15th January 2002 Archive

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HP and Deloitte form global alliance

HP: partner to the services world

Hewlett-Packard Co and Deloitte Consulting LLC have formed a global alliance that will - John O'Brien writes - see the two companies jointly provide software and services for clients in the manufacturing sector. Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett-Packard, said it teamed up with New York-based Deloitte Consulting to …

Business 15 Jan 2002, 09:48
Baltimore struggles to sell unit

VC firm withdraws offer

Financially embattled security software maker Baltimore Technologies is struggling to sell its Content Technologies unit, which it acquired in an all-share deal for more than $992m in 2000. The Guardian reported that the Dublin, Ireland-based company had been in talks with Apax Partners regarding the sale of the unit, but …

Business 15 Jan 2002, 09:48
Hynix chief calls for patience as Micron talks drag

Workers are restless

Park Chong-Sup, CEO of troubled Hynix Semiconductor Inc, last week warned that the company's "alliance" with Micron Technology Inc may take longer to settle than he had originally promised. He asked staff at the heavily indebted Korean memory maker to remain patient, and not to heed "inaccurate reports" of the likely …

Channel 15 Jan 2002, 09:48
Open source developers face new warranty threat

Now UCITA, now you don't

If there's one thing free software developers hate more than writing documentation, it's fighting a long-drawn out and unglamorous legal battle. But the latest episode in the UCITA saga bodes ill for any free software author based in the United States. According to Richard Stallman, burdening free software developers with …

Software 15 Jan 2002, 09:53
What's the difference between IBM and IKEA?

Big Blue humps furniture

Back when IBM was the computer industry, people used to joke that if the company offered orange crates to its leading clients, it would be guaranteed a 15 per cent take up, simply because they were Big Blue Crates. IBM yesterday officially announced crates of the future in the shape of 'BlueSpace', a high-tech "workspace" that' …

Bootnotes 15 Jan 2002, 09:58
VIA eases P4 drama with VIARAMA

Brand-cloaking

VIA Technologies is selling five mobos featuring the its DDR chipsets for the Pentium 4 - under a new brand name. This is VIARAMA, a cloak for motherboard manufacturers, which don't wish to reveal their identity in the face of Intel's patent suits seeking to stop the sale and manufacture of VIA's P4 DDR chipset. VIA also sells …

Channel 15 Jan 2002, 12:46
Marconi axes 4,000 more workers

Trading outlook remains bleak

Shares in telecoms group Marconi slipped more than five per cent at lunchtime following a slump in sales and the prospect of another massive round of job cuts. In a trading statement issued this morning, the troubled company reported group sales in Q3 of £1.04 billion, compared to £1.7 billion during the same period last year …

Business 15 Jan 2002, 13:17
Windows Update glitches wider, deeper?

Redmond DNS probs a-go-go...

Microsoft's problems with the Windows Update site, reported here yesterday, are more complex and widespread than first appeared, according to sources within the company. Users have been having sporadic problems accessing Windows Update for some days now, but according to one Microsoft support engineer "internal DNS server …

Software 15 Jan 2002, 15:07
Lindows name-calls Microsoft

On the attack

Lindows.com, the subject of a Microsoft lawsuit which aims to stop the company from using the terms "LindowsOS" and "Lindows.com", has gone on the attack. The San Diego, CA-based software start-up has filed a motion to dismiss Microsoft's claim that the company is infringing its Windows trademark - set in train in the software …

Software 15 Jan 2002, 15:16
BT goes Broadband Inside rival ISPs

Marketing bunce

BT is to spend more than a million pounds subsidising the promotion of rival ISPs. BT Wholesale - which provides wholesale DSL to almost 200 ISPs - has decided to spend some its budget on helping its customers promote their DSL services. Execs at BT Wholesale are currently sifting through applications and those that have …

Telecoms 15 Jan 2002, 15:17
3Com shaves 500 more jobs

Decentralises

3Com is to reduce its workforce by a further 500 by transferring certain corporate functions to its operating units. Critical services such as accounting and IT will remain with corporate but corporate marketing, human resources and finance decision support will largely transfer to 3Com's remaining divisions. The move is part …

Business 15 Jan 2002, 15:19
DIY DSL goes live

Low key

Today marks the official commercial launch of BT Wholesale's DIY "wires only" DSL service. The service is cheaper to use than existing DSL products and doesn't require an engineer to install the product. Many people in the industry are keeping their fingers crossed that DIY DSL might just do the trick and deliver a much-needed …

Telecoms 15 Jan 2002, 15:22
Site News Register launches UK jobs board

Today we launch Reg Recruitment, our very own IT jobs board for UK techies. The service is powered by CW Jobs, part of the mighty Reed-Elsevier publishing empire. This gives us a running start - today there are 11298 UK IT jobs posted on the site. Reg Recruitment works much like most job boards - you have to sign up first, and …

Site News 15 Jan 2002, 16:13
Palm scuppers BeOS co-op hopes

Fork off

As Silicon Valley's vultures and sentimentalists gather today to inspect the assets of Be Inc prior to its liquidation auction, Palm has told community site BeUnited that it won't be licensing the BeOS operating system it acquired from Be to any third party. In an email, David Nagel of PalmSource - the software division that …

Software 15 Jan 2002, 21:03
Roxio mulls Easy litigation

Busy beagles

Roxio told us today it hasn't decided if it is to pursue litigation against a one-man Finnish developer for trademark infringement. Jukka Poikolanien has been selling Easy CD-DA Extractor since 1998, but received a cease and desist letter by FedEx in October. Poikolanien responded that the software does not perform the same …

Software 15 Jan 2002, 23:58