31st October 2001 Archive

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Channel

• Hynix creditors meet to break bailout deadlock Will it clear the way for chip company's rescue?
• Ingram Micro suffers sales slide Makes a loss
• Intel confirms Pentium 4-based Celeron launch Coming mid-2002, says Intel; at 1.8GHz, we say
• SIS to offer Rambus chipset for Pentium 4? Email from spokesman suggests so
• Tiny goes on customer service offensive Finds some fresh revenue streams

Comms: Networks

• Broadband by satellite gets a boost TMA 432Kbps by 2004 says Inmarsat
• Broadband hobbled by high prices – E-envoy's office TMA And lack of choice

Hardware

• Cherrystone delay highlights x86 v RISC War Analysis It's War, or something
• VA drops Linux name, boots out Kuro5hin Reshuffles OSDN deckchairs

Hardware: Data Networking

• Bluetooth gives bite to high speed wireless network Net access at 384Kbps, range of up to 100m
• Intel caches in on file transfer Share and Learn

Management

• BT's Bonfield quits Cheerio
• BT's nightmare removed on Halloween Sir Peter Bonfield's BT career highlights
• Pierre Danon rules himself out of BT CEO race Head of BT Retail says he has enough on his plate

Management: e-Business

• Linux switch saves Amazon megabucks Telco price cuts also help

Music and Media

• Ad Watchdog slaps AOL And questions suspect mobile radiation device
• Berners Lee: WWW royalties considered harmful This Web's not for turning
• Is Negroponte mellowing with age? Opinion Net guru becomes, well, almost reasonable
• Nutshell cracked and broken ISP shuts down over unpaid bill to Cable & Wireless

Odds and Sods: Bootnotes

• Lastminute.com gets away with Hun fun You can call Germans nearly anything now

Personal: Mac Channel

• Apple faces second financial misrepresentation suit Talked products up then failed to deliver, case claims

Security

• MSN.co.uk virus alert is false alarm DON'T PANIC

Security: Anti-Virus

• Firms hit in Nimda mutant outbreak Variations on a theme

Software

• Hacker jailed for revenge sewage attacks Job rejection caused a bit of a stink
• Red Hat Hell continued And thank you, readers, for your tips