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20th December 2001 Archive

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  • Sun revs Jini

    Back from the grave

    What with the holidays, there isn't much of December left. But Sun promises us that a new version of Jini, 1.2, will be released before the year's out. It's a characteristically discreet drop, for the Jini team seems to prefer working away from the spotlight - even when it's being goaded by Microsoft, which declared "victory" …

    Business 20 Dec 2001, 06:25

  • Qualcomm bungs Handspring a $10m bonus

    CDMA, this way

    Cellular headbangers Qualcomm today made a $10 million investment in PDA manufacturer Handspring. Handspring hinted that the money may also be used to make "complementary" acquisitions. Handspring has long seen the converged device as the future, and has adopted the "communicator" description introduced by Nokia five years ago …

    Business 20 Dec 2001, 06:27

  • Worst year ever for semiconductors

    Gartner tots up the figures

    This was the worst year ever for the semiconductor industry, with all top 10 players registering big revenues falls. In total semi sales will come in at $152bn in 2001, 33 per cent down on 2000. The size of the downturn means that it will be difficult for some companies to recover in 2002. Mary Olsson, chief analyst for Gartner …

    Business 20 Dec 2001, 06:55

  • VIA goes faster with C3

    All the way to 933MHz

    VIA has launched a 933MHz version of the VIA C3, the fastest version yet of its low-cost, low-power CPU. The 933MHz is the third speed grade of VIA's so-called Ezra core. It's produced on a 0.13micron assembly line and has the smallest die size of any PC CPU, VIA claims. The C3 is aimed at the value-end of the market - it's …

    Channel 20 Dec 2001, 07:12

  • Finnish city closer to switch from Windows to Linux

    One small step...

    The Finnish city of Turku has moved closer to switching to Linux, following a preliminarystudy of the platform's suitability. Turku kicked off the investigation earlier this year in response to Microsoft's new licensing terms and conditions, which Turku estimated would cost it €1-€2 million. Turku has now completed the first …

    Business 20 Dec 2001, 09:32

  • Palm bleeds gently with $54.2m loss

    Could have been worse, but only a bit...

    Palm has turned in Q2 results that are slightly less horrible than expected. Analysts had called it as a loss of 7 cents a share on $280 million revenues, whereas it turned out to be 6 cents on $290 million. This still adds up to a loss of $54.2 million in a quarter that includes holiday sales, and still leaves Palm with an …

    Business 20 Dec 2001, 09:57

  • Woman seeks husband by auction – again

    In sickness and in health

    Kay Hammonds's at it again. The 24-year-old blonde "Internet entrepreneur" from Birmingham has put herself up for auction in a bid to find herself a husband. Undeterred at being given the elbow on moral grounds earlier this week by eBay, the petite Miss Hammond (34, 28, 34) is now selling herself on QXL. Explaining why she is …

    Business 20 Dec 2001, 14:34

  • B1 OFH number plate for sale

    Merry Xmas BOFH

    Stuck for a Yuletide gift for that special BOFH in your life? Well, if your Bastard Operator From Hell also cherishes his motor, then a personalised number plate might just prove to be the right pressie to light up his face on Christmas morning. The DVLA - the Government agency that sells personalised registrations - is …

    Business 20 Dec 2001, 14:34

  • MS-friendly Comcast buys AT&T Cable

    New colossus to dwarf AOL Time Warner

    Comcast will buy AT&T cable for $47 billion in stock and $25 billion in liabilities, creating a cable behemoth twice the size of AOL Time Warner, it was confirmed late Wednesday. Cox Communications and AOL-TW had also entertained hopes during the months-long bidding competition, but fell shy of the mark. Good news for Microsoft …

    Business 20 Dec 2001, 17:16

  • PayPal spoof site sought credit details

    Bad social engineering 101

    A rather poor spam memo urging PayPal users to log into a spoof site and claim a five-dollar credit by 'updating their records' (i.e., giving up their credit-card details) appears not to have fooled many people. As a discussion on one of eBay's forums indicates, the spam message contained far too many errors to be convincing. …

    Business 20 Dec 2001, 19:41