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  • AMD Sun fraternity expected to blossom

    C:\ONGRATLNS.SUN

    When IBM finally launched a microcomputer in 1981, Apple took out sarcastic full-page press ads congratulating the PC on its debut. Which got us thinking. What will Dell Computer do now that Sun Microsystems is a PC company? This detail was overlooked yesterday, obscured by the smoke from the nine-gun salute Sun gave to Linux. …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 09:54

  • Apple talks Real, not Nothing Real

    Zen Prank or graphics masterstroke?

    Perhaps Apple, which was founded on April Fool's Day, has a sense of humour after all. Yesterday Apple verbally confirmed, but didn't put out a supporting press release, that it was acquiring 2D compositing software house Nothing Real. But it did find time to issue a rather contrived press release claiming that QuickTime …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 09:56

  • Sun's gwana-gwana mystery

    Something to do with storage, reckons our Andrew

    At a European Editors' day a fortnight ago, Scott McNealy was asked why Sun wasn't the dominant storage vendor. "We had other stuff to do, we were busy," he replied. Sun knew exactly what it wanted to do, and indeed, its mission statement is one of very few in the industry that has remained unchanged. By contrast, EMC began …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 09:59

  • InterTrust moves to spike Windows XP Update

    Injunction bid on XP 'violations'

    InterTrust Technologies Corp has gone gunning for Microsoft Corp with a second patent infringement lawsuit. The Santa Clara-based firm is seeking an injunction and damages from Redmond, saying Windows XP violates a seven-year old patented technology it owns, writes Kevin Murphy. This time the company claims that XP's …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 11:27

  • Tiscali UK to axe 20 jobs

    But creates 30 new ones

    Tiscali UK is set to axe around ten per cent of its workforce but claims this will be offset by the creation of around 30 new jobs. The reorganisation comes after Tiscali UK's completion of a year-end review. The company is currently in consultation and says that it has yet to make anyone redundant. In a statement the ISP …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 11:29

  • Lastminute.com heads for profit

    Remember lastminute?

    Shares in Lastminute.com nudged higher this morning after the online bucket shop reported that it was set to make an operating profit by the summer. Publishing its Q4 results, Lastminute.com reported that revenue for the quarter jumped by more than half to £4.77 million compared to the same period last year. Pre-tax losses for …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 11:30

  • Oracle posts fix – servers ‘unbreakable’ again?

    Ball's back in the other court then...

    Oracle Corp has been forced to issue security patches for its 9i Application Server and database management system: products that it had previously claimed were "unbreakable", writes Matthew Aslett. The security holes were discovered by David Litchfield, co-founder of Sutton, UK-based Next Generation Security Software, …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 11:37

  • Totalise to explain share suspension today

    Sitting comfortably? Then they'll begin

    Totalise is due to issue a statement later today explaining why its shares were suspended earlier this month. Speculation about the company’s future has intensified over the last week or so, made worse by Totalise’s failure to communicate with its shareholders. Some are so concerned at being blanked they are trying to force …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 11:38

  • Routers ‘best platform for WAN connectivity’

    Juniper takes it to the edge

    Juniper Networks has upgraded its edge router portfolio to offer greater reliability in IP services. The M40e Internet router, which is based on its original M40 router, is a high density platform with redundancy features geared to the provision of services IP connectivity and application services (such as Layer 2 VPNs). It …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 13:25

  • STMicroelectronics scraps PC graphics biz

    Seeks buyer

    STMicroelectronics, Europe's biggest chipmaker, has put up its PC graphics accelerator IC assets and operations up for sale. And if it doesn't find a buyer? It's withdrawing from the sector - PC graphics accounts for just $15m of STM's $6.36bn turnover. ®

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 13:47

  • Register Reader Research Dell – Your favourite notebook supplier (or is it Sony?)

    It's been a while since we gave an airing for Reg Reader Research, our joint venture in online opinion polls with our partners Tom's Hardware and Metafacts, the market research firm. We've been beavering away in the background, refining the methodology, figuring out what works and what doesn't, and we have been doing some …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 15:06

  • MS anti-piracy feature trips up Office for Mac

    Ironic, but low-risk, security flaw

    An anti-piracy feature in Microsoft Office for Mac has been linked to a denial of service risk, prompting Microsoft to issue a security fix. A feature of the Office v. X software suite, called the Network Product Identification (PID) Checker, detects multiple copies of Office using the same product identifier running on a local …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 15:08

  • Cellnet, Vodafone clamp down on mobile phone theft

    About time too

    Britain's mobile phone industry has decided at last to try and combat mobile phone crime. BT Cellnet and Vodafone – along with the mobile Industry Crime Action Forum (MICAF) and other interested groups – are looking to create an industry-wide security system to deter criminals from nicking phones. The new system would blocks …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 15:31

  • Welsh clubbers get DSL

    Feel the BeaT

    Net users in Cwmbran are clubbing together to get broadband. They’ve been told by BT that if enough people are interested in high speed Net access then the telco will upgrade their local exchange for DSL. So far around 1,000 exchanges in the UK have been upgraded for DSL. BT maintains that it won’t upgrade any more unless it’s …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 15:33

  • So farewell then, 3dfx.com

    Death notice

    3dfx Interactive Inc. is shutting its down the 3dfx.com web site for good on February 19. You can get 3dfx graphics drivers and sundry other resources from Voodoofiles.com. There is also a pointer to the web site of Nvidia which bought the assets of the rival graphic chip supplier in April last year. This is what we wrote at …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 15:53

  • DoJ-MS comments: that breakdown in full

    30,000 total, 2,900 serious, 45 worth reading?

    So what do you do with "over 30,000 public comments" on the Microsoft settlement if you've promised to publish them in the Federal Register? According to the US Department of Justice, "publication of the comments received likely would cost approximately $4 million," a new record compared to the 8,750 pages of comment on the AT&T …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 16:26

  • Totalise is bust – founder mops up biz

    Whither shareholders?

    Totalise, the British ISP, went into administration today, and its assets were promptly sold to Peter Gregory, CEO and the founder of the company. So the service and trading continues as normal - no customers, staff and suppliers of the trading subsidiaries (our italics) are affected. Only the holding company, Totalise PLC, is …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 16:39

  • MS Judge may consider stronger medicine

    Hearing scheduled for March

    US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has scheduled a hearing in early March to enable Microsoft and the DoJ to join hands and sing their little a capella tune of support for the settlement they reached, Reuters reports. Both plaintiff and defendant have asked that the hearing be a perfunctory one-day revue and that critics …

    Business 8 Feb 2002, 20:22