's Sony Metreon complex is to close. "MicrosoftSF" is Redmond's one and only such store, and has been a displaying The Beast's software, hardware and assorted merchandise since June 1999. But …

    Bootnotes 29 Oct 2001, 22:05